By Jacob Patterson-Stein Things seem to be going well for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Within months of taking office, almost every major news organization published an “Aztec tiger” article citing Mexico’s impressive economic growth rate, increased foreign investment, and growing middle class. Even with the inevitable backlash to this “blue skies” reporting in the […]
OP-ED: Why Latin America? Complexity in the World’s Most Violent Region
By Jose I Lobo Carrillo Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank, noted in a recent speech, “Latin America has 8% of the population, but contributes 20% of the world’s homicides […] each day, around 350 homicides are committed in this region.” This is not new information. In a recent meeting at the […]