Latin America & the Caribbean

“What Daniel Ortega seeks, rather than a single party regime, is one hegemonic party in which other political institutions can aspire to the presidency but without a real chance of winning. That is, like the Mexican PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party] in the decades before 2000.”

“This is something that has been brewing since Ortega returned to power in 2007 and amended Article 147 of the Constitution which expressly forbade occupying the presidency for two consecutive periods and more than once.”

Oil went down for the whole world, but you don’t see humanitarian crises in all other oil-producing countries.

Latin American poor are getting out of poverty; the middle class is burgeoning. Investments in education have gone up, and remarkably, inequality has gone down at a time in the U.S. when not only inequality of income distribution has gone way up, but inequality of opportunity has also gone up.