Latin America & the Caribbean

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a ceremony by the National Program of Civic-Military Schools, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

The awkward guests: Parsing the Summit for Democracy invitation list

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a deployment ceremony of Salvadoran army soldiers for the Territorial Control plan in San Salvador, El SalvadorJuly 19, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Fighting the autocratic slide in Central America

Charles T. Call

Friday, December 3, 2021

Girls wearing school uniforms walk past a burning street baricade during demonstrations against widespread kidnappings, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti November 25, 2021. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol

Haiti needs a new, improved UN mission

Charles T. Call

Thursday, December 2, 2021

A man stands on the dried ground at the Tisma lagoon wetland park due to drought affecting Tisma town, Nicaragua April 20,2016. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas

Climate migration and climate finance: Lessons from Central America

Friday, November 19, 2021

A State police convoy patrols a road in El Aguaje after a visit of Vatican's ambassador to Mexico Franco Coppola to the area and to the municipality of Aguililla, an area where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and local drug gangs are fighting to control the territory, in Michoacan state, Mexico April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Alan Ortega

The nexus between the illicit narcotics trade and corruption

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA- In the photos taken on August 19, 2020, the shops of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Once opened their doors this Wednesday (19), thanks to current regulations that allow their operation during the current phase of Social, Preventive Isolation and Mandatory in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Building an inclusive recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, Otaviano Canuto, and Pepe Zhang

Monday, October 25, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with members of the government via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia October 5, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS

Repackaging Pandora: How Russia’s information apparatus is handling a massive leak of data on offshore finance

Friday, October 8, 2021

This camp is managed by both the state and humanitarian organizations, and the displaced people have found a more normal life here than elsewhere / The UNHCR official makes the children repeat certain phrases.The region of Cabo Delgado, in the northeast of Mozambique, has been experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian drama for the past 4 years. Al-Shabab jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State since 2019 are wreaking havoc there. This armed group terrorizes the different ethnic groups while carrying out coordinated and simultaneous attacks against public institutions. To date, more than 2,800 people have been killed.In Pemba, the capital of the region and a former tourist town, the humanitarian situation has continued to deteriorate. The town's population has doubled. The displaced are piling up on the beaches or waiting in buildings requisitioned by the state before being rehoused.Camps are multiplying throughout the region. The inhabitants are totally dependent on humanitarian aid. The conditions are precarious, between insecurity, extreme poverty and the beginning of famine.Where: Montepuez, Cabo Delgado, MozambiqueWhen: 28 Apr 2021Credit: Chris Huby/Le Pictorium/Cover Images

Events of last six months show fragile countries must remain priority for the US and its allies

Alexandre Marc and Bruce Jones

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Cuban flags as Cuban residents that live in Colombia protest against the unrest and violence held in the Island against the government of Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel.

How can the US support democracy and development in Latin America?

Santiago Levy and David Dollar

Monday, July 19, 2021

Dustin, an asylum-seeking migrant from Honduras, holds his six-year-old son Jerrardo, 6, as they awake at sunrise next to others who took refuge near a baseball field after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on rafts, in La Joya, Texas, U.S., March 19, 2021. Emergency blankets were provided to the group of about 150 migrants from Central America by the U.S. Border Patrol agents. REUTERS/Adrees Latif TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

4 things the Biden administration should pay attention to with the border crisis

Elaine Denny, David Dow, Jose Ordoñez, Wayne Pitts, Diego Romero, Juan Tellez, Mateo Villamizar Chaparro, Erik Wibbels, and Pamela Zabala

Friday, April 2, 2021

Asylum-seeking mothers from Guatemala and Honduras carry their children after they crossed the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on a raft, in Penitas, Texas, U.S., March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Climate, violence, and Honduran migration to the United States

Sarah Bermeo and David Leblang

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Federal police officers stand on the back of pick-up trucks while leaving a patio of the building housing the Assistant Attorney General's Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SEIDO) in Mexico City February 27, 2015. Mexico has captured the country's most wanted drug lord still at large, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, police said on Friday, in a boost for President Enrique Pena Nieto as he grapples with grisly gang violence. Gomez, 49, was the prime target of Pena Nieto's drive to regain control of Michoacan, a violent western state wracked by clashes between Gomez's Knights Templar cartel and heavily-armed vigilantes trying to oust them. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (MEXICO - Tags: DRUGS SOCIETY CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Legalizing drugs and illegal economies is no panacea for Latin America and the rest of the world

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Catalina Niño

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Venezuelan migrants react when members of the Bolivarian National Guard (not pictured) try to stop them on their way to the border between Venezuela and Colombia, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in San Cristobal, Venezuela October 12, 2020. Picture taken October 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez

Venezuelan refugees and their receiving communities need funding, not sympathy

Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley

Friday, February 26, 2021

People wearing protective face masks line up to cross the border between Colombia and Venezuela at Simon Bolivar international bridge in Cucuta, Colombia March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez

The US can learn a lot from Colombia about giving rights to undocumented immigrants

Monday, February 22, 2021

Lima, Lima / Peru - November 11 2016: Young Students with Uniform of Ramon Castilla School Attend Classes

Lessons for combating despair? Hope, aspirations, and the outcomes of young adults in Peru

Monday, February 1, 2021

Migrants, mainly from Central America and marching in a caravan, walk on a road on the outskirts of Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

The imperative to address the root causes of migration from Central America

Charles T. Call

Friday, January 29, 2021

CUSCO PERU-NOV. 25: Unidentified School girls posing for portrait on Nov. 25 2010 in Cusco Peru.

Do high aspirations lead to better outcomes? Evidence from a longitudinal survey of adolescents in Peru

Carol Graham and Julia Ruiz Pozuelo

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Jamaican students dance at school

Gender-based violence in primary schools: Jamaica

Dasmine Kennedy

Friday, January 22, 2021

Law enforcement officers unload part of approximately 3,200 lbs. of cocaine, which was seized at the Port of New York/Newark on February 28, 2019 in a joint operation involving U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the New York Police Department (NYPD), and the New York State Police (NYSP), in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., in this image released on March 11, 2019. Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

The wicked problem of drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere

Michael Sinclair

Friday, January 15, 2021

Caracas/Venezuela - January 30, 2019: Protesters hold banners welcoming Donald Trump aggressive moves on Venezuela and Juan Guaido, the U.S. backed opposition leader declared interim presiden

MAGAzuelans: Trump’s last line of defense

Thursday, January 14, 2021