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What the likely return to office of Brazil’s former president (and more recent prisoner) means for Brazil, the Americas and Canada

Canada’s support of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s claim to be the country’s interim president hasn’t worked. It’s time to admit failure and change strategy.

As Jean Daudelin writes from Recife, Brazil, when it comes to effective action to help the Amazon, beware lofty hopes and empty threats.

Who really has skin in the Venezuela game? From China to the United States, Jean Daudelin lists the foreign governments that are closely watching events there, which result they may be hoping for and why.

Brash, hard-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro is
cleaning up in Brazil. How bad could that be for Brazilians and for the world?

While staying as a figurehead, Brazil’s president may be relinquishing power, leaving the government in Lula’s hands. Here are four developments that have led to this remarkable turn of events.

Nearly overnight, the Zika virus has
caught the world’s attention. Will Brazil be able to ease concerns before
August?  

While the South American giant had become an
international non-entity, the election of Mauricio Macri prompts five factors
that may bring it back to heavyweight status.

The Zika virus has prompted a state of
emergency and a recommendation that Brazilian women postpone pregnancy. It may
also blow the doors open on crucial debates — from abortion to climate change.

The country is about to explode. An Obama-Castro team might be best placed to defuse the crisis

With its economy and politicians in trouble, is there any light at the end of the tunnel?

This week’s summit in Panama only reinforces the breakdown of the Americas’ democratic rights regime.

Degrading ISIS won’t end the violence in the Middle East. A more fundamental change is required.

Jean Daudelin on what will likely be the most savagely disputed election round since Brazil’s return to democracy in 1985.

Jean Daudelin on why its time to reconsider the borders in the Middle East.

If we were serious about harm reduction, we would manage drug markets, not crack down on them, argues Jean Daudelin.

Venezuela is in bad shape. But if you assume that things can’t get worse, just wait, says Jean Daudelin.

Twenty years ago, North American integration made a lot of sense. Today, the need isn’t there, says Jean Daudelin.

Bashar al-Assad’s surviving the opposition’s military onslaught and the international […]

The international community should listen to those countries suffering most under the global drug prohibition regime, argues Jean Daudelin.

The West can deter Assad from using chemical weapons again […]

Jean Daudelin on why Canada shouldn’t keep running around Latin America with an empty diplomatic strategy.

Jean Daudelin on how recent protests in Brazil exposed the weakness of Dilma Rousseff and her government.

Jean Daudelin on why Brazil isn’t playing to win at home or abroad, and the political tactics that could change this.

Two things: 1) Canadians and the Canadian government must stop […]

First there are three North Americas and their “death” stories […]

The problem has to do with the structure of incentives […]