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.”  

Economist Jeremy Rifkin spoke with Argentine reporters about the Internet of things, the collaborative commons, the eclipse of capitalism, and Pope Francis. 

Some critics believe that one of the biggest problems for Mexico is that its middle class is complicit in a deeply entrenched inequality. 

The political opponents of the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner claim that Argentina is now “a dictatorship because the government can pass any law it likes,” and kind of miss the point about democracy.