The Inter-American Dialogue is pleased to announce the appointment of Tamara Taraciuk Broner as director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program.
Washington, DC – The Inter-American Dialogue is pleased to announce the appointment of Álvaro Botero, Ángel Melguizo, and Michael Matera as senior fellows who will contribute expertise in three programmatic areas: Education; Asia and Latin America; and the Rule of Law.
An international human rights attorney with extensive leadership experience, Canton will build on and expand the Rule of Law Program’s work to strengthen democracy, human rights, accountability, and press freedom in the Americas.
The Inter-American Dialogue’s Venezuela Working Group calls for peaceful democratic transition and unhindered entry of humanitarian aid in Venezuela in anticipation of February 23.
On October 31, the Inter-American Dialogue’s Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program and its Venezuela Working Group in partnership with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) at the request of the World Refugee Council will release a new report that identifies critical gaps in the existing response to the forced displacement of millions of Venezuelans, and presents a plan for bold, coordinated action by the international community.
On September 17 and 18, 2018, the Inter-American Dialogue’s Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program launched its Venezuela Working Group, a task force of prominent hemispheric leaders committed to formulating and actively promoting policy responses to the crisis in Venezuela.
On March 5th, Luis Almagro announced that he had designated Kevin Casas-Zamora to lead the OAS electoral observation mission in Colombia.
The Organization of American States (OAS) is stuck in “an ongoing irrelevancy trap” according to a new Inter-American Dialogue report.
The Inter-American Dialogue, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, and Transparency International Assembled a group of 28 anti-corruption experts for a meeting in Lima, Peru on October 30-31, to propose anti-corruption policy recommendations for the Summit.
Former State Department Official to Lead Inter-American Dialogue Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program. Colombian Communications & Management Expert to Serve as Director of Development and External Relations.
The Dialogue has appointed Kevin Casas-Zamora, a Costa Rican lawyer and political scientist, as senior fellow and director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program.
El pueblo argentino tiró una moneda al aire y el desenlace está por verse. [Habrá que ver si priman] las propuestas más antiderechos [de la campaña electoral de Javier Milei o] la versión más moderada que presentó en su discurso del domingo. El gobierno de Estados Unidos debe mantenerse alerta para ver cómo cae la moneda porque de ello dependerá el futuro de la relación con Argentina, que aún no se ha definido.
The primaries sent a clear message that the Venezuelan people are, in essence, profoundly democratic. And if they have the option to vote, they will express themselves through the vote. And that is a huge challenge to those in power.
Las primarias fueron un ejercicio profundamente democrático que muestra que el pueblo venezolano, si tiene la opción de votar, elige expresarse pacíficamente. Para quienes se aferran al poder, en un contexto de baja popularidad del gobierno de Maduro, eso puede dar mucho miedo. No es casual que la respuesta haya sido ir penalmente contra quienes organizaron las primarias o usar el Tribunal Supremo, que no es independiente, para intentar revertir los resultados. [Se trata de] una forma maquiavélica de cambiar el eje de la discusión: que no se hable más de las inhabilitaciones, sino del resultado de las primarias.
Blocking Arévalo from taking office would throw Guatemala into deeper turmoil.
La elección de Arévalo demuestra que desafiar el status quo no necesariamente significa patear el tablero democrático. A pesar de tener todas las condiciones en contra [...] llegó a una segunda vuelta donde se le permitió al pueblo guatemalteco movilizarse y votar, no en contra de alguien o por el menos malo, sino por alguien que los motivaba con una agenda anticorrupción y de fortalecimiento de la democracia.
We need judges to do the very difficult job [of setting democratic limits] to carry out in polarized environments. It is a much-needed task, and judges who do this bravely must receive the support from all of us who care and are concerned about the democratic decline in the region.
La clave es [...] cómo proveer un puente de oro a personas en el poder [en Venezuela] para que permitan que una transición [democrática] se concrete.
