How the Pandemic is going to change Peru forever — Peru is a country of contrasts. While being one of the fastest-growing economies of Latin America in the last 20 years, reducing poverty by half in a decade and welcoming millions to a new middle class, most of this new economic engine of social mobility never quite made it…

From the favelas in Rio de Janeiro to the streets of Mexico City, COVID-19 is exposing the striking socio-economic landscape of a region characterized by inequality. …

Latin America continues to cope with the aftershocks of the most transcendental season of social demonstrations in the last 30 years. …

Fragile Institutions have shaped a season of unrest — The nations of Latin America are experiencing one of their most dramatic crises in decades. Although diverse in nature and intensity, these national crises, developed under both left and right-wing regimes, are rooted in fragile institutions unable to deliver democratic demands. The countercurrents beneath the waves of the “pink tide” At the beginning of the century, with the…

Peru’s Constitutional crisis and the outcry for a new political class — A couple of weeks ago, thousands of mostly young adults, gathered in Lima, singing and celebrating the “constitutional dissolution” of congress. …

Last Friday, the Panamerican Olympics Games, Lima 2019, started with a breathtaking inaugural ceremony that made justice for Peru’s multicultural diversity and millenary heritage. As the nations of the Americans measure forces in 39 sports, for Peru, another contest is being fought in the political arena. …

Migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras at the US southern border are fleeing a region overwhelmed by the consequences of chronic un-development, drug trafficking, corruption, and violence. It is a complex crisis in the nations of the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA), propelled by both, domestic and external…