Venezuela: struggle for power with a backdrop of economic disaster
Venezuela is moving into a period of transition, but the question is how, who with and whence. The answers are anybody’s guess.
Venezuela is moving into a period of transition, but the question is how, who with and whence. The answers are anybody’s guess.
The grand tragedy of the Kirchners' era of governance is the failure to have exploited the tail wind of the golden years of booming commodity exports. A fair part of what was then accrued was subsequently dissipated in populist policies that failed to allow an increase in national savings or the accumulation of greater social capital for investment in the future.
Rattled by political turmoil and in the midst of severe stagflation, Brazil is really ‘playing with fire’. Urgent measures are needed to reduce the fiscal deficit along with key structural reforms to reduce the size of the government.
The strengthening of ties between China and Latin America has a double-edged impact on Spanish interests.
The term Chinamerica began to be applied as the description of a new reality that had emerged over the previous decade, linking China and Latin America.
Latin America have taken advantage of the economic growth of recent years but this have not been exploited sufficiently to implement reforms and invest for the future.
Dilma Rousseff needs to win the battle against Custo Brasil.
A new paradigm of both perception and of growth in the relations between India and Latin America is emerging, should lead towards a longer-term partnership.
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