REPORT: Advancing from Partial Peace in Colombia
June 7, 2024 | The landmark agreement that ended Colombia's civil war remains fragile and incomplete. The U.S. needs to do more to support its implementation.
Articles by Andrew Blum
Labor Holds the Line in Argentina
April 4, 2024 | Organized labor offers a counterbalance to democratic backsliding, Argentina's recent experience shows.
Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Turns Forty
January 24, 2024 | Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another
December 19, 2023 | In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
Indonesia’s Journalists Grapple With Islamism
August 21, 2019 | Reporters in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country are navigating — and too often abetting — a rising trend of reactionary Islamism.
Why is Venezuela Spiraling Out of Control?
May 1, 2017 | Opposition violence and the government’s increasing authoritarianism are both to blame.
Postcard From…the Niger Delta
July 14, 2009 | The Nigerian military's joint task force is fighting its own people over access to oil-rich land. The international community needs to push for greater humanitarian access and peaceful resistance efforts in the Niger Delta region.
Time to Strengthen Ties with Peru
April 14, 2009 | The South American nation offers the U.S. an opportunity to bring change that matters to relations with all of Latin America.