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Brazil and the Southern Cone

Tensiones entre el gobierno argentino y la justicia

Alvaro Herrero | July 2, 2015

El malestar del gobierno argentino con el poder judicial no es novedad. Desde 2013, cuando impulsó un paquete de leyes con el supuesto objetivo de ...
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Should I stay or should I go? Latin America’s familiar story

Pedro Hércules Fonseca do Rosário | July 1, 2015

Beyond the economics of the 30 million Latin Americans living abroad, out-migraton from the region has also created a looming a political problem. ...
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Experimenting with marijuana policy in Uruguay

Frank Mora and Jose Miguel Cruz | June 25, 2015

In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the possession, cultivation and distribution of marijuana. The bold move unlocked the ...
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Violence, self censorship and culture

Rick Rockwell | June 25, 2015

This past May, El Salvador suffered its highest murder rate since the end of the country’s civil war 23 years ago. But this grisly flash of news—what ...
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South American exports to China

June 24, 2015

Using ECLAC data, we constructed a graph tracing the past 20 years of exports from South America to China as a percentage of their total exports. In this ...
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Latin America’s voting record in the UN Human Rights Council

June 18, 2015

Using the data provided by the Human Rights Watch Votes Count website, we took a look at how Latin American and a few other countries on the United ...
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Everybody loves infrastructure

Juan Nagel | June 15, 2015

Latin America invests about 2% of GDP on infrastructure. Between 1992 and 2011 China invested an average of 8.5% of GDP in infrastructure per year. Given ...
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