Fukuyama joins the podcast to talk about his recent article in The Atlantic on the effectiveness of governments in handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governments across Latin America have taken exceptional measures to stop the uncontrollable spread of COVID-19. Faced with this, there is a valid fear that these measures could exacerbate abuses of power or increase human rights violations.
The Trump administration recently announced forceful moves against the Nicolás Maduro government. Could Trump’s strategy in Venezuela be a ploy to garner domestic support in an election year?
China’s banks were treading more carefully in Latin America and the Caribbean even before COVID-19. The region should expect more of the same.
The COVID-19 pandemic hit Latin America at an extremely difficult time for its economies. Facing the virus will be an unprecedented economic and political challenge for the region.
With the coronavirus posing a tremendous risk to Latin America, here is what some governments are doing to stop the spread of the virus.
On Thursday, the U.S. stock market closed its worst single-day decline since the 1987 market crash.
