Why are opponents of Venezuelan and Cuban dictators willing to overlook the troubling traits of a U.S. president-elect they hope will advance their own narrow policy preferences?
Ford announced this week that it was pulling out of its commitment to build a new factory in San Luis Potosi, Mexico and, instead, would be adding 700 jobs to a factory in Michigan. Was the decision based on business or politics?
El período de transición entre gobiernos suele ser un momento fundacional en el cual los presidentes-electos dejan de lado la retórica de campaña para enviar un mensaje unificador. Pero Donald Trump, fiel a su estilo controversial, está manejando la transición como si aún estuviera en campaña.
Trump’s transition team and latest statements make it look like U.S.-Cuba policy is about to go backward. If so, it would only help the regime and hurt the Cuban people.
The US president-elect is setting an example — a bad one at that — for Latin America’s outspoken leaders.
With the incoming Trump administration, nothing will be “as expected.” Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be unpredictable. Let’s just hope that’s it.
President-elect Trump’s call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen may provide a model for what he could do for Venezuela. With all the democratic options closed in Venezuela until 2018, maybe it’s time Henry Ramos Allup picked up the phone.
The hallmark of today’s populism, as in the past, is the belief that powerful elites—big business, the media, Wall Street, Congress, Washington insiders and bureaucrats, and the rich—are exploiting and harming the common man through a rigged political and economic system.
When Donald Trump takes office in January, he will inherit a relationship with Latin America vastly different from the one Barack Obama faced when he entered the White House eight years ago.
