Latin American and the Caribbean have made incredible strides in electing women heads of state and in implementing gender quota laws for national ... Read More
In the final stages of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, the U.S. is still pushing for the elimination of safeguards to regulate capital inflows ... Read More
This week we look at how countries voted in the UNHRC regarding Sri Lanka. The government of then-Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was accused of engaging ... Read More
Three years ago, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela led a failed effort to gut the inter-American system of human rights by limiting the functions ... Read More
Beyond the economics of the 30 million Latin Americans living abroad, out-migraton from the region has also created a looming a political problem. ... Read More
Using ECLAC data, we constructed a graph tracing the past 20 years of exports from South America to China as a percentage of their total exports. In this ... Read More
Since October, eleven journalists across six countries—two in Colombia, two in Honduras, three in Mexico, two in Brazil, one in Paraguay, and one in ... Read More
Using the data provided by the Human Rights Watch Votes Count website, we took a look at how Latin American and a few other countries on the United ... Read More
Latin America invests about 2% of GDP on infrastructure. Between 1992 and 2011 China invested an average of 8.5% of GDP in infrastructure per year. Given ... Read More
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Rafael Correa exhibit none of the characteristics of the modern, progressive left—such as, support for ... Read More