While Latin America has seen numerous advances in sectors like education and health over the past decades, significant challenges remain for the region to achieve full development. A report released by CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America, outlines these challenges and offers possible solutions.

Societies today face a multitude of challenges ranging from terrorism to climate change. Since the earlier globalization process wrought many of these issues, the global trend today seems to be an inward turn towards nationalist movements.

The ‘angry citizens’ and their influence in politics is an idea increasingly gaining traction, especially considering events in the past year.

Formulating politicians as those who are sullied and those who are clean is not going to help the opposition recover from its defeat at the hands of President Macri in the last election.

It is 7:30 in the morning in Caracas when shots ring out near a bakery in the city center. Two constants—hunger and insecurity—dictate the lives of many in Venezuela.

The dilemma facing the Argentinean President in his dealings with President-Elect Donald Trump are quite different to the two men’s previous connections in 1980s New York.

While the new peace deal between the Colombian Government and the FARC is a welcome development, there is danger of losing the elements in the defeated Peace Deal that addressed rural poverty and introduced structural changes to the country. 

The Comisión Económica para América Latina’s (CEPAL) recent report on social inequality in Latin America provides both an evaluation of the region’s attempts to address inequality and a caution that there is still much more to be done.

In Latin America, and El Salvador in particular, politics and corruption often seem to go hand in hand—the former rarely exists without the latter. But this does not have to be the case.

As President Peña Nieto approaches the 5th year of his presidency there is an apparent blindness that characterizes his leadership approach.