Despite totaling more than 45 million people in Latin America, indigenous people’s and their leaders are woefully underrepresented in national legislatures. How has this affected attitudes of indigenous toward their political systems and their governments?
The peace agreement in Colombia may mark the end of the hemisphere’s longest running civil war. Let’s face it: being witness to an historical moment like this is exciting, even if there are difficulties ahead.
Populism, a resilient phenomenon in Latin America, has enabled and relied on the inclusion of politically alienated masses to legitimize the weakening of institutions. How is court empowerment and independence possible in the face of such a powerful anti-institutional force? This research argues that the answer may be found in the same mechanisms that enable populism: popularity and legitimacy.
Since 1993, OAS election observation missions around the region have grown in leaps and bounds. Despite the expanding scope of those missions, though, the quality of monitoring and elections generally has decreased.
La batalla comunicacional entre Chile y Bolivia ha vuelto a ponerse de relieve luego de una inspección inesperada del canciller boliviano a los puertos chilenos desde donde Bolivia exporta sus productos. ¿Qué hay detrás de la exacerbación del nacionalismo chauvinista?
Distracted by the elections and with a lame duck president, there’s a risk that at November’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, China will press its own agenda—one less in line with U.S. interests.
Beyond a few nice sounding phrases and curious omissions, the Democratic Party platform mentions Trump more than it mentions Latin America.
Despite relatively better human rights records and environmental protection policies, Latin America and the Caribbean lead the world in murders of environmental activists. Why?
Civil society organizations thrive in healthy democracies, but their role as watchdogs of governments and “gap-fillers” providing where the government is absent, tends to make those in power uncomfortable. In the following piece, we explore how Latin America fares compared to other countries in terms of barriers to civil society.
Richard Millet, Jennifer Holmes and Orlando Perez, eds. Latin American Democracy: Emerging Reality or Endangered Species? 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2015. This volume provides an in depth
