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Russia in Latin America: repercussions for Spain
Mira Milosevich-Juaristi. WP 13/2020 (English version) - 10/7/2020.
Russia’s future role in Latin America and how its actions will benefit or harm Spain remain unclear.
The coronavirus crisis in Latin America: increased presidential power without solid foundations
Carlos Malamud & Rogelio Núñez. ARI 45/2020 (English version) - 14/4/2020.
The coronavirus crisis in Latin America has resulted in increased presidential power in countries without the institutional strength to support their leaders and hold them to account.
COVID-19 in Latin America: political challenges, trials for health systems and economic uncertainty
Carlos Malamud & Rogelio Núñez. ARI 36/2020 (English version) - 6/4/2020.
What will be the impact COVID-19, or coronavirus, on Latin America, its societies, its governments and its economies?
Blackouts in Venezuela: why the power system failed and how to fix it
Lisa Viscidi & Nate Graham. Expert Comment 10/2019 - 22/4/2019.
When the lights went out on 7 March many Venezuelans would hardly have been surprised. Electricity rationing has become routine over the past decade. However, this blackout quickly proved to be different to most.
The political expansion of evangelical churches in Latin America
Carlos Malamud. ARI 131/2018 (English version) - 12/12/2018.
The presence of evangelical churches in the political life of various Latin American countries has increased significantly in recent years.
What foreign policy now for Brazil?
Carlos Malamud. ARI 120/2018 - 12/11/2018.
On 1 January 2019 Jair Bolsonaro will become the next President of Brazil. What could be the key elements of the new Administration’s foreign policy?
The Brazilian elections
Esther Solano Gallego. ARI 111/2018 - 4/10/2018.
The upcoming Brazilian elections are unfolding in an atmosphere of intense political and economic crisis, and it is not yet clear whether the second round will once again shape up as the classic confrontation between the Workers’ Party (PT) and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).
The anger vote: the new (or not so new) Latin American electoral phenomenon
Carlos Malamud and Rogelio Núñez. ARI 107/2018 (English version) - 20/9/2018.
Latin America’s intense electoral season has reflected its broad heterogeneity; nevertheless, the recent elections have also revealed the emergence of a cross-cutting phenomenon –the ‘anger vote’– common to the entire region.
A Brazilian perspective on the challenges facing the EU and Latin American cooperation agenda
Carlos R. S. Milani. ARI 72/2018 - 11/6/2018.
The construction of a cooperation agenda between the EU and South America must take into account the challenges Latin American countries need to overcome to correct their democratic deficits and the negative social and political effects of their economic development models.
Costa Rica: big election surprises, increased polarisation and eroding governability?
Saúl Weisleder. ARI 57/2018 (English version) - 23/4/2018.
The parliamentary elections in Costa Rica, together with the first round of the presidential elections, have opened up a new scenario with some political novelties.