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Education is the key to getting ahead. That’s why Mexico’s Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME) teamed up with the University of California to start a grants program aimed at providing educational opportunities for first-generation Hispanics in the United States. Launched in 2005, the government-run IME awards $900,000 annually in education scholarships for immigrant students or … Read more

Just as the space for a free press has become limited in Nicaragua, the country’s youth now has its own source of unbiased, hard-hitting news. La brújula, a free weekly news magazine launched in November 2008, is aimed at 18–35-year-olds—a demographic that editor-in-chief Arturo Wallace claims has been ignored by the country’s media. Wallace, a … Read more

Former Argentine President Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín, who guided his country through the transition from dictatorship to civilian government, passed away in March after a battle with lung cancer. Alfonsín, 82, was a lawyer, a passionate politician and a powerful speaker who risked danger and arrest to speak out against military rule. A co-founder of the … Read more

The debate over the choice of policy instruments to control domestic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the leading greenhouse gas, is not about the greater flexibility of market-based instruments over traditional forms of regulation (such as mandates for the adoption of emissions-saving technologies). In reality, it’s between two market-based alternatives, namely emissions taxes and cap-and-trade … Read more

Cap-and-trade is the most efficient system to reduce carbon emissions. None of the principal alternatives—neither a system of regulatory commands that mandates emission reductions nor a carbon tax—are as efficient in practice, even though they could be made so in theory. For instance, regulatory mandates would be efficient if an all-knowing government regulator could prescribe … Read more

U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R.-IN), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, is one of Washington’s fiercest critics of U.S.-Cuba policy. The most senior Republican in the U.S. Senate talks to AQ about lifting the U.S. travel ban to Cuba, promoting trade while protecting U.S. farmers and the changing role of the OAS. … Read more

On August 18, 1959, the Inter-AmerIcan CommIssIon on Human Rights was created in a meeting of ministers of foreign affairs held in Santiago, Chile. Over the course of the next five decades, it has evolved into a cru­cial tool against injustice—exceeding the imagination of its founders and mak­ing it a force in the hemisphere and … Read more

When I became president of Peru in 2001, one of the first items on my agenda was restoring the democratic institutions that had suffered from a steady deteriora­tion during the previous decade. Moreover, our country needed a full accounting of the atrocities that had occurred in previous decades. Indeed, this responsibility was deeply per­sonal for … Read more