03/08/2018 | Economia y Finanzas
Opinion - China’s Empire of Debt
SUMMARY: Staggering in its ambition, China’s global-spanning One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR) aims to spend trillions of dollars on infrastructure financing in Asia, Europe, and Africa over the coming years ahead. Even before OBOR, the rising superpower was a leading lender worldwide.
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24/11/2017 | Frente Externo
Latin America - PDVSA Struggles to Keep Venezuela Solvent
Summary:Since its creation with the nationalization of Venezuelan oil in 1976, PDVSA has stood at the heart of Venezuela’s oil-dependent economy. Over the years the company has provided the Venezuelan government with billions of dollars for social development projects.
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21/11/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
ISIS - ISIS Turns to Opiates to Fund Activities in the MENA Region
Summary: The Middle East and North Africa could see a US-style crisis with prescription medicine emerging after another multi-million dollar bust saw more than 24 million tablets of a synthetic opiate known as Tramadol seized in the Italian container port of Gioia Tauro. The drug is increasingly widespread in Egypt, the Middle East, and West Africa, where its potency, availability, and inexpensiveness are driving its popularity. Alongside the amphetamine Captagon, Tramadol is also a popular drug with Islamic State (ISIS) militants, who use the former to fight for longer without getting tired, and the later to suppress pain and boost resilience.
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28/09/2017 | Frente Externo
Economics and Democracy: Myanmar’s Myriad Challenges
Nationalism and the crisis in Rakhine hide the economic roots of the NLD’s weakness.
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28/06/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Security - Southeast Asia - Asia's Deadly Pirates
Asia sees more kidnappings and armed robberies at sea than anywhere else in the world.
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01/02/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Is Trouble Brewing in the Taiwan Strait?
Amid President Trump’s other moves, don’t forget the possibility of the frozen conflict over Taiwan turning hot.
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24/07/2014 | En Parrilla
What Threat Does Argentina Currently Pose To The Falklands? – Analysis
Argentina recently succeeded in persuading the UN Special Committee on Decolonization to call for further negotiations with the United Kingdom over the status of the Falkland Islands.
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