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September 9, 2011
United States
Reads of the Week: Extortion vs. Drug-Trafficking in Mexico, New Reports on U.S. Drug Use and Competitiveness in Latin America
A general view of Sao Paulo, the biggest Latin American city (Paolo Whitaker/Courtesy Reuters). A new piece by Eduardo Guerrero in Nexos looks at the growing problem of extortion in Mexico. Differen…
August 11, 2011
Americas
Reads of the Week: Mixed Views on Mexico’s Economy and Peru’s Security
A worker at a luxury cowboy boot factory works on pairs of boots in the central city of Leon (Courtesy Reuters). An IMF report published this week lauds the Mexican economy’s health, and credits rob…
August 5, 2011
Economics
Reads of the Week: Chile’s Miners, Brazil’s Industrial Policy, and Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel
Miner Gomez celebrates as he arrives on the surface as the ninth to be rescued in Chile (Ho New/Courtesy Reuters). Today is the one year anniversary of the collapse that buried 33 Chilean miners dee…
July 28, 2011
Economics
Reads of the Week: a New Peruvian President, a New U.S. Security Directive, and Some Old Lessons from Colombia
As President Ollanta Humala assumes office today, it looks as if he has chosen to emulate Lula rather than Chavez. His cabinet is full of moderates, and some even see it as leaning center-right. Whil…
July 25, 2011
Defense and Security
Evaluating Mexico’s “New Security Model”
Genaro Garcia Luna, the Secretary of Public Security (SSP) and head of this new force has just released a new book, Para Entender: El Nuevo Modelo de Seguridad to explain Mexico’s “New Security Model…
