Andres Oppenheimer: OAS report breaks ground on marijuana
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Latin American presidents who support decriminalization of marijuana won a big diplomatic victory in recent days when the 34-country Organization of American States issued a report that considers that option as one of several policies that might help reduce the region's drug-related violence. The 400-page OAS report, entitled The Drug Problem in the Americas, had been commissioned by Latin ...

May/23/2013 09:59 AM

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May/20/2013 09:55 AM

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May/16/2013 10:58 AM

Andres Oppenheimer: World science map grim for Latin America
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The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities, and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's northern hemisphere full of lights, and the south almost solidly dark. The map is especially significant because it's not a subjective opinion by the magazine's publishers. Far from it: It's a study of more ...

May/13/2013 10:07 AM

Andres Oppenheimer: What Obama didn't say about Latin America
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I've read with great attention President Barack Obama's article in The Miami Herald earlier this week on how to improve U.S. relations with Latin America. It was pretty disappointing. The article, headlined "Improving our Partnership" and published after Obama's return from a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica, says that "this is a moment of great promise for our hemisphere" and is full of ...

May/09/2013 09:39 AM

Andres Oppenheimer: Obama's big item in Mexico -- student exchanges
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Forget all the headlines about immigration, security and drug issues during President Barack Obama's visit to Mexico last week: the most important (and least noticed) result of his trip may have dealt with an entirely different topic - student exchanges. Sounds boring, but it's potentially the most exciting thing that came out of Obama's visit: If the bilateral plan to dramatically increase ...

May/06/2013 09:38 AM

Andres Oppenheimer: Obama should think North America
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Despite a lot of upbeat talk about upgrading U.S.-Mexican economic relations, there will be one big issue that will be off the table during President Barack Obama's visit to Mexico starting Thursday - Mexico's request to be part of ongoing U.S.-European free trade talks. Since Obama announced his intention to sign an ambitious Trans-Atlantic Partnership free trade deal with the 27-member ...

May/02/2013 09:53 AM

Andres Oppenheimer: US, Europe take new step to crack down on 'tax havens'
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While many of us were focused on the Boston bombings, Venezuela's dubious elections and North Korea's war noises in recent weeks, the world's biggest nations took a potentially historic step - they launched a system to detect secret offshore bank accounts. At an April 19 meeting in Washington, D.C., the G-20 group of nations, the club of the world's largest economies, announced an agreement to ...

Apr/29/2013 09:12 AM

Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America's fastest-growing economies of 2013
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New economic projections from the World Bank and the United Nations show that Latin America countries will keep growing at moderate rates this year, except for the booming economies of three countries that start with the letter P - Paraguay, Panama and Peru. Before we get into what the P countries have in common, and why the World Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin ...

Apr/25/2013 12:12 PM

Andres Oppenheimer: Venezuela's Maduro hurts his own case
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Venezuela's proclaimed president-elect Nicolas Maduro's stunning about face after publicly committing to a recount of the April 14 vote is hurting his own chances of serving his term with an aura of legitimacy, and raises growing questions about the entire election process. Here are some of the questions that Maduro, who was proclaimed president-elect in an "express" ceremony less than 24 ...

Apr/18/2013 09:50 AM