What President Maduro’s Overnight Guaido Opposition means for Venezuela and International Politics There is new self-proclaimed leadership in Venezuela, already making efforts to reinstate democratic order and bring back global resources through back-channel diplomatic relations with countries that are sanctioning […]
Josh Bombart completed a documentary on political song in South America as his thesis project at the International Affairs Program at The New School. Below, read his description of his project and view the film. South America has seen much […]
Years before the civil war in El Salvador officially began, government-funded death squads had been killing and disappearing those identified as anti-government dissenters—including clergy, community and union organizers, students and professors—in a conflict that pitted a few elite families allied with […]
By Jonathan Leonard Our new social initiative, La Selva Guardia, presents the problems caused by the illegal extraction of Peruvian big-leafed mahogany trees. Facts presented are the results of preliminary research conducted for the lauch of our first Amazonian endeavor. We […]
Ecuador doesn’t often grab international headlines, but questions about its current course have relevance for the Western Hemisphere and beyond. What kind of leader is Rafael Correa? Is he a popular anti-imperial economist who champions 21st century socialism and […]
