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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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June 8, 2015
Mexico
Mexico’s Midterm Elections
Yesterday, Mexicans headed to the polls to vote for 500 federal deputies, 17 state legislatures, 9 governors, and more than 300 mayors. Corruption and security dominated many local discussions. And b…
November 20, 2015
Political Transitions
Guest Post: Obama, Don’t Cross the Rubicon in Syria
Bogdan Belei is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. On his way to Rome in 49 BCE, Julius Caesar paused before crossing the Rubicon. With only a single …
October 23, 2015
Brazil
Guest Post: The Petrobras Corruption Scandal and Brazil’s Ethanol Sector
This is a guest post by Luis Ferreira Alvarez, an analyst with Stratas Advisors’ Global Biofuels Assessment and Global Alternative Fuels divisions covering Latin America. As Brazil’s Petrobras corr…
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…
December 28, 2022
2022 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2022
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
