Writing about South America has often meant recounting the movements of the world with the almost certainty that every contraction, however slight and local, is actually the symptom of humanity’s cosmic malaise. If the South American continent is the face...
South America has seen a sharp rise in the number of new COVID-19 cases for the past few weeks, even while countries in Europe and Asia have begun to relax their lockdown measures. On Sunday June 28, Latin America and...
US President Donald Trump denied that Washington had played a role in a recent failed coup attempt to oust Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro. Trump’s denial followed the arrest of former American soldiers and other labeled as “terrorists” accused by Venezuela...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life for nearly everyone, drug cartels included. A recent Foreign Policy report chronicled their plight as they face supply shortages and lower demand. While under normal circumstances a downturn in illicit drug markets would be...
In the crystal-clear waters of a bay in the Pacific Ocean, Elizabeth Taylor smiled ecstatically at the beauty of a city whose name to her and many other Hollywood celebrities was synonymous with Paradise: Acapulco. Today Acapulco, the most important...
For many economists and political commentators, Latin America was the utopia in the mid-2000s when the region was experiencing unprecedented growth and democracy seemed to have more or less consolidated in several countries. From Brazil – which saw its aggregate...
At the start of March 2019, John Bolton, national security adviser to the President of the United States, declared that Donald Trump’s administration was not afraid to use the term “Monroe Doctrine” with reference to Venezuela: “This is a country...
When she was 6-years-old Gabriella Gillespie’s father murdered her mother. At 13, he took her and her sisters to his native country, Yemen, where he sold them as child brides. Despairing the prospects of marrying the man in his 60s...
The United States and its relationship with Latin America is best described as dysfunctional, at best. Imperialistic at worst. At the onset of the Cold War Harry Truman enacted the Truman Doctrine. Its sole purpose was to combat Russian communist...
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