Guatemalans banded together to depose a corrupt administration with dark connections to human rights violations. But another election looms, and the candidates don’t inspire confidence.
Authorities in Argentina and beyond are cracking down on indigenous communities that protest resource extraction — while re-writing laws to promote fossil fuels.
Every democracy in the world has an elected legislature. Why not the United Nations?
Activists in Chile have made their government draw red lines on the corporate-friendly investment deal. North Americans could take a lesson.
Despite progress with Cuba, the Obama administration has done little to dispel doubts about Washington’s intentions towards its neighbors to the south.
The BRICS were well poised to rival the West’s control of the global economy. But while they grapple with economic slowdowns and rising social tensions, other blocs of developing economies are rising to the fore.
In the New Yorker, Dexter Filkins writes about Argentine prosecutor Albert Nisman’s doomed attempts to prosecute the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina bombing.
As Cuba and the United States continue down the road of reconciliation, they must still avoid the bumps.
Haiti plays host to over 10,000 NGOs, whose foreign workers make up an affluent class of their own.
Despite its improving relations with Havana, Washington’s ultimate goal for the island remains regime change.