Energy Politics

Citizen-led solar initiatives in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria remedied immediate local challenges and forged increased resilience using sustainable power, serving as an important example in clean energy development.

Fracking was a signature aspect of Argentine President Mauricio Macri's campaign. The policy, however, has failed during his first term in office, as the economy worsens under austerity measures.

Violence and political maneuvering have marred the lead up to Guatemala's elections as some candidates attempt to delegitimize the electoral process. Amid the chaos, left-wing parties may have most to lose.

Trinidad and Tobago used to be as dependent on oil as Venezuela. So why hasn't its economy suffered similar levels of crisis since oil prices began to decline?

Juan Guaidó has a plan to end the emergency in Venezuela—but his vision looks a lot like the elite-led, violently unequal Venezuela of the 1990's.

Ahead of his inauguration, president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has warmed up to NAFTA as he eyes fossil fuel expansion.

The recent approval of a new oil concession in Ecuador fails to fulfill Indigenous rights enshrined in the country's 2008 Constitution

Rural communities in Guatemala are rising up against unmanageable energy bills, more than two decades after the Central American country privatized its power grid.

How U.S.-backed military interventions in the Caribbean have been tied up with fossil fuel extractivism.

How U.S.-backed military interventions in the Caribbean have been tied up with fossil fuel extractivism.

Mexico's energy reform is a historical rupture with its nationalist past. In spite of popular opposition, it has been pushed through by a powerful elite consensus in the United States and Mexico and by an alliance among all three major political parties.

Like their conservative neighbors, left-leaning governments are entangled in Latin America's renewed dependence on natural-resource extraction. It is not clear whether these regimes can pursue the deepening of social, political, and economic democratization while they are still resource pools for the destructive global assault on nature and the climate.