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THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
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Andres Oppenheimer: Egypt coup sets bad precedent for Latin America
The surprising support for Egypt’s military coup in U.S., European and Middle Eastern political circles may turn into a bad precedent for Latin America — it could help legitimize the idea that there are “good” military coups.
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Andres Oppenheimer: 3D Revolution will help — and hurt — countries
This week, I saw for the first time a desktop 3D printer, the machine that President Barack Obama recently said will “revolutionize the way we make almost everything,” and that experts say could change the world as much as the steam engine did in the 19th Century, or the Internet at the end of the 20th Century.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Republicans head for new defeat in 2016
Judging from Republican House leaders’ latest objections to an immigration bill that would legalize up to 11 million undocumented immigrants, it looks like the Republican Party has not learned the lesson from its 2012 electoral defeat — and that they won’t win a presidential election anytime soon.
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Andres Oppenheimer: The plight of Latin America’s teachers
It’s no wonder that protesters in Brazil are holding signs reading “more education, less soccer,” or that there are constant teacher strikes in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Mexico — Latin American schoolteachers are among the most miserably paid in the world.
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Andres Oppenheimer: The good and the bad of the Snowden case
Former national security contractor Edward Snowden and his WikiLeaks allies deserve credit for triggering a much-needed campaign to make U.S. government surveillance programs more transparent. But they would be much more credible if they aimed their criticism at all sides of the political spectrum, including countries like China, Cuba, and — yes — Ecuador.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Nicaragua canal a big dig — or big scam?
Nicaragua’s $40 billion deal with a Chinese company to build a trans-oceanic waterway that will compete with the Panama Canal will either be Latin America’s most important economic project in more than a century or the biggest government scam in the region’s history.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Carter will irk both sides in Venezuela
When I interviewed former President Jimmy Carter on a wide range of issues a few days ago, I was especially interested in his views about Venezuela’s 2-month-old political crisis.
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Andres Oppenheimer: U.S. techies heading to Latin America
The exodus of young Latin American entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley and other U.S. technology centers may soon become a two-way street — growing numbers of U.S. techies are heading south to benefit from generous aid packages for high-tech startups.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Pope Francis’ first 100 days give signs of hope
As Argentine-born Pope Francis nears his first 100 days in office, there is little question that he has brought about a change in style at the Vatican with his daily gestures of humility. But there are also signs that he may bring about a change in substance.
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Andres Oppenheimer: U.S. wins rare diplomatic battle in Latin America
Something very unusual happened at the 34-country Organization of American States (OAS) annual foreign ministers’ meeting last week: the United States and Mexico won a diplomatic victory over authoritarian populist governments that wanted a free hand to suppress human rights monitors and critical media.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Argentina’s oil fiasco no surprise
One year after Argentina’s nationalization of YPF, the country’s biggest oil company, our forecasts have come true: the firm’s energy production is falling, its debt is rising, and its board has just awarded itself a generous raise.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Xi’s Latin America tour a tit-for-tat message to Obama
The most interesting thing about China’s new President Xi Jinping’s first official trip to Latin America is that he will not set foot in Cuba, Venezuela or any other of China’s political allies in the region — which would have received a huge propaganda boost from such a visit.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Biden — new US point man for Latin America?
Perhaps Secretary of State John Kerry’s lack of attention to Latin America might not be so bad after all — it is moving Vice President Joe Biden to get more involved with the region, and may help turn U.S.-Latin American relations into a White House foreign policy priority.
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Andres Oppenheimer: While Pacific Alliance thrives, Mercosur withers
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos may not have been hallucinating when he said last week that the Pacific Alliance — the bloc made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile — “is the new economic and development engine of Latin America and the Caribbean.”
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Andres Oppenheimer: OAS report breaks ground on marijuana
Latin American presidents who support decriminalization of marijuana won a big diplomatic victory in recent days when the 34-country Organization of American States issued a report that considers that option as one of several policies that might help reduce the region’s drug-related violence.
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Andres Oppenheimer: World science map grim for Latin America
The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world’s leading science cities, and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet’s northern hemisphere full of lights, and the south almost solidly dark.
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Andres Oppenheimer: What Obama didn’t say about Latin America
I’ve read with great attention President Barack Obama’s article in The Miami Herald earlier this week on how to improve U.S. relations with Latin America. It was pretty disappointing.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Obama’s big item in Mexico — student exchanges
Forget all the headlines about immigration, security and drug issues during President Barack Obama’s visit to Mexico last week: the most important (and least noticed) result of his trip may have dealt with an entirely different topic — student exchanges.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Obama should think North America
Despite a lot of upbeat talk about upgrading U.S.-Mexican economic relations, there will be one big issue that will be off the table during President Barack Obama’s visit to Mexico starting Thursday — Mexico’s request to be part of ongoing U.S.-European free trade talks.
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Andres Oppenheimer: U.S., Europe take new step to crack down on ‘tax havens’
While many of us were focused on the Boston bombings, Venezuela’s dubious elections and North Korea’s war noises in recent weeks, the world’s biggest nations took a potentially historic step — they launched a system to detect secret offshore bank accounts.
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