As head of Congress and the major political operator for President Evo Morales, Bolivia’s Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera stands in the eye of a political hurricane.
Over the past few years we have faced two major challenges in conceiving of a new foreign policy in Latin America. The first is the relative lack of attention to the region, by both the…

By Tom Barry, Salih Booker, Laura Carlsen, Marie Dennis, and John Gershman What in the world are we doing? Seldom, if ever, has U.S. foreign policy been as confusing or as divisive as it is…
POLICY BRIEF “Free Trade” and Medicines in the Americas by Robert Weissman | April 2001 This brief was commissioned and originally distributed by the IRC’s Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) project. It is reproduced here…