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Latin America: Seizing the opportunity for drug policy reform

Vanda Felbab-Brown & Harold Trinkunas | May 20, 2015

Latin America knows well the costs of failed drug policies, and it has an opportunity to show the way on improving global drug policy, even if UNGASS 2016 ...
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Determining and gaining U.S. influence in Latin America

Frank O. Mora | May 19, 2015

Rather than focusing old time notions of levels of economic and military aid or large inspiring policy declarations, analysts and policymakers should ...
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China’s investment in infrastructure, great. But at what cost?

Christopher Sabatini | May 14, 2015

Given Latin America's woefully inadequate infrastructure, China's plans to invest in roads and rails is a welcome opportunity. The question becomes, ...
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How to engineer a Latin American miracle

Juan Nagel | May 13, 2015

The story of dashed hopes and sudden halts is a painful yet familiar one for all of us. As we lick our wounds and take stock of yet another lost ...
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Who’s down with TPP? Everyone should be

Jerry Haar | May 11, 2015

The TransPacific Partnership that is currently being negotiated will be neither an apocalypse nor a panacea. But what it will do is provide critical ...
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Should the U.S. be worried about Chinese arms sales in the region?

Evan Ellis | May 11, 2015

China has increased the sale of sophisticated weapons systems to Latin America and the Caribbean, mostly--though not exclusively--to countries opposed to ...
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TPP, democracy and development

Christopher Sabatini | May 10, 2015

The negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership should force a serious discussion of the goals of U.S. bilateral development assistance in the region. ...
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Argentina and Nisman: Why we’re not surprised

Christopher Sabatini | May 4, 2015

When Alberto Nisman announced that he had evidence that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Alfredo Timmerman had conducted ...
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The media’s bipolar disorder with Latin America

Christopher Sabatini | April 26, 2015

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 ...
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