... challenge goes with the understood modern-day politico-diplomatic terrain of striking delicate balances across competitive axes, something that India has found itself fraught with, as in having to manage a comprehensive Strategic Partnership with powerhouse Brazil, dovetailed with potentially productive engagements with juxtaposing Argentina, Mexico, and the ilk. While no longer being lackadaisical, India’s view of Latin America still seems beset, by whimsicality and flippancy, and would do well to draw on certain instructive lessons, on how its inevitable peer competitor China, trenchantly cultivates the region.
Victoria Panova:
BRICS Summit: A Blessing in Disguise
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... this writing, it is still too early to present a list of pretenders and contenders in Brazil's presidential derby, which could easily morph into a Japan-style Kabuki theatre... ... standing in "tracking polls."The success of U.S. policy to "realign" Latin America that started with a $10 billion investment in Plan Colombia in 1999 is... ... evidenced by the fact that the Amazon is the new Rio Grande, and that Washington treats Mexico as a "lesser" (Trump's view).Washington under Trump views its southern...
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century, since today, the large players on the food markets (both exporters and importers) have the same opportunities to influence the global economy and politics as the producers and consumers of fuel and mineral resources.
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Both traditional Latin American food exporters (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and Ecuador, among others) and countries for whom it is a relatively new export (Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Chile) are participants in the “food race.”
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At the same time, manufactured goods are given priority in the region’s ...
