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Cienfuegos case rocks Mexico-US relations as Biden takes office

Cienfuegos case rocks Mexico-US relations as Biden takes office

One of the first actions of US President Joe Biden upon taking office on 20 January was to issue an executive order halting construction of the Mexican border wall. This should have been cause for celebration in Mexico and indeed it was hailed as ...

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Argentina’s policy zig-zags cloud investor outlook for 2021

Argentina’s policy zig-zags cloud investor outlook for 2021

The Argentine government led by President Alberto Fernández completed the first of its four years in office on 10 December 2020. In year one the Fernández government successfully renegotiated around US$100bn worth of bondholder debt ...

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No pacification in sight in Mexico

No pacification in sight in Mexico

Another year, another soaring homicide figure for Mexico. Upon assuming office in December 2018, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised that his administration would pacify the country within six months. However, two years on...

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Central America’s vulnerability to climate change made headlines due to damage wreaked by hurricanes Iota and Eta late last year  [SSR-20-12]. However, in November the Costa Rican government was able to claim some progress with regard t...

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The second quarter of 2020 was far and away the worst ever experienced by the tourist industry in Latin American and the Caribbean. With bewildering speed, the coronavirus pandemic had begun to spread throughout the world, prompting a range of sud...