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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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October 13, 2021
Latin America
EU's Top Diplomat Ignores His Staff and Insists on Observing Venezuela's Elections
EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Borrell will send an election observer mission to Venezuela despite his own staff's scathing report on conditions there and advice not do observe the phony e…
November 6, 2020
Human Trafficking
Addressing Child Labor in a Pandemic: Notes from the Field
Last year, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 2021 the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. Despite such commitment, recent global estimates project child labour…
September 29, 2020
Venezuela
Synchronizing With Europe on the Venezuela Crisis
The United States and its partners in the Americas have made little progress on ending the dire political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Only with the cooperation of crucial partners in the Eu…
October 28, 2016
Venezuela
How Venezuela Got Into This Mess
[This post was co-authored with John Polga-Hecimovich*] By the end of 2017, the Venezuelan economy will likely be less than three-quarters of its 2013 size. Inflation is set to increase from 700 p…
August 31, 2016
Brazil
Political Fault Lines in Post-Rousseff Brazil
After nearly nine months, Brazil’s impeachment drama is over. The process ended on a curiously subdued note: the Senate’s questioning of Dilma Rousseff on Monday was a staid affair, and Tuesday’s spe…
