A brilliant and funny take on the incident in which a woman threw a mango at President Nicolas Maduro’s head to demand a house…and got what she wanted. As John Oliver says, this seems like a “dangerous precedent for the President to set, because now everyone knows that if you want something, write it down on a mango and throw it at his f***ing head!”
With right-left polarization amongst the region’s politicians, and growing U.S.-China competition among its economies, Latin America’s most likely response to any U.S. trade actions will be further intra-regional conflict and division.
Whoever ends up helping Cuba rebuild its power grid will hold one of the keys to unlocking economic recovery on the island and influence in the Caribbean.
In both Guyana and Suriname, there remains considerable work to be done to spread each nation’s wealth.
