Guatemala is in the midst of a struggle to preserve its democratic life. Since the presidential run-off held last August 25, the country has witnessed a blatant attempt by the ruling party, and other co-opted powers of the State, to undermine the will of the people and reduce Guatemalan democracy to a mere procedural facade. […]

The far-right outsider candidate Javier Milei’s triumph in the Argentine primaries has shaken the country’s political landscape to its core. Milei became the most-voted candidate with over 30% of votes, winning in 16 out of the 24 provinces, and leaving behind the main political coalitions –the Peronist Unión Por la Patria and the opposition Juntos […]

High Representative of foreign affairs and security policy of the EU Josep Borrell has called on the Union to recalibrate its relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and make it a “partner of choice”, rather than a “natural partner”. Initiatives include new investments and a digital alliance. What can we expect from this […]

In an article that is as simple as it is accurate, Argentine political scientist Victoria Murillo wrote that 2019 would be remembered as “the year of the social explosion in Latin America.” In that year alone, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile were engulfed in deep social protests that were not caused by a specific reason, […]

The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) foreign policy establishment ought to confront the reality that alliance politics regarding great-power competition are back with a vengeance. From the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) eastward expansion to the Kremlin’s vociferous spheres of influence-based rejection of Ukraine possibly joining the ranks of that alliance and Western concerns about the deepening contemporary alliance between Beijing and the Kremlin, this is the […]