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Latin America’s Former Presidents Have Way Too Much Power
By Javier Corrales / On Sunday, voters elected Guillermo Lasso, a former banker and a supporter of free-market policies, as president of Ecuador over Andrés Arauz, a left-wing ...
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Latin America’s Surprisingly Resilient Democracies
By Richard E. Feinberg and Benjamin N. Gedan /
Pro-democracy activists once held up Latin America as a crowning achievement, a region notorious for 19th-century caudillos and Cold War military ...
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The economics of populism is failing in Latin America
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Illustration Credit: Arcabuz, El Comercio Elections held in two Andean nations this past weekend garnered surprising results for both sides of the ...
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The spectre of populism – both of the left and right variety – has hung over Latin American politics and economics since the 19th century but, for the ...
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Lasso triumphs in Ecuador; Peru prepares for a left-right showdown
Illustration Credit: Arcabuz, El Comercio Elections held in two Andean nations this past weekend garnered surprising results for both sides of the ...Read More
Will the indictment of Sergio Fajardo redefine his candidacy?
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On the day before the Easter holiday, the Colombian Attorney General's office issued an indictment against the former governor of the Antioquia Department ...
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Patricio Navia: El Chile de la esperanza y de la frustración
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As Brazil spirals deeper into the epidemiological crisis caused by COVID-19, a new political dilemma has also arisen in the South American nation. ...
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Como evidenciando una cierta bipolaridad, la sociedad chilena ha transitado rápidamente entre la esperanza y la frustración en los últimos 3 años. Aunque ...
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Hemisphere Weekly: A New Political Earthquake Shakes Brazil
As Brazil spirals deeper into the epidemiological crisis caused by COVID-19, a new political dilemma has also arisen in the South American nation. ...Read More
Countdown to 2022
By Juliano Medeiros / 
The beginning of 2021 has brought with it a deepening of the health, economic, and social crises in Brazil. With the 2022 elections on the horizon, ...
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The Biden Administration and Central America: Meeting the challenge of corruption and authoritarianism
By Orlando J. Pérez / 
Among the first critical tests of the Biden administration will be the November 2021 presidential elections in Honduras and Nicaragua. Both countries are ...
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Three candidates have emerged as the frontrunners in the presidential race: a young protégé of former President Rafael Correa, a pro-business social ...