For more than a year, prosecutor Franklin Nieves argued before a federal judge in his native Venezuela that the country’s opposition leader, Leopoldo López, should […]

HAVANA — During another October 53 years ago, a young Fidel Castro played Cuba off the world’s two superpowers. The Soviets installed nukes on the […]

The closing space for civil society has been well documented, but sometimes modern autocrats find it more convenient to manipulate civic space than to close […]

Depois de cinco anos de negociações, os Estados Unidos e mais 11 países fecharam o maior acordo comercial da história. A parceria Transpacífico vai reunir […]

The benefits of signing up for the biggest trade deal in history may take a while to materialize in the three Latin American countries that agreed […]

LUCAS DO RIO VERDE, Brazil — The ambitions are dizzying, some of the grandest in Latin America since thousands of laborers perished building railways through […]

The Cipher Brief: What are China’s strategic interests in Latin America?  Does this pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy objectives in the region?  Dr. […]

The Cipher Brief:  Broadly speaking, how do you view China’s increased involvement in Latin America?  Is it a good thing for Latin America? The U.S.? […]

The first decade of the 21st century was a good one for Latin America. A recent Pew Research Center report estimates that some 63 million individuals entered the […]