The Education of Poverty: Rebuilding Haiti’s School System after its “Total...
INTRODUCTION: PORT-AU-PRINCE Haitian kids don’t get much of a chance. If they’re lucky, they have enough rice and beans and whatever else they can find to eat to keep their bellies from distending. If...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Legislative Elections: Arm Wrestling with Hugo Chávez
In the months preceding Venezuela’s September 26, 2010, legislative elections, President Hugo Chávez confronted deep challenges: an escalating crime wave that, by some estimates, made Venezuela...
View ArticleTaking the Next Step in Refugee Aid
The word “refugee” usually conjures up images of teeming tent camps in barren fields, makeshift communities kept far from the rest of society. But there is a growing population of displaced people...
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Mexico: The Neglected Ally
President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico in the Oval Office, Nov. 27, 2012. Early in the last U.S. presidential debate, Governor Romney made a brief reference to...
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What Chavez Taught China
Just months after the Chinese press celebrated Hugo Chavez’s presidential victory, concerns are mounting in China about the Venezuelan president’s health, his future successor, and the fate of the...
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Development to Help People Adapt to Climate Change in Haiti
Superstorm Sandy isn’t leaving the public eye any time soon. In my home state of New Jersey and along the coast of New York, people continue to live without homes and to rebuild what they lost. In a...
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Far from Paradise: Talking Peace in Colombia
The Colombia of the 1990s and early 2000s was known worldwide for little besides seemingly endless narco-driven violence. In recent years, however, newfound economic vitality and a remarkable shift...
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Haiti Three Years After the Earthquake: An Interview with Jonathan M. Katz
Jonathan M. Katz is the author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came To Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and is a Barnes &...
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U.S.-Latin America Relations in the Post-Chávez Era
Hugo Chávez, the most outspoken anti-American leader in the Western Hemisphere in recent years, is forever gone. During his fourteen years in power in Venezuela, Chávez made anti-imperialism one of...
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Displacement: Colombia’s Inescapable Burden?
Colombia has suffered from an ongoing and oft-underreported civil war and insurgency for more than half a century, with approximately one in ten people forced to flee their homes due to the violence....
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Rio Struggles to Prepare for the World Cup
For those who have been following Rio de Janeiro’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games—the “Mega-Events,” as they are called in Brazil—headlines from the past month have...
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Message from Latin America: Austerity, then Growth
Given the general similarities between the Latin American sovereign debt crisis of the 1980s and the European sovereign debt crisis today, a number of commentators have sought to compare the two....
View ArticleTerra dos Sonhos: Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement
This photo-essay documents a group from Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra). Through images and interviews taken during and after the group invaded a farm...
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Building an Inclusive Value Chain in Haiti through Technical Assistance
Next time you walk into a Whole Foods and see mangoes from Haiti, take a moment to consider the journey they traveled to get there. All of the fresh mangoes shipped to Whole Foods stores across the...
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The End(s) of Activism? Sexual Rights and the Brazilian Workers Party
Brazil has been hailed internationally in recent decades as a global leader in sexual rights. At the United Nations and the Organization of American States, the country has indeed led discussions on...
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Reforming Brazil’s “Violent Democracy”
As early as April of this year, it was already shaping up to be a very difficult one for Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes and State Governor Sérgio Cabral. In the run-up to next year’s World Cup and...
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The Case for Continued Faith in Emerging Markets
The hype surrounding emerging markets that prevailed for much of the last decade has given way to unease, even despondence, in some quarters. A recent item on BBC News, for example, asks, “Is the...
View ArticleDilemmas of Storytelling: Violence and the Narrative Responsibilities it Creates
In the preface to his book Evil Men, in which he discusses the paradoxes of storytelling in situations of mass atrocities, James Dawes writes: Storytelling is not only the most basic work of human...
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Brazil’s Internet Constitution: The Struggle Continues
Since October 2013, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies’ agenda has been locked up pending a vote on the hotly contested bill known as Marco Civil da Internet (Civil Rights Framework for the Internet),...
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Work Force Development Is Necessary for Reintegrating the FARC in Colombia
Ever since Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced they would start negotiating a peace agreement, the Colombian public has been...
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