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Assessing the treatment of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

New Atlanticist May 9, 2025

The new pope is American. He is also Peruvian. Why does it matter?

By Martin Cassinelli

Pope Leo XIV’s unique combination of identities could help him reframe US–Latin American relations in more humane and values-driven terms.
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Assessing the treatment of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

AfricaSource May 2, 2025

To redefine US-Africa engagement, Washington must recognize the power of the African diaspora

By Kirstie Kwarteng

Embracing the digital identity economy will allow the US to shape a mutually beneficial partnership with African countries.
Africa Migration
Assessing the treatment of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

New Atlanticist Feb 11, 2025

What Trump’s mass deportation plans mean for Latin American countries

By Alicia Nieves

A massive influx of deportations could strain some nations already struggling with sluggish economic growth and high unemployment rates.
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Sep 25, 2019

Assessing the treatment of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

By Rudabeh Shahid

Bangladesh must honor its responsibility to care for Rohingya refugees, and that the international community must do more to hold the government accountable while providing additional financial and logistical support to enable it to do so.

Bangladesh
Human Rights

Issue Brief

Sep 25, 2019

Assessing the treatment of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

By Rudabeh Shahid

Bangladesh must honor its responsibility to care for Rohingya refugees, and that the international community must do more to hold the government accountable while providing additional financial and logistical support to enable it to do so.

Bangladesh
Human Rights

UkraineAlert

Sep 18, 2019

The promise and peril of Ukraine’s borders

By Ruslan Minich

Many Ukrainians work abroad, and Ukraine’s western regions feel the labor shortage most acutely.

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UkraineAlert

Aug 8, 2019

One way to ease Ukraine’s labor shortage

By Svitlana Butenko, Stuart Linder, and Valeriia Mykhalko

Ukraine can create the conditions where both refugees and asylum seekers can provide for themselves.

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Aug 7, 2019

Spotlight: President Bukele’s first six months

By María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila and Domingo Sadurní

As Bukele continues to settle into office, what policies from his proposed Plan Cuscatlán should his administration prioritize?

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Jul 16, 2019

The US-Colombia partnership: From Venezuela’s crisis to counter-narcotics efforts

By Bryan Wilensky

The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, in partnership with the United States Institute for Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Latin America Program, and the Inter-American Dialogue, hosted H.E. Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, for a discussion on the future of US-Colombia relations. The conversation was moderated […]

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Jul 9, 2019

Wayne in the Hill: Sustaining progress with Mexico on migration

By Atlantic Council

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UkraineAlert

Jun 25, 2019

Hard talk

By Melinda Haring

“Some of the greatest Ukrainian patriots aren’t even Ukrainian,” the eminently quotable public intellectual Yevhen Hlibovotsky is fond of saying. While he didn’t have John Sung Kim in mind, he might have. Kim, forty-five, is a wealthy Korean-American entrepreneur who built and sold two companies (one IPO, one all cash sale) in Silicon Valley before […]

Entrepreneurship
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New Atlanticist

Jun 12, 2019

US senators warn against tariffs on Mexico

By David A. Wemer

The migrant flow from Central America to the United States is a serious problem that needs to be addressed, but cannot be solved through the use of tariffs, two US senators said at the Atlantic Council on June 12.

Central America
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Jun 7, 2019

Infographic: Costs of a five percent Mexico tariff on US consumers

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

On June 10, without a deal, the United States will place a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican products, with the potential to escalate by 5 percent each month until October, reaching a potential maximum of 25 percent. The US tariffs, levied in response to President Trump’s demand that Mexico stop all migration, would have […]

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