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August 30, 2012

Wars and Conflict
New from CFR: John Campbell on Mali and Nigeria

This week on his blog, CFR Senior Fellow John Campbell discussed the humanitarian crisis in Mali and polio in Nigeria. Writing on Mali, he took stock of malnutrition and displacement, along with the …

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January 5, 2011

Politics and Government
John Boehner’s Big Day

House Republican Leader Boehner during a press conference in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2010. (Yuri Gripas/Courtesy Reuters) John Boehner becomes the sixty-first Speaker of the House today, an…

House Republican Leader Boehner during a press conference in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2010.

December 17, 2008

Economic Crises
C. Peter McColough Series with John P. Lipsky

Watch John P. Lipsky, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), remark on the recent effects of the economy on IMF member countries and the IMF's reaction to the financ…

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July 25, 2017

Corruption
What Latin America Can Learn From Past Anticorruption Success

As Latin America reflects on its current wave of anticorruption successes—including the arrest of former Guatemalan president, Odebrecht prosecutions in Peru, and the ongoing Lava Jato cleanup in Bra…

President Roosevelt pointing at a map of South America towards the area explored during the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition in Brazil as another man looks on.

October 28, 2016

Venezuela
How Venezuela Got Into This Mess

[This post was co-authored with John Polga-Hecimovich*] By the end of 2017, the Venezuelan economy will likely be less than three-quarters of its 2013 size. Inflation is set to increase from 700 p…

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