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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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November 20, 2023
Colombia
Petro's Total Peace Strategy Faces Challenges, Plus USMCA Brings Judgments But Not Punishments
Petro’s Total Peace strategy faces its greatest obstacle yet; USMCA brings judgments, even as countries delay enforcement
January 22, 2016
Americas
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Corruption in Iran, Africa, and Mexico
Iran’s Sanction Are Gone, but Not Its Corruption Corruption presents a huge hurdle for Iran. It ranks 136 out of 175 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, and 118 …
December 15, 2016
Americas
Latin America’s Wide-Open Electoral Season
Half of the eighteen nations of Central and South America will hold presidential elections over the next two years.[1] The number of elections is not unprecedented, but the degree of uncertainty is, …
February 9, 2010
Peru
Peru’s Mineral Wealth and Woes
Peru has avoided the development problems seen in other extraction-dependent economies, but experts say the country faces governance hurdles, especially on the environment.
March 9, 2009
Cuba
Wariness in Cuba toward the Obama Administration
Julia E. Sweig, CFR’s director of Latin American studies, says ties between Washington and Havana may change, but the United States has been downplaying expectations of a breakthrough.