by Milvia Rodriguez, Public Policy Studies Administrator I left my home in Cuba in 1988 to study in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1997 to pursue a PhD in music. Throughout all these years abroad, I have leaned on family and friends for reliable news about the […]
Monthly Archives: November 2019
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By: Manuel Bustamante, MPP’ 2020 / Pearson Institute Fellow Colombia has become the most recent example of the sweeping wave of unrest in Latin America, as tens of thousands joined mass demonstrations in a national strike last Thursday, Nov. 21. The protests, planned by a diverse group of organizations including labor […]
By Nelson O. Puc Cruz, MPP 2021, Fulbright Scholar, former consultant for the Quintana Roo State Government in México. On November 10th, Evo Morales Ayma stepped down from Bolivia’s presidency after weeks of protests by the opposition segment of the population, attacks on members of Morales’ family and government, as well a […]
By Camila Pérez, MPP’2021, Pearson Fellow, former researcher at the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) in Colombia On October 27th, Colombia just celebrated its first local elections after the Peace Accords with the FARC guerrillas. The elections in this country are still stained by violence: according to the Electoral Observation Mission 282 […]
Por Guillermo Guevara, MPP 2020, ex Subdirector de análisis en la CNS El pasado 17 de Octubre, el gobierno de México, a petición de su similar de Estados Unidos, lanzó un operativo para capturar y extraditar a Ovidio Guzmán López, hijo del Chapo Guzmán y una de las cabezas más […]
By Valeria Vargas Sejas, MACRM 2020, former concessional funds economist at IADB Today is the 14th consecutive day of strikes in Bolivia regarding the presidential elections on October 20th, 2019. The country is divided, with one group on the streets demanding for new elections and for current President, Evo Morales, to […]
By: Felipe Salazar, MPP 2020, former advisor to congress in Colombia The first time “Bogotanos”, the citizens of Bogotá, Colombia, could vote for mayor was in 1988. Since then ten other elections have taken place, but few, if any, have had an impact quite like the one carried out last […]