Latin American societies desire to live in peace. At present, there is no perceived danger of neighboring wars. The region is recognized as a Zone of Peace, denuclearized and without weapons of mass destruction.
I’ve spent three decades as an international conflict resolution specialist and have worked on unofficial diplomatic efforts in Colombia, Cuba, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Libya, Syria and Northern Ireland, among others.
My first lesson in peacemaking was really about war. I was at the Havana Film Festival in December 1988.
San Blas, a neighborhood in Petare in Caracas, is the densest self-produced environment in Spanish-speaking Latin America, home to around 800,000 residents.
