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The Weekly Mancha

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Samuel George

What We Are Reading 2/3/2013 – 2/10/2013

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Posted in Daily Mancha | Tagged Council of the Americas, El Pais, Eric Farnsworth, Inter American Dialogue, La Nacion, LA Times, LATAM, NYT, Washington Post | Leave a comment

The Ghost of Artemio Cruz

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Samuel George

The Mexico of Artemio Cruz was supposed to be dead. The Mexico of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI); of corrupt and cynical insiders such as Carlos Fuentes’ fictional character was supposed to have ended with either the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, or with the election of a non-PRI president in 2000.

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Posted in Mexico + Central America | Tagged Artemio Cruz, Mexico, PAN, Pena Nieto, PRI | 4 Comments

The Rumble in the Tropics: A Fractured Opposition Party in the Dominican Republic

Posted on February 5, 2013 by gapolin1

The chair has now replaced the torch of liberty and freedom.

Every country has at least a few politicians that occasionally demonstrate poor judgment, often resulting in not only embarrassment for those involved, but for the nation as well. In 2010, Ukranian members of parliament threw eggs and smoke bombs in order to dispute the extension of the Russian navy at a Ukranian port. Last year, the Thai speaker of the house had a book thrown at his head and was taunted with Nazi-style salutes when chaos erupted over the approval of a reconciliation bill.

The Dominican Republic is no exception.

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Posted in Caribbean, Uncategorized | Tagged Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Hipolito Mejia, Miguel Vargas, PLD, PRD | Leave a comment

As goes Eike Batista so goes Brazil?

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Cornelius Fleischhaker

Can the country of tomorrow make it through a dark night?

Two Brazilians had a particularly bad year 2012. One is Eike Batista, Brazil’s richest man and the World’s 7th according to Forbes, the other is Brazil’s Minister of Finance Guido Mantega.

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Posted in Brazil, Regions | Tagged Batista, Brazil, Economics, Mantega, Rousseff | 5 Comments

Still on the Brink: Seven Things We Know About Venezuela

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Samuel George

A Leader and a Country Stuck in Limbo (Photo By procsilas published on Flickr under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license)

What We Know. What We Don’t.

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Posted in Andean Region, Uncategorized | Tagged Cuba, Diosdado Cabello, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela | 1 Comment

The Weekly Mancha

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Samuel George

What We Are Reading

1/1/2013 – 1/7/2013

Breaking news and high quality LATAM journalism

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Song of the Week: Sergio Vega

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Samuel George

Time for the Sunday Song of the Week

RIP BIG FELLA

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The Weekly Mancha

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Samuel George

What we are reading : December 10 – December 16

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Posted in Daily Mancha | Tagged El Pais, La Nacion, Miami Herald, New York times, Washington Post | Leave a comment

Reform and Backlash: What Europe Can Learn from Latin America

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Samuel George

In November, the backlash to externally imposed austerity once again boiled over. Labor unions executed coordinated strikes. University students took to the streets. Daily life came to a halt as citizens protested grinding reforms. The harsh economic restructuring was demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and backed by the regional hegemon as conditional for assistance needed to survive a sovereign debt crisis. The protests soured leading to hundreds of arrests, a handful of deaths and sporadic rioting.

This story may sound familiar. But it does not refer to the November 14^th, 2012 austerity protests that shook Madrid, Rome and Lisbon. Rather, these November protests occurred in 1991. And they occurred on the other side of the world, in Venezuela.

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Posted in Andean Region, Southern Cone, Uncategorized | Tagged Debt Crisis, Europe, Greece, Latin America, Pink Tide, Venezuela | 1 Comment

Europe Cries for Argentina: A Judicial Ruling’s Global Reverberations

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Samuel George

By ruling that Buenos Aires must repay sovereign bond holdouts, Judge Thomas Griesa may have complicated similar programs in Europe while derailing any hope of Argentina’s reentry into the global financial system.