As we enter Women’s History Month, the spotlight is once again on the issue of femicide and the lack of progress toward gender equality made in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Femicide crisis in Latin America
Economics, Trade & Development
2019 Latin American political landscape: The good, the bad, and the ugly
By John Price /
The 2018 elections in Mexico and Brazil turned on its head the investment norm driving Latin America’s two largest economies.
Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations
AMLO’s cautious foreign policy
By Greg Weeks / GregWeeksUNCC /
AMLO’s foreign policy is far from the populist, anti-American rhetoric of his campaign and much of his political life. Nevertheless, his make-no-waves position is fraught with contradictions.
Democracy & Elections
Mexico’s AMLO: A New Chavez or Lula?
By Joachim Bamrud /
Investors are anxious about whether Mexico’s next president will be more like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez or Brazil’s Lula.
Democracy & Elections
Mexico: Dawn of a new era or a return to the past?
By Marta Ochman / MENU
The real danger that has arisen from AMLO’s and MORENA’s landslide victories is not expropriation or authoritarianism, but disillusionment with unfulfilled promises and the persistence of corruption, poverty, and violence.
Democracy & Elections
Angry Mexico
By Juan Carlos Hidalgo and Ian Vásquez /
Instead of voting for a candidate with concrete policy proposals to improve a difficult situation, many Mexican voters seem to ready to say “screw the system—and everything else along with it.”
Crime
The evolution of security challenges in Mexico
By Evan Ellis / REvanEllis /
Crime and violence have expanded in Mexico as the result of the fragmentation of criminal groups at the same time that it faces the prospect of electing a populist president.
Democracy & Elections
Mexico City’s 2018 elections: An end to the PRD’s 20-year dominance?
By Emiliano Segura /
After nearly two decades of uninterrupted control over Mexico’s financial, political, and cultural center, the PRD risks losing Mexico City in the face of a challenge from the far left.