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Jan 9, 2025 | 
csis.org | Christopher Hernandez-Roy |Juliana Rubio |Henry Ziemer |Rubi Bledsoe
Latin America has witnessed some of the homicide rates in the world, largely driven by gang violence and transnational criminal groups. Throughout the Western Hemisphere, states have experimented with many types of security policies; however, one stands out for its political popularity and the frequency with which it is employed—mano dura. Mano dura is defined by experts Lucía Dammert et al.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
csis.org | Christopher Hernandez-Roy |Juliana Rubio
The IssueGender-based violence (GBV) in Haiti is a widespread and escalating problem, exacerbated by the country’s deep-rooted gender inequalities, systemic impunity, and political instability. As the political and security crisis in Haiti has deepened in recent years, the use of GBV, particularly sexual violence, has increased as a systematic tool of intimidation and punishment, and ultimately of control.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
csis.org | Ryan Berg |Christopher Hernandez-Roy |Juliana Rubio |Rubi Bledsoe
While Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) governments may be geographically removed from what many regional leaders consider an internal European conflict, the region has not been spared from the war’s economic and geopolitical repercussions. In the two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many countries continue their pursuit of nonalignment, neither condemning Russia for the invasion nor fully supporting Ukraine.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
csis.org | Juliana Rubio
While some countries in Latin America move toward increased militarization and other “mano dura” tactics to combat crime and violence, the Gustavo Petro administration in Colombia has proposed a paradigm shift for his administration (2022–2026) toward a human rights-based approach to citizen security and crime.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
dailywire.com | Juliana Rubio
— News and Analysis —On June 12, the largest public school system in the country issued new guidelines on how schools should support transgender and “gender-expansive” students. The New York State Education Department promulgated a 42-page document outlining how educators should address trans-identifying students.
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May 25, 2023 | 
townhall.com | Juliana Rubio
What’s happening in Colorado is precisely what the U.S. Supreme Court tried to prevent decades ago. In 1952, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold a New York state law prohibiting communists from teaching in public schools. Dubbed the — the New York statute banned from the teaching profession anyone who called for the overthrow of the government.
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May 23, 2023 | 
csis.org | Ryan Berg |Christopher Hernandez-Roy |Juliana Rubio |Rubi Bledsoe
From May 18 to 19, 2023, industry representatives, academics, and government representatives from the United States, Mexico, and Canada gathered in Washington, D.C., for first North American Semiconductor Conference (NASC).
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May 11, 2023 | 
townhall.com | Juliana Rubio
“No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” Title VI of the Civil RIghts Act of 1964 very explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
csis.org | Ryan Berg |Christopher Hernandez-Roy |Juliana Rubio |Rubi Bledsoe
In what seemed like a spur-of-the-moment decision, President Biden invited Colombian president Gustavo Petro to meet last Thursday, April 20. The White House joint statement highlighted similarities between the two presidents, including their commitments to climate change, migration, economic prosperity, the promotion of peace, and holistic counternarcotics strategies, as well as the roles of their respective countries as the two oldest democracies in the hemisphere.
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Feb 27, 2023 | 
csis.org | Ryan Berg |Christopher Hernandez-Roy |Juliana Rubio |Rubi Bledsoe
The principle of nonintervention in the affairs of another country has deep roots in Latin America. Born out of U.S. intervention in the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and solidified during the Cold War, the principle remains potent today and is evident in the region’s reaction to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
