The Americas
February 2006
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February Article Abstracts
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Title: The Divided States of the Americas
Author: Michael Shifter Vinay Jawahar
"While economic and technological ties may be bringing the Americas closer, at a national level there has been a marked breakdown of consensus, along with deepening disintegration."
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Title: Chávez's Venezuela
Author: Phil Gunson
"Is Chávez a democrat? And, whether he is or not, can he deliver social and economic justice to the mass of the Venezuelan population?"
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Title: Politics on Edge: Managing the US-Mexico Border
Author: Peter Andreas
"The politically tricky challenge is to tap heightened attention and concern over border security in a manner that promotes rather than poisons cross-border cooperation."
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Title: Mexico's (Temporary) Turn to the Left
Author: Allyson Lucinda Benton
"The shift left during the presidential campaign does not mean that Mexican policy will also shift in that direction after a new administration takes office."
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Title: Hopes Dashed? Lula's Brazil
Author: Jeffrey Cason
"A corruption scandal and lackluster economic performance have put Lula's hopes for reelection later this year in doubt."
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Title: Trouble Ahead: The Cocaleros of Peru
Author: Vanda Felbab-Brown
"Ironically, civil society, which the United States has been exporting as a means of democratization around the world, is precisely what is complicating its counternarcotics policies in the Andes."
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Title: Reform and Corruption in Latin America
Author: Kurt Weyland
"Some level of corruption is endemic to the region's states almost regardless of their economic policies."
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Title: Separation Anxiety: Quebec versus Canada, Again
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
"In the past year Quebec's separatist movement has revived in dramatic fashion. Polls show that over half of Quebecers would vote for sovereignty if a new referendum were called. . . ."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in December 2005, country by country, day by day.
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Title: The Americas
A map of the Americas.
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