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Will Rafael Correa Inherit the Leadership of Latin American Socialism?
With Hugo Chavez apparently near death, the question of who will inherit his legacy as the vanguard of 21st century socialism in Latin America is foremost in the minds of many. With Chavez soon out of...
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Venezuela’s More Moderate Future after Hugo Chávez
“That’s what Chávez means to us and to our history; our Chávez is the 21st Century liberator.” – Vice President Nicolás Maduro Much will be written and said in the coming days and weeks about what the...
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Edward Snowden and the Search for Asylum
By Emily Crawford for The Conversation Throughout the morning of July 3, international news media were reporting that the aircraft carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales had been forced to make an...
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Is the EU Helping Fund U.S. Policy in Latin America?
First the news that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on world leaders now it is revealed that the NSA has broadened its reach. The most recent revelations by Edward Snowden of extensive US...
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Bolivia’s Transformation: The Victory of Evo Morales
It is a sometimes overly rich recipe, starched with violence and populism, but Latin American politics is something to behold. In the Americas, experiments have been run and tried with brutal...
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Venezuela: Time to Prevent Another Syria
The harsh reality is that peacekeeping and peacebuilding in Syria needed to start before conflict escalated into a civil war. The Syrian War was brought about following the Arab Spring; a series of...
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Is America Really Ready to End its Drug War?
In recent years an international movement to reform global narcotics policies has been growing, with activists and presidents alike declaring that the United States’ “war on drugs” has failed. Now it...
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The Death of American Integration?
On April 28 Venezuela expressed its willingness to leave the Organization of American States (OAS), the world’s oldest regional organization. This leads us to ask ourselves what exactly does Vexit...
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Assessing U.S. Military Assistance Towards Latin America
There is an ongoing debate in Washington about the U.S. defense budget and the future of U.S. military operations around the world, whether it is President Donald Trump questioning NATO or operations...
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