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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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Latin America Reacts to Trump’s Election, With Will Freeman (Transition 2025, Episode 5)Will Freeman, a fellow for Latin America studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Trump’s victory is being viewed in Latin America and what his policies toward the region might be. This episode is the fifth in a special TPI series on the U.S. 2025 presidential transition and is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Cyber Week in Review: November 15, 2024U.S. will vote yes on UN Cybercrime Convention; Norway selected to host 2025 Internet Governance Forum; DHS releases responsible AI framework; CISA releases list of top vulnerabilities in 2023; GEC faces shutdown.
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Illegal Gold Finances Latin America’s Dictators & Cartels. The United States Must Lead the Fight Against It.Four policy ideas to curb illegal gold mining in the Western Hemisphere.
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Drug Traffickers Launder Millions Through Remittances. Here’s How to Stop Them.Four steps Congress and U.S. embassies can take to safeguard remittances from abuse.
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What Is China’s Role in Combating the Illegal Fentanyl Trade?Those seeking to profit from fentanyl and governments seeking to control its supply are locked in a never-ending competition, with each new countermeasure spurring further innovation to circumvent it.
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Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the CartelsViolence continues to rage more than a decade after the Mexican government launched a war against drug cartels.
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In Latin America, Your Zip Code—Not Just Your Nationality—Determines Whether You Live in a DemocracyMany big cities are doing well, but in flyover country organized crime and corruption often smother democracy.
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How Myanmar Became a Global Center for Cyber ScamsOrganized crime groups in Southeast Asia have seized on Myanmar’s instability amid civil war to establish a string of scam centers engaged in global online fraud operations.
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Haiti Mission Lacks Interlocutor Plus Peruvian Congress Purges Top JudgesNo interlocutor for Haiti mission’s international troops and Peru’s “pact of the corrupt” is succeeding where Guatemala’s failed without international pressure.
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Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-StateCriminal groups have captured parts of the state. A broad political coalition must fight corruption and root them out.
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The Organized Crime Threat to Latin American DemocraciesGovernments have learned to manage many threats, but they are failing to curb the growing power of organized crime.
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Ecuador’s 2023 Election: What Noboa’s Victory MeansDaniel Noboa Azín is the youngest president in Ecuador’s history and faces immediate challenges in tackling the country’s grave economic and security crises.
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Latin America’s Crime Surge, With Will FreemanWill Freeman, a fellow for Latin America studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss spiking crime rates across Latin America and their consequences for the region and the United States.
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Central America’s Turbulent Northern TriangleThe United States continues to seek strategies for responding to the growing number of migrants fleeing poverty, violence, and other challenges in the Central American region.
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Latin America This Week: May 30, 2023Debt-for-nature swaps gain traction in Latin America; To fix U.S. migration woes, the government needs to go big; Venezuelan organized crime now stretches across the continent.