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Skimmed While Listening to 2005’s Greatest Hits The Story: Another One Bites The Dust Javier Duarte, former Governor of Veracruz, Mexico was arrested this week at a lakeside resort in Guatemala. Duarte is charged with corruption and is headed back…
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Skimmed Over a Latte The Story: Tomas Yarrington’s Roman Holiday comes to an abrupt end. What happened? Former governor of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, Tomas Yarington, was captured in Italy. Yarrington has been a fugitive for the past five…
Latin American, The United States, and Socioeconomic Inequality
One of the policy areas that I am particularly passionate about is education policy. My passion has been shaped by my own experiences with my local public schools and the vast disparity between the quality of education in local and private…
Is Delegative Democracy Possible?
The article Delegative Democracy by Guillermo O’Donnell discusses the subset of democracies that aren’t quite representative, but are not authoritarian regimes dubbed delegative democracies. O’Donnell explains that these democracies are not consolidated (institutionalized), are not completely representative, yet are not…
To Intervene Or to Not Intervene
In Chapter 4 of Democracy in America, Smith and Sells explore the various ways in which the United States has intervened in Latin America in the past in hopes of abating the cold war concerns about the rise of communism…
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