How can progressive governments move beyond “mere welfare-ism” and truly challenge the existing system?

The street is “par excellence” the meeting place for social interactions, communication, and coexistence.  Recent events in Mexico point to needed changes to make it friendlier to political protest. 

Obama’s immigration plan “is to be commended for allowing undocumented yet otherwise law-abiding immigrants to ‘come out of the shadows and get right with the law.’”  Yet it “overlooks one important aspect – the reason why Latinos risk their lives to illegally enter the US in the first place.” 

Economists of a neoliberal bent have come to occupy a “disproportionate space” in public discourse on questions of social and economic policy. 

According to a study by the World Justice Project, Colombia ranks seventy-nine of ninety-nine countries in the effectiveness of its criminal justice system. Colombia’s Nasa People have their own remedy.

There are 12 million political refugees in the world, but those displaced by the consequences of climate change are around 25 million, and could number more than 200 million by 2050, according to a recent report. 

It turns out that the “messianic idea of the Grand Canal of Nicaragua” may have a spiritual origin. 

Challenges for journalists are less life threatening than in other parts of Latin America and the World, but they are real enough (and some are self-inflicted). 

After 1996, Guatemala moved beyond armed conflict to internal, social conflict.  Over the last decade “increasing indicators” of crime demonstrate that “the situation has become uncontrollable” that it’s “undermining economic growth.” 

The Chavista dilemma in Venezuela today, according to leftist critics, is choosing between “delusions” and “dogmas” or “pragmatism.”