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Venezuelan immigrants are ostracized in Colombia amid xenophobia and shifting politicsKerwin García never planned to flee his native Venezuela. Nowadays he sometimes wonders if he'll ever fit into his adopted country, Colombia.
After growing up in the coastal state of Falcón, García left high school and joined the army, then briefly worked as a governmen...
To foster a free election in Venezuela, the U.S. is offering the Maduro regime a dealIn Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado easily won the opposition's presidential primary on Sunday. That should set her off for a face-off against Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's autocratic leader, in next year's presidential election. However, the Maduro regime has disqualified Machado from running. No...
Will Brazil rescue the Cuban economy?MOST people don’t realize that Cuba oftentimes punches well above its weight in the international arena. Take its hosting of the mid-September Group of 77 (plus China) meetings of developing countries, which represent roughly 80 per cent of the world’s population, in Havana. Besides th...
America used to have 2 religions: God and money. Only one of them is recruiting followers, and it’s not JesusBelieve it or not, the 2000s happened more than 20 years ago. Paris Hilton is now not just the singer of Stars are Blind, she’s grown up to be a mom andNFT peddlertoo. And the Olsen twins are older than Bob Saget when he played their dad during the premiere ofFull House. As tim...
EU economy loses momentum amid Ukraine war, inflation, natural disasters and higher interest ratesThe European Commission has revised down its economic forecast, warning that stubbornly high prices for goods and services are "taking a heavier toll than expected."
The bloc's economy "continues to grow, albeit with reduced momentum," the European Commission said in an interim ...
EU launches Digital Economy Package for Kenya to boost connectivity, skills and inclusive governanceAs part of her official visit to Kenya, European Union Commissioner for International Partnerships, JuttaUrpilainenlaunched the EU’s Digital Economy Package for Kenya. As part of theGlobal Gatewayinvestment strategy – the EU’s ...
The Four ‘Syndromes’ Behind Latin America’s Economic StagnationLast week I interviewed three prominent Latin American economists, two of them former chiefs of the central banks of Brazil and Mexico and one a former finance minister of Chile. The topic: Latin America’s frustratingly slow economic growth. I sensed their pain over the lack of progress in th...
In Latin America, Economic Equality Is a Precondition for DemocracyAcross Latin America at the turn of the twenty-first century, mass protests and popular discontent with the failures of neoliberalism upended decades of elite rule. Progressive governments were elected across the hemisphere, spanning the spectrum from modest reformers to incendiary ra...
Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive?China’s economic activities in Latin America are changing. Its focus on gaining access to the hemisphere’snatural resources, which drove its investments during the first decade and a half of the century, has expanded to a portfolio that includes renewable energy generation, telecomm...
Brazil leads Latin America in the 2023 Global Innovation IndexInnovation is a key driver for economic development, and Latin American nations are starting to take consistent steps in that direction.
In the 2023 Global Innovation Index,Brazil has established itself as a Latin America country with the most innovations, followed by Chile and Mexico.Despite t...
