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Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…

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Raúl Lotitto May 6, 2013

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…
Rodrigo Pardo Apr. 5, 2013

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,…
Robert J. Barro, Rachel M. McCleary Apr. 5, 2013

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…
Shlomo Ben-Ami Mar. 25, 2013

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…
Robert Skidelsky Mar. 20, 2013

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…
Roberto Guareschi Mar. 16, 2013

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…
Jorge G. Castañeda Mar. 14, 2013

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…
Roberto Laserna Mar. 12, 2013

Earth to Evo Morales

LA PAZ – “Mother Earth is not for sale,” the Bolivian representative told last year’s United Nations climate-change conference in Doha. But …
Dante Caputo Feb. 12, 2013

Argentina’s Iranian Tango

BUENOS AIRES – A controversial agreement between Iran and Argentina to investigate jointly a terrorist attack against a Jewish organization …
Andres Velasco Feb. 6, 2013

Latin America’s Unfinished Quest

SANTIAGO – The participants came, European guests were greeted, speeches were delivered, toasts made, and, in the end, the annual meeting of…

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