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Latin America’s democracies hold strong
By Andrés Velasco - Dec 22,2022
SANTIAGO — Just in recent months, Peru’s president attempted to dissolve congress, Argentina’s vice president was convicted of fraud and Brazil’s incumbent president threatened not to leave office if he lost the upcoming election.
The political centre does have meaning
By Andrés Velasco - Dec 28,2021
SANTIAGO — Can the political centre hold any meaning?
Preventing a stablecoin liquidity crisis
By Andrés Velasco - Aug 03,2021
LONDON — Liquidity is to the modern economy what lubricant is to a car engine. Provide enough of it, and things run smoothly; come up short and the result is a red-hot, smoke-spewing mess.
Chile’s constitutional revolution
By Andrés Velasco - May 31,2021
LONDON — A revolution is the overthrow of existing political arrangements. A successful uprising builds new and better ones. There have been many revolutions in Latin America, but few have succeeded.
Twisted democracies
By Andrés Velasco - May 08,2021
LONDON — Pedro Castillo is an authoritarian left-wing populist without the charm or charisma of most populists.
The call of the tribal
By Andrés Velasco - Jul 13,2020
LONDON — Why do politicians make the choices they do? And why do voters then choose to support them? One possible answer is that voters prefer politicians whose principles they share, and will re-elect lawmakers who promote those principles while in office.
In defence of cosmopolitanism
By Andrés Velasco - Feb 03,2020
LONDON — Cosmopolitanism gets plenty of bad press nowadays.
Argentina’s recurring nightmare
By Andrés Velasco - Sep 28,2019
LONDON — Argentina has done it again: inflation is up, growth is down, and the peso has lost two-thirds of its value. Depositors have been rushing to withdraw their money from local banks, and a debt default looms.
Saving Venezuela
By Andrés Velasco - Aug 28,2019
SANTIAGO — Venezuela remains in free fall. Home to the world’s largest proven oil reserves and once Latin America’s wealthiest country, it is now ravaged and suffering complete economic collapse.
The experts we need
By Andrés Velasco - Jun 20,2019
LONDON — In the midst of the debate on the most crucial decision the United Kingdom has faced in a generation, then-minister of justice Michael Gove exclaimed, “I think the people in this country have had enough of experts.” That statement received almost as much media attention


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