ENVIRONMENT: Renewable Energy in Latin America
(Guest Article by Sherley Alaba): The life on planet earth runs through various forms of energy. Mankind has been searching for a way to conserve energy that is clean and…
November 2016
CUBA: Madiba, Fidel and a New Political Era
When I was in Cuba in 2013, on a Brigade of International Solidarity, surrounded by the state’s paradisiacal vision of the communist island, news broke on 5th December that Nelson…
EDITOR’s NOTES: CUBA: Fidel Castro’s Divided Legacy - 12 Pro and Anti Arguments
It is not a hoax this time. Ex-President and co-founder of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, died yesterday on the 25th of November, 2016, at age 90. The world is…
VENEZUELA Economic-Political Crisis: International Mediation Efforts amid Local Miscommunication and Distrust
Dialogue facilitators between the Venezuelan government and opposition have called to “stop the campaign of public disqualification” to advance the process that seeks to reverse its political and economic crisis. “We…
MARTHA DELGADO PERALTA ‘s COLUMN: MEXICO: Errors of Atmospheric Contingency – PART II
(Cross-Posted with Permission of EstePaís) – The atmospheric crisis through the Valley of Mexico reminds us of those episodes of the ones in the early 1990s that alarmed the population and the…
OP-ED: CHILE: I Can No Longer Defend You - Response to Ex-President Sebastian Piñera
(Guest Article by Valentina Lara-Sanchez) - As a 17-year old in Viña del Mar, I rode in the back of trucks waving flags stamped with your name hoping you would…
CUBA: A Comment on the Cuban Government’s Release of Nearly 800 Prisoners
The Cuban government has announced in the state newspaper, Granma, that it has pardoned 787 prisoners. The decision came about as a result of calls from Pope Francis, whose “Jubilee…
OP-ED: Will Trump’s Wall Between Mexico and the U.S. Actually Work?
(Guest Post by Daniel Wagner; International Policy Digest) - For the first time in several years I crossed to and from the border with Mexico, at Tecate, last week. Given…
PUERTO RICO: La Isla del Encanto Should Take note of Ture and Hamilton’s “Black Power” or Become a Modern-Day Macondo
La isla del encanto, the island of bliss. What was originally a celebratory refrain has evolved into a sarcastically bitter reminder of all Puerto Rico has lost and continues to…
POLITICS: Corruption Charges and the Decline of Populism - Latin America’s Rejection of the Political Class
Recently, a number of corruption charges have been levelled at senior Latin American politicians. The fallout from these allegations has been extremely damaging to several of the region’s dominant parties….
COLOMBIA: Winter Colombianas
(Guest Post by Russell A. Whitehouse): From the pre-colonial era to the present Colombian women have played an important role in their country. However, they have gone through their fair…