President Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout plan for Argentina represents a resurrection of dollar diplomacy—a term describing the practice of using US financial power to influence foreign politics. Over the 20th century, the dollar became incre...
In Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)’s frequent condemnation of the conservative elite and neoliberal technocrats echoed in his daily morning conferences during his six years as president. He mobilized voters mainly by appealing to popul...
In 2015, El Salvador presided as the “murder capital of the world” with the highest number of homicides per capita; today, it is one of the safest countries in Latin America, with a homicide rate lower than that of the United States. Over the pas...
Guerilla warfare has been a defining characteristic of modern Latin American history. The cult of the freedom fighter has been present from the Hispanic Caribbean to the Southern Cone, reflected in popular music, literature, politics, and even clothi...
Guerilla warfare has been a defining characteristic of modern Latin American history. The cult of the freedom fighter has been present from the Hispanic Caribbean to the Southern Cone, reflected in popular music, literature, politics, and even clothi...
Latin America has a tendency of looking back in history for political inspiration. Perhaps the most obvious current manifestation of this is Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, devised and led by the late Hugo Chavez and continued by the politic...
Latin America has a tendency of looking back in history for political inspiration. Perhaps the most obvious current manifestation of this is Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, devised and led by the late Hugo Chavez and continued by the politic...
These days, most politicians have put the government shutdown and health care reform above immigration reform in their list of concerns. Notably, the most recent news on immigration policy in the Americas does not come from the U.S., but rather from ...
These days, most politicians have put the government shutdown and health care reform above immigration reform in their list of concerns. Notably, the most recent news on immigration policy in the Americas does not come from the U.S., but rather from ...
The night before Brazil’s September 7th Independence Day celebrations, Marcelo D2, one of the founding fathers of Brazilian rap and a widely recognized figure in his country, posted a picture of himself on Instagram wearing a ski mask and threateni...
The night before Brazil’s September 7th Independence Day celebrations, Marcelo D2, one of the founding fathers of Brazilian rap and a widely recognized figure in his country, posted a picture of himself on Instagram wearing a ski mask and threateni...
Chilean Armed Forces bomb the Presidential Palace during the 1973 coup. Wikipedia Commons. Creative Commons. The events of September 11th hold a massive and merited weight in the world’s collective consciousness. It was a date in which great viol...
Chilean Armed Forces bomb the Presidential Palace during the 1973 coup. Wikipedia Commons. Creative Commons. The events of September 11th hold a massive and merited weight in the world’s collective consciousness. It was a date in which great viol...
On the night of July 31st, the lower house of Uruguay’s legislature passed a bill that would legalize the production, distribution and sale of cannabis. It is expected to pass the Uruguayan senate in a few months and be approved by the country’s ...
On the night of July 31st, the lower house of Uruguay’s legislature passed a bill that would legalize the production, distribution and sale of cannabis. It is expected to pass the Uruguayan senate in a few months and be approved by the country’s ...
#ChangeBrazil, #VemPraRua, #OGiganteAcordou. Whoever first thought to use these trending Brazilian protest labels must feel like an unacknowledged celebrity. Over the course of the last few months, demonstrations across a hundred cities in Brazil too...
#ChangeBrazil, #VemPraRua, #OGiganteAcordou. Whoever first thought to use these trending Brazilian protest labels must feel like an unacknowledged celebrity. Over the course of the last few months, demonstrations across a hundred cities in Brazil too...
“Gentlemen do not read others’ mail.” –Henry L. Stimson. “One might expect Europeans to protest loudly — if only to appease their offended publics — but then revert to type and do little concrete in response. After all, America&...
“Gentlemen do not read others’ mail.” –Henry L. Stimson. “One might expect Europeans to protest loudly — if only to appease their offended publics — but then revert to type and do little concrete in response. After all, America&...
by Joaquim Salles Soccer, beaches, carnival, scantily clad women. Clichés and stereotypes inevitably arise when talking about Brazil. Chief among them is the myth of the jeitinho brasileiro, or the “Brazilian way”: the informal and street-smart ...
by Joaquim Salles Soccer, beaches, carnival, scantily clad women. Clichés and stereotypes inevitably arise when talking about Brazil. Chief among them is the myth of the jeitinho brasileiro, or the “Brazilian way”: the informal and street-smart ...
Fifty-six days ago, Hugo Chavez died in a Caracas hospital. There were tributes. like this one from former Brazilian president Lula da Silva. There was a passive-aggressive comment from the White House. There was unwarranted vitriol from some of...
Fifty-six days ago, Hugo Chavez died in a Caracas hospital. There were tributes. like this one from former Brazilian president Lula da Silva. There was a passive-aggressive comment from the White House. There was unwarranted vitriol from some of...
Thatcher Does Not Sow. Margaret Thatcher is dead, and hagiography on the former British Prime Minister—brilliantly interrupted by Ken Loach’s petition to privatize her funeral—has already piled up to stratospheric heights. I would not be surpri...
Thatcher Does Not Sow. Margaret Thatcher is dead, and hagiography on the former British Prime Minister—brilliantly interrupted by Ken Loach’s petition to privatize her funeral—has already piled up to stratospheric heights. I would not be surpri...
by José Francisco Muci Lander Four days after the announcement of President Hugo Chávez’s death on March 5, Tibisay Lucena, head of Venezuela’s electoral authority, called for new elections on April 14. On that day, the late Hugo Chávez’s po...
by José Francisco Muci Lander Four days after the announcement of President Hugo Chávez’s death on March 5, Tibisay Lucena, head of Venezuela’s electoral authority, called for new elections on April 14. On that day, the late Hugo Chávez’s po...