Continental Solidarity: Progressive Foreign Policy in Latin America

The prevailing paradigm of US national security discourse leaves the impression that the emergence of leftist leaders in the developing world is fundamentally at odds with America’s global ambitions. The right holds this view for obvious reasons. Conservatives vigorously tout unfettered markets and military dominance—all things contrary to the egalitarian world leftists want to create—as inviolable components of American hegemony. But the same message is effectively endorsed by progressives who have, for the most part, given up on levers of foreign policy making in favor of pursuing an exclusively domestic agenda.

GlobeKieran CabezasSeptember 1, 2023kieran cabezas, Latin America, foreign intervention, foreign policy, leftists, ProgressivismComment

America’s Victims: How Intervention led to Breaches in our National Security

The mainstream narrative that we are sold by the media about migration into the United States is simple: the poor come to this country to escape the plights of their home countries and follow the American dream to become rich and prosperous. While this idea sounds star-spangled awesome, there is a dark side to why people have moved to the US in the past century. While there are clear and present dangers to people in lower-income countries, such as natural disasters, the main culprit is social immobility. In the United States, there is a vague belief that anyone can be anything: The American Dream.

Femicide in Latin America

The concerning increase in violent female homicides within the last two decades has prompted many Latin American countries to distinguish these deaths from other homicides by labeling them “femicides.” Femicide refers to the specific killing of women and girls for gender-based reasons, and has cast a dark shadow over the safety of women in these respective countries. In many Latin American countries, impunity of the justice system contributes to the increase in femicide cases. Police agencies and judges often do not thoroughly investigate or prosecute the perpetrators of these heinous crimes…

GlobeKathryn ManningJune 14, 2022feminism, Latin America, Mexico, Crime|Justice|Law, Femicide, murders, women, women's rightsComment

The Uruguay Model: Helping the Trans Community

By taking steps towards supporting and incorporating transgender people in society, Uruguay is emerging as a symbol of LGBTQ progress in Latin America and around the world.

Venezuela: The Silencing of a Revolution

Within Venezuela, Guaidó is a symbol of hope, however to the United States, he is a strategic opportunity. At only 35-years-old and serving his first term as an assemblyman, he is an impressionable young leader with a personality often reminiscent of a young Barack Obama.