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
When we started this website, the idea was to begin a broad discussion of Latin America's emerging foreign policy and its implications for inter-American ... Read More
Predictably, the rates of financial inclusion are significantly higher across the region for those with a secondary education. But there is one country ... Read More
While much of the media and policy attention has focused on China, Russia and Iran's involvement in the region—often with handwringing or finger ... Read More