Andrés Mora Ramírez analyzed the current geopolitical climate in Latin America and the waves of protest that are reaching almost every country in the region, with Chile, Ecuador, and Haiti being in the spotlight due the violent clashes between “el pueblo y el Estado” (the people and the state.)

The use of police forces to put down protests and the aggressiveness of the opposition in Bolivia are telling events that might reflect hard realities in other parts of the region.

Most of Latin America is facing the return of the Military Issue referred to as the centrality acquired by the threat and effective use of force as well as the place of civilian and democratic control of the armed forces.

A year has passed since right-wing Jair Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil and the fight against fake news has become the opposition’s new crusade.

The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were funded in Bretton Woods in July 1944. Since then, these two organizations have controlled the financial narrative around the world.

Daniel García-Peña reflected on his meetings with recently deceased Colombian sociologist, journalist, and writer Alfredo Molano, whom he first met in his aunt Luz’s apartment in 1980.

The beautiful, untouched countryside of Guatemala is often a source of patriotic pride for locals and gives a sense of belonging.

Two Argentine economists weighed in on the actions that president-elect Alberto Fernández and his incoming government will need to take as they begin to take over for the outgoing government of Mauricio Macri.

The Nuevo Perú party of Peru planned to make Vladimir Cerrón the face of the left-wing party. Is he the right choice to represent the party and unite the left in Peru?

With the intense and sometimes violent protests happening in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile in recent days and weeks, there is a tangible feeling of rejection of the entire political regime and its institutions that unifies the movement across the region.