Americas
CSIS analyzes the most important foreign policy and national security issues throughout the Western Hemisphere and their impact on the U.S. and its regional partners.
![Photo: GERARDO MENOSCAL/AFP via Getty Images](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/500_x_300/s3/2024-07/GettyImages-2113290877_cropped.jpg?VersionId=G.IP4WTEEuEG0.4IeREnomPprRRa8QJL&h=266da715&itok=Vv2izKQW)
Photo: GERARDO MENOSCAL/AFP via Getty Images
Why Ecuador’s Security Crisis Demands Global Action
Drawing on extensive fieldwork, CSIS Americas Program director Ryan C. Berg and Rubi Bledsoe identify key domestic reforms and areas of international cooperation needed to improve Ecuador's internal security.
Commentary by Ryan C. Berg and Rubi Bledsoe — July 1, 2024
![Audio Briefs Banner](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-04/csis_audiobriefs_banner_720_4.jpg?VersionId=.jGx8KqQYFBsOTFaZ8g1JSWSkaUdGGzg&h=e7f7be8c&itok=3LrNeYw6)
Why Ecuador’s Security Crisis Demands Global Action
Podcast Episode by Ryan C. Berg and Rubi Bledsoe — July 1, 2024
![Hidden Reach Cover Collage of Cuba and SIGINT assets](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-07/HR6-Cover-Collage.jpg?VersionId=celBt5nDxwPEsc4_NjBAHIOeZgb6_FzL&h=d1cb525d&itok=aq8RuLyi)
Secret Signals: Decoding China’s Intelligence Activities in Cuba
Digital Report by Matthew P. Funaiole, Aidan Powers-Riggs, Brian Hart, Henry Ziemer, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Ryan C. Berg, and Christopher Hernandez-Roy — July 1, 2024
![35West Banner](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-04/35West_Banner.jpg?VersionId=EuGs3VftbyYFLejUO0F2F7kMGHMVnYlG&h=284110ac&itok=Jx_cARKc)
Getting to the Root (Causes) of the Issue
Podcast Episode by Ryan C. Berg — June 27, 2024
Past Events
![Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-05/GettyImages-120252182_cropped.jpg?VersionId=ardiC2G4ZPqpHTq.5O6ibJb.u0zrNQMf&h=07c9950b&itok=kDcBI2VG)
Combating Transnational Drug Flows: A Conversation with RDML Larry LeGree
![Photo: MARCOS PIN/AFP/Getty Images](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-05/GettyImages-1240118460_cropped.jpg?VersionId=PCNzfQnbsPSCtxk6ad_.XHxxicWeOKrt&h=07c9950b&itok=eFcmd9Hq)
Cooperative Approaches to Counter-Narcotics: Perspectives from the Director of National Drug Control Policy
![Photo: Lt. Steve Smith/U.S. Navy via Getty Images](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-02/GettyImages-541065874_Crop1.jpg?VersionId=FZuSBvBHCR4UlCbNiNUFPEgcH551Ezr0&h=266da715&itok=V7-uVFGd)
Series
DoD’s Warfighting Concept with the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
![Photo: ACE Studios/Adobe Stock](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-03/AdobeStock_290578444_Crop1.jpg?VersionId=Z.2tioYPnAJ3_rfsuRuh1UUizdtUOdrT&h=266da715&itok=J4WDe9ml)
The Future of U.S.-Japan Defense Industrial Cooperation
![woman and girl smiling in grocery store](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-02/AdobeStock_438705985.jpeg?VersionId=r7.y0xpOodWZkggz3QbV2CjJuYfNy5iA&h=07c9950b&itok=K_Ltv0tN)
USAID/MujerProspera: Advancing Gender Equality in Northern Central America
![Photo: harvepino/Adobe Stock](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-02/AdobeStock_237299672_Crop1.jpg?VersionId=szt6qgsH6QpxpMOc1xGbzdNWDbBUjemK&h=266da715&itok=kmWw-pKk)
Conference
