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2025 Philadelphia Tango Festival
Wednesday April 30, 2025
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In Memory of His Holiness Pope Francis
Monday April 21, 2025
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Elections for President in Ecuador
Thursday February 13, 2025
Daniel Noboa, the 37 year old current president of Ecuador, failed to get a plurality of the votes i...
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China in Latin America
A report by the National Endowment for Democracy warns:
“Together with Beijing’s attempts to project an image of itself as an accommodating power that shares similar development and modernization goals with the developing world, this soft power approach has enabled China to earn the sympathies of political elites across Latin America. The perception among these enthusiastic political elites that China would make an attractive partner rests primarily on its economic development over the past four decades, its ability to weather the global financial crisis virtually untouched, and its ever-growing influence in the international arena. The prospect that China can provide economic opportunities that other international partners cannot offer, along with the United States’ diminishing presence in the region, is also a decisive factor behind Beijing’s new, fresh, and friendly image in Latin America.”
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Alternative to NAFTA?
Mexico and Canada now have an alternative to trade with the United States, giving them more leverage in contentious NAFTA talks.
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Brazil's National Insecurity Emergency
Brazil's president has described a deepening, nationwide crisis of insecurity as a "national emergency” that must be addressed.
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Upcoming Elections in Brazil and Mexico
Upcoming presidential elections in Brazil and Mexico could reshape politics in Latin America and deeply affect relations with the United States.
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Impact of Hispanics in the United States
The immense impact of Hispanics in the United States, the 5 sectors in which they are prominent: business, food, music, education, politics.
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Wisdom about NAFTA
Cities and metro areas in the United States and Mexico are crafting their own metro-to-metro trade arrangements. May of these dwarf in scale and impact the policy decisions made at the national level.
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Military Options in Venezuela
Frank Mora, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Latin America and speaker at the Pan American Association, discusses why Trump’s suggestion of US military intervention in Venezuela is a bad idea.
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Real Cost of Border Wall
A detailed analysis of the economic and environmental costs of a border wall. The author, Vanda Felbab-Brown, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She conducted field research at the border.
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Chile Giant in Renewable Energy
Chile is rapidly expanding its clean energy grid, which includes vast solar fields, wind farms, and thermal. Its energy transformation is one of the most ambitious in Latin America, a region that is decisively moving beyond fossil fuels.
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Policy Attention
Chris Sabatini comments on the absence of policy for Latin America:
“But what we see now under the administration of President Donald J. Trump is something completely different: not the lack of attention of previous administrations, but a complete and utter vacuum of comprehensive diplomatic policy, not just toward the region as a whole (for the reason mentioned above) but within the region.”
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