crisis

Inmigración y la Crisis Humanitaria en la Frontera de los Estados Unidos con México

By Megan Prenatt
May 8, 2019

Uno de los temas más apremiantes hoy en las Américas es el tema del "muro fronterizo" y la enorme cantidad de inmigrantes que intentan buscar asilo. El debate sobre el muro fronterizo se ha prolongado durante años, comenzando cuando Trump se postuló para la presidencia en 2016. Ahora, hay una crisis gubernamentales y humanitarias. Los migrantes no pueden buscar asilo, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos se ha cerrado y ha surgido una nueva ola de nacionalismo en los Estados Unidos. Hay una crisis en la frontera, sin embargo es una crisis humanitaria.

How the U.S. immigration 'crisis' is affecting Mexico

By Kristen Martinez-Gugerli
January 24, 2019

Under the Donald Trump presidency, recent years have seen a substantial rise in the attention and emotion invested in the United States’ immigration debate. However, continuous criticisms of the country’s immigration system from both ends of the political spectrum fail to recognize the other countries that are being affected by the same migration patterns. Although all countries in Central America have been affected in some way by the recent waves of migration, Mexico is in the center—geographically and politically—of the movement, and is arguably more the subject of a ‘crisis’ of immigration than the United States.

The Message of the Petro: Venezuela’s Crypto-currency Effort

By Alexis Takoushian
November 15, 2018

Venezuela’s years long economic crisis has not slowed down, as the International Monetary Fund projects a 1,000,000% inflation rate by the end of 2018 (Ellsworth). The staggering statistics of Venezuela’s crisis, including both economic and humanitarian disasters, are recorded as one of the worst hyperinflation cases in modern history. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has clung to power under wavering support for his last-ditch effort policies and socialist principles.

Slashing Zeros in Venezuela: The New Currency Among Crisis

By Alexis Takoushian
August 27, 2018

The Maduro government has staged a plan to help curb the staggering inflation crisis in the country--- by creating a new currency. The idea of implementing a new currency in Venezuela is not new, as the government had tried multiple times to restore some value in their worthless monetary system. The bad news is the country has a terrible track record with financial decisions dating back to when the value of oil took a nosedive and sent the country spiraling into crisis. Their first mistake was backing 98% of their economy in oil.

How Latin America is handling the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis

By Rachel Bierly
March 7, 2018

As Venezuela faces an economic crisis that has left the nation’s citizens in abhorrent conditions, without access to necessities such as food and medicine, Venezuelans are fleeing to neighboring countries that are already dealing with an unprecedented influx of middle eastern refugees, as well as internal conflicts between gangs, guerilla groups, and corruption scandals. Neighboring countries, though sympathetic to Venezuela’s worsening condition, are struggling to accept Venezuelan migrants.

Shocking win by government-backed Socialist party in Venezuela’s regional elections sparks doubt

By Kristen Martinez-Gugerli
October 18, 2017

On Sunday, October 15, President Nicolás Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela won a surprising majority in 17 of the country’s 23 states in the regional gubernatorial elections over the Democratic Unity opposition party.

The Multiple Causes of the Border Crisis

By Dinorah Azpuru
October 13, 2016

Much was written and discussed in the Summer of 2014 about the causes of the migration of thousands of undocumented minors and women with young children from Central America’s Northern Triangle region (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) to the United States.1 Many analysts focused on finding "the culprit", the one single cause that provoked the dramatic increase in the number of children arriving at the border and turning themselves to US authorities. 

The Multiple Causes of the Border Crisis

By Dinorah Azpuru
October 13, 2016

Much was written and discussed in the Summer of 2014 about the causes of the migration of thousands of undocumented minors and women with young children from Central America’s Northern Triangle region (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) to the United States.1 Many analysts focused on finding "the culprit", the one single cause that provoked the dramatic increase in the number of children arriving at the border and turning themselves to US authorities. 

Argentina’s Original Indignados: Middle-class Resistance to Crisis in 2001-02

By Daniel Ozarow
October 11, 2016

As the specter of economic crisis continues to haunt Europe and the global north, a deepening and simultaneous crisis of representative democracy looks set to bring anti-system parties to power in Spain (Podemos) and Greece (Syriza) in the coming months.

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