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Why Peru’s President Is Going To China — It’s Not Just The Billions In Trade

Peru’s President Dina Boluarte is traveling to China to fine tune free trade with this vital, if overbearing, business partner. It will also help her flee the deep and wide popularity among Peruvians.

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Geopolitics In The News

Ukraine Charges Its Former Leaders With The Ultimate Crime: Helping Russia

Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko has taken refuge in Poland after being accused of treason and cooperation with Russia. It’s a film we’ve seen before in Kyiv.

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In Latin America, The Downward Spiral Of ‘Digital Democracy’

In a time of public impatience and online mobilization, the region’s governments are feeding frustrations with an outdated leadership approach.

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Economy Future

How The Gray Economy Slows Down The Data Revolution

In Latin America, where half of all jobs are off the books, businesses can’t tap into the vast and potentially valuable resource of data to usher in digital transformation.

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In The News

Donald Trump And The Divided State Of The Americas

The U.S. president will cast a long shadow over the upcoming Summit of the Americas gathering in Lima, Peru — even if he decides not to show up.

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On This Day – January 18

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Geopolitics Ideas

Fossil Fuels Must Go The Way Of The Dinosaurs, Now

As the 20th UN Climate Summit begins in Peru, one faster way to fight global warming is to steer investors away from oil and gas, and bet instead in clean energy. The planet depends on it.

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Ideas Society

Why Intolerance Runs So Deep In Peru

As evangelical hostility to proposed same-sex civil unions demonstrates, Peruvian society has yet to embrace its own government’s rhetoric of tolerance and social inclusion.

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Future

In Peru, A Highway Billboard That Turns Wind Into Water

LIMA – You’ve seen highway billboards advertising some rest-stop or hotel: “Oasis, Next Exit.” Now in Peru, there’s a billboard that actually is itself something of an oasis. The Technology and Engineering University of Peru has installed a billboard panel along the Panamericana Sur (PanAmerican highway) highway that generates 96 liters of drinkable water a […]

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