Understandably, countries seek to be first-movers on crypto to streamline financial transactions, make payment ledgers that are transparent and immutable, lower costs of transactions, and enable greater access for unbanked and underbanked populations. But being first in crypto should not come at the expense of getting it right.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the increasingly urgent threat of climate change have clearly demonstrated both the direct relevance of the global (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ESG risk factors as well as the world’s interdependence in facing these ESG risks.
As Peru wrestles with political turmoil and seeks to recover from the economic and financial effects of the pandemic, China appears well-poised to significantly expand its commercial presence and associated political influence in the country.
Peru’s security challenges vary from expanding coca production, illegal mining and timber activities, to a small but persistent terrorist threat, an emerging new criminal hub in the tri-national frontier with Brazil and Colombia, and rising public insecurity in the context of the health and socioeconomic crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cuba has entered the 2020s much in the same fashion as it did in the 1990s; the world is a more uncertain place, its main economic backer is riven by a major economic collapse, and its relations with its northern neighbor are tense. But there are differences.
On November 5, 2020, St. Vincent and the Grenadines will also go to the polls to decide whether Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves will win his fifth consecutive term in office. The vote is expected to center largely around the United Labour Party’s management of the nation’s troubled economy.
Despite the high COVID-19 death toll in Brazil, the president’s popularity is still rising. What strategies is he using and will the administration be able to maintain and build on its momentum for the 2022 elections?
Several factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have contributed to the possible return of populism in Bolivia. What implications does this have for the Latin America and the country’s relations with the United States?
Watch our panel analyzing the implications of the first meeting between President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The pandemic has turned the government into a crucial actor of economic recovery, in reckoning with its post-pandemic outlook, Paraguay is building a case for state reform.
