“The embargo has grown by accretion over the decades, one brick at a time,” said Christopher Sabatini, a scholar of U.S.-Cuba relations who teaches at Columbia University. “Dismantling it is going to happen similarly.”
Recent events have demonstrated how far the region still has to go in improving transparency and civilian control over the intelligence services.
Can the new Secretary General of the Organization of American States save the region’s only pan-regional multilateral institution? The editor of LatinAmericaGoesGlobal.org, Chris Sabatini, discusses with @JuanCarlosLopez of CNN-E the new Secretary General Luis Almagro’s challenges and possibilities for staking out a new role for the OAS in a divided region where there are a lot more competitors for regional cooperation.
“The greatest risk is uncertainty and fragmentation and policy inconsistency, at a time when the country desperately needs to address corruption within the state and transnational crime,” said Chris Sabatini, an adjunct professor at Columbia University and founder of the policy website LatinAmericaGoesGlobal.org.
Huffington Post interviewed LatinAmericaGoesGlobal editor Chris Sabatini on the economic situation in Venezuela. We read a lot in the press about Venezuela’s unusual currency system,
Why are Latin American leaders so resistant to speaking out about the deterioration of human rights in Venezuela?
Venezuela’s recently announced legislative elections (in November or December this year) represent one of the last opportunities for the country (and the region) to find an exit to its political and economic deterioration.
There’s still a long way to go before Cuba and the U.S. establish full diplomatic relations.
In the midst of an economic crisis , can Chavismo in Venezuela survive without Chavez?
At the Turn of the 21st Century, Latin American Nations Made Commitments to Defend Democracy. Those Days Are Gone.
