On November 9th, Peru’s political system imploded after Congress removed President Vizcarra from office on the dubious legal grounds of “moral incapacity”. This widely unpopular move and the rise of the Speaker of Congress, Manuel Merino, into the Presidency, took hundreds of thousands — mostly millennials and gen z —…
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. …
The world recently commemorated the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy. As Western leaders gathered to listen to the voices of freedom that liberated Europe and keep resonating in the beaches of France, the world is backsliding into a wave of nationalism and authoritarianism.
Throughout the West…
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…
The United States is moving forward to challenge China’s grip in financing the development of infrastructure around the globe. While the American proposal arrives delayed to a world that is increasingly influenced by China its consequences will shape US-China relations and its engagement with the developing world. …
