Doing Good and Doing Well: Why ESG Matters in Turbulent Times – Evidence from Brazil
Recent evidence from Brazil suggests that [environment, social, and governance] ESG practices may be crucial for publicly-traded companies—especially during extreme events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This may change the hearts and minds of ESG skeptics.
Brazil’s Looming Presidential Election
Considering the level of passion from Bolsonaro supporters and the large number of Brazilians who dislike the president, Brazil could remain a highly polarized country and runs the risk of slipping into a political landscape where groups from the left and right express themselves more forcibly through non-constitutional means.
WHO Approval for Cuba’s COVID-19 Vaccines Would Strengthen the Cuban Regime
In the short-to-medium term, vaccine sales would greatly strengthen the dictatorship, neutralize the consequences of its extensive human rights abuses, and postpone the ultimate reckoning of its failed system.
Food Labeling Laws: A Key Tool for Global Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the danger of non-communicable diseases. Argentina’s drug labeling law offers a tool to combat them.
Latin America and the Caribbean: Predictions for 2022
In 2022, the United States will find that after a few initial signs of hope, the hemisphere to which it is intimately bound by ties of geography, commerce, and family is more dangerous, less democratic, less stable, less willing to cooperate, and more engaged than ever with its extra-regional rivals.
Vaccination and Vaccine Diplomacy in the Caribbean
Few have specifically studied vaccination in the Caribbean. This study aims to help fill this gap, understanding vaccine diplomacy and great powers’ combination of humanitarian and geopolitical motives.
Measuring the impact of misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda in Latin America
How are misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda disseminated in Latin America by foreign state media sources and consumed by Latin American audiences, and what are the regional policy implications of such consumption?
Paraguay’s uneasy exterior
Often out of the spotlight of Latin America observers, Paraguay continues to make quiet but sustained economic progress. However, Paraguay’s path toward prosperity is increasingly complicated by external constraints on growth.
Guy Mentel: Disinformation and fake news reflect pre-existing social fault lines
Mentel specified that disinformation and fake news do not create dysfunction out of nothing. Instead, they magnify social fault lines.
Guy Mentel: Fake news can only be stopped by the cooperation of institutions, government, and society
In the face of widespread disinformation, Guy Mentel, the Executive Director of Global Americans, argues that institutions, governments, and society must put a stop to the pandemic of disinformation and fake news that currently permeates the world.