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Greg Weeks

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Dr. Greg Weeks is a professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 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).

Latin America will not unite

Greg Weeks | March 14, 2017

Pan-hemispheric solidarity and unity has long been a dream of independence fighters, politicians, academics and dreamers. Given the state of the Americas ...
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Pink tides, pendulums, and presidents: political and economic change in Latin America

Greg Weeks | January 19, 2017

Conventional wisdom is that the pendulum has swung away from the left and back to the right. Such a view, though, misses the complex positions ...
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The still-slumbering giant in a Southern swing state: Hispanic voters

Greg Weeks | November 2, 2016

Will this be the year that Hispanic voters mobilize and vote Democrat in the all-important swing state of North Carolina?
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Winning the paranoid way in Nicaragua

Greg Weeks | October 6, 2016

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has one of the highest approval rates in the region, but he is still going to great lengths to secure his re-election ...
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An Attitude of Platitudes: The Democratic Party’s Platform and Latin America

Greg Weeks | July 25, 2016

Beyond a few nice sounding phrases and curious omissions, the Democratic Party platform mentions Trump more than it mentions Latin America.
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Latin America in the Republican platform: Cold War ideology meets the art of the deal

Greg Weeks | July 20, 2016

The newly released Republican platform twists itself in pretzels attempting to accommodate Trump’s positions, its own historical positions and its need to ...
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The OAS and the Venezuelan crisis: even debate is welcome

Greg Weeks | May 31, 2016

Secretary General Luis Almagro has invoked the Democratic Charter of the OAS, calling for a meeting of the body’s Permanent Council to discuss the ...
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U.S. Leverage in Latin America

Greg Weeks | January 29, 2016

One of the legacies President Barack Obama will leave to his successor is increased foreign policy leverage in Latin America. Nowhere is this more evident ...
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What to Watch in the Venezuelan Elections

Greg Weeks | December 3, 2015

Chances are that the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) will win a majority of votes in Sunday's legislative elections in Venezuela. But, an ...
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Using and Losing Leverage in U.S.-Cuban Relations

Greg Weeks | October 6, 2015

For the first time since 1960s, the United States has leverage over Cuba. Now President Obama is cleverly playing off the Republic congressional critics ...
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