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Will Freeman is a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a political scientist. His work focuses on the rule of law, corruption and organized crime, elections, constitutional change, and U.S.-Latin America relations. His writing on Latin America has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Economist, the Journal of Democracy, the Washington Post, Current History, and Americas Quarterly, where he is a contributing columnist.
Prior to joining CFR, Dr. Freeman was a Fulbright-Hays Scholar in Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala, where he researched judiciaries’ efforts to investigate and sanction grand corruption. During his graduate studies, Dr. Freeman also worked with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to draft bipartisan legislation and Senate resolutions, floor speeches, and statements. From 2021 to 2022, he was co-chair of the Western Hemisphere working group of Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen Foreign Policy Initiative.
Dr. Freeman holds a BA in political science from Tufts University and an MA and PhD in political science from Princeton University.
Affiliations:
- Americas Quarterly, contributing columnist
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Cuba’s authoritarian regime has failed to avert an economic crisis, repair decaying state institutions, and prevent the country’s largest outflow of migrants since the 1960s.
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The mass protests that have rocked Peru since December threaten to upend regional supply chains, intensify migration flows, and strain Lima’s bilateral relations.
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