Author Archives: Elizabeth Jordan

A Window of Opportunity for Guatemala

By Elizabeth Jordan | Published: March 22, 2008
Guatemala’s bloody civil war came to an end with the signing of Peace Accords in 1996. Since then, civil society organizations have been bravely grappling with the legacy of this horrific conflict by endeavoring, among other things, to treat the victims of genocide. The Commission for Historical Clarification –Guatemala’s version of a truth and reconciliation [...]
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Para Votar Obama

By Elizabeth Jordan | Published: March 10, 2008
In an occasion not unfamiliar to your average twenty-something, I received an email the other day (prior, I should note, to the Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont Democratic primaries) with the following: a pithy subject line and a link to a YouTube video. I clicked on the link and found this: a homegrown [...]
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Cristina, the Church, and Ciudad Juárez: A Survey of Women’s Issues in Latin America

By Elizabeth Jordan | Published: February 12, 2008
As someone concerned with women’s issues, I thought it might be a good idea to step back from narrow policy discussions and consider women in Latin America more broadly. What follows is an anecdotal survey of women’s issues and an assessment of obstacles women in several Latin American contexts, like women everywhere, still face [...]
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Should Politicians Boast About Supporting the Peru FTA?

By Elizabeth Jordan | Published: January 31, 2008
In the South Carolina Democratic primary debate held in late January, former Senator John Edwards tried to take his competitor, Senator Barack Obama, to task for voting in favor of a recently-approved free trade agreement with Peru; Edwards condemned the Peru FTA as part of his condemnation of free trade agreements in general, dismissing both [...]
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