With the presidential election in Mexico set for July 2018, leftist populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is leading in the polls. (Pedro Pardo/Agence France-Presse) Here's a fact that few people ...

Stephen C. Johnson Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies Before the Committee on Armed Services U.S. House of ...

Here’s a scenario that seemed highly unlikely only a few weeks ago, but has a 50 percent chance of happening in light of the political earthquakes that are rocking Argentina, Brazil and ...

Judging from the latest polls, we may see a major turn to the left in Latin America’s political map: The two largest countries in the region — Mexico and Brazil — may soon have leftist ...

In seeking to build a "coalition of the willing" for the invasion of Iraq, Washington was disappointed by Latin America's cool response. It's a New World, and Latin America Is on the Map - Los ...

Latin America Needs a New Political Right. April 8, 2023. By: Juan ... but predictably for many at the SFS Forum—the Latin America ideological map today is even more politically red than what it ...

Data from the UN Economic Commission for Latin America indicate that, prior to COVID-19, the region was already facing a period of lackluster economic growth (average of 0.4% between 2014 and 2019 ...

The United States is losing ground to China in the battle for influence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is strengthening its relationships in the ...

The assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has shaken Ecuador and shone a spotlight on Latin America’s growing problem of political violence.

The number of events linked to political violence each year in Latin America. Data from ACLED. The data also covers the broad demonstrations across Cuba in 2020 and 2021 against the killing of an Afro ...