After several months of waiting, the Colombian government unveiled a tax bill intended to address the fiscal and social crisis triggered by the COVID-19 ...
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Mission impossible? A look at Colombia’s proposed tax reform
Daniel Payares-Montoya | 
Brazil’s rising oil production
Suzanne Driscoll | 
Brazil produced an average of 2.94 million barrels of oil per day in 2020. The South American country is now the seventh-largest crude oil producer in the ...
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Communist party congress in Cuba: After the end of the Castro era, what?
Bert Hoffmann | 
When Cuba's Communist Party convenes in Havana from April 16-19 for its 8th Party Congress, Raúl Castro, at the age of 89, will step down from center ...
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China’s advance in Panama: An update
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This piece examines the evolution of China’s position in Panama under the Cortizo government. It finds that China's advance has suffered significant, if ...
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Saber-rattling and high stakes in Guyana’s geopolitical neighborhood
Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith | 
The Essequibo territory remains a point of contention between Guyana and Venezuela, and the stage is now set for the ICJ to step in and render a judgment.
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Disinformation or goodwill: The Russian COVID-19 vaccine strategy
Ezequiel Carman, India Kirssin, and Lourdes Argenal | 
The race to research, develop, test, approve, and distribute effective COVID-19 vaccines has turned the search for global normalcy into yet another ...
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How not to curb Colombian cocaine
Mary Speck | 
Over the past four years, Colombia has eradicated nearly 300,000 hectares (more than 1,000 square miles) of coca while seizing more than 2,000 metric tons ...
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A Global Americans interview with Dr. Christy Thornton, author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy
Henry Bacha | 
In her book, Thornton explores the little-known history of Mexico’s role in shaping the institutions—including the World Bank, the International Monetary ...
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Could two wrongs make a right?
Britta Crandall and Emma Lynn | 
Enabling early pension withdrawals proved to be a suboptimal policy in Chile. Yet for other Latin American countries, early pension withdrawals should not ...
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