With responsible policy management, Latin American governments can use industrial clusters to shift from over-reliance on commodity production to more value-added sectors.
The Trump administration’s proposal to cut the State Department’s budget for educational and cultural exchange by 75% is bad. Its justification is even worse.
If negotiations over the proposed agreement between the two trade blocs succeed, it could become the most important bi-regional trade agreement in the world.
El país andino, un gran promulgador del libre comercio pero que ha evitado involucrarse en temas de diplomacia internacional, ha emergido sorprendentemente como un líder y promotor de la integración económica entre América Latina y la región de Asía Pacífico.
The Andean country, a proponent of free trade but often a reluctant diplomatic leader, has taken a surprising outsized role in furthering economic integration between Latin America and the Asia Pacific region.
Illegal gold mining is more profitable than drug trafficking. The business is wreaking social and environmental damage in Latin America with no clear response in sight
Peru’s progress today toward equitable social and democratic development and effective democratic governance is hindered not by powerful interest groups, domestic or foreign, but by the weakness of state capacity and institutions.
In an event hosted by the Canadian Council for the Americas, business leaders and expert scholars from the region offer an answer to the question: Will Latin America be able to maintain sustained economic growth as it enters an intense electoral cycle?
La inestabilidad en la península coreana, el incompensable accionar de Donald Trump en algunos frentes de la agenda internacional, la crisis global de refugiados aún irresuelta, y la próxima ola de elecciones, entre otros temas, hacen que sea casi imposible predecir qué deparará el año que comienza para América Latina.
The growing depreciation of federally-funded research and education has reached Brazil, with implications for the region as a whole.
