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I arrived in Medellin to participate in a series of events called "IDB: 50 years of Financing Inequality" held parallel to the…
Laura Carlsen
Laura Carlsen is director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a member of the Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders’ Initiative. Before joining the Americas Program, Carlsen worked in Equipo Pueblo, was a correspondent for Latin Trade magazine, editor of Business Mexico, and a freelance writer. She has been a gender and communications consultant with Just Associates (JASS) and the Nobel Women’s Initiative, and policy consultant and writer for the International Organization for Migrations.
There are early signs of change in the Obama State Department. In response to significant political victories by former Bush nemeses Hugo…
The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy issued a report that marks a turning point in drug policy in the hemisphere. …
The courtesy call between President-elect Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon turned out to be a little more revealing than anticipated.…
In the first two years of the Felipe Calderon administration, Mexico has become a focal point in the violation of the human…
(Nov. 14) The election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first African American president has been heralded as proof that the United…
Pundits have said that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States will not change the nation’s world…
One day not long ago—hypothetically—the head honchos of the Bush administration sat down in the Oval Office. Long faces prevailed around the…
The great debate on how much—or how little—Barack Obama would change our disastrous U.S. foreign policy usually focuses on the Middle East.…
It’s rare for the junior partners of NAFTA—Mexico and Canada—to have a chance to sit down and discuss regional integration without the…