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President NicolĂĄs Maduro inherited a dramatically changed countryâand economic situationâwhen he came to power following ChĂĄvezâ death from cancer in 2013. Within a year of Maduroâs election in March 2013, oil prices had started a steady decline. And as investment in the industry also dropped, production fell to 2.62 million barrels per day (bpd) from ... Read more The post Venezuelaâs Post-ChĂĄvez Foreign Policy...
Published on: February 03, 2015 | Source:In the coming months, the United States is going to face a tough choice: either alter its policy toward Cuba or face the virtual collapse of its diplomacy in Latin America. The upcoming Summit of the Americas, the seventh meeting of democratically elected heads of state throughout the Americas, due to convene in April 2015 ... Read more The post Cuba and the Summits of the Americas appeared first on Americas Quarterly....
Published on: November 05, 2014 | Source:After nearly 20 years, the dual currency system enacted by Cuba to help mitigate the economic shock from the collapse of the Soviet Union is set to be retired. As part of the governmentâs efforts to develop the countryâs socialist economy, the Cuban government recently announced that it would unify its complicated currency system. In ... Read more The post Double Trouble: Currency Unification in Cuba appeared first on...
Published on: November 05, 2014 | Source:Armed conflict and the presence of non-state armed actors harm both agricultural production and rural householdsâ well-being, for at least two broad reasons. First, conflict disrupts economic activities by hampering access to critical inputs and markets. As a result, producers may reduce or curtail planting or harvesting. Second, rural producers face an unpredictable environment for ... Read more The post Post-Conflict...
Published on: November 05, 2014 | Source:On July 20, 2010, President Juan Manuel Santos promised the 9 million voters who had just elected him to his first term that he would build on the foundation created âby a giant, our President Ălvaro Uribe.â1 He declared that Colombia could now look to the future with hope, thanks to the multiple successes that ... Read more The post A Skepticâs View on the âPeace Dividendâ appeared first on Americas Quarterly.
Published on: November 05, 2014 | Source:Millions of students have taken to the streets across Latin America in recent years in protests that reflect an unprecedentedly broad mobilization of popular opinion. Following massive demonstrations led by secondary school students in 2006 in Chile, university students launched a series of protests in May 2011. Powered by a coalition of public and private ... Read more The post Protest U. appeared first on Americas...
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