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Commentary
Prioritizing Nearshoring by Leveraging Special Economic Zones in Central America
July 20, 2022 | Ryan C. Berg CSIS Americas senior fellow Ryan C. Berg and Matthew Carusi evaluate the potential of Central America to capture the current movement toward nearshoring supply chains and the importance of special economic zones for realizing this potential.

Commentary
Takeaways from the Elections in France, Spain, and Colombia
July 1, 2022 | Antonio De La Cruz CSIS senior associate Antonio de la Cruz compares and assesses the recent elections in Colombia, France, and Spain and the ramifications on the national and international stage.

Commentary
How to Break the Stalemate in Haiti
June 30, 2022 | Georges A. Fauriol Americas Program senior associate Georges Fauriol and coauthors, Peter Hakim, Enrique Ter Horst, and Keith Mines outline the need for a national dialogue in Haiti to address deteriorating political, economic, and security crises.

Commentary
Taking the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity as an ‘Opening Bid’ to Go Bigger
June 29, 2022 | Daniel F. Runde, Meredith Broadbent, Henry Ziemer CSIS Senior Vice President Daniel F. Runde, Senior Adviser Meredith Broadbent, and Henry Ziemer examine the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity and offer recommendations for how Congress can support the initiative.

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The Geopolitics of Honduras’s Special Economic Zones
June 9, 2022 | Ryan C. Berg, Evan Ellis CSIS Americas Program experts Ryan C. Berg and Evan Ellis examine the significance of special economic zones in Honduras amid rising geopolitical competition between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, as well as the United States' push to nearshore key industries.

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Six Things for Biden and Bolsonaro to Discuss on the Summit Sidelines
June 6, 2022 | Daniel F. Runde, Ryan C. Berg The Summit of the Americas is the premier hemispheric meeting with the United States' closest neighbors. Amid worries of its success, Brazil’s presence can make the summit a hemispheric victory.

Commentary
The Return to Mexico
May 18, 2022 | Antonio De La Cruz CSIS senior associate Antonio de la Cruz evaluates the prospects for the resumed round of negotiations between the Maduro regime and opposition Unitary Platform.

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The Caribbean in the Crossfire
April 27, 2022 | Evan Ellis CSIS Americas senior associate Evan Ellis discusses the strategic importance of the Caribbean Basin and outlines policy recommendations for the United States to engage with the region at a time of renewed international competition.

Commentary
Parsing Fact and Fiction in the Maduro Regime’s Narrative of Economic Recovery
April 22, 2022 | Ryan C. Berg CSIS Americas senior fellow Ryan C. Berg unpacks how the Maduro regime's selective economic liberalization enriches regime loyalists while leaving ordinary Venezuelans behind.

Commentary
Dancing with the Dictator in Caracas
March 22, 2022 | Ryan C. Berg CSIS Americas Senior Fellow Ryan C. Berg analyzes the strategic flaws of U.S. overtures to the Maduro regime, and the dangers of trading one dictator for another.

Commentary
Haiti’s Fractured Political Dynamics
March 17, 2022 | Georges A. Fauriol Georges Fauriol analyzes Haiti's political landscape and what the current challenges mean for the country's prospects of democratic consolidation.

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Authoritarian Survival: Venezuelan Gold and Nicaragua’s Ortega-Murillo Regime
March 8, 2022 | Ryan C. Berg CSIS Americas senior fellow Ryan C. Berg and Karla Rios assess Nicaragua's role in laundering illegally mined gold from Venezuela and offer recommendations for how the Biden administration can clamp down on this illicit revenue.

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