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Political crimes and amnesty: Getting to peace and reconciliation in Colombia

Gustavo Alvira Gomez | March 7, 2016

With less than a month before the deadline to sign the peace accord, the government must do a better job of promoting the agreement and refuting its ...
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What Bolivia’s “No” vote means for its political future

Miguel Centellas | February 24, 2016

Whatever you may think of Evo Morales and his time in power, Bolivian voters’ narrow rejection of a constitutional amendment to allow him to run again is ...
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Evo Morales and the MAS’s future

Miguel Centellas | February 18, 2016

After 11 years in power and the prospect of another four, what will come after Evo Morales and how his MAS will adapt to changing electoral patterns ...
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Colombia’s Hope for Peace

Stephanie White | February 14, 2016

The peace deal with the FARC is not an automatic remedy for the consequences and collateral damage of Colombia’s violent past, but failure to approve it ...
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Beyond the Zapata scandal: outsourcing Bolivia’s national development to China

Evan Ellis | February 12, 2016

Personal contacts and questionable contracts between the government and the Chinese company CAMC Engineering reveal both the problems with public ...
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The Overselling of Education: Easy Platitudes and Pontification

Christopher Sabatini | February 11, 2016

Experts and pundits have decided that education is the magic bullet to cure most of Latin America’s ills. Problem is: it’s a long term bet, with no known ...
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Toward a modern security policy in the Western Hemisphere

Brian Fonseca & G. Alexander Crowther | February 4, 2016

U.S. security policy is not providing security for most of Latin America's citizens. U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere should be based on the common ...
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Going Down the Rabbit Hole of the UNHRC’s Universal Review Process

Chris Sabatini & Amy Williams | January 7, 2016

Even in Latin America, a region often thought to share the same democratic orientation and values of the U.S. and Europe, there are some striking ...
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The 2015 Top 10 Events in LGBT Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean

Javier Corrales | January 2, 2016

Despite legal setbacks in Peru and El Salvador and retrograde rhetoric from the newly-elected President of Guatemala and the Catholic cardinal of the ...
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