Latin American and Caribbean states have been astoundingly cheap in supporting the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2013, Chile only ... Read More
A recent Spanish report by DeJusticia details the modern challenges of the inter-American system of human rights: political consensus; countries refusing ... Read More
The net effect of these new bodies has been to create parallel forums more favorable to the interests of autocrats. That may be OK for Venezuela and ... Read More
With corruption scandals, popular protests and the revelations in the Panama Papers, it’s easy to think that corruption in Latin America has suddenly ... Read More
In the past decade, Latin America and the Caribbean’s importance in the international system has changed dramatically. A new book examines the constraints ... Read More
The “golden decade” of Latin American economic growth and social mobility was not shared equally by indigenous groups. Unfortunately, all the World Bank ... Read More
The past two decades of progress in LGBTQ rights in many Latin American countries have helped to extend basic rights of marriage, health care and a ... Read More
Thirty years after the Jean-Claude Duvalier fled Haiti, the Caribbean island country has been plagued by political upheaval, autocracy, and corruption. ... Read More
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 ... Read More
Despite legal setbacks in Peru and El Salvador and retrograde rhetoric from the newly-elected President of Guatemala and the Catholic cardinal of the ... Read More