Comparative Politics: I've been studying Latin America and the Caribbean for decades, and the region still manages to shock me.
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US makes it so easy for Flávio to enter the US and so hard for María Corina Machado to enter Venezuela.
Brazil and Lula's re-election. It's important to understand how the incumbent's advantage in Latin America works. Thread.
10 Brazil thus faces at least two democratic challenges moving forward. In the short term, the continuistas who lost will claim fraud by the continuistas who won.
This week’s update on US foreign policy: Putin gets an oil deal, Zelensky gets trashed, and the Rodríguez’s continue to see their wishes come true.
El Departamento del Tesoro estadounidense levanta las sanciones económicas contra Jorge Rodríguez, líder de la Asamblea Nacional y hermano de la presidenta interina de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez #AFP
Javier Corrales retweeted
I've been regularly traveling to #Venezuela to meet with stakeholders and study the prospects for change since 2014.
For the first time in 12 years of visiting, I came away from my last trip convinced that a negotiated democratic transition may finally be within reach. Here's why: (1/5)
Regarding Brazil: Latin America's era of polarizing caudillos rages on. There are four types of caudillos in Latin America today. All of them polarizing, in their own right. Here is the typology.
Latin America's great paradox: There is a lot of discontent, and yet, or maybe because of it, there is a great demand for continuismo, and worse, neocaudillos as the solution. Neocaudillismo makes discontent deeper.
I try to make sense of this mess in my 2025 essay: Continuismo versus Rompismo elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b…
