...Will Freeman Ecuador until recently was known as a haven of relative peace in its region, but it is in the process of being transformed by surging crime. The country’s homicide rate is now among the highest in Latin America; a presidential candidate campaigning on an anti-crime platform...

... Nicolas Parent Venezuela refugees asylum law immigration migrants Hugo Chávez Nicolás Maduro Colombia Peru Ecuador Brazil Cartagena Declaration 56 [T]he Venezuelan displacement crisis is a crucial test of the liberal immigration policies that have been adopted across Latin America...

... Ecuador Lenín Moreno Rafael Correa Country Alliance party elections corruption Odebrecht Panama Papers authoritarianism democratic transition 49 Rather than take marching orders from the outgoing president, Moreno distanced his government from the authoritarianism and corruption...

... Crabtree Bolivia Evo Morales indigenous rights national development land reform Ecuador Hugo Chávez climate change cocaine 55 The Morales administration sought to give indigenous peoples more rights and greater influence in government, effectively breaking down traditional patterns...

... Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI Dilma Rousseff Brazil Michelle Bachelet Chile Hugo Chávez Venezuela Evo Morales Bolivia Néstor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Argentina Rafael Correa Ecuador Fidel Castro Cuba Committees Defense Revolution Colombia A dynamic...

...” Bolivarian revolution economic crisis crises depression class war independence indian mestizo Díaz mexico Venezuela neoliberalism socialism neoliberal Third World Ecuador Chávez Maduro oil gas morales 68 Latin American nationalism is unique in comparison with the nationalisms...

..., indigenous movements were converting protest into concrete policy gains. Most nations constitutions had recognized some indigenous rights. Indigenous political parties had consolidated regional bases of support and were increasingly competitive at the national level in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela...

... political outcomes. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Bolivia Ecuador Chile Guatemala Colombia Venezuela Pachakutik Evo Morales Mexico Brazil Broadening Democracy: Latin America s Indigenous Peoples Movements DONNA LEE VAN...

... Chile Ecuador Latin America Lula Mexico Peru Venezuela In 1970, Salvador Allende finally ascended tothe Chilean presidency on his fourth attempt.The Socialist candidate with a radical agenda won the prize that had long eluded him only to be overthrown in a generation-defining military coup led...

... of the University of California Brazil Central America Costa Rica democracy Ecuador Latin America Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela Latin America s democracies are not in danger of collapse at this time. But there are many real problems, and not many indications that these problems are being...

... into the relationship during the second Clinton administration and has evoked growing displeasure within Latin America. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Central America Colombia drugs Ecuador immigration Latin Mexico Peru United States...

...Shelley A. McConnell South America's first coup since the continent's return to democracy was a curious one. What led Ecuador's indigenous people and military to overthrow the government–and then deny that they had done so? © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents...