On August 19, 2019, the hashtag #PrayForAmazonia reached the top trends of Brazilian Twitter. As wildfires rapidly spread across the Amazon Rainforest, thousands of social media users turned thei...
Cubans no longer want to flee their motherland for destinations abroad. Rather, they want to see substantive and positive change at home. The post ‘Patria y Vida:’ The Sound of Cuban Protes...
In theory, President Santos’ accord with the FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, had ended a 52-year civil war that had claimed the lives of some 220,000 Colombians. In practic...
The optimistic takeaway is that this election was a vote of confidence in the status quo. But perhaps the more realistic reading of the results is that neither party made a compelling case for wh...
Opposition came from within the government itself, especially through political competition at the municipal level and institutional blockage at the national level. The post Blocking (then Buil...
Mexico City’s two cancellations of the Texcoco airport provide two separate lessons for the study of urban politics. The post Building (and Canceling) an Airport for Mexico City appeared fir...
Conservatives across the globe are continuing to rally behind a scientifically debunked claim that climate change isn’t happening. If conservatives don’t get up to speed soon, they risk slipp...
In the end, Pérez Jiménez transformed the city, but he did not transform hearts and minds. Although the buildings still stand, his government’s legacy most certainly does not. The post Taki...
Despite human rights violations against indigenous and disenfranchised communities, the courts of previously imperial powers still tend to favor corporate interests, much to the disrespect and ne...
Sometimes it is the tiniest spark that lights the largest fires. The post Pocketbook Protests: Small Price Changes that Trigger Mass Protests appeared first on Harvard Political Review .