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Jan 7, 2014

The Debate Over the Role of Private Enterprise in Education

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

This year, the Thunderbird School of Global Management, based in Glendale, Arizona, became the subject of a long and intense debate after it announced a controversial joint venture with for-profit education services company Laureate, which owns 72 colleges around the world. In the deal, Laureate would gain control over Thunderbird’s online programs, as well as […]

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Dec 19, 2013

The Pemex Door Has Opened

By Jason Marczak and Peter Schechter

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto capped a year of reform with a final act that far exceeded expectations of the 47-year-old leader’s first year. Energy reform, passed by the Senate and Chamber of Deputies last week, will end a 75-year policy prohibiting private investment in the country’s hydrocarbons sector. Some estimate that the reform will […]

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Dec 12, 2013

Mexico Passes Landmark Energy Reform

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

In the last hour, the Mexican Congress passed energy reform that will fundamentally transform the country by opening up foreign investment in the energy sector for the first time in 75 years. The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center also will be issuing the first comprehensive analysis of the reform on Thursday, December 19, which […]

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Dec 12, 2013

Marczak on Venezuelan Election Results

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Question: What do the results suggest about the level of support for the president, the opposition and where the country may be headed? Is a big change likely to come about in Venezuela in 2014? Chavismo may have won the popular vote in the December 8 municipal elections, but the opposition can rightly claim its […]

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Dec 10, 2013

Obama, Castro Shake Hands

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

On Tuesday, December 10, US President Barack Obama reached out for an historic handshake with Cuban President Raúl Castro as he was walking to the podium to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at FNB stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. The US withdrew diplomatic recognition of Cuba in 1961 and continues to impose an embargo.

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Dec 6, 2013

Arsht Center Experts on Upcoming Venezuela Elections

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

This Sunday, December 8, Venezuelans go to the polls to vote in municipal elections that are the government’s first test at the ballot box of the eight months since Nicolás Maduro was elected president. Just over 330 mayoral offices will be at stake; of these, the opposition currently controls just seventy. The Atlantic Council’s experts […]

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Dec 4, 2013

Colombian President’s Official Visit to DC Includes Dinner at the Council

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

In his second official US visit, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos joined top policymakers and business leaders for an off-the-record working dinner at the Atlantic Council on December 3. The private event was co-chaired by three former National Security Advisers: General Colin Powell, Stephen Hadley, and Samuel Berger. US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker was […]

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Nov 25, 2013

A Second Point for Peace in Colombia

By Alejandro Castaño

Peace has always been elusive. Every few decades, a new Colombian administration tries unsuccessfully to end the armed conflict that began in the mid-1960s. But after a half century of violence—resulting in an estimated 220,000 deaths, according to the Colombian Center for Historical Memory, and the largest internally displaced population in the world, according to […]

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Nov 19, 2013

More Uncertainty Ahead of Venezuela’s Municipal Elections

By Jason Marczak and Peter Schechter

Where is Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro taking his country? Clearly, it is radicalizing further and faster than under his predecessor, Hugo Chávez. Exactly one month before the December 8 municipal elections, Maduro announced the “occupation” of the Daka chain of electronics stores and security forces proceeded to arrest several executives. A few days later he […]

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Nov 12, 2013

Spotlight Venezuela

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

In the first installment of our Spotlight series, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center explores three scenarios of how the increasingly volatile situation in Venezuela may unfold. This is a particularly critical moment as the country heads toward municipal elections on December 8 with President Nicolás Maduro recently being granted emergency decree powers […]

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