AMLO, Petro: War on Drugs?

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce After a reported “five-hour” conversation, the Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced an agreement to reconsider the strategy to fight drugs. They apparently decided that the fight against drugs, driven mainly by successive US governments, has …

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Mexico as a Declining Power

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Brazilian candidate to head the Inter-American Development Bank, Ilan Goldfajn, won the leadership in an election that pitted two Latin American giants, Mexico and Brazil, against each other. Goldfajn won the election with 80.08% of the votes cast. Argentina, which had …

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Luis Maizel’s Monthly Letter: All of Latin America is Now Left-Wing.

With Lula’s victory in Brazil, the entire subcontinent, from Argentina to Mexico, now has a left-wing populist government. The explanation for this phenomenon is quite simple. The difference in income distribution, where very few have a lot of money, and the majority live in poverty, …

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China Awakened.

Antonio Navalón Xi Jinping’s father was one of Mao Zedong’s many victims during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The current President of China grew up in a rural environment, a man who – like so many millions of his fellow citizens at the time – had …

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