Omar G. Encarnación

Jan 16, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | Steven Cook |Michelle Gavin |Omar G. Encarnación |Robin Niblett

In the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I argued in Foreign Affairs that Donald Trump’s ascent to power represented the “Latin-Americanization of U.S. politics” and the entrenchment of “caudillismo” in the United States. Deriving from the word “caudillo,” or strongman, caudillismo is a quintessential Latin American political phenomenon.

Jun 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Omar G. Encarnación

The modest campaign created an opening for today’s anti-L.G.B.T.Q. backlash.

Dec 15, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Omar G. Encarnación |Shannon K. O'Neil |Stephen Sestanovich

Nearly four months after voters cast their ballots, the Spanish general elections have produced a new government. Despite coming second in the vote tally, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party has secured his position as the head of the government after protracted negotiations to gain a majority of seats in Spain’s Congress of Deputies.

Feb 15, 2023 | thenation.com | Andre Pagliarini |Mychal Denzel Smith |Andrew Pasquier |Omar G. Encarnación

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was in Washington, DC, last Friday for meetings with President Joe Biden and, earlier in the day, with Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Just over a month into his unprecedented third term, Lula is eager to turn the page on the calamitous administration of Jair Bolsonaro.