In this year-end episode of Plaza Central, host Benjamin Gedan, director of the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program, is joined by analyst James Bosworth to review a consequential year for Latin America that saw a peaceful transfer of power in Guatemala, Brazil’s presidency of the G20, record migration, and the troubling rise of organized crime. Bosworth, a Global Fellow in the Latin America Program, is the author of the Latin America Risk Report.
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Founder, Latin America Risk Report & Hxagon Consulting
Moderator
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more