More: Latin America
Linking Resource Scarcity with Conflict
Resource scarcity can be explained through three principals. First is basic human security requires adequate resources in the specific location. The human population is...
Argentina China Nuclear Cooperation: Is China’s Influence in South America a Concern for the United States?
In May 2017, reports came in that China and Argentina had signed a nuclear cooperation between each other. According to the agreement, China would...
Read the new Journal of Rising Powers
Welcome to the second issue of the inaugural year of the Journal of Rising Powers. In our first issue, we focused a great diversity...
How can the US improve its foreign policy toward Latin America? An American backyard or A Real Partner?
Over the historical course, the relations between Latin America and the United States has undergone different perplexing situations and still constantly evolving in some...
The Problem with Venezuela and the Western Media
The Venezuelans go to the polls on Sunday (July 30) to elect delegates who will rewrite Venezuela's constitution. In Latin America generally, society is...
Brazil in the short Strikes – the ultimate price of welfare
A pril 28th will be a date to remember. Even though some of the great media claim that there were only demonstrations around...
FARC’s deep roots. A brief introduction to FARC’s origins
“ T here is more repression of individual freedom here that in any other country we’ve been to, the police patrol the streets carrying...
What Justice cannot see – spectacularization, publicity and coercion in times of Carwash
As it has been extensively discussed lately, Brazil has developed a fresh (and arguable) political conscience in the past years. People have been to...
Lula vs Bolsonaro: The populist moment in Brazil
S ince the election victory of Donald Trump, many have tirelessly talked about populism. It is not a first appearance. This phenomenon has...
No country for machos: What is there about machismo in Brazil and Latin America?
Campinas, Brazil. A man breaks into a house and kills in cold blood 12 people in New Year’s Eve – amongst them, his own...