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Has anything changed since French Guiana’s 2017 social upheaval?
Four years since French Guiana’s social unrest, the country has seen marginal improvements, but many of the French territory’s structural problems persist.READ MORE
Mapuche organizations call on international agencies to intervene on behalf of Chile’s Indigenous population
Mapuche organizations are calling on international agencies to intervene, as Chile’s National Congress pushes forward a bill that would deploy troops to ...READ MORE
Brazil’s rising oil production
Brazil produced an average of 2.94 million barrels of oil per day (Mb/d) in 2020. The South American country is now the seventh-largest crude oil producer ...READ MORE
Lasso triumphs in Ecuador; Peru prepares for a left-right showdown
Illustration Credit: Arcabuz, El Comercio Elections held in two Andean nations this past weekend garnered surprising results for both sides of the ...READ MORE
Communist party congress in Cuba: After the end of the Castro era, what?
When Cuba's Communist Party convenes in Havana from April 16-19 for its 8th Party Congress, Raúl Castro, at the age of 89, will step down from center ...READ MORE
Chinese-style democracy
The public spat between the United States and China at the recent bilateral summit held in Alaska clearly showed that future relations between the two ...READ MORE
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Guyana’s final hurdle
Honduras’ opposition needs to learn from its mistakes
An interview with Marsia Taha & Bertil Tøttenborg of Gustu
Uruguay, the exception to Latin America’s COVID-19 surge
Monitoring Russian and Chinese Misinformation in Latin America
Global Americans monitors four state news sources that have quickly gained influence in the region—Russia Today and Sputnik from Russia, and Xinhua and People’s Daily from China— to understand how they portray events for readers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Caribbean Corner
Saber-rattling and high stakes in Guyana’s geopolitical neighborhood
The Essequibo territory remains a point of contention between Guyana and Venezuela, and the stage is now set for the ICJ to step in and render a judgment.READ MORE
Suriname’s corruption and money laundering challenges
Earlier this month, the findings of Suriname’s National Risk Assessment on anti-money laundering and corruption were released. While the country has made ...READ MORE
Why President Biden should follow CARICOM’s leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic
Building a roadmap for Haiti’s governance crisis
Beyond earthquake headlines: Political crisis in Haiti
Suriname, post-election policies and challenges for the new government
Re-examining Caribbean-Chinese relations
The Caribbean and money laundering: Waiting for the post-COVID-19 world
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Caribbean: 2030 Trends
The Caribbean basin is one the most regionally, culturally and linguistically diverse regions of the world. While the broader Caribbean basin includes island nations and territories as well as countries on the mainland, including Mexico and parts of Central and South America, this study focuses primarily on the sovereign island nations of the Caribbean, as well as the members of the Caribbean Community.
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Central America: 2030 Trends
The countries of Central America—Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama—face many of the same challenges. The most obvious and publicly discussed of these challenges is crime and insecurity, stemming both from the subregion’s unfortunate geographic location between cocaine producing countries to its south and cocaine consuming countries to the north—primarily the United States—and domestic gang violence and corruption.
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About Us
The Global Americans is a modern day take on the traditional think tank. Through its website, Global Americans provides up-to-date research and analysis on key areas and issues affecting Latin America and the Caribbean. Its aim is to provide policymakers, academics and Latin America enthusiasts with the tools they need to promote change towards a more prosperous relationship between Latin America and the United States.
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