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January 11, 2017
Brazil
The Even Scarier Thing About Brazil’s Prison Violence
Prison violence has taken the lives of more than one hundred Brazilian prisoners since the beginning of the year. While the recent killings have been gruesome and especially numerous, they are a cont…
June 3, 2011
Climate Change
From the Forest to Brasilia: Brazil’s Fight over the Amazon
Strips of deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon (Rickey Rogers / Courtesy Reuters). I attended a small conference a year and a half ago in Rio de Janeiro during which one of the panels focused on …
February 15, 2012
Defense and Security
Guest Post: Why Guatemala’s Pérez Molina Is Considering Legalizing Drugs
This is a guest post by Natalie Kitroeff, a research associate here at the Council on Foreign Relations who works with me in the Latin America program. She received her BA from Princeton University’s…
June 15, 2008
China
Maybe the CIC isn’t motivated entirely by commercial gain …
The CIC claims it wants to be a commercial investor. Gao Xiqing is often quoted to the effect that the CIC "operates on commercial principles" and intends to only take passive stakes. I have always…
June 28, 2011
Americas
Evolving Views on Mexico’s War on Drugs
Supporter of the peace caravan led by Mexican poet Sicilia holds a banner during a rally (Courtesy Reuters). The U.S.-Mexico Interparliamentary Group convened in DC a couple of weeks ago, an annual …
