Mexico’s AMLO: A New Chavez or Lula?
Investors are anxious about whether Mexico’s next president will be more like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez or Brazil’s Lula.
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July 26, 2018
Can India compete with China in Latin America? Not likely
While the nature of the trade relationship between Latin America and India is similar to the Sino-Latin America relationship in its reliance on raw materials, hype over India as a potential alternative to China for the region is largely unfounded.
William Naylor
July 19, 2018
Mexico: Dawn of a new era or a return to the past?
The real danger that has arisen from AMLO’s and MORENA’s landslide victories is not expropriation or authoritarianism, but disillusionment with unfulfilled promises and the persistence of corruption, poverty, and violence.
Marta Ochman
July 12, 2018
Angry Mexico
Instead of voting for a candidate with concrete policy proposals to improve a difficult situation, many Mexican voters seem to ready to say “screw the system—and everything else along with it.”
Juan Carlos Hidalgo and Ian Vásquez
June 21, 2018
2018 Inter-American Court of Human Rights Candidate Bios
The OAS has elected three new members to serve six-year terms on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
William Naylor
June 5, 2018
Dirty money: Illegal campaign finance and clientelism in Mexico
A new report reveals that, on average, illicit finance for a governor’s election is ten times higher than legal funding. Most of that money goes to buying votes and comes at a cost of political favoritism, sometimes to criminal groups.
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June 4, 2018
President Trump threatens to curtail development assistance from migrant-sending countries
Here are three reasons why President Trump’s stated plan to reduce development assistance to countries that fail to reduce illegal immigration is not only nonsensical, but also dangerous.
Christopher Sabatini
May 24, 2018
What can Latin America and the Caribbean gain from cluster formation and development?
With responsible policy management, Latin American governments can use industrial clusters to shift from over-reliance on commodity production to more value-added sectors.
Javier Gutiérrez
March 9, 2018
The evolution of security challenges in Mexico
Crime and violence have expanded in Mexico as the result of the fragmentation of criminal groups at the same time that it faces the prospect of electing a populist president.
Evan Ellis
March 2, 2018
The month of the Americas: What was all the attention about?
With three visits by high-ranking officials from the U.S. government, February was the busiest month for Latin America in the Trump administration.
Victoria Gaytan
March 2, 2018