From Terrestrial to Celestial: Unlocking the Potential to Enhance U.S.-Latin American B2B Collaboration
![Photo: ABDUAZIZ MADYAROV/AFP/Getty Images](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-02/GettyImages-1139737472_cropped.jpg?VersionId=6ZfTYURbI4kE1pEsfQKyILMpaZ4RK6AB&h=07c9950b&itok=02H5mZ1x)
Rethinking the U.S. Approach in the Global South
![Photo: LINTAO ZHANG/AFP/Getty Images](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/360x216/s3/2024-02/GettyImages-181531757.jpg?VersionId=lfbMftAQSi8xgcbsXmVt2ZRznXbkIYYl&h=07c9950b&itok=4t-qrIak)
Report Launch: China’s Role in Democratic Backsliding in Latin America and the Caribbean
Experts
![Daniel F. Runde](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/275_x_275/s3/2024-03/5Runde.jpg?VersionId=un4WONJ0KfzRMnbVaSHGpR4boNM8N4fH&h=2a479378&itok=qGEWbP1p)
![Romina Bandura](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/275_x_275/s3/2023-07/5bandura_0.jpg?VersionId=QF1a4sW4NyNXhRKvWNnKIOUwUVbtlzkp&h=d11cbc52&itok=xpgNl-gc)
All Americas Content
Filter by
Preserving the Free Flow of Commerce in the Red Sea and Beyond: An Update from FIFTH Fleet Commander VADM George Wikoff, USN
Event — August 7, 2024
Why Ecuador’s Security Crisis Demands Global Action
Podcast Episode by Ryan C. Berg and Rubi Bledsoe — July 1, 2024
![Audio Briefs](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/180x180/s3/2023-07/230705_audio_briefs_banner.jpg?VersionId=BCCzWslp4NXp1__pO0608S4PTkjNlctp&h=d2149e18&itok=U281Xi4u)
Why Ecuador’s Security Crisis Demands Global Action
Commentary by Ryan C. Berg and Rubi Bledsoe — July 1, 2024
Secret Signals: Decoding China’s Intelligence Activities in Cuba
Digital Report by Matthew P. Funaiole, Aidan Powers-Riggs, Brian Hart, Henry Ziemer, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Ryan C. Berg, and Christopher Hernandez-Roy — July 1, 2024
![CSIS 35 West](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/180x180/s3/2022-09/Podcast-35West-Cover.jpeg?VersionId=_jiIbO9jWuE3SR5CnOWMxdGvDj_qKe.6&h=a7e6d17b&itok=gBV26BIu)
The Kremlin’s Caribbean Gambit: A Great Power Competition Spillover?
Podcast Episode by Ariel González Levaggi and Vladimir Rouvinski — June 25, 2024
![Audio Briefs](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/180x180/s3/2023-07/230705_audio_briefs_banner.jpg?VersionId=BCCzWslp4NXp1__pO0608S4PTkjNlctp&h=d2149e18&itok=U281Xi4u)
The Kremlin’s Caribbean Gambit: A Great Power Competition Spillover?
Commentary by Ariel González Levaggi and Vladimir Rouvinski — June 24, 2024
Securing Minerals Supply Chains in the Western Hemisphere
Podcast Episode by Christopher Hernandez-Roy — June 20, 2024
![CSIS 35 West](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/180x180/s3/2022-09/Podcast-35West-Cover.jpeg?VersionId=_jiIbO9jWuE3SR5CnOWMxdGvDj_qKe.6&h=a7e6d17b&itok=gBV26BIu)
The Long Shadow of Violence in Mexico’s Elections
Podcast Episode by Ryan C. Berg — June 13, 2024
![CSIS 35 West](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/180x180/s3/2022-09/Podcast-35West-Cover.jpeg?VersionId=_jiIbO9jWuE3SR5CnOWMxdGvDj_qKe.6&h=a7e6d17b&itok=gBV26BIu)
Claudia Sheinbaum: ¿La mujer más poderosa del mundo?
Podcast Episode by Ryan C. Berg and Rubi Bledsoe — June 13, 2024
![Audio Briefs](https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/180x180/s3/2023-07/230705_audio_briefs_banner.jpg?VersionId=BCCzWslp4NXp1__pO0608S4PTkjNlctp&h=d2149e18&itok=U281Xi4u)