Par Engstrom (UCL): The Inter-American Human Rights System and U.S.-Latin America Relations; and Regional Human Rights Governance: The Case of the Inter-American Human Rights System. Salvador Herencia Carrasco (HRREC): Public Interest Litigation in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Protection of Indigenous Populations and the Gap between Legal Victories and Social Change. Benjamin Mason Meier (UNC) and Ana Ayala (Georgetown): The Pan American Health Organization and the Mainstreaming of Human Rights in Regional Health Governance. Andy Baker and David Cupery (Colorado): Anti-Americanism in Latin America: Economic Exchange, Foreign Policy Legacies, and Mass Attitudes toward the Colossus of the North. Gavin O'Toole reviews The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of US Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 by Noel Maurer. John M. Ackerman on how the border crisis is America's chance to repent for past mistakes in Central America. From Vox, a Central America expert explains the root causes of the migrant crisis. The Western hemisphere in the global economy: The introduction to Re-mapping the Americas: Trends in Region-making, ed. W. Andy Knight, Julian Castro-Rea, and Hamid Ghany. Thomas E. McNamara on the United States and Latin America: Individuals and institutions. Peter Hakim on the future of inter-American relations. As South Americans flock to Miami, their influence has transformed the city’s once recession-dampened downtown, enriched its culture and magnified its allure for businesses. Retirees eye lower cost of living in Latin America: Retirees are attracted to the warm weather, good medical care and proximity to the USA. Rep. Steve King says Obama should impose Christendom on Latin America like Columbus.
