by Gabriela Saade, MPP’21, Researcher at La Mejor Venezuela, a think tank affiliated to the opposition political party Voluntad Popular The coronavirus outbreak has sparked concern around the world. But the plight of Venezuelans was already acute following five years of an economic and humanitarian crisis as well as lingering problems […]
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By Giuliana Huarcaya, MPP’21. Former IADB consultant and former Project Coordinator at tras100d Consultoria (Peruvian consulting firm that advises in policies and development projects for the public sector, private sector, and international cooperation) COVID-19 pandemic has meant a tremendous challenge for all affected countries, even for developed countries with strong […]
By Paola Riveros, MPP’21, former Advisor to the Directorate of Economic Regulation of Social Security at the Ministry of Finance in Colombia Social movements in Colombia have risen in the streets demanding social changes. One of the demands was related to the Pension Reform that the government is proposing. Some […]
By Nelson O. Puc Cruz, MPP 2021, Fulbright Scholar, former consultant for the Quintana Roo State Government in México. Announced in September 2018, the Mayan Train has been one of the flagship projects of the Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, AMLO, government. It has been hailed as a development-detonating project that […]
By Rafael García-Tinajero, MPP’20, former Senior Financial Markets Analyst at the Central Bank of Mexico During the summer of 2019, I had the opportunity to work with the Secretariat of Economic Development of the State Government of São Paulo. It was my first time working in Brazil, and it was […]
By Yusuke Namiki, MAIDP 2020, Japanese Ministry of HLW official On December 14, I landed on the South American continent for the first time in my life to begin the LAM Brazil trip. Brazil was a country that I had been interested in, but hadn’t visited because of the geographic […]
By Santiago Hoyos, MPP’21, Pearson Fellow, former advisor at the Inspector General’s Office – Victims’ and Peace Department On December 5th of 2019, the Constitutional Court of Colombia decided to extend the Victims’ and Land Restitution Law until 2030. The Victims’ Law, which was enacted in 2011 for a 10 year […]
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 […]