Cubans’ motorcycle diary woes
Unlike their Latin American counterparts, Cubans face unique challenges traveling and emigrating within Latin America. And that doesn’t include the trouble leaving the island.
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April 10, 2017
How can Latin America reduce its exposure to climate risk?
Climate change and efforts to address it threaten to reduce the value of important economic assets in the region. Can long-term planning help reduce risk to governments and investors?
Amal-Lee Amin
April 6, 2017
Latin America’s local lifeline in times of financial uncertainty
Latin American financial ministers and central bankers will have a lot at stake and a lot to worry about at the upcoming spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington.
Kevin Gallagher
April 6, 2017
In Chile, a weakened left faces a strengthened right
With primaries and general elections around the corner, the ruling center-left New Majority coalition has splintered and been dragged down by president Bachelet’s unpopularity.
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April 6, 2017
Sinking Venezuela
It’s unclear whether President Nicolas Maduro is bursting out of his shirt because of his robust diet—which he likes to brag about—or out of pride for defying the regional community this week.
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March 31, 2017
Can Latin America and the Caribbean reduce its exposure to climate risk?
Two years ago scientists stumbled upon hundreds of dead whales in a remote area of Patagonia in southern Chile in the biggest single whale stranding ever recorded.
Amal-Lee Amin
March 30, 2017
The art of letting go: A dispatch to Ecuador
Soon Rafael Correa will be an ex-president. Will he go calmly into presidential retirement or noisily wait in the wings for a future return?
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March 29, 2017
Ending the middle-income trap through policy design
If Central America wants to get out of the middle-income trap it would do well to follow Uruguay’s lead and develop a focused, comprehensive industrial policy that builds on the region’s trade advantages.
Javier Gutiérrez
March 29, 2017
Draconian police laws in India
India’s entry for the Oscars, Visaaranai, didn’t win. But it helped direct attention to a real and all-too-often overlooked problem: police abuse and impunity.
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March 29, 2017
OAS and Venezuela: Another contested vote but with recommendations
The March 28 OAS Permanent Council discussion on Venezuela was a not-so-subtle rebuke to the failed efforts at dialogue. Instead of acknowledging shifting international opinion, though, the next day Venezuela Supreme Court gave the OAS its sharpest example yet of an “interruption in the constitutional process.” Now what?
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March 29, 2017