Jennifer Lambe (PhD, Yale University ’14; AB, Brown University ’06) is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history....

On September 8, 2022, Mexican deputies voted to pass a constitutional amendment granting the Ministry of National Defense control over...

In Buenos Aires, a crowd of protestors dressed in green gathered in the Plaza de Mayo to patiently await the decision of the Argentinian...

On June 11, 2022, the Nicaraguan Government under President Daniel Ortega authorized Russian military forces to enter the country for the...

In Fall 2021, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), proposed important changes to the 2014 Energy Reform law,...

In mid-February, Peruvian governmental corruption made international headlines once again when reports came out that almost 500...

Like most Latin American countries, Ecuador recently has experienced a massive shift in the political ideology in the aftermath of its...

Most Americans might not know it, but the vast majority of the cut flowers sold throughout the country are grown and exported out of...

Fifty years ago, when Carlos Monteiro began his career as a pediatrician in the sprawling slums of São Paulo, his patients were starving....

In a given year, 4,224 people are killed by police brutality in Brazil (2016), 1,147 in the U.S. (2017), and 11 in Germany (2016). In...

Last year, millionaire real estate mogul Tim Gurner told 60 Minutes Australia that millennials are blowing potential savings on “buying...

At the end of January, a Brazilian appeals court ruled unanimously to uphold the bribery conviction of former president Luiz Inácio Lula...

We live in a time of rapid technological advancement. This has large implications for national security. Even during peacetime, covert...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently announced that his government and the state-run oil company PDVSA will need to “restructure...

Evo Morales has been the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia since 2006. The term “Plurinational State,” adopted by the 2009...

With a population of only 6.9 million people and one of the smallest economies in South America, Paraguay is often overlooked in...

Undemocratic coups come in many forms. Not all of them are violent, seemingly disorganized uprisings – the ‘standard’ coup, so to speak....

Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of...

At times called the “Switzerland of Latin America,” Costa Rica boasts thriving industrial and tourism sectors, a robust universal health...

When Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took to Twitter on January 26 to cancel his meeting with US President Donald Trump, he was...