New interview series
Global Americans and the Canadian Council for the Americas presents “Two gringos with questions,” an interview series dedicated to the Americas. Your hosts GA Executive Director Chris Sabatini and CCA’s President Kenneth Frankel, two gringos who focus on and work in Latin America and the Caribbean, will ask policymakers, business leaders and cultural movers and shakers about their views on the region and its future. The series provides informal and unexpected information on what’s going on in Latin America and in the Western Hemisphere as a whole. Click here to access the interviews.
New interview series
Global Americans and the Canadian Council for the Americas presents “Two gringos with questions,” an interview series dedicated to the Americas. Your hosts GA Executive Director Chris Sabatini and CCA’s President Kenneth Frankel, two gringos who focus on and work in Latin America and the Caribbean, will ask policymakers, business leaders and cultural movers and shakers about their views on the region and its future. The series provides informal and unexpected information on what’s going on in Latin America and in the Western Hemisphere as a whole. Click here to access the interviews.
The bear comes to the West: The Russian agenda in Latin America
Latin America needs to forge alliances in a complex, changing world, but betting on extra-continental autocracies will not bring greater social equity and respect for human rights to the Americas.
On Trump’s Latin American team: White House announces intent to nominate Christopher Landau as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
In mid-November 2018, administration sources revealed to Global Americans Landau’s possible nomination. Today the White House formally announced the nomination.
Maduro’s hidden censorship apparatus
Though often neglected in coverage of the political battle between Guaidó and Maduro, restrictions to digital freedoms have become an important means for Maduro to silence his critics.
Cúcuta’s Showbiz: Latin American politics as living theater
Rarely has the region seen such an undiluted diplomatic fiasco as what occurred on the Colombia-Venezuela border. But then, perhaps that was the point. Stagecraft has replaced statecraft.
Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe can give the Paris Agreement a major boost
The European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean have laid the groundwork to place the low-carbon and climate-resilient agenda at the heart of their relationships.
Brazil: How should the once-dominant Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) reconstruct itself?
The PT has an opportunity to frame itself as the progressive alternative to the Bolsonaro government, but it must reconnect with its base.
An interview with Steven Dudley, Co-Director of InSight Crime
Dudley talks to hosts Chris and Ken about organized crime in Latin America, CICIG’s struggle for survival in Guatemala, and gang involvement in El Salvador politics and shares how his interest in investigating organized crime in the region came about.
Navigating Guyana’s muddy waters
On the eve of a massive oil windfall, Guyana finds itself in the midst of a political power struggle, forcing the United States to walk a careful path between a comfortable partner and a regime it once looked on with suspicion.
An AMIA verdict is read in Argentina. But is this justice?
Twenty-five years after the bombing of Argentina’s largest Jewish community center, family members of the 85 victims are still haunted by the unsolved case and those who may have covered it up.
Why congressional Republicans should support the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
A group of nine Republican U.S. Senators have sent a letter to Secretary of State Pompeo asking him to cut U.S. funding to the IACHR. What they’re doing is undercutting their own party’s human rights agenda.
A dubious referendum on a (slightly) revised constitution shows growing opposition to the revolution in Cuba
Even with likely fraud, the number of no votes, null votes and blank votes exceeded one million on Sunday’s referendum.
House and Senate Democrats write State Department in support of IACHR
The letter comes in the wake of a similar action from U.S. IACHR alums last week.
Abandoning even the mention of the military option is the best way to bring about regime change in Venezuela
The use of military force to bring about regime change in Latin America would set U.S.-Latin American relations back decades. The U.S. needs to follow a more pragmatic and ultimately productive approach.
An interview with Laura Mora, award-winning film director and screenwriter
On our seventh episode, Chris Sabatini and Ken Frankel talk to Laura Mora, award-winning Colombian director and screenwriter, to discuss her feature film, "Matar a Jesús," her writing process, and the new wave of women directors coming out of Colombia.
2019 Latin American political landscape: The good, the bad, and the ugly
The 2018 elections in Mexico and Brazil turned on its head the investment norm driving Latin America’s two largest economies.
The Guaidó generation
Juan Guaidó, who only a month ago was little known on the international scene, has positioned himself as the leader of a generation of service-oriented young Venezuelans who today represent the best option for unleashing a democratic transition in the country.
Former U.S. IACHR members and nominees urge State Department not to withdraw funding
The letter comes as State considers withdrawing funding in the wake of a letter from nine Republican Senators who claim the U.S. should withdraw funding because the Commission lobbies "for abortion in Latin America in direct contravention of U.S. law."
IN THE MEDIA
Las banderas del feminismo
En vez de mimetizarse con la izquierda, el gobierno debiera demostrar que no hay mejor forma de alcanzar la igualdad de género y un país con iguales oportunidades para todos que mejorando el capitalismo. Por eso votaron los chilenos en 2017 y ese mensaje sigue siendo un mensaje ganador en el Chile de marzo de 2019.
Es imposible castigar al Parlamento
Que Chile tenga ahora un sistema de representación proporcional más permisivo hace imposible que la ciudadanía recrimine a los parlamentarios.
Maduro y los medios de comunicación: el caso de Jorge Ramos
Censura a Univisión se suma a los cierres de periódicos, programas de radio y de televisión.
Bachelet no es la rival de Piñera
El juicio histórico al segundo gobierno de la coalición de derecha dependerá de su capacidad de lograr promulgar una reforma tributaria que persista en el tiempo, una reforma de pensiones que legitime el sistema y le de mayor viabilidad futura, y una reforma laboral que se haga cargo de la nueva realidad de Chile como un país receptor de inmigrantes y nos haga competitivos en un mundo en que la tecnología amenaza con fuerza la concepción tradicional del empleo.