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Raúl Lotitto
Chávismo After Chávez
CARACAS – With the death of Hugo Chávez, Chávismo has lost its supremacy in Venezuela. It does not matter that so-called Chávistas still con…
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Dani Rodrik
What the World Needs from the BRICS
CAMBRIDGE – In 2001, Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill famously coined the term BRIC to characterize the world’s four largest developing economies …
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Rodrigo Pardo
Latin America Without Chávez
BOGOTÁ – Venezuela is poised to vote on a new president to replace the recently deceased Hugo Chávez. In the 14 years of his administration,…
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Robert J. Barro, Rachel M. McCleary
Popes, Saints, and Religious Competition
CAMBRIDGE – The election of the first non-European pope is long overdue. After all, Pope Francis’s native region, Latin America, is currentl…
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Shlomo Ben-Ami
Autumn of the Patriarchs
MADRID – “How difficult it is to die!” Francisco Franco is reputed to have exclaimed on his deathbed. Death, it seems, is always particularl…
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Robert Skidelsky
The Chávez Way
LONDON – I remember the exact date of my visit to Venezuela. I was sunbathing by the pool on the roof of the Caracas Hilton. A waiter came u…
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Jaswant Singh
Crumbling BRICS
NEW DELHI – In 2001, when Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym BRIC to refer to Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the world had h…
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Roberto Guareschi
Pope Francis the Politician
BUENOS AIRES – Jorge Mario Bergoglio – not an Italian, not a European, but a Latin American from Argentina – has now been chosen as the supr…
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Andres Velasco
A Tale of Two Countries
SANTIAGO – Barely two years ago, Brazil’s rapid economic growth and expanding middle class made it the darling of financial markets, whereas…
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Jorge G. Castañeda
The Inflation of Hugo Chávez
MEXICO CITY – Supporters of Hugo Chávez, the recently deceased Venezuelan president, and even many of his critics, have repeatedly emphasize…
