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Christopher Sabatini, PhD, is the editor of www.LatinAmericaGoesGlobal.org and a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.  From 2005 to 2014 he was the senior director of policy at the Americas Society and Council of the Americas (AS/COA) and the founder and editor-in-chief of the hemispheric policy journal Americas Quarterly (AQ). At AS/COA, Dr. Sabatini chaired the Rule of Law Working Group and the Cuba Working Group. From 1997 to 2005, Dr. Sabatini was the director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Endowment for Democracy. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Diplomacy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, working at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Democracy and Governance. He has served as an advisor to the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has published numerous articles on U.S. policy toward Latin America, human rights and democracy, Venezuela, and Cuba in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, CNN-GPS, Financial Times, and World Politics Review.

Follow Chris on Twitter at @chrissabatini.

Cuba: It’s all about the regs

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The effectiveness and fate of President Barack Obama's December 17, 2014, executive actions to alter elements of the U.S. embargo on Cuba will ultimately depend on how the regulations are written and interpreted in the Treasury and Commerce departments. Let's hope the regulators in those departments follow the spirit of the President's ...
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Crude calculus

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Falling global oil prices are wreaking havoc on Latin America far beyond the economic mess in Venezuela. True, the near-60-percent drop in the price of a barrel of oil since June 2014 has compounded Venezuela’s problems—hyperinflation and deteriorating finances—that resulted from decades of mismanagement. But other countries with more prudent economic policies, including Brazil and ...
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The media’s bipolar disorder with Latin America

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Too often, U.S. and international coverage of the region falls into manic poles when covering the political and economic fortunes of the region. In reality, the developments in Latin America—and U.S. responses to them—are both more granular and more nuanced than the way the region is portrayed, even in respectable ...
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