Author Archives: Samuel George

The Dominican Baseball Machine

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The Pumas of the Pacific Alliance

This post contains excerpts of a longer piece by the author published in the Financial Times

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Bolivia & Chile: Less Hot Air, More Gas

You can’t win at the negotiation table what you lost on the battlefield. But you can sell gas to the people who beat you.

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Play Ball! Why Capriles Contests an Election He Will Lose

The Venezuelan opposition has won the public perception battle abroad but they have lost it at home. Win or Lose, Henrique Capriles has challenged this narrative

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BRIC by BRIC: Building an Alternative to the Washington Grid

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Message In a Bottle

 Lessons for Europe from Latin America – The Cliff Notes

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Surviving a Debt Crisis: Five Lessons for Europe from Latin America

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What Greece Can Learn from Argentina

Excerpt based on a new Bertelsmann Foundation Paper “Surviving a Debt Crisis: Five Lessons for Europe from Latin America” Release Date 3.21.1013

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Event: Surviving A Debt Crisis

Join us next Thursday, March 21st as the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Council of the Americas roll out our new study “Surviving a Debt Crisis: Five Lessons for Europe from Latin America.” 

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Three Kings

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