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Crackdowns may suppress some forms of gang activity without dismantling their economic structures.
Cooking gas and diesel fuel are among the oil products whose supply levels have been affected already. Here’s why to expect long-term shortages.
Study suggests long-practiced strategy of taking out the heads of drug cartels may be missing underlying predictors of crime.
Dismantling the 2016 peace agreement and introducing a military clampdown is not the answer to rising levels of violence.
Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to build mega prisons to crack down on crime and conduct foreign relations in concert with the Trump administration.
The nebulous nature of narco-terrorism has allowed presidents from Reagan to Trump to deploy the term when it serves broader political goals in Latin America.
Colombia expanded renewables under Gustavo Petro, but struggled to reduce its dependence on oil, gas and coal.
The solutions they offer - economic shock therapy, militarized crackdowns and a lack of agency in foreign policy - are just old responses retooled with new aesthetics and a new international support network.
The ban prevents future fossil fuel production in Sweden – but that’s just the start.
For decades, the US seriously pursued the idea of ‘peaceful nuclear explosions.’
The US may be experiencing democratic backsliding. Around the world, nonviolent civil movements exist to support democracy and protect fellow citizens.
U.S. withdrawal from transnational environmental agreements presents other countries in the Americas with the opportunity to chart a new course.
In Colombia’s coca-cultivating Catatumbo region on the border with Venezuela, community care and survival efforts amid escalating violence are in a state of emergency.
Americans are learning and doing the kind of work that civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades: dealing with threats by organizing to help protect their neighbors and communities.
There is no evidence that US intervention in Venezuela will lead to a meaningful reduction in drugs flowing into the United States.
The Colombia-Venezuela border has long fuelled cycles of violence in Colombia. It’s now the main sticking point in any Venezuelan efforts to transition to democracy and the rule of law.
Several other Latin American countries now sit squarely in Washington’s crosshairs.
World leaders like to talk up peace at Christmastime. But alongside the tales of seasonal breaks in fighting are incidents of adversaries taking advantage of the season.
Reducing inequality should be a guiding principle to decisions on climate change.
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Research fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Teaching Fellow in Law, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex
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Research assistant professor, Universidad de los Andes
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Reader, University of Huddersfield; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Research and Communications Officer, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, Universidad Externado de Colombia
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Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica de Chile
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Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Teaching Fellow in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, Durham University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University; Institute for Humane Studies