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Legal aspects of helping Suriname achieve better anti-corruption and governance

By Bruce Zagaris / September 2, 2020

Suriname faces challenges to improve its anti-corruption and anti-money laundering capabilities. However, a number of technical and financial sources stand ready to ...
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26 years after AMIA bombing, Argentines create digital commemorations amid pandemic

By Natasha Zaretsky / July 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a new opportunity to revitalize the meaning of the commemorations that have been important to justice and human rights movements in ...
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The Islamist threat in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do we really know?

By Christopher Sabatini / January 26, 2017

Some of the people slated to enter the administration have made a career peddling theories of Islamist threats in our hemisphere. There are genuine reasons for concern, but not for the disproven assertions many have been pitching for ...
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Collaboration and learning in Latin America’s fight against transnational organized crime and terrorism

By Evan Ellis / September 28, 2016

As I saw in four days at a region-wide discussion, Latin American militaries are already collaborating on the triple threats of narcotics trafficking, terrorism and organized crime. Here are nine areas for further ...
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US formally drops Cuba from terrorism ‘blacklist’

June 8, 2015

Taking Cuba off the list has two main consequences, diplomatic and economic, said Christopher Sabatini, a Columbia University professor who specializes in Cuba studies. “This is something that for a long time sort of stuck in the craw of the Cubans, who really resented being lumped together with countries like Iran and Syria,” he ...
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U.S. takes Cuba off list of state sponsors of terrorism

June 8, 2015

“The embargo has grown by accretion over the decades, one brick at a time,” said Christopher Sabatini, a scholar of U.S.-Cuba relations who teaches at Columbia University. “Dismantling it is going to happen ...
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