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February 9, 2024

Colombia
Complications in Colombia’s AG Selection, Plus Milei’s Electoral Reform Failure and El Salvador’s Opposition Collapses

Colombia’s process to select a new attorney general is not going smoothly; electoral reform an early failure in omnibus fiasco; and the collapse of El Salvador’s opposition is bad news for Bukele

Photo of Petro supporters protesting outside of Colombia's supreme court

January 16, 2013

Economics
Kirchners’ New Economic Populism

Argentina is known for its populists leaders, as well as spectacular economic booms and busts. Yet looking at the economic data of the last fifty years, successive governments have, perhaps somewhat …

Kirchners’ New Economic Populism

October 16, 2023

Guatemala
Guatemala's Protests Go National, Plus Meddling Ex-Presidents and a Thaw in U.S.-Venezuela Relations

Guatemala’s protest movement goes national; Latin America’s meddlesome ex-presidents; U.S. border crisis and geopolitical turmoil are taking the pressure off Maduro.

Guatemalan demonstrators participate in anti-corruption protest

November 18, 2005

Monetary Policy
Stephen Kirchner needs to spend some time looking for petrodollars …

Stephen Kirchner (Institutional Economics) has taken particular glee in the recent TIC data, as recent inflows into the US has been large enough to finance even larger current account deficits than t…

December 12, 2022

2022 in Review
Five Elections to Watch in 2023

Numerous countries will hold elections in 2023. Here are five to watch. 

Woman voting in Pakistan

January 19, 2015

Iran
Argentina and Iran: The Strange Death of Alberto Nisman

Today in Buenos Aires, Alberto Nisman was found dead. Who was he and why does it matter? Nisman was the official charged with investigating the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos…