In proposing his controversial plan to overhaul the court system, Mexico’s outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is right about one thing: for the majority of people, the country’s justice system isn’t working, writes Tyler Mattiace. But the reform's focus on how judges are chosen is mistaken. The proposal will do nothing to address the true bottleneck in Mexico’s justice system: prosecutors’ willingness and capacity to investigate, writes Mattiace. #mexico #judicialreform #reformajudicial https://lnkd.in/evJ9_43h https://lnkd.in/evJ9_43h
Americas Quarterly
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Politics, business and culture in Latin America.
About us
Americas Quarterly is the leading publication dedicated to politics, business and culture in the Americas. An award-winning magazine and website, AQ has a proud tradition of portraying the real Latin America, while working to promote its core values: democracy, inclusive economic growth and equal rights for all of the hemisphere’s nearly 1 billion citizens. Borrowing elements from The Economist, Foreign Affairs and National Geographic – but with a focus on Latin America – AQ is dedicated to covering the region in all its diversity and promise. Launched in 2007 and based in New York City, AQ is an independent publication of Americas Society/Council of the Americas, which for more than 50 years have been dedicated to dialogue in our hemisphere. AQ's agenda-setting readership includes CEOs, senior government officials and thought leaders, as well as a general-interest audience passionate about the Americas.
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http://www.AmericasQuarterly.org
External link for Americas Quarterly
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- Newspaper Publishing
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- 11-50 employees
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- New York, New York
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- Nonprofit
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- 2007
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- Latin America, business, politics, culture, news, democracy, social inclusion, transparency, financial inclusion, international relations, foreign affairs, and elections
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Employees at Americas Quarterly
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Donald Partyka
Creative Director, Editorial, Typography, follow me @donaldpartyka
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Eduardo Levy Yeyati
Full Professor @ Universidad Torcuato Di Tella | Ph.D. in Economics | Finacial Advisory | Government Affairs
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Isabel de Saint Malo
Independent Board Member | ESG and SDG Advocate and Advisor | Member of the Board of Trustees of the IFRS | Former Vice President and Minister of…
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Emilie Sweigart
Policy Manager at Americas Society/Council of the Americas and Editor at Americas Quarterly
Updates
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Find analysis of Latin America's renewed fiscal challenges from Arturo C. Porzecanski, PhD, Laura Lizarazo Rubiano on Petro's halfway mark and more in the latest edition of The Americas This Week.
Renewed Fiscal Challenges
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NEW: Gustavo Petro is halfway through his presidential term in Colombia. The first leftist president in the country’s modern history faced suspicion from the political and economic establishment from Day 1. He’s used sweeping rhetoric to describe his plans for an economic overhaul, as well as his security initiatives. But in practice, Petro has struggled to translate his speeches into reality. Laura Lizarazo Rubiano joins this week's AQ Podcast to separate rhetoric from reality. #colombia #petro #politics https://lnkd.in/e_wrXSnx
AQ Podcast | Gustavo Petro: The Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality
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For AQ's new special report on the U.S. election and Latin America, we asked Iván Duque Márquez, Isabel de Saint Malo and Samuel Pérez Alvarez what the next U.S. administration should focus on in the region. Read their responses here: https://lnkd.in/e7hqwjzQ
Latin Americans Weigh In On the Next U.S. President’s Agenda
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In 1819, at the height of his military campaign against Spanish colonial rule, Simón Bolívar crossed a stretch of high-altitude grassland in Colombia known as the páramo, writes Ena Alvarado. His troops, utterly unprepared for the frigid temperatures and rough terrain, barely made it through. Most of his men (and their horses) froze to death and were thrown into a lagoon, where they have lain buried ever since. This gorgeous if inhospitable landscape serves as the backdrop for Pablo Álvarez Mesa’s La laguna del soldado, a poetic meditation on how nature subsumes human history. https://lnkd.in/d65qMaeh
In the Footsteps of Bolívar, A Meditation on Nature’s Superhuman Power
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NEW: The mangrove forests of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula bridge sea with land, stabilizing shorelines, storing carbon and sheltering an abundance of life. But in many places, urban sprawl is destroying them. Near the town of Chelem, a group of Maya women called the Chelemeras are restoring mangroves. They began in 2010, when a government-funded project searched for volunteers. After two years, the funding was cut, but the women persisted. They have won international acclaim from UNESCO and beyond as a model for the region. Bénédicte Desrus photographed them for AQ: https://lnkd.in/e5MX5zYq
Meet the Chelemeras: The Maya Women Who Restore Mangroves in Mexico’s Yucatán
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A new AQ special report means a special issue of The Americas This Week: essays from Ricardo Zuniga and Nick Zimmerman on what a second Biden term would mean for Latin America, Mauricio J. Claver-Carone on what a second Trump term would mean for the region, Carlos A. Pérez Ricart on the surprising history of 20th-century drug policy in Mexico, Bénédicte Desrus photographs a group of Maya women who restore mangroves, Iván Duque Márquez, Isabel de Saint Malo and Samuel Pérez Alvarez on what the next U.S. administration should prioritize, and much more. Read all the articles here:
NEW AQ: The U.S. Election and Latin America
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NEW: What would a second Trump term mean for the Americas? A former adviser writes that reviving hemispheric growth through nearshoring and more would be a priority. The core of Trump’s approach to Latin America and the Caribbean was the inextricable link between U.S. national security and mutual economic growth, writes Mauricio J. Claver-Carone. A three-pronged approach to restoring that in a second Trump term would include a focus on the U.S.’s comparative energy advantage, including capacity for liquified natural gas exports. A Trump pro-growth strategy would target the fast-growing smaller countries of the region, like Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, and the Dominican Republic. The Central American Free Trade Agreement would be slated to be "terminated and reimagined," removing the "unmerited U.S. market access that the Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua currently receives," writes Claver-Carone. And it would create a standalone, Americas-focused Development Finance Corporation, a “better investment for U.S. taxpayers” than existing multilateral institutions. Read the full piece here: #uslatinamerica #uspolitics #elections2024 https://lnkd.in/eNyqXpb2 https://lnkd.in/eNyqXpb2
Trump’s Vision: “Make the Americas Grow Again”
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NEW: What would a second Biden term mean for Latin America? Two former national security officials explain what to expect. While Trump empowered populists, Biden actually defended democracy in Brazil and Guatemala, write Ricardo Zuniga and Nick Zimmerman—and in a second term would focus on making democracies more resilient. A regional approach to migration, seeing it as a shared responsibility for the hemisphere, would be coupled with attempts to reduce the phenomenon’s political drivers, like the crisis in Venezuela. Regional diplomacy to push Maduro to recognize the results of Venezuela’s July 28 election could prove decisive—and attention will go toward supporting the Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti. Making a compelling case that Washington is a better partner, and unlocking the potential of development finance and multilateral lending, can help the U.S. compete with Chinese investment in the region. Finally, the administration’s Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity could be expanded into ambitious regional initiatives drawing together partners, multilateral banks and the private sector. Read the full piece: #uslatinamerica #uspolitics #elections2024 https://lnkd.in/eb-R9RVt
In the Americas, Biden’s “Soft Power Matters”
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NEW AQ: What would another Trump or Biden term mean for Latin America and the Caribbean? AQ’s new special report looks at the stakes of the U.S. election for the region—from migration and drug trafficking to nearshoring and infrastructure investment. We asked former advisers to both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to write on what another term for their onetime boss would look like. Read our lead editorial and explore the issue here: #uslatinamerica #elections2024 #uspolitics https://lnkd.in/eCnqyuQg
NEW AQ: What the U.S. Election Means for Latin America
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