This election has become the season of beating up on free trade. While the insecurity and anger that the argument has tapped into is real, reversing free ...
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A populist argument for free trade: from Latin America
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How bad would Trump be for Latin America?
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Although it is reasonable to believe that a Donald Trump presidency in the United States would adversely affect White House policies toward Latin America, ...
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An Attitude of Platitudes: The Democratic Party’s Platform and Latin America
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Beyond a few nice sounding phrases and curious omissions, the Democratic Party platform mentions Trump more than it mentions Latin America.
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The next UN Secretary General
On Thursday, July 21st, the Security Council of the United Nations had its first vote to narrow down the list of candidates for the next Secretary ...
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Chile is no longer LatAm’s brightest star
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After being celebrated as the most successful case of democratic consolidation and economic development in Latin America since 1990, Chile has now lost ...
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Will Zika change the region’s attitudes toward abortion?
The Zika virus has raised the issue of abortion in Latin America, where a number of countries such as El Salvador, Nicaragua and Chile restrict the right ...
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The impossibility of a ‘LatAmExit’
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The only thing worse than risking the possibility that a member chooses to leave a regional integration initiative with more successes than failures is ...
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Latin America and the Caribbean in the global context: why care?
Betty Horwitz and Bruce M. Bagley | 
In the past decade, Latin America and the Caribbean’s importance in the international system has changed dramatically. A new book examines the constraints ...
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