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Jan 24, 2025 | 
theconversation.com | Amalendu Misra
Donald Trump returned to the US presidency on January 20 with a flurry of executive orders. This included the designation of criminal gangs and drug cartels operating south of the Mexico border as “foreign terrorist organisations” – a first for a US president. The state department will now decide which groups are added to the list. Trump’s disdain for the criminal fraternity in Latin America is not new.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
theconversation.com | Amalendu Misra
Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, will be sworn in as president for a record third term on January 10, four months after being declared the winner of the country’s highly contentious election. Maduro will receive the standard obeisance from his cronies and will hug the limelight, but plenty of Venezuelans will have very little to celebrate. Both Maduro and opposition leader María Corina Machado, who is currently in hiding, have urged their supporters on to the streets on inauguration day.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
tolerance.ca | Amalendu Misra
By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, will be sworn in as president for a record third term on January 10, four months after being declared the winner of the country’s highly contentious election. Maduro will receive the standard obeisance from his cronies and will hug the limelight, but plenty of Venezuelans will have very little to celebrate.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Amalendu Misra
After months of relentless gang violence, thousands of killings, and the unseating of a government, Haiti is faced with another heartbreaking issue which seems likely to prolong the Caribbean island nation’s woes for another generation. Testimonies collected by Amnesty International have uncovered how Haiti’s armed gangs are enlisting hundreds of children.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Amalendu Misra
Le Mexique a franchi une grande étape en élisant une première femme à la présidence. Dans une société à qui l’on doit le mot « machisme », il s’agit d’un changement tectonique. La présidente désignée, Claudia Sheinbaum, hérite d’une charge difficile. Car les cartels de la drogue, l’influence croissante de la narcopolitique et la montée en flèche de la violence envers les femmes menacent la deuxième économie au sud du Rio Grande. Depuis cinq ans, le nombre de meurtres dépasse les 30 000 annuellement.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Amalendu Misra
Mexico has reached a political milestone. According to a quick count by the country’s electoral commission, Mexican voters have just elected their first female president. In a society that has long treated its women unfavourably, it is a seismic shift. However, the country’s president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, inherits a very challenging responsibility.
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May 31, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Matt Williams |Amalendu Misra |Christopher Chambers-Ju |Elizabeth J. Zechmeister |Luke Plutowski |Noam Lupu | +1 more
Mexicans will go to the polls on June 2, 2024, to pick a president following an election campaign marred by violence and divisive political rhetoric. Polls suggest that ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum will win, holding off rival Xóchitl Gálvez, who heads up a left-right coalition. Unpredictability over the size of the turnout may remain a factor, but barring any major shocks, Mexico will have its first woman president when all the votes are counted.
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May 24, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Amalendu Misra
By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
An advance team of Kenyan special forces police have arrived in the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti. They are part of a larger UN-backed “support” mission tasked with establishing order, pushing back the advances of criminal gangs and allowing the freshly appointed interim government to function effectively.
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May 24, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Amalendu Misra
An advance team of Kenyan special forces police have arrived in the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti. They are part of a larger UN-backed “support” mission tasked with establishing order, pushing back the advances of criminal gangs and allowing the freshly appointed interim government to function effectively. In total, around 2,500 officers are the mission from a host of nations, including the Bahamas, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Benin and Chad.
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May 12, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Amalendu Misra
Las bandas tienen una presencia estable en América Latina. Han existido de forma reiterada como agentes de poder, actores económicos ilícitos y saboteadores de los procesos de desarrollo de varios países. Y sin embargo, a pesar de su influencia, nunca han sido consideradas como elementos lo suficientemente fuertes como para hacer tambalear el sistema. Si avanzamos hasta nuestros días, nos encontramos con un panorama totalmente nuevo. Las bandas criminales han alcanzado más protagonismo que nunca.
