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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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July 1, 2015
Ignoring Human Rights in Cuba
President Obama proudly announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba today--after a week of additional arrests on that island. Here’s the most recent story: "Police arrested Emilio Ga…
February 5, 2013
Economics
Mexico’s Congressional Agenda for 2013
With Enrique Peña Nieto’s first congressional session just starting, expectations are high. Between now and April 30th, when the sixty-second Congress will adjourn, many hope the administration will …
June 7, 2012
Economics
How a Stronger Democracy Will Check the PRI
Here is a piece that I wrote for ForeignAffairs.com on the upcoming Mexican elections and the prospects for the PRI. After voting the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) out of Los Pinos, Mexico…
February 23, 2012
Politics and Government
Press Freedom and Democracy in Latin America
Last Wednesday, Ecuador’s Supreme Court upheld sentences handed down in July 2011 for four members of the El Universo newspaper’s staff in the latest chapter of a lengthy and controversial trial. Thr…
November 28, 2007
Financial Markets
What should replace the Gulf’s peg to the dollar? More on my Peterson institute policy brief
Oil and the dollar have not consistently moved in the same direction over the past ten years. In 1997/1998, oil tanked and the dollar soared.In 2000, oil and the dollar both rose – in large par…