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How Will Cuba Update its Drug Policy?
By Isabella Bellezza-Smull* A “Say no to drugs” sign spotted in Santiago de Cuba. / tgraham / Flickr / Creative Commons Cuba – unlike neighbors long wracked by the drug trade and its violence – has one...
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Peru’s “New” Drug Strategy: Déjà Vu?
By Paul Gootenberg* “Peru’s national drug control agency just released a four-year counter-drug strategy in April that warns of the urgency to reverse the ongoing surge in cocaine production.” /...
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Elections in Uruguay: A Bellwether for the Latin American Left?
By Aaron T. Bell Photo credit: Frente Amplio (FA) / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA Uruguay’s elections on October 26 – once seen as a sure bet for the ruling Frente Amplio’s presidential candidate, former...
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Drug Dealing in Costa Rica: A Perverse Path toward Social Inclusion
By Rodolfo Calderón Umaña* Antonio / Flickr / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Central America’s emergence as a principal transit route for illicit...
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Mujica’s Liberal Experiment: Model for the Latin American Left?
By Robert Albro President José Mujica on stage with SIS Dean James Goldgeier Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica, whose recent trip to Washington included a stop at American University, is doubtless...
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What does the New Year hold for Latin America?
We’ve invited AULABLOG’s contributors to share with us a prediction or two for the new year in their areas of expertise. Here are their predictions. Photo credit: titoalfredo / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA...
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Revitalization of the OAS: More than an act of Congress
By Carlos Portales* U.S. Congressional passage in late September of the “Organization of American States Revitalization and Reform Act of 2013” could either help revitalize the troubled body or...
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High Time for a U.S.-Bolivia Reset
By Rob Albro, CLALS Faculty Affiliate President Evo Morales in a climate meeting at the University of Oslo | by Utenriksdept | Flickr | Creative Commons Little has changed in the U.S-Bolivia...
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Obama and Peña Nieto: Turning the same page?
By Tom Long CLALS doctoral research fellow Official White House photo by Pete Souza | public domain On Saturday, Mexico’s new president Enrique Peña Nieto took office and the country’s oldest party,...
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Central America on U.S. Elections: A Shy Shadow
Photo by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL’s | Flickr | Creative Commons The U.S. election doesn’t seem to matter much for Central America. Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes – speaking at an...
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Brazil’s Counternarcotics Policy Challenges
By Tom Long Minister Alexandre Padilha meeting to discuss policies against crack | Photo by: Ministério da Saúde | Flickr | Creative Commons Long a significant market for cocaine – the second or third...
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Mexico: Expecting More of the Same
This is the first of a series of entries examining how the U.S. presidential campaign is being viewed in different Latin American countries. Photo: Zocalo, Mexico City | Luis Lobo Borobia (“Cromo”) |...
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