Those who stoke fear every time an extra-hemispheric rival to the U.S. gains influence in the Western Hemisphere are missing the real challenges. While ...
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The BackYardistas
Christopher Sabatini |
Militarizing the Police Undermines Democratic Governance
Orlando J. Pérez |
Across the hemisphere a majority of citizens support a greater role for the armed forces in domestic security—with over 80 percent of citizens in El ...
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How does the region stack up in women in political power?
Latin American and the Caribbean have made incredible strides in electing women heads of state and in implementing gender quota laws for national ...
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Should I stay or should I go? Latin America’s familiar story
Pedro Hércules Fonseca do Rosário |
Beyond the economics of the 30 million Latin Americans living abroad, out-migraton from the region has also created a looming a political problem. ...
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The deportation of Haitian-Dominicans
Natasha Zaretsky |
In defending the 2013 Constitutional Court decision that denied citizenship to undocumented Haitian immigrants and their children and now its ...
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A continent in silence
Carolina Morais Araujo |
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 ...
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Latin America’s voting record in the UN Human Rights Council
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 ...
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The new and not-so-new foreign policies in the Americas
Christopher Sabatini |
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 ...
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Financial inclusion and education levels across the region
Predictably, the rates of financial inclusion are significantly higher across the region for those with a secondary education. But there is one country ...
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World Bank’s financial inclusion numbers for Latin America and the Caribbean
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