Danilo Medina won the presidential election in the first round due to good campaigning and the legacy of one of his biggest supporters.

Michel Martelly begins his second year in office with a long to-do list. Is he up to the task?

Do more indigenous and Afro-descendant representatives in national congresses make a difference? 

It's time to measure the income share of Latin America's super-rich.

Children are the unwitting victims of exclusionary policies toward undocumented immigrants.

To lift people out of poverty, developing countries need to enter the global economy, writes Dani Rodrik of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The use of state-run media outlets has skyrocketed in Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. What are the implications for freedom of the press?