Cuando la ciudadanía marca el límite de la solidaridad Eduardo A. Gamarra Hace un par de años, durante un almuerzo con una dignataria argentina que se encontraba de visita, un exalcalde de Miami le dijo a nuestra invitada que la administración Biden había traído grandes cantidades de migrantes a Estados Unidos y los había trasladado en autobús a Nueva York y otros lugares para votar en las elecciones. Cuestioné esa afirmación, pero sin éxito. El intercambio me quedó grabado por la autoridad de quien formulaba la acusación. Una funcionaria latinoamericana de visita estaba escuchando una explicación sobre la democracia estadounidense de boca de alguien que había ocupado un cargo público destacado en este país. Su posición podía conferir a una acusación partidista la credibilidad de un conocimiento de primera mano. Los migrantes efectivamente fueron trasladados a Nueva York. Entre las iniciativas de transporte más destacadas estuvo el programa que el gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott,...
Posts
When Solidarity Stops at Citizenship Eduardo A Gamarra A couple of years ago, during a lunch with a visiting Argentine dignitary, a former Miami mayor told our guest that the Biden administration had brought large numbers of migrants into the United States and bused them to New York and elsewhere to vote in elections. I challenged the claim, but without success. The exchange stayed with me because of the authority behind the assertion. A visiting Latin American official was hearing an account of American democracy from someone who had held prominent public office here. His position could give a partisan allegation the credibility of firsthand knowledge. Migrants were indeed transported to New York. Among the most prominent transportation efforts was the program Texas Governor Greg Abbott publicly announced in August 2022. New York’s contemporaneous records also identified buses organized by the city of El Paso. Those facts establish transportation programs; they do not establi...
The Boat Strikes Aren't Squeezing Cocaine Supply Eduardo A. Gamarra Sinking Boats, Not the Cocaine Market A year into the strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the market is sending a clear message: cocaine is as cheap, pure, and available as it has ever been. Washington says it is winning the war at sea. The Coast Guard seized nearly 510,000 pounds of cocaine in fiscal year 2025, the most in its history and more than three times its annual average. Since September 2025, lethal military strikes on suspected drug boats have killed more than 200 people. Officials say these operations are keeping drugs off American streets. If that were true, we would see it in the market. We do not. By every measure the government itself uses, there is little or no evidence that the strikes have reduced the supply of cocaine reaching the United States. The price test The logic of supply-side drug control is simple. If you seize or destroy enough product, it becomes scarce, and traffickers pass th...
La Argentina que América Latina no quiere celebrar Eduardo A. Gamarra Nadie está obligado a celebrar la victoria ajena. En el fútbol, la alegría es territorial: tiene bandera, camiseta, acento, memoria y heridas. Pero, en esta Copa Mundial, ha sido llamativo observar cómo una parte importante de América Latina no solo no celebra el éxito argentino, sino que parece disfrutar de la posibilidad de su caída. No se trata de todos los latinoamericanos, por supuesto. Argentina tiene admiradores en toda la región y en todo el mundo. Pero el fenómeno existe: ante cada remontada argentina, cada gol de Messi, cada gesto de supervivencia competitiva, emerge una reacción incómoda, a veces irónica, a veces abiertamente hostil. La pregunta no es si América Latina debe apoyar a Argentina. La pregunta es por qué Argentina, que podría ser vista como una potencia regional compartida, despierta en tantos vecinos más rechazo que orgullo. La respuesta fácil es decir “envidia”. Y algo de eso hay: el éx...
No fue un guion de la FIFA: fue liderazgo Eduardo A Gamarra Argentina volvió a protagonizar uno de esos partidos que parecen escritos por un novelista exagerado. El martes, cuando Egipto ganaba 2-0 y el campeón del mundo parecía al borde de la eliminación, la Selección encontró tres goles en el tramo final y pasó a cuartos de final con una victoria 3-2 que ya pertenece al archivo emocional del fútbol argentino. Cristian Romero, Lionel Messi y Enzo Fernández firmaron la remontada. Messi, incluso después de fallar un penal, terminó siendo decisivo con una asistencia, un gol y la conducción emocional del equipo. Pero apenas terminó el partido, la épica empezó a convivir con la sospecha. La Federación Egipcia criticó duramente el uso del VAR, cuestionó decisiones arbitrales y presentó una queja formal ante la FIFA. Hubo reclamos por un gol anulado, por una posible falta sobre Mohamed Salah en la jugada previa al gol de Enzo Fernández y por la falta de transparencia en la interpretació...
Latino Voters Are Not Realigning, They Are Recalibrating Eduardo A. Gamarra, Latino Public Opinion Forum For several recent election cycles, a prevailing narrative in U.S. politics has held that Latino voters are steadily shifting toward the Republican Party. While that interpretation draws on observable movement in specific states and subgroups, it risks overstating the extent of partisan change. The most recent version of the Latino Public Opinion Forum´s Survey of Latinos in the United States instead points to a more contingent and less linear process: Latino voters are not undergoing a wholesale realignment, but rather recalibrating, and, at present, showing signs of reconsolidating behind the Democratic Party. This distinction is more than semantic. It reflects the difference between structural partisan change and short-term adaptation to political and economic conditions. The LPOF survey captures a Latino electorate marked by economic strain and widespread dissatisfaction. ...
An Uncompleted Conversation: For Jim Malloy James M. Malloy changed my life, and I did not thank him before he died. That is one of the sorrows I now have to carry. I went to Pittsburgh to study with Jim because of a book. As a young student finishing my undergraduate degree, I read The Uncompleted Revolution , and it had an enormous influence on my intellectual formation. To me, Jim was the great scholar of Bolivia, and I wanted to study under him. I traveled to Pittsburgh right after completing my master’s degree, and my young wife accompanied me. Jim was on sabbatical when we arrived, but he kindly allowed us to share his apartment with a Bolivian couple. That was my introduction to his world. I quickly learned that Jim was not an easy man for most people. He had rough edges, and those rough edges were genuine. He could be difficult, abrasive, and suspicious. I don't think it helps his memory to deny that. But it is also true that I didn't see him primarily that way. With ...