Who to pick? The country led by the guy who regularly refers to citizens south of the border as criminals or “bad hombres”? Or the new seemingly dynamic global economy that has pledged to increase trade to Latin America by $500 billion?
Below is the Senate’s roll call vote that overturned the Cardin-Lugar Provision and gave U.S. oil, gas and mining companies a “ticket to bribe” foreign governments. Check to see how your senator voted.
In an ongoing series examining the consequences of President Trump’s policies on the region, Kevin Gallagher looks at what this administration’s trade policies will mean for China’s influence in Latin America.
In a little noticed vote tied to the plans to overturn the Dodd-Frank Act, the U.S. Senate voted to overturn restrictions on bribes that U.S. resource extraction companies can pay to foreign governments.
Here’s how much it would cost the U.S. government and taxpayers to deport the 11.3 million undocumented immigrants that President Trump has targeted.
While they are not officially banned from working, customs and laws that prevent women from driving are keeping a majority of Saudi Arabia’s citizens out of the workforce, at great risk to the future of its economy.
Mexico sends its least-prepared instructors to the country’s rural indigenous communities, condemning their children to poor education and poverty.
Oh, the notorious wall. Who will pay for it? The U.S.? Mexico? U.S. consumers? Immigrants sending remittances?
While global trade in services is booming, most Latin American countries continue to export basic goods. Here’s what Panama and Costa Rica did to catch up. Other countries should follow.
A study that originally poked holes in the “alternative facts” of the left now shows the folly and danger of the Trump administration’s immigration and trade policies.
