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The long and winding road to Colombia’s presidency
| There are over sixty—that’s right, 60—candidates competing to become Colombia’s president for the period from 2022 to 2026. Clearly not all of them are ...
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The Chilean center-left in times of change
Robert Funk |
On August 21, Yasna Provoste won her country’s center-left primaries. But while Provoste has managed to dominate the Unidad Constituyente (UC) primaries, ...
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Patricio Navia: Las primarias de la derecha
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El inicio de la campaña para las primarias del 18 de julio ofrece una inmejorable oportunidad a los candidatos de derecha para presentar sus visiones de ...
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Duque is a lame duck
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A year of lockdowns, high unemployment, and rising poverty rates has provoked social discontent in Colombia. The current wave of protests—while originally ...
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Los expresidentes de América Latina tienen demasiado poder
Javier Corrales |
El domingo, los votantes eligieron a Guillermo Lasso como presidente de Ecuador por encima de Andrés Arauz, un populista de izquierda. Algunos analistas ...
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Latin America’s Former Presidents Have Way Too Much Power
Javier Corrales |
On Sunday, voters elected Guillermo Lasso, a former banker and a supporter of free-market policies, as president of Ecuador over Andrés Arauz, a left-wing ...
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Latin America’s Surprisingly Resilient Democracies
Richard E. Feinberg and Benjamin N. Gedan |
Pro-democracy activists once held up Latin America as a crowning achievement, a region notorious for 19th-century caudillos and Cold War military ...
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The economics of populism is failing in Latin America
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Illustration Credit: Arcabuz, El Comercio Elections held in two Andean nations this past weekend garnered surprising results for both sides of the ...
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The spectre of populism – both of the left and right variety – has hung over Latin American politics and economics since the 19th century but, for the ...
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Lasso triumphs in Ecuador; Peru prepares for a left-right showdown
Illustration Credit: Arcabuz, El Comercio Elections held in two Andean nations this past weekend garnered surprising results for both sides of the ...Read More