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By: Advice from Brazil: Fareed Zakaria Speaks with Brazilian President Lula da Silva | Latin America

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:15:47 +0000

[...] or India of the Americas. While Brazil has taken a hit in the latest economic troubles worldwide, Brazil stands out with Canada as the two countries in the Americas where a fracture of the financial… by its government, experts and media. Despite what some call an overly positive outlook that Lula [...]

By: Migration » Blog Archive » The Effect of “George Bush” Abroad: Perspectives from the East and Latin America

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:09:11 +0000

[...] Venezuela also has stood out from many of its neighbours. While Brazil has benefited a lot from its oil reserves, Venezuela has had its oil reserves propel it into a forum for Chavez's influence in the Americas and remains Venezuela's only notable source of revenue. Venezuela often uses actions by Bush as the motivator of policy decisions, mostly in cases where the US has ignored Venezuela and Latin America in the last 8 years. In reality, the involvement the US has had beyond some trade policy in the last 8 years has been very minimal, only opening up further ties with economically stable countries who stabilized themselves, and not having any heavy response to populist claims by Chavez and others who often use Bush and supposed actions by the US to justify all types of local policy decisions by populist leaders. While the degree of US involvement in Venezuela is not known but likely is minimal, countries like Colombia have been able to use local and US assistance to independently address local issues. The Colombian Army's rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and American hostages from the FARC was seen as a Colombian initiative and praised by the US as solely Colombian. Ironically the FARC later was accused of having been supported by Chavez himself, mimicking accusations he had against Bush in interfering in local politics. Increasingly criticisms of Chavez come with the diminishing influence of Bush. Without Bush as a scapegoat, it will be hard to place Obama in a negative light and accuse the causation of problems in Venezuela on the President of the US. Recently a critical report on Venezuela lead to the coercive expulsion of human rights leaders from Venezuelaactions which will reflect poorly in Chavez in the future with no Bush to blame for the future. [...]

By: Latin America » Blog Archive » The Effect of “George Bush” Abroad: Perspectives from the East and Latin America

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:30:39 +0000

[...] Venezuela also has stood out from many of its neighbors. While Brazil has benefited a lot from its oil reserves, Venezuela has had its oil reserves propel it into a forum for Chavez's influence in the Americas and remains Venezuela's only notable source of revenue. Venezuela often uses actions by Bush as the motivator of policy decisions, mostly in cases where the US has ignored Venezuela and Latin America in the last 8 years. In reality, the involvement the US has had beyond some trade policy in the last 8 years has been very minimal, only opening up further ties with economically stable countries who stabilized themselves, and not having any heavy response to populist claims by Chavez and others who often use Bush and supposed actions by the US to justify all types of local policy decisions by populist leaders. While the degree of US involvement in Venezuela is not known, but likely is minimal, countries like Colombia have been able to use local and US assistance to independently address local issues, as with the Colombian Army's rescue of Ingrid Betancourt from the FARC, who were later accused of having been supported by Chavez himself, mimicking accusations he had against Bush in interfering in local politics. Increasingly criticisms of Chavez come with the diminishing influence of Bush. Without Bush as a scapegoat, it will be hard to place Obama in a negative light and accuse the causation of problems in Venezuela on the President. Recently a critical report on Venezuela lead to the coercive expulsion of human rights leaders from Venezuelaactions which will reflect poorly in Chavez in the future with no Bush to blame. [...]

By: » Energy Policy in the Americas: Latin America and Canada in the Global Fuel Crisis

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:58:51 +0000

[...] Blog Stuck On You wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt The global economy has recently hit a turning point, where the environment and a massive rise in oil prices sets to change the way we live, trade and do business. Not since the 1970s has such trauma in oil prices pushed policymakers into emergency mode, scurrying to satisfy the electorate which is convinced of a future environmental disaster by balancing policymaker's inability to alter oil prices with the ever rising inflation and food prices. The major debates on how to handle the environment [...]