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Given the huge demands on Washington – domestic and international – and today’s ravaged, fragmented, and leaderless region, this is probably not the right time for bold, ambitious initiatives. But the Biden administration should move quickly to renew partnerships with select countries, emphasizing recovery from Covid-19 and restoring economic and political stability.Read more +
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Given its commitment to reviving multilateralism and bringing together diverse stakeholders, the Biden administration is well-positioned to use these instruments to implement its more holistic regional agenda. After decades of privileging police and military assistance and waiting for government uptake of institutional strengthening efforts, it is time to look beyond Central American states and reinvest in civil society-based anti-corruption coalitions that can be the engines of political and economic change.Read more +
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Making climate change a central theme of a renewed US focus on the root causes of migration from the Northern Triangle presents an opportunity for the Biden administration to address its border dilemma while simultaneously advancing its climate-related foreign policy goals. Read more +
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The intersection of domestic violence and migration in the Northern Triangle necessitates the protection of survivors seeking asylum. Biden’s stated commitments to gender-based issues and promises made on immigration reform prior to the election call on the administration to immediately restore asylum protections for domestic violence survivors.Read more +
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Del 16 al 19 de abril próximos tendrá lugar el VIII Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC). El cónclave de los comunistas cubanos acontecerá en el contexto de un escenario interno y externo altamente complejo; quizás el más complejo desde los años del colapso soviético.Read more +
Lenier González spoke with Carlos Saladrigas, chairman of the Cuba Study Group and a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, regarding the proposals made to the Biden Administration and the prospects for rapprochement between Cuba and the United States.Read more +
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The Latin America Advisor interviewed Michael Reid, senior editor for Latin America and Spain at The Economist, about Latin America's social contract and the upcoming election supercycle.Read more +
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Although progress has been made in the fight to decriminalize abortion, limited access to the procedure remains a human rights issue, a public health crisis, and a problem for democracy.Read more +
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The Latin America Advisor interviewed Nathalie Cely, former Ecuadorean ambassador to the United States, on the country's 2021 presidential election. Read more +
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Trump nos ha recordado a todos que el gobierno cubano no ha dialogado, no dialoga, ni dialogará con una pistola en la cabeza. Esto, más que un enunciado rimbombante, es un dato histórico luego de 1959. En ese sentido, el camino trazado por Barack Obama con respecto a Cuba, por su clarividencia y capacidad estratégica, sigue siendo el que más convergencia guarda con los intereses de los pueblos cubano y norteamericano.Read more +
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The Latin America Advisor interviewed Jeff Zhao, partner at Diaz, Reus & Targ, LLP, on China's relations with and presence in Latin America and the Caribbean.Read more +
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The country is perhaps more profoundly and bitterly polarized than ever, with a high level of mutual distrust. Trumpism proved not to be a fleeting phenomenon, but a movement that is likely to persist and be part of the US political landscape for some time.Read more +
Photo: William Skewes-Cox / "Election night celebrations"
A popularly written constitution marks a new founding for Chilean democracy after the Pinochet dictatorship and the subsequent decades-long transition. But it will not assure the success of any one project in particular.Read more +
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The Latin America Advisor interviewed Jorge León, energy economist at BP, on the company's outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean.Read more +
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El Latin America Advisor conversó con el ex-Presidente Ricardo Lagos sobre lo que deberá abarcar una nueva constitución en Chile.Read more +
