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Jun 20, 2019

Russian influence in Venezuela: What should the United States do?

By Domingo Sadurni

On June 20, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and its Eurasia Center co-hosted a public event to discuss the extent of Russian involvement in Venezuela, Moscow’s motivations and possible next moves, and how the United States should react. As a wave of international and domestic support for a democratic transition is sweeping […]

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Sep 22, 2014

Mexican President Peña Nieto Receives Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award

By The Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council awarded Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and other honorees its Global Citizen Award on Sunday, September 21, 2014, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It was the first time that a Latin American president received the award. “Our honorees embody in dynamic and diverse ways what it […]

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Sep 8, 2014

Reshaping Higher Education

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

  In both the U.S. and Latin America, the forces of technology and entrepreneurship are on the cusp of fundamentally reshaping the higher education sector.  Increased demand and the changing nature of the labor market have led to new players and new models entering the higher ed market. The combination of sustained economic growth, a […]

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Aug 20, 2014

Brazil Mourns the Death of Presidential Candidate Eduardo Campos

By Carlos Guzman

Wednesday, the 13th of August, became a day of sudden and unexpected mourning for Brazil as a small private jet plane carrying presidential candidate Eduardo Campos crashed in the coastal city of Santos killing everyone on board. Campos’ death dramatically changes the Brazilian election’s dynamic. Though polls had him in third place with President Dilma […]

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Aug 11, 2014

Brazil’s Lasting World Cup Legacy

By Ambassador Mauro Vieira

In the run-up to the FIFA World Cup, Brazil had to endure a spate of negative reporting and doomsday-style predictions about its capacity to deliver a successful tournament.  Moreover, articles on perceived failures in the preparation for the event stretched the pessimism even further, to the point of questioning the World Cup legacy in the […]

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Aug 4, 2014

Why We Need a New Alliance Between Workers and Employers

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

“Identity, not ideology, is moving the world.” So argued commentator Fareed Zakaria in a recent Washington Post column. Zakaria was referring to political identities, and the fading affiliations citizens have for traditional political groupings like parties, unions, or civic associations. A parallel can be drawn here to the modern workforce. With an increasing volatile economy, […]

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Jul 28, 2014

A Nicaraguan Canal: Too Many Downfalls

By Constance Delannoy

The Nicaraguan government recently released its plan to build a Nicaraguan canal as an alternative to the Panama Canal. The project is taken on by a Hong Kong-based company, the HKND Group, created solely for this purpose and guaranteed majority ownership of the Canal for the next 50 years. At this point the Nicaraguan government […]

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Jul 21, 2014

Community Colleges for Latin America?

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

Since the dawn of the information era, higher education has quickly ceased to be a luxury. In fact, in today’s labor market, it is largely a necessity. Earning a post-secondary degree or other advanced credential has become a de facto prerequisite for 21st century jobs. Forty years ago, only 28 percent of jobs in the American workforce […]

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Jul 18, 2014

Addressing the Root Causes of the Crisis on the Border

By Carlos Guzman

The United Sates is facing one of the greatest, if not the greatest, immigration crisis in the history of its southern border. An astouding 52,000 immigrant children had illegally crossed the US border at the end of May this year coming from countries in Central America, in their great majortity from Honduras, Guatemala and El […]

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Jul 7, 2014

Improving the Quality of Latin American Education will Depend on Bringing Innovation into the Sector

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

Twenty years ago, universal access to education was the major challenge in Latin American school system, according to Marcelo Cabrol, head of external relations at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), based in Washington, DC. “And it looks like we have done well in that regard, improving access in both primary and secondary education,” he says. Cabrol […]

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