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Peru’s Youth is Fighting for their Future.

On November 9th, Peru’s political system imploded after Congress removed President Vizcarra from office on the dubious legal grounds of “moral incapacity”. This widely unpopular move and the rise of the Speaker of Congress, Manuel Merino, into the Presidency, took hundreds of thousands — mostly millennials and gen z —…

Peru

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Peru’s Youth is Fighting for their Future
Peru’s Youth is Fighting for their Future

Sep 7, 2020

The End of the “Peruvian Dream”

How the Pandemic is going to change Peru forever — Peru is a country of contrasts. While being one of the fastest-growing economies of Latin America in the last 20 years, reducing poverty by half in a decade and welcoming millions to a new middle class, most of this new economic engine of social mobility never quite made it…

Peru

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The end of the “Peruvian Dream”
The end of the “Peruvian Dream”

Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·May 11, 2020

Latin America’s Emerging Challenges in the Time of a Pandemic

From the favelas in Rio de Janeiro to the streets of Mexico City, COVID-19 is exposing the striking socio-economic landscape of a region characterized by inequality. …

International Relations

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Latin America’s Emerging Challenges in the Time of a Pandemic
Latin America’s Emerging Challenges in the Time of a Pandemic

Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Feb 20, 2020

Understanding the Aftershocks of the 2019 Protests in Latin America

Latin America continues to cope with the aftershocks of the most transcendental season of social demonstrations in the last 30 years. …

World

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Understanding the Aftershocks of the 2019 protests in Latin America
Understanding the Aftershocks of the 2019 protests in Latin America

Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Nov 23, 2019

The Roots of Latin America’s Crisis

Fragile Institutions have shaped a season of unrest — The nations of Latin America are experiencing one of their most dramatic crises in decades. Although diverse in nature and intensity, these national crises, developed under both left and right-wing regimes, are rooted in fragile institutions unable to deliver democratic demands. The countercurrents beneath the waves of the “pink tide” At the beginning of the century, with the…

Politics

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The Roots of Latin America’s Crisis
The Roots of Latin America’s Crisis

Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Oct 16, 2019

Guiding Peru’s Bicentennial Generation

Peru’s Constitutional crisis and the outcry for a new political class — A couple of weeks ago, thousands of mostly young adults, gathered in Lima, singing and celebrating the “constitutional dissolution” of congress. …

Foreign Policy

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Guiding  Peru’s Bicentennial Generation
Guiding  Peru’s Bicentennial Generation

Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Jul 31, 2019

Meeting the Challenges of Peru’s Democracy in a Troubling Crisis of Legitimation

Last Friday, the Panamerican Olympics Games, Lima 2019, started with a breathtaking inaugural ceremony that made justice for Peru’s multicultural diversity and millenary heritage. As the nations of the Americans measure forces in 39 sports, for Peru, another contest is being fought in the political arena. …

Politics

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Meeting the Challenges of Peru’s Democracy in a Troubling Crisis of Legitimation.
Meeting the Challenges of Peru’s Democracy in a Troubling Crisis of Legitimation.

Jun 12, 2019

The Battle to Preserve the Spirit of The D-Day Landings into the 21st Century

The world recently commemorated the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy. As Western leaders gathered to listen to the voices of freedom that liberated Europe and keep resonating in the beaches of France, the world is backsliding into a wave of nationalism and authoritarianism. Throughout the West…

Politics

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The Battle to Preserve The Spirit of the D-Day Landings into The 21st century
The Battle to Preserve The Spirit of the D-Day Landings into The 21st century

Apr 22, 2019

Addressing Migration and Building a Future for The Northern Triangle of Central America

Migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras at the US southern border are fleeing a region overwhelmed by the consequences of chronic un-development, drug trafficking, corruption, and violence. It is a complex crisis in the nations of the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA), propelled by both, domestic and external…

Immigration

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Addressing Migration and Building a Future for The Northern Triangle of Central America
Addressing Migration and Building a Future for The Northern Triangle of Central America

Feb 28, 2019

How is the United States Preparing to Compete with China Over Financing the Development of the World?

The United States is moving forward to challenge China’s grip in financing the development of infrastructure around the globe. While the American proposal arrives delayed to a world that is increasingly influenced by China its consequences will shape US-China relations and its engagement with the developing world. …

China

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How the United States is Preparing to Compete with China Over Financing the Development of the…
How the United States is Preparing to Compete with China Over Financing the Development of the…
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