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A little over 80 years ago, men working for the Standard Oil Company of California, known today as Chevron, struck black gold in the middle of the Arab…
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Uruguayan Energy What’s old: Uruguay is a regional leader in renewable energy. In fact, it has gone from being dependent on energy imports to a net ele…
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Café con dinero What’s old: Last month, Brazil’s National Meteorology System (SNM) declared the current drought the worst drought Brazil has seen in th…
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Like most of Latin America, Colombia has been hit hard by COVID-19. Unlike most of Latin America, however, Colombia had a fairly limited cash transfer …
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Argentina Does Its Own Thing What’s old: The potential of Antarctica has quietly driven geopolitical developments in the South Atlantic for decades. Ch…
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Stuck in the Middle with Chile What’s old: It’s been a tumultuous year in Chilean politics. The country has already elected representatives to write a …
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As I write this edition of the newsletter, I’m sitting at a café in a random city in the United States. I paid for my espresso with an app on my phone.…
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Same Old Venezuela What’s old: An overlooked consequence of Venezuela’s political and economic deterioration is the proliferation of crime, particularl…
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Cuban Protests What’s old: Already vulnerable after the reimposition of U.S. sanctions during the Trump administration, the Cuban economy has been reel…
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Costa Rica is Different One of the pitfalls of writing about politics is that people only seem to pay attention when bad things happen. Even respectabl…
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Haiti What’s old: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. (For more on the structural reasons why Haiti is so impoverished, you can rea…
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Eye of the Fire What’s old: In the late 1970s, Mexico discovered massive oil reserves in the southern part of the country. An oil boom ensued and expor…
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