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for Latin America's Changemakers
Smart News & Research for Latin America's Changemakers
Greg Weeks

Gregory Weeks, PhD, is a professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science & Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is editor of the academic journal The Latin Americanist, and he is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Military and Politics in Postauthoritarian Chile (2003), Irresistible Forces: Latin American Migration to the United States and its Effects on the South (2010), The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile (2010), Understanding Latin American Politics (2014) and U.S. and Latin American Relations, 2nd Edition (2015). He blogs regularly on Latin American politics at Two Weeks Notice.

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Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations
Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations

AMLO’s cautious foreign policy

By  /  GregWeeksUNCC    /   

AMLO’s foreign policy is far from the populist, anti-American rhetoric of his campaign and much of his political life. Nevertheless, his make-no-waves position is fraught with contradictions.

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Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations
Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations

Latin America in the Republican platform: Cold War ideology meets the art of the deal

By  /  GregWeeksUNCC    /   

The newly released Republican platform twists itself in pretzels attempting to accommodate Trump’s positions, its own historical positions and its need to oppose the current administration’s position wherever possible.

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