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Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian is Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Di Tella, Argentina.
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Post-Uribe Colombia
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian Series: Latin America 2010-05-19Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, whose plans for a third term were dashed in March by the Constitutional Court, retains considerable influence. But, while Uribe is counting on his dauphin, former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, to unite right-wing forces ahead of May's election, thereby ensuring continuity with his policies, most Colombians want change.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 10311
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Latin America’s Military Factor
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian Series: Latin America 
2010-01-12
Although the global economic crisis did not affect Latin America as dramatically as it did other regions, the continent's political and institutional weaknesses and perils worsened. The greatest cause of concern is that the military question – supposedly resolved after the transition to democracy, the end of the Cold War, and efforts to achieve regional integration – has reappeared. ... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 12457
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The Caesar Temptation
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian Series: Latin America 2009-07-01For most of the nineteenth century and well into the Cold War era, re-election of a sitting president was generally prohibited in most Latin American countries. Nowadays, however, the victory of presidential incumbents across Latin America has become the predominant trend in the region’s elections. ... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 11682
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The End of the Monroe Doctrine
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian Series: Latin America 2009-01-08The Monroe Doctrine – which in 1823 proclaimed all of Latin America to be a zone of exclusive US interest – is withering away. With hostility to US leadership and interests rife in the region, the best thing Barack Obama's incoming administration can do to improve relations is to declare the doctrine dead once and for all.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 13458
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Healing Bolivia
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian Series: Latin America 2008-06-09Latin America has suffered fewer inter-state wars and undergone less state creation since the mid-19th century than any other region of the world. But Bolivia, where a provincial referendum in May gave overwhelming approval to an autonomy plan that has boosted secessionist political forces, may be poised to buck the latter trend.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11677
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Militarizing the Andes
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian Series: Latin America 2006-05-04While the world’s attention is riveted on Iraq, the Colombia Plan, developed by the United States to fight drugs and left-wing guerrillas in Colombia, may soon be applied as a general strategy across the nations of the Andes, if not all of Latin America. Colombia, it seems, is only mentioned nowadays in connection with President Alvaro Uribe’s re-election bid later this month. As a result, the spread of the Colombia Plan, despite its meager and ambivalent results, has remained obscured.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 16703
