EXPERT INTERVIEWS – As the U.S. retreats on several global fronts -- foreign aid, global health, global alliances and others -- is China taking [...]
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MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT — Since Donald Trump's victory in the November 5 election, The Cipher Brief has covered the potential implications a second [...]
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Patrick Duddy served as the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela from 2007 to 2010. He is now teaches at Duke University where he is also the director of [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontThe protests in Colombia are driven by myriad issues—corruption, stagnant wages, grievances related to human rights, and a [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontIn Chile, one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations, anger and resentment over corruption and economic inequality reached a [...]
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Central America, particularly the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, is notorious for violence and drugs. The [...]
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As the Trump Administration proposes cutting aid to Central America – and as American, Central American, and Mexican leaders met in Miami last week [...]
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Heads of government from Central America, Mexico, and the United States convened in Miami on June 15 and 16 to discuss security in the Americas, [...]
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The Obama administration has been criticized for a policy of undue passiveness around the world, including in Latin America. It may be a stretch to [...]
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Since the turn of the century, perhaps earlier, there has been a consistent distancing between the U.S. and Latin America. Today it is difficult, [...]
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Aside from a “big, beautiful wall” and so-called “bad hombres,” references to the southern border and illegal immigration, the U.S. campaign season [...]
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Across Venezuela, opposition supporters protested Wednesday in reaction to President Nicolas Maduro shutting down the option of a recall referendum [...]
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Latin America is challenging the status quo. Rather than be seen as one more area for competition between the United States and China – two of its [...]
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