NEW AQ: The Pandemic’s Big Winner? Transnational Crime
COVID-19 has been a bonanza for organized crime. Greater international coordination could ease at least some of the damage.
REACTION: Bolivia’s MAS Socialists Are Back. What’s Next?
Experts on Bolivian politics weigh in on the results, which surprised many.
Latin America Is Losing Capacity to Fight Corruption at a Critical Time
The new CCC Index shows an anti-corruption wave receding as COVID-19 hits the region.
The Pandemic and Organized Crime in Latin America: Ten Unknowns
As governments fight the virus, criminal enterprises are likely to adapt in insidious ways.
Three Measures Brazil Should Take to Face Organized Crime
The anti-crime package in Congress now may not be enough to fight transnational gangs.
Long View: The 16th-Century Trade Route That Brought China to Mexico
The Middle Kingdom is hardly new to Latin America. One trade route dates back to the 16th century, and had major historical implications.
“The Maduro Diet”: A Photo Essay from Venezuela
Venezuela’s political and economic crisis has done deep and lasting damage to its population’s health. In the past year, 74.3 percent of the population has lost weight — an average of 8.7 kilograms (19 pounds) per person – because of food scarcity, according to a recent study by three of Caracas’ largest universities (UCAB, USB … Read more
Brazilians Vent Rio Olympics Frustration in Graffiti – Photo Essay
The graffiti marking nearly every building in Rio de Janeiro’s Vila Autódromo favela isn’t the work of idle teens. With five months to go before the Summer Olympics, the small community is being demolished to make way for Rio’s planned Olympic Park. The favela has become a focal point for anger over Olympics development, as … Read more
[i]AQ[/i] Q&A: Richard Aborn on Reducing Pretrial Detention Rates
Richard M. Aborn, president of the consulting firm CAAS LLC, speaks with Americas Quarterly about the consequences of high pretrial detention rates in the Americas, and explores ways of rethinking pretrial detention so that it can be made more equitable. “People linger in jail for years and years because of their poverty,” Aborn says. Poor defendants cannot … Read more
[i]AQ[/i] Q&A: Judith Morrison on Race and Ethnicity
Judith Morrison, AQ author and senior advisor at the gender and diversity unit of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), speaks with Americas Quarterly about the importance of accurately integrating racial and ethnic populations into data collection. The methods for tabulating race and ethnicity vary widely between national censuses and household surveys, especially since some countries … Read more
Q&A: Antony Bugg-Levine on Impact Investment
AQ speaks with Nonprofit Finance Fund CEO and AQ author Antony Bugg-Levine about impact investing, which he notes is “the idea that a for-profit investment can be both a morally legitimate and economically effective way to address social problems.” Bugg-Levine discusses how to address regulatory and systemic bottlenecks to be able to unleash this captial … Read more
Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny: A Photographic Essay
“En 1800, un visitante europeo llamó a Guatemala Tierra de la Eterna Primavera. Un siglo después, el político y ensayista guatemalteco Manuel Galich llamó a su país Tierra de la Eterna Tiranía. Para pocos, Guatemala es un paraíso. Para muchos, es todo lo contrario.” For the few, Guatemala is a paradise. For the many, it … Read more
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