The Americas has a growing corruption problem; and it is not the one you are thinking of. But if you believe in market-driven economic growth, it is the one you should be worried about. Although ...
By Dan Restrepo, Fellow, Center for American Progress As the U.S. presidential primary season ramps up, candidate after candidate will come forward to lay out their national security vision. All will rightly highlight the importance ...
By Dan Restrepo, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress It is a perilous and curious time for democracy in the Americas. According to The Economist’s Intelligence Unit’s 2018 Democracy Index, the number of authoritarian regimes ...
Normalcy and rationality. Both have gone missing in the U.S.-Mexico relationship during the past 18 months. Nevertheless, an enduring, profound desire to see them prevail in the wake of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s election as ...
By Dan Restrepo, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Over the past days, President Donald Trump changed the world. Twice. Sadly, neither was for the better and neither was the faux-progress he was selling ...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent tour of Latin America and the Caribbean might as well have been dubbed “Mission Impossible 2018.” Against a growing chorus of nativist and protectionist policies peddled by President ...
Migration is reshaping the U.S. political landscape—but perhaps not in the way most believe. At a time when anti-immigrant restrictionists appear on the rise in the United States, a nearly invisible mass migration in the ...
President Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of his improbable electoral victory in the middle of a 12-day Asia trip —curiously far from home for an “America First” President. Even the trappings of a series ...
By Dan Restrepo, Fellow, Center for American Progress With Argentina’s mid-term election in the books, U.S.-based Latin America watchers are engaging in their usual, predictable responses – a series of overbroad generalizations about the implications ...