2009 has not been a good year for U.S.-Latin America relations. Despite their warm welcome at the April Summit, Latin America’s governments made life more difficult than anticipated for President Obama.
Este artículo presenta resultados sobre el impacto de la política fiscal en la desigualdad y la pobreza en dieciséis países de América Latina. Los países que más redistribuyen son Argentina, Brasil, Costa Rica y Uruguay, y los que menos, Guatemala, Honduras y Perú.
Nadie puede negar los avances en la lucha contra la pobreza y la inclusión. Sin embargo, la concentración de poder se vuelve una amenaza.
Whether the negotiations succeed depends mostly on the Venezuelans, but the active engagement of other nations would raise the chances of a favorable outcome.
Issues, policies, and experience have hardly mattered as the campaign offered round after round of personal insults, accusations of illegal and unsavory behavior, and damning indictments of US leaders and institutions.
It was just over a year ago that leaders of 34 nations of the hemisphere gathered in Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas. How much progress has been made in the past year on the goals expressed at the summit?
O senador Aloysio Nunes Ferreira assume, nesta terça-feira, o Ministério das Relações Exteriores. O novo cargo vai trazer desafios imediatos ao novo ministro. Já na quarta-feira, ele vai embarcar para uma reunião de chanceleres e precisará se posicionar sobre a suspensão da Venezuela do Mercosul. Também em um horizonte próximo, o ministro vai se deparar com a condução da política externa em meio a um cenário crescente de protecionismo no mercado internacional.
Cuts to Washington’s energy engagement could undermine the connections that help support U.S.–Latin American cooperation on issues from security to immigration. When it comes to weakening energy integration in the Americas, there are few winners.
USAID created and operated “ZunZuneo,” a communications network aimed to destabilize the Cuban government.
Latin America inequality gap, economic integration, and infrastructure and education systems were among the issues spotlighted at the XVII Annual CAF Conference.
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CIEPLAN, one of Chile’s (and Latin America’s) leading think tanks, celebrated its 40th anniversary on November 7th in Santiago
Michael Shifter responde a preguntas sobre el estado de Venezuela, Cuba y Brazil.
The Ibero-American Summit bore little resemblance in spirit and tenor to its launch in 1991. Where do Ibero-American relations stand?
Though many recognize that the immigration system needs repair, the issue of what to do with undocumented immigrants is a political lightening rod.
Cuba’s parliament has approved Miguel Díaz-Canel as Cuba’s first vice president. What will this mean for Cuba?
