Opinion

Spanish - The coronavirus lockdown is wreaking havoc on many economies, and in several Latin American countries, the curve seems far from flattening out. What are the challenges of returning to normal in Colombia and Latin America? When…
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By Lawrence W. Reed In defiance of orders from their respective governors, a significant number of houses of worship will open for services beginning tomorrow. As John Dale Davidson of The Federalist notes, most of them will be doing…
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Spanish - A Cuban vessel arrived in Venezuela to allegedly provide the island gasoline that has just arrived from Iran.…
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Spanish - Every peace process has its flaws. In a world where subversive structures coexist with the underworld, it is very likely that once negotiations are over, cells of the former group will appear. This as was the case with the…
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By Zilvinas Silenas Massive government debt, sky-high unemployment, the economy frozen, idle workers receiving payments from the government. This might sound like COVID-19, but I am actually talking about post-World War I Germany.…
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Spanish - One of the images of today in Argentina was that of the popular television host Marcelo Tinelli visiting the Casa Rosada. The show host appeared with producer Adrian Suar to meet with the Chief of Cabinet, the Minister of…
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By Satish Bapanapalli "conomics tells us that the dominant motivation is the internal satisfaction that individuals derive from the act of giving itself.” That was the conclusion of a 2005 article The Economics of Charitable Giving:…
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Spanish - A couple of weeks ago, President López Obrador claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic had "fit like a glove." There was much debate at the time about the meaning of his words, which were, to say the least, inappropriate given the…
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By Darcy Allen and Aaron M. Lane Right now, economies around the world are frozen in an attempt to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments have pulled every policy lever to keep it that way, for the time being, to limit the…
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Spanish - Criticizing the president of Mexico has serious consequences. "The entire Sinaloa Cartel is with Andrés Manuel López Obrador," a supposed legislator said in a telephone call, threatening to "blow up" the Reforma newspaper…
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Spanish - Captain Antonio Sequea, who claimed the leadership of Operation Gideon, was allegedly the military insider who decided to execute the plan while providing information to the regime of Nicolás Maduro, specifically Diosdado…
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Spanish - On Friday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed an agreement that "extraordinarily" hands over the country's public security tasks to the Armed Forces. It is the militarization of the State, de facto and de…
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