Unfortunately for those of us whose AOR (area of responsibility) is Latin America, the only time the Western Hemisphere enters a political discussion is in two contexts: a migratory crisis reaching the United States or talk of Russia or China "messing about" in "America's backyard." There are a number of...
Today the joint forces of diplomacy, finance and military might closed in on the regime of Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro, hastening its demise. Here is what happened today: EU issued sanctions on Venezuela. This significantly complicates next week's renegotiations in Caracas of $160 billion of debt. The negotiations were unsavory...
On January 4th, we woke up to a significant spike on our illicit trade in luxury products signal driven by queries on the Chinese Wikipedia page for World Luxury Association. The World Luxury Association website has long been deemed suspicious, to say the least, as it "registers" brands that hardly...
by Ms. Alexis Corn Last month, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EUI) released a report that evaluates illicit trade environments in 17 countries in Asia. The report (found here and the graphic found here) graded countries on four policy areas: intellectual property, transparency and trade, customs environment and supply and demand....
China has strong relationships with many countries in Latin America, but due to the limited ability of United States companies to invest and export to Cuba, China has been able to get ahead when it comes to economic relations with the long isolated island. As part of a recent trip...
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