South America Politics

EU Inks Free Trade Deal with Mercosur

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Completed following decades of negotiation, the deal will create a market of over 770 million people. Was it worth the wait?

Honeymoon Over for Brazil’s Bolsonaro?

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With his legislative agenda thwarted by a hostile Congress, President Jair Bolsonaro is now calling his followers to action – and alienating former allies in the process.

Bolsonaro in Brazil: Good News for the US, Setback for China

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Trump has gained a kindred spirit in South America.

Welcome to the New Age of the Strongman

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Why are despots and dictators of every political persuasion enjoying a renaissance?

Backgrounder: Brazil Elections 2018

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With a divided presidential field, anything can happen in Brazil’s upcoming presidential elections – and that’s what has investors worried.

OPEC Stabilizes Oil Markets, for Now

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In Vienna, OPEC+ displayed its greatest strength… and its greatest weakness.

Will the IMF Rescue Macri’s ‘Gradual Austerity’ in Argentina?

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Argentinian President Mauricio Macri talked the talk of market liberalization, but his government has walked right into another IMF bailout.

Global Forecast (05-28-2018)

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Another attempt at Taliban talks in Afghanistan, Venezuela’s oil industry struggles to fulfil its contracts, and Turkey secures a YPG pullout from Manbij.

Bellicose Rhetoric & Brutal Sanctions Not the Way to Help Venezuela

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Did President Trump’s hard line against Venezuela inadvertently help re-elect Maduro?

Call Them by Their Name—Fleeing Venezuelans are Refugees, not Migrants

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It’s time to invoke the Cartagena Declaration and provide Venezuelans stranded abroad with the legal protections and funding they need.

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