Latin American News Skimm for the Week of October 17th, 2016
Skimm for Latin American Politics Week of 10/17/2016 Quote of the Day: “One of my first acts will be to get all of the drug lords, we have some bad, bad people in this country this have to…
The Illusion of a Solution: The problematic approach to solving structural inequality
The dilemma of social and economic inequality has come to the forefront in recent years as it has increasingly affected growing numbers of Americans and Europeans. However, this problem is nothing new in places like Asia, Africa and especially Latin…
The Value of Liberty: Transitions to Democracy in a Post-Cold War World
When Americans turned on their televisions on the 9th of November, 1989 and watched the collapse of the Berlin Wall many correctly saw that a new era in world politics was about to begin. The world watched as Germans ripped…
Defined by Doctrine
When attempting to define Latin America in an international context it is uniquely a region that is fundamentally defined by outside factors and prerogatives. Even the label ‘Latin America’ dates from the 1830’s with Frenchman Michel Chevalier, who after a…