Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Obama’s New Cuba Policy: Catching up to Latin America By Erika de la Garza, Program Director, Latin America Initiative
When it comes to Cuba, the United States is finally catching…
December 19, 2014
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Increased Funding and Health Care Reform Are Key to Drug Treatment Accessibility
By Scott R. Maggard
Drug policy has experienced an interesting shift recently. Along with legalization of medical and…
December 18, 2014
Normalizing U.S.-Cuban Relations: Long Overdue
The United States and Cuba, it seems, are poised to resume diplomatic relations severed in 1961. Fellow Joe Barnes explains why normalization of relations between the two countries is simple "good sense."
Read "Normalizing U.S.-Cuban relations: Long overdue" in the Dec. 18, 2014, Baker Institute Blog.
Joe Barnes December 18, 2014
Spending on Treatment to Save on Incarceration
By Hadar Aviram
Drug policy has experienced an interesting shift recently. Along with legalization of medical and…
December 17, 2014
Drug War Fatigue, a Sympathetic User Population and Shifting Public Attitudes Drive Current Drug Treatment Trends
Drug policy has experienced an interesting shift recently. Along with legalization of medical and recreational marijuana…
Katharine Neill Harris December 16, 2014
The Iranian Nuclear Talks Get a Seven-Month Reprieve
Well, the Iranian nuclear talks have been extended. Both sides in the negotiations — Iran and the P-5 plus 1 (The United…
Joe Barnes November 24, 2014
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Uruguay’s Second Round By Natalia Roba, 2011 Americas Project Fellow, Uruguay
The Oct. 26 elections in Uruguay confirmed the hegemony of center-left…
November 24, 2014
PM Modi’s U.S. Visit Dull? An Economic Policy Perspective
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, once barred from entering the U.S., is getting a rock star welcome on his first trip here since being elected in May. “Am I the only India follower who is bored with Modi’s spectacle of a U.S. visit?” asks international economics fellow Russell Green. “The glitz is fun, but I am an economic policy wonk, and from my perspective, there is little to capture the imagination.”
September 29, 2014
The Texas Counties: From Most Liberal to Most Conservative
Using data from University of Texas/Texas Tribune polls of registered Texas voters, political science fellow Mark Jones ranked 20 counties in the Lone Star State from most liberal to most conservative. Travis County, home to Austin, is by far the state's most liberal county; Brazoria County is the most ideologically conservative.
Mark P. Jones August 26, 2014
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Marijuana Decriminalization in the Caribbean Governments of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) have called for a discussion on the decriminalization of marijuana after a pilot study found that legalized medical marijuana sales could boost the region’s ailing economies. As a result, the topic was an important agenda item at a CARICOM Inter-Sessional Heads of State Summit held in March 2014. Two aspects of decriminalization were discussed: decriminalization for medical use and decriminalization for recreational use.
August 15, 2014