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Some of the people slated to enter the administration have made a career peddling theories of Islamist threats in our hemisphere. There are genuine reasons for concern, but not for the disproven assertions many have been pitching for years.

In the Media

A Venezuelan Tragedy

By Patricio Navia / patricionavia / January 5, 2017

As the year comes to an end, the demise of social order in Venezuela is the chronicle of a foretold death. Though 2016 began with high expectations of a peaceful change in government, neither the Maduro administration nor the opposition have shown the courage and leadership needed to find common ground and to pull the country out of the deep hole it finds itself in. Unfortunately for Venezuelans, who are deeply suffering from the economic, social and political chaos, they have little to look forward to in 2017.

In the Media

Can Brazil be saved?

By Patricio Navia / patricionavia / January 5, 2017

The historical problem Brazil has been unable to solve is the need to build an inclusive economic model that can help alleviate poverty and reduce inequality. That will require cutting subsidies and benefits to interest groups that have long benefitted from fiscal spending. As the year comes to an end, Brazilians will be happy to forget a bad year in terms of politics and the economy. Unfortunately for them, 2017 might not be much better.

In the Media

China’s Second Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean: Indications of Chinese intentions, and recommendations for the U.S. Response

By Evan Ellis / REvanEllis / December 23, 2016

China’s engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean increasingly impacts the region, and by extension, the economic and security environment of the U.S. As such, China’s new document on its approach toward the region is important for policymakers, analysts and businessmen with an interest in that relationship. This article thus examines that document and provides recommendations for U.S. policymakers of how best to respond.

In the Media

Strategic insights: Thinking strategically about Latin America and the Caribbean

By Evan Ellis / REvanEllis / December 15, 2016

Even with its geographic connectedness to the United States, and although Latin America eclipses even China and Asia as the U.S. principal foreign trading partner, and despite the fact that more U.S. residents have family in the region than any other part of the world, Latin America, and the Caribbean continue to be remarkably absent from the U.S. strategic and foreign policy discourse.

Democracy & Elections

Latin American lessons on populism and the consequences of dramatic change

By Grant Burrier / November 18, 2016

The United States has chosen an outsider populist president. Latin America has ample experience with such leaders. Here are four warning signs U.S. citizens, civil society and policy makers need to be on the look out for.

In the Media

Trump builds walls, Xi builds bridges in LatAm

By Kevin Gallagher / KevinPGallagher / November 18, 2016

Latin America is experiencing its worst economic growth — projected to be negative this year – since the lost decade of the 1980s. At this crucial time, the United States is turning its back and stepping backward from Latin America while China takes further steps forward in its economic relations with the region.

In the Media

What’s in store for Trudeau in Latin America, in the new Trump era

By Kenneth Frankel / November 15, 2016

Curiously optimistic in welcoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election a year ago, Latin America will examine up close this week a leader it has admired from afar. It will do so with even keener interest in light of the oncoming U.S. presidency of Donald Trump.