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Lester Chavez

Lester Chavez lives and works in Managua, Nicaragua, where he conducts market research, trade promotion and counsels businesses on the economic climate of the country. He previously served as a Fellow at AMOS Health and Hope, a public health NGO also in Nicaragua. He has worked for various agencies at Fairfax County Government in Northern Virginia and has served as a Congressional Intern in the U.S. House of Representatives. He has conducted extensive ethnographic and community-based research in rural communities in Nicaragua. Lester holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the College of William and Mary.

A Breakdown in Bolivian Democracy: Coup or Caudillismo?

Evo Morales at a Press Conference. cc Flickr Ministerio de Cultura de la N, modified, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/, https://www.flickr.com/photos/culturaargentina/

As tempting as it might be to accept the claim that Luis Almagro and the OAS were responsible for a coup in Bolivia, to do so would undermine Morales’s role in the systematic erosion of democracy in the country.

Brazil’s Tale of Two Epidemics: Zika & COVID-19

cc Flickr Palácio do Planalto, modified, 20/03/2020 Coletiva de Imprensa do Presidente da República, Jai, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

One brought an exemplary response, the other an unmitigated disaster.

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