David Mares

David Mares is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he also holds the Institute of the Americas Endowed Chair for Inter-American Affairs. He is also Non-Resident Scholar for Latin American Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The mixed prospects for US policies toward Latin America

The election of Joseph Biden to replace Donald Trump as President of the United States will have an important impact on US relations with Latin America. There is much to celebrate. The changes, however, will not create a full partnership to…

COVID-19 vs. the Fourth Transformation: dealing with a pandemic in AMLO’s Mexico

On June 24th, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatel reported that coronavirus cases would peak this week, that the pandemic would end in Mexico in October, and that Mexican cases had been on a plateau for 22 days already. He…

Venezuela’s conundrum and the Trump administration

The policies of Donald Trump’s administration towards the crisis in Venezuela reflect his personal characteristics, the nature of his political constituency, and the national security team he has built over time. Because there are…

The immigration policy conundrum after the midterm battle

In preparation for the US midterm elections, most analysts expected the Democrats to secure at least the 23 seat net gain in the House of Representatives necessary to achieve a Democratic majority. Despite US President Donald Trump’s…

Mexicans choose “AMLO”: now what?

Since Latin America’s return to democracy beginning in 1978, many middle class and poor citizens have found the old party systems unwilling and unable to generate sustainable and broad-based development. As voters they abandoned these…

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