by Leonardo Moraveg | Oct 12, 2020 | Brown University
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and his promises of maintaining security have been minimal at best as Mexico reached an all-time high of homicides in 2019 and has experienced recent increased rates of violence during their Covid-19 quarantine period. AMLO’s boldest...
by Jack Doughty | Oct 12, 2020 | Brown University
The Bolivian coup d’etat against Evo Morales was not, and should not be examined solely as, the result of a fraudulent election. To suggest this erases the deep entrenchment of Bolivia’s neo-fascist Right and, moreover, trivializes the systemic roots of...
by David Scherrer | Oct 12, 2020 | Brown University
The intuitive approach to deterring criminal behavior is to punish it. But what if legal behavior were instead incentivized such that criminal activity lost some of its relative appeal? Years of escalating internal violence in Latin America despite, or because of,...
by Robert Combs | Oct 12, 2020 | Brown University
Outrage, shock and dismay greeted the publication of a report from El Faro news site claiming that El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele “cut deals” with the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) in order to reduce homicides and gain the gang’s political support (Washington...
by Fiona Campbell | Oct 10, 2020 | Brown University
Mere weeks before assuming office as the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, often referred to as AMLO, published an eight-pillared plan for the construction of a peaceful future for the nation. Section Six of this 2018 “Plan Nacional de Paz y Seguridad”...