Tag: Latin America
80 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Towards a New Endgame in Venezuela
Latin America entered this decade with high hopes: strong economic growth promised to propel much of the region ahead into prosperity. Many Latin American countries made…
December 18, 2019
- Society & Culture
To Impeach or Not to Impeach: Lessons from Latin America
Since 1978, congresses from six of the nineteen Latin American countries have removed ten presidents through impeachments or declarations of incapacity (or the leaders have…
December 13, 2019
- Global Governance
A Transition from Above or From Below in Venezuela?
Existing scholarly research suggests that a lack of prominent pro-government political moderates makes a transition from above unlikely. Instead, re-democratization depends on…
August 30, 2019
- Human Rights & Development
How External Actors Have Worsened Venezuela’s Long Crisis
In January 2019, the United States, France, and Britain recognized the head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, as President of Venezuela. Russia and China continue to…
June 24, 2019
- Business & Economics
The Battle of Ideas in the Question for Wealth and Prosperity in Brazil: Policy Proposals of a Right-Wing Government
For many, Guedes’s policy proposals to lift Brazil from a decade of mediocre economic performance are nothing more than a laundry-list of neoliberal policies. In the 1980s and…
May 17, 2019
- Society & Culture
The Struggle of the Indigenous Population in Contemporary Brazil
But the decisive step was taken by the Constitution of 1988, in which Article 231 establishes that the Indians’ “original rights” (“direitos originários”) to the lands they …
May 8, 2019
- Business & Economics
Brazil’s Persistent Unemployment Challenge
Brazilians still worry about their public healthcare delivery system, corruption, and crime, but are now forced to grapple with the day-to-day threats to their economic welfare…
May 3, 2019
- Dialogues
Amb. Jeffrey DeLaurentis on the U.S.-Cuba Relationship
GJIA: The US and Cuba have historically had a difficult relationship. How did re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba under the Obama administration change that…
April 16, 2019
- Dialogues
H.E. José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on the Future of Cuba-U.S. Relations
GJIA: You mentioned that the United States and Cuba have found a lot of common ground despite their differences. What do you think are the most important areas or sectors of…
March 16, 2019
- Dialogues
Amb. Sergio Silva do Amaral on Brazil’s Changing Global Role
GJIA: With the election of president Bolsonaro, who has received strong support from President Trump, how do you believe Brazil’s relationship with the United States will change?…
February 4, 2019