Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from South America.
Bolivia is experiencing a period of unrest, tension, and exhaustion. There are more than 50 active roadblocks across the country; shortages have…
Marcio VerĆ” Mirim grew up listening to a family story. His grandfather, a leader of the semi-nomadic Guarani MbyĆ” Indigenous people, had…
Javier Mileiās government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding…
Javier Mileiās government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding…
In mid-January, a young Venezuelan mother named Oriana invited me into her home in Ciudad Tiuna, a government-built housing project with thousands…
For the last 50 years, every institution in Chileās public sector has told us over and over again that individuals succeed through…
In the midst of a wave of mass protests in Bolivia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X that the United States āstands…
The recent deportation of Alex Saab from Caracas to the U.S. on May 18, 2026, has generated shock, confusion, anger, and intense…
Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the…
For some time now, we have maintained that there are three fundamental categories for understanding the Peruvian situation, especially following the popular…
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