Category South America
El Salvador’s Controversial Offer: Housing U.S. Criminals in Its Mega-Prison
El Salvador’s ‘maverick’[1] president, Nayib Bukele, has proposed a unique agreement with the United States, offering to house American criminals and deportees[2] in its notorious mega-prison, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Terrorism Confinement Center, abbreviated CECOT). This unprecedented deal, put…
Diplomacy for Democracy: Why Venezuela Did Not Defy the Odds like Guatemala
From Bullets to Hugs: Mexico’s Security Jarabe
Restoring Democracy: Lessons from Bolivia since the 2019 Coupvolution
The Pitfalls of All-the-above Environmental Policy: Analyzing the Role of Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism in Recent Brazil and U.S. Politics
A Holistic Approach Towards International Counternarcotics Cooperation
Lula and Bolsonaro, A World Apart on the World Stage
A Development Journey: Non-stop from the Northern Triangle of Central America to Denmark?
Can the Government Police Itself? Colombia’s False Positives Scandal and its Lessons for Atrocity Prevention
Coming to Terms with Reality: How Could the European Union Most Effectively Support Venezuela’s Democratization?
Chile 2010-2020: The Contentious Decade
If contention describes a state of sustained, massive protest combining peaceful, disruptive, and violent tactics, then the decade of the 2010s may be considered the most contentious in Chile’s history.[1] The decade’s contentious dynamics seem more spectacular and unpredictable considering Chilean…