Michael Shifter fue entrevistado por Gerardo Torres de El Salvador sobre los temas más destacados en la agenda regional. Entre otros asuntos, Shifter habló sobre el futuro de la paz en Colombia, la crisis política y económica en Venezuela, y el impacto de las elecciones de Estados Unidos en la región.
Ecuadordan President Rafael Correa battles an increasingly dissatisfied citizenry as he implements fiscal reforms to counter dropping oil prices.
What are the most significant reforms that will come out of Correa’s new term? Will Correa respect the rights of the opposition?
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Although the ruling coalition retained control of the majority of Ecuador’s municipalities, it lost in the country’s major cities.
As global oil prices collapsed over the last two years, regional governments have started to lose their leverage in the energy industry. To attract international investors, they must offer increasingly favorable terms, which means ceding more of their own control.
4月16日厄瓜多尔发生7.8级地震。为筹集资金资助震后重建计划，总统拉斐尔·科雷亚（Rafael Correa）4月20日宣布提高税收，包括对百万富豪进行一次性征税。科雷亚的增税举措足以重建厄瓜多尔吗？政府还应做何措施来修复基础设施和帮助受灾群众？国际援助和多边组织在救灾和修复工作中会起到多大作用？
Ecuador has now confirmed that it cut off internet access at their London Embassy for Julian Assange, the leader of the group WikiLeaks, who has been staying at the embassy since 2012. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, about what Ecuador’s calculus might be.
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Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela all present unique challenges for US diplomatic outreach.
Ecuador’s government said Oct. 18 it had partly restricted Internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has lived in asylum in the Andean nation’s London embassy for more than four years. Why has Ecuador, whose leader, Rafael Correa, often locks ideological horns with the United States, taken steps to restrict Assange now?
Ecuador’s ruling party, the Alianza Pais, selected former Vice President Lenín Moreno as its candidate for the upcoming presidential election in February. Four months ahead of the election, how likely is it that voters will choose another Alianza Pais president, and who are the likeliest opposition figures to face him?
Last month, Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, removed the entire armed forces high command. The causes of the tension run deep.
In its fourth edition, the Remittances Scorecard ranks 30 companies working in 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries. It evaluates them across 12 indicators to assess their performance and competition in the money transfer industry.
It is estimated that it will cost Ecuador $3 billion to repair the damages to infrastructure caused by the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 16.
Michael Shifter es entrevistado por La Tercera sobre las elecciones en Ecuador: “Si Moreno no gana en primera vuelta, obviamente el correísmo habrá perdido fuerza. Lenín Moreno no es Correa”.
At the Inter-American Dialogue, José Miguel Insulza described the events of September 30, in which Ecuadoran police brought the country to a standstill after they rioted and trapped President Rafael Correa in a Quito hospital for several hours.
