by Alejandro Páramo, MPP’21, Former Mining and Energy Policy Advisor at the National Planning Department in Colombia Colombia, like most countries in the world, is facing new and significant public policy challenges caused by the current pandemic. However, it is also an example of how these challenges are magnified in […]
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By Edoardo Ortiz, MPP’20, former economic consultant Puerto Rico’s unique political status as a Latin American U.S. territory breeds endless confusion from all angles. On one hand, people from the United States see Puerto Rico as something less than a U.S. state – an appendage to the country. On the […]
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 Anne Kuster, MAIDP 2020, former U.S. Research Fellow, Fulbright Association Joanna and I met the summer we were both eighteen. I was working at Casa Mantay Home for Teen Mothers in Cusco, Peru, where Joanna lived with her five-year-old son, Ricardo. One day, Joanna pointed at a picture of […]
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 […]
Por Andrés Barroso Chávez, MPP’21, ex asesor político en el Senado de la República en México El primero de diciembre de 2018 el presidente López Obrador celebró en la plaza pública más importante de México el inicio de su gobierno. Ahí enlistó los 100 puntos de su plan de gobierno […]
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 […]
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 […]
Seventh Annual Latin American Policy Forum “Challenges in Latin America: Democracy and Development”, May 10th, 2019. International House The LAM Policy Forum provides an opportunity for renowned practitioners and world-class policy leaders to discuss Latin American policy issues with graduate and undergraduate students as well as leading academic researchers in […]