South America

Up Front

Chavismo is the worst of all sanctions: The evidence behind the humanitarian catastrophe in Venezuela

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

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Report

Impact of the 2017 sanctions on Venezuela: Revisiting the evidence

Dany Bahar, Sebastian Bustos, Jose R. Morales, and Miguel Ángel Santos

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

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Latin America & the Caribbean

Argentina, from bad to worse

Saturday, May 4, 2019

An update on Colombia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

Reports

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Report

Latin America Economic Perspectives – All Together Now: The Challenge of Regional Integration

Lucio Castro, Luciano Cohan, and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Report

Disaggregating Latin America: Diverse Trajectories, Emerging Clusters and their Implications

Abraham F. Lowenthal

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Report

Korea, Colombia, Panama: Pending Trade Accords Offer Economic and Strategic Gains for the United States

Mauricio Cárdenas and Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Report

An Arms Race in South America?

Kevin Casas-Zamora

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Report

Trip Report: Illicit Trade and Illegal Activity in Brazil

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Blog Posts

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Order from Chaos

Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a new era of politics in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Opposition supporters hold letters forming the slogan "Democracy now in peaceful protest", during a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas

Order from Chaos

Democracy in the new geopolitics

Torrey Taussig and Bruce Jones

Thursday, March 22, 2018

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Future Development

Argentina takes over the G-20 presidency

Homi Kharas and Sebastian Strauss

Friday, December 1, 2017

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Events

The Road to Hemispheric Cooperation: Beyond the Cartagena Summit of the Americas

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Education Reform Experiences on the Ground: Implementing a Learning Agenda

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

The Southern Tiger: Chile’s Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST

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Related Books

Brazil: Essays on History and Politics

By Leslie Bethell

2018

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Joaquim Nabuco, British Abolitionists and the End of Slavery in Brazil

Edited by Leslie Bethell and José Murilo de Carvalho

2009

The Obama Administration and the Americas

Edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal, Ted Piccone, and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead; Foreword by Strobe Talbott

2009

Multimedia

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Podcast Episode

Brazil on the global stage

Harold Trinkunas, David R. Mares, Fred Dews, and Bill Finan

Friday, August 5, 2016

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Podcast Episode

What You Should Know about the Rise of Brazil and the Rest of Latin America

Harold Trinkunas and Fred Dews

Friday, May 9, 2014

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