Calling Trump’s bluff
Don’t be fooled — the US president-elect does not have a plan to make America great again.
Patricio Navia
January 26, 2017
Will the left in Ecuador buck the downward regional trend?
In recent elections across the world, incumbent candidates have faced an uphill battle. Ecuadoreans might buck the trend in the upcoming election of February 19. Yet, if there are lessons to be learned from recent upsets, the last weeks of a campaign is when surprises begin to pop up.
Patricio Navia
January 13, 2017
A Venezuelan Tragedy
As the year comes to an end, the demise of social order in Venezuela is the chronicle of a foretold death. Though 2016 began with high expectations of a peaceful change in government, neither the Maduro administration nor the opposition have shown the courage and leadership needed to find common ground and to pull the country out of the deep hole it finds itself in. Unfortunately for Venezuelans, who are deeply suffering from the economic, social and political chaos, they have little to look forward to in 2017.
Patricio Navia
January 5, 2017
Can Brazil be saved?
The historical problem Brazil has been unable to solve is the need to build an inclusive economic model that can help alleviate poverty and reduce inequality. That will require cutting subsidies and benefits to interest groups that have long benefitted from fiscal spending. As the year comes to an end, Brazilians will be happy to forget a bad year in terms of politics and the economy. Unfortunately for them, 2017 might not be much better.
Patricio Navia
January 5, 2017
Un poquito de populismo
La actitud de Lagos también es algo populista. Si bien critica el anuncio, no se atreve a hacer un llamado a los legisladores de su partido a actuar responsablemente y oponerse al feriado extra. Un líder responsable demostraría su compromiso con lo que dice pidiendo a los parlamentarios —al menos a los que lo apoyan— que rechacen el proyecto.
Patricio Navia
December 22, 2016
Trump redefines presidential — and his effect will be contagious
The US president-elect is setting an example — a bad one at that — for Latin America’s outspoken leaders.
Patricio Navia
December 15, 2016
Nada más populista que creer que pueden venir todos
El debate sobre la inmigración tiene dos extremos igualmente populistas. Mientras unos caen en caricaturizar a los inmigrantes como delincuentes en potencia, otros caen en la igualmente infundada y populista postura de creer que Chile puede recibir a todos aquellos que se quieran venir. Pero más temprano que tarde deberemos empezar a seleccionar quiénes pueden entrar y quiénes no.
Patricio Navia
December 9, 2016
El asilo contra la opresión
Los progresistas de Starbucks no entienden la complejidad que esconde el fenómeno de la inmigración y los efectos diferenciados que tiene la presencia de inmigrantes indocumentados —o con documentos conseguidos a través de contratos de trabajo truchos— en distintos niveles de la sociedad.
Patricio Navia
December 9, 2016
Fidel: a hero nobody in the region wants to imitate
The passing of the Cuban leader is a momentous political event, but when democracy swept Latin America, he was a problem for the new reality.
Patricio Navia
December 9, 2016
Latin America advocates for free trade in a protectionist world
Continent’s leaders now find themselves swimming against the times as newly elected leaders in major economies promise to erect barriers
Patricio Navia
December 2, 2016