Javier Corrales
@jcorrales2011
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Comparative Politics: I've been studying Latin America and the Caribbean for decades, and the region still manages to shock me.
Joined August 2011
Great piece. Discusses the effects. The desire to cancel USAID—unilaterally, without reviews, based on ideology—is very similar to AMLO’s defunding campaigns or even Chávez’s exprópiese.
Roberta Clarke, head of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, blasted the aid freeze as “extraordinarily cruel” in a call Friday to announce that she had to let go a third of the watchdog's staff. The DC-based @CIDH has been around for decades.
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RT @STHGibbs: The Venezuelan government may be heading for a double win from Trump's tariffs. It is exempt, and the global oil price will l…
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Nothing has made US firms more competitive globally than Free trade with Mex & Can. It deepened friendship with our neighbors, an advantage we had over Chi (which has 19 border disputes). Nothing makes nations poorer than autarchy, and less secure than having neighbors hating us.
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A little understood point of Democratic Backsliding is the role of fabricated Intl conflicts. Most rising autocrats create/invent Intl crises. Intl Crises serve as justification for power grabs. We are getting tariffs not because of fentanyl, but because autocracy is rising.
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Rubio ripped Biden for prisoners swap. That was back then when he loved to use strong words. He is more quiet now.
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@TonyFrangieM El grupo de Rubio insignificante. Está ahí porque es un yes-man, no por sus ideas
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The Trump Doctrine: For my trade partners, tariffs. For autocrats, let’s make a deal (no worries, this won’t involve human rights).
A ver a ver si entendí... Pagan 25 millones por un narco dictador pero Trump envía un representante a negociar con él No era Biden el que negociaba y no Trump?
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RT @bloggingsbyboz: Grenell and Maduro shaking hands. I assumed a meeting like this would happen this year. I predicted Trump's pivot towar…
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RT @shannonkoneil: Trump is threatening tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico starting February 1. Here are nine @CFR_org charts showing wh…
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RT @Marteljr: Here is a track of the helicopter from VA that would eventually crash into the CRJ at National Airport. Terrible accident. He…
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One of my favorite political scientists, @malahtun, passed away this week.💔Went to grad school together. Left an impressive body of work. I am now reading her co-authored piece: Comparative Analysis for Theory Development. So good.
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RT @MarcoAFrieri: She campaigned next to him, said nothing while immigrants were denigrated, and now acts surprised by the actions of the T…
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A Mega-Cuban-MAGA now panicking. U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Miami, is begging the Trump administration to protect migrants who qualified under former President Biden’s “humanitarian par… Source: WLRN
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The economy is booming, inflation and unemployment are low, crime rates are declining, we are at peace, he controls congress, and Trump is thinking of declaring a natl emergency and issuing 100 executive orders. Source: POLITICO
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RT @jacv1970: En momentos tan complejos para Venezuela, me resulta imprescindible intentar revisar desde el punto de vista estratégico la s…
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When you don't have arguments, you fill your sentences with adjectives, insults, repetition: burdo, bufo, burdo, bufo, incoherente, burdo, bufo, vacuo, vacío, vacuo, bufo.
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