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Guns and gang violence raise concern across the Western Hemisphere

February 26, 2021

Amid a flurry of recent gang violence in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador, a recent New York Times article argued that the Biden administration has an ...
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Ecuador ante la reorganización de las cadenas de suministro globales

By Santiago J. Herdoiza / February 16, 2021

Los problemas estructurales en materia económica y política pronostican un futuro incierto para el Ecuador en la carrera por redibujar las cadenas de ...
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Hemisphere Weekly: Meet the three frontrunners in the Ecuadorean presidential election

February 5, 2021

Three candidates have emerged as the frontrunners in the presidential race: a young protégé of former President Rafael Correa, a pro-business social ...
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What Ecuador’s spat with Chinese fishermen can teach Latin America about responding to China

By Ethan Knecht / September 3, 2020

A Chinese fishing fleet off the coast of Ecuador caught headlines and the attention of Washington. The situation was swiftly resolved through Ecuador's ...
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Latin America, Europe and the U.S. must stick together in weathering the COVID-19 storm

By Evan Ellis / May 28, 2020

Increased dependence on China by both Latin America and the European Union not only generates vulnerabilities for both regions, but also creates strategic ...
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An interview with Douglas Farah, President of IBI Consultants

April 23, 2020

Farah joins the podcast to speak on his recently published report for the William Perry Center on how the Bolivarian Alliance, led by the Nicolás Maduro ...
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Turmoil in the Western Hemisphere

By Douglas Farah and Caitlyn Yates / April 15, 2020

Taking advantage of the demonstrations that flared across Latin America at the end of 2019, outside actors worked to push legitimate social protest to ...
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China’s financial calculus in Latin America: Before and after COVID-19

By Margaret Myers / April 2, 2020

China's banks were treading more carefully in Latin America and the Caribbean even before COVID-19. The region should expect more of the same.
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21st century authoritarianism: Russia and Venezuela’s control over information and civil society

By Iria Puyosa / April 23, 2019

Aspiring autocrats in Latin America and around the world are increasingly taking pages from the playbooks of the Chávez/Maduro regime in Venezuela and ...
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South America: 2030 Trends

December 14, 2018

The reports examine five specific areas—transnational security challenges, institutional capacity, economic growth, demographics, and technology—and how ...
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