Dec 17, 2021
As the end of the year draws near, our Wilson Center experts take a look back at the most significant developments in the Americas in 2021 and discuss what is on the horizon in 2022, with a focus on economic recovery, vaccination efforts, and electoral politics.
Dec 16, 2021
On December 9-10, the Biden administration hosted a virtual Summit for Democracy, an effort to mobilize an international agenda for democratic renewal and to tackle democratic threats through collective action. In the Western hemisphere, multiple leaders have taken steps that undermine democracy, for example, by...
Dec 2, 2021
Femicide has long plagued the Americas. In 2018, the Latin American region included five of the twelve countries with the highest rates of femicide in the world. Across the region, social and economic insecurities created by the COVID-19 pandemic have deepened the crisis, creating what some are calling a shadow pandemic...