Ecuadorians choose their next president today, as well as the next national assembly. Or at least their top 2: if no candidate wins over 50% (or over 40% with a lead of 10 points or greater) there will be a run-off in April. For the...
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This is the grave of Juan José Flores. Born in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela in 1800, Flores was the illegitimate son of a wealthy Spanish merchant. That isn't really how he.
This is the grave of Gabriel Garcia Moreno. Born in 1821 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Moreno was the next generation of the elite in a brand new nation. His father was.
Travelling and otherwise engaged the last few days, I have been delinquent in preparing my election coverage. What's going on this weekend? First, New Zealand, yesterday. The outcome was expected but deeply unfortunate. New Zealand’s next prime minister will be Christopher Luxon, a former chief...
With the semester starting tomorrow, combined with an ill-timed bout of COVID-19 (symptoms mild and brief, thankfully, but it wrecked havoc on travel plans), I have not had time to.
The reasons for rises and falls in crime are complicated. But complicated is anathema to politics. And so, the brief moment after the murder of George Floyd and so many.
One of the major issues in South America in the last twenty years is what to do with the resources that are in the ground. The many leftist governments that have risen in the region have grappled with this. Hugo Chavez wanted to build socialism...
One of the many, many problems with the way we run our economy is that we plunge ahead on every issue without rules and then, maybe just maybe, if things.
My forthcoming edited volume, which is relevant to, but not directly discussed in, this post. Sometimes the best way to compete is... not to bother. As Alex Cooley and I.
Here is another story on how the oil companies are exploiting the Huaorani people of Ecuador. This is a story that might not be familiar to you, but is very familiar to me. That's because it is a fairly unique success in transnational organizing, where...
I had meant to write about the unwillingness of foreign governments to step up to Ecuador's offer to not drill for oil in its rainforest if the international community would.
One need not think that Julian Assange is a heroic (or even particularly admirable) figure to agree that this Washington Post editorial (cited by Henry Farrell) is deeply perfidious: There.