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Nov 17, 2015

Atlantic Council Poll Finds Bipartisan Support for Wider Cuba Opening

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

With presidential races heating up in key primary states, the Atlantic Council’s new US-Cuba poll of voters in America’s heartland finds majority support in both parties for further opening trade, travel, and investment with Cuba. Voters in Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa—though they largely consider the United States on the ‘wrong track’—strongly favor lifting trade […]

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Oct 20, 2015

Spotlight: Argentina

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Read the Spotlight OnlineArgentines go to the polls on October 25 for what is shaping up to be one of the most important elections in years. Whoever wins — either this Sunday or in a likely November 22 runoff — will end the twelve-year Kirchner era. Who will tango their way into the Casa Rosada? […]

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Aug 10, 2015

Social Entrepreneurship in the Americas

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, Ashoka, and The Skoll Foundation

Read the Spotlight Online (PDF) Can Latin America maintain the momentum of the past decade’s social transformations? The answer will depend on its ability to adopt innovative solutions to advance social progress. Considered the third arm of development by the World Bank, social entrepreneurship in Latin America has expanded dramatically in the past two decades […]

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Jul 10, 2015

Syria’s worsening refugee crisis demands action from the West

By Nicholas Burns and David Miliband

The Obama administration and its European allies are confronted by multiple crises in an increasingly turbulent and violent Middle East — the Iran nuclear threat, a strengthening Islamic State and the disintegration of Iraq, Yemen and Libya as functioning nation-states. But no problem is as difficult, grave or pivotal as the brutal, bloody and worsening […]

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Jun 29, 2015

End Game for Iran Nuclear Negotiations

By Barbara Slavin

With the arrival of Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, in Vienna Friday, the climax to nearly two years of intensive negotiations is at hand.

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Jun 26, 2015

Greece: Deal or No Deal? Looking at Both Sides of the Greece-Euro Coin

By Andrea Montanino and Demetrios Papageorgiou

Faced with a $1.8 billion debt payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday, Greece was unable to reach an agreement with its Eurozone partners and the IMF yesterday in the latest round of talks in Brussels as both sides failed to make progress on key issues such as pension reform and taxation. A […]

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Jun 24, 2015

Portals Opens New Channel Between United States and Iran

By Barbara Slavin

I “visited” Iran the other day, but didn’t need a visa or a plane ticket. Through the magic of the Internet and sophisticated audiovisual technology, I chatted for 20 minutes with a young man in Tehran about the mood in society in anticipation of a historic nuclear agreement with the U.S. and five other nations.

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Jun 22, 2015

Boko Haram and Escalating Regional Terror

By Dafe Oputu and Kelsey Lilley

Bottom Line Up Front: • A multinational joint task force consisting of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger has driven Boko Haram from key territorial strongholds in northeastern Nigeria; on June 18, the Chadian military conducted airstrikes against six Boko Haram bases in Nigeria • But the terror group continues to launch deadly, near-daily attacks throughout […]

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Jun 15, 2015

Spotlight: President Rousseff’s US Visit

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

After a period of Brazil’s necessary distancing from the United States in the wake of the National Security Agency spying scandal in 2013, both countries are ready to reengage. The June 30 meeting between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and US President Barack Obama comes amid much change—both in Brazil itself and in the United States’ […]

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Jun 5, 2015

Glimmer of Hope for Yemen, Gloom Elsewhere in the Middle East

By Barbara Slavin

This week, there were a plethora of events in Washington devoted to deepening understanding of the factors tearing apart Syria, Libya, Iraq and Yemen and threatening the stability of many other countries in the region.

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