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From Mexico to Chile, governments still haven’t cracked the code on how to leverage natural resources into sustained, broad-based prosperity.
Missile strikes on cartel “terrorists” won’t work against a drug that can’t be interdicted. Instead of a hopeless struggle against supply, the US must focus on reducing demand and harm.
So let’s say the United States labels Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations, like so many Republicans are demanding. Let’s say it deploys “cyberwarfare” and missile strikes against its kingpins, declares
From Mexico to Chile, governments still haven’t cracked the code on how to leverage natural resources into sustained, broad-based prosperity.
So let’s say the United States labels Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations, like so many Republicans are demanding. Let’s say it deploys “cyberwarfare” and missile strikes against its kingpins, declares
Enforcement can only do so much to blunt the powerful incentives driving migrants northward.
The poster child of the so-called Washington Consensus is navigating its economic future without a compass. The path it chooses will shape debates over the role of the markets across Latin America and beyond.
The answer to the region’s chronic political turmoil is a social contract that brings workers into the formal economy, provides old-age pensions and enables citizens to live with dignity.
By: Eduardo Porter
La socialdemocracia es la respuesta.
By: Eduardo Porter
Social democracy is the answer.
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