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López Obrador’s security and economic strategies raise questions

López Obrador’s security and economic strategies raise questions

Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented his much-anticipated public security strategy on 14 November. The far-ranging plan includes economic and social, as well as security, policy proposals. The most eye...

LatestEconomy & Business

Patchy regional recovery to continue

Patchy regional recovery to continue

A series of reports point to modestly improving economic growth across Latin America as a whole in the last quarter of 2018 and extending into 2019. But they also highlight a degree of uncertainty over domestic political risk factors, and potentia...

LatestSecurity & Strategic Review

Being fiscally smart against crime

Being fiscally smart against crime

In recent years, crime rates have been rising in a number of key countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). At the same time, governments have had to limit spending on security because of the pressure to follow fiscal austerity programmes...

LatestRegional Report

In this November edition of Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone Group we analyse the results of the general election in Brazil and its implications for the country; the potential implications a major corruption scandal in Ar...

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Special Report: Prospects for Democracy in the Northern Triangle

Special Report: Prospects for Democracy in the Northern Triangle

The main idea we seek to examine in this report is quite simple. It is that the three countries of Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’ – El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras – have flawed democracies and a uniquely ...