Ryan C. Berg

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaking at a rally following his disputed reelection, Caracas, August 2024 Reuters / Fausto Torrealba

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A little more than two months after Venezuela’s presidential election, the regime of Nicolás Maduro has yet to release any evidence to support its claim to victory. Instead, Caracas has brutally repressed its political opponents and civil society. None of this comes as a surprise. What is surprising is the utter failure of international diplomacy to compel Maduro to negotiate with the opposition, despite credible evidence that he lost by a landslide.

Nine Latin American countries, Canada, the European Union, and the United States have denounced the regime’s electoral fraud and subsequent crackdown, but they have been powerless to compel Maduro to enter talks with the opposition, let alone to accept a peaceful transfer of power.…  Seguir leyendo »

At a currency exchange in Buenos Aires, February 2019. Agustin Marcarian / Reuters

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“Central America is the most important place in the world for the United States today”. You would never expect a White House official to say those words in 2023. But when Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations, made that statement in 1981, it was not so controversial. Even the president agreed with her.

From the late 1950s, with the outbreak of the Cuban revolution, to the late 1980s, when civil wars raged in Central America, Latin America found itself in the cross hairs of great power competition. Geopolitics mattered to Latin America, and Latin America mattered to geopolitics.…  Seguir leyendo »

Argentine President Alberto Fernández visits the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Feb. 4. Xu Bingjie/Xinhua via Getty Images

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The ninth Summit of the Americas, which the United States is set to host in early June, is shaping up to be an unmitigated disaster. Faced with the threat of boycotts by key regional leaders, the White House is clearly having trouble navigating Latin America’s current political moment—which is marked by an increasingly anti-American turn that has paralleled China’s consistent investments in the region.

The Biden administration has not provided a comprehensive answer to China’s engagement in the Americas. Indeed, while discussing the still-classified National Security Strategy document with reporters in January, an unnamed senior official on the National Security Council revealed that“the word ‘China’ is not mentioned in the Western Hemisphere section”.…  Seguir leyendo »

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In a devastating development in Haiti's constitutional standoff, a group of gunmen allegedly posing as agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency forcibly entered President Jovenel Moïse's private residence and assassinated him in the early hours of Wednesday. The macabre act will prolong the uncertainty as Haiti tries to avert pandemonium.

A history of political upheaval, dictatorship and weak institutions, as well as endemic corruption have wracked Haiti for decades and stymied the consolidation of democratic rule and good governance. The country was already on edge following a protracted political crisis centered around the constitutionality of Moïse's presidential term and a controversial proposal to overhaul the country's constitution.…  Seguir leyendo »