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The day the West crashed and burned

September 11, 2001. I turned on the car radio. The BBC. Was it some kind of promotion for a new disaster thriller? No, it was 911! It took my wife and I a few moments to grasp the new reality we had just entered. The contrast was utterly…

Latin America’s ‘blue wave’: Is Mexico next?

Politics in Latin America have recently been undergoing a major conservative shift, stimulating discussion about a ‘blue wave’ to replace the ‘pink tide’ of the early 21st Century. At a general level, since the 1960s the region has cycled…