Americas Quarterly

Contents - Fall 2007
Crime and (In)Security in the Americas

The Hemisphere's Growing Crime and Security Problem, and the Challenge for Governments and Businesses

For almost a decade, crime has been on the rise in the region, affecting investment, politics and security, and drawing militaries into the mix. Now, communities, businesses, governments, and regional institutions are pushing back.

        Featuring:
        We're All in This Together
        By Admiral Jim Stavridis

The head of U.S. Southern Command assesses the unconventional security threats facing the region, ranging from narcotics and gang violence to terrorism. The solution, he argues, is hemisphere-wide cooperation.
Read Admiral Stavridis' remarks from the Fall 2007 issue launch

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Departments

Interview
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper explains why his government is getting serious about Latin America.
Interview

Panorama
What U.S. presidential candidates are proposing for our hemisphere; you're in Montevideo, here's what to do; the Esquipulas II accords 20 years later.

Hard Talk Forum
Will the recent nationalizations in Venezuela and Bolivia bring development or disaster?
Source citations:
Mark Weisbrot;
Francisco R. Rodríguez

Innovators/Innovations
Ivonne Ortega becomes Mexico's youngest governor; Jesús Aguais runs a hemisphere-wide support network for AIDS victims; Constantino de Oliveira Júnior transforms the Brazilian airline industry.

Tongue in Cheek
The hemisphere's most intriguing political cartoons.

Policy Update
Innovative health care reforms; the expansion of domestic bond markets; and the U.S. primaries.

Fresh Look Reviews
Leon Krauze analyzes Carlos Rangel's classic on anti-Americanism in Latin America; former journalist Ricardo Uceda finds lessons for today's media in Anthony DePalma's El hombre que inventó a Fidel; and Marcos Morales reviews Desafiando al sistema: La Izquierda política en México.

First Look
New and recently released books.

Just the Numbers
Latin American athletes for export.
Athlete Salary Breakdown

Features

The Mugging of Latin America
Surveys demonstrate citizens feel threatened by crime as never before. But when it happens to you, the statistics become personal. Are politicians paying heed?
—By Clifford Young

Risky Business
Crime is cutting into business profits and GDP growth. Instead of running away from the problem, entrepreneurs around the region are coming up with creative ways of tackling it.
—By Lorraine Orlandi

Demystifying the Maras
Central America's murderous youth gangs have become handy media symbols for a new transnational threat. A closer look suggests the media may be wrong.
—By Rafael Fernández de Castro and Gema Santamaría

The Reinvention of Latin American Militaries
Many of the region's militaries are changing their roles in ways that have kept them out of trouble at home but are raising troubling new questions.
—By Miguel Angel Centeno

Seguridad Nacional, Inc.
Do the spreading business interests of the armed forces represent new threats to the region's economic and political development?
—By Marcela Donadio

Fixing Social Security in Latin America (Again)
Rising discontent over the shortcomings of private systems has put pension reform back on the agenda. Here are some pointers so the next round fares better.
—By Shannon O'Neil

Budgets and Bullets
The biggest arms purchasers are not who you think.

What Leaders Are Saying

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