Brazil prepares to elect its next president on Oct 28 as part of the second round of elections in the country. The people of Brazil will have to choose between the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro and Lula-backed centrist Fernando Haddad. On the night of the elections, the Inter-American Dialogue’s President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Peter Hakim commented on the topic for CGTN America with John Terrett.
Chinese-built infrastructure can indeed be a boon for Latin America, but making this happen will require no shortage of strategic thinking on the part of policymakers.
Margaret Myers
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˙ Journal of Latin American Geography
In recent months, Beijing has launched an unprecedented charm offensive in Mexico, including a series of investments and renewed talk of a bilateral trade pact, among other forms of outreach.
Margaret Myers, Ricardo Barrios
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˙ The National Interest
By refusing to recognize electoral results in practice and by tacitly repealing the Constitution through judicial means, the Venezuelan government has become a dictatorship
In contrast to most of the world’s major emerging nations, Brazil lives in a very comfortable neighborhood. Unlike, for example, its BRICS partners—China, Russia, India, and South Africa—it has no serious conflicts, indeed only friendly relations, with the nine countries on its borders and all other Western Hemisphere nations. Not…