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Fernando Henrique Cardoso on Brazil's future

More personal security, less inequality

An interview with the former president about Brazil's challenges and its increasing global power

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Our blog on Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada 

What we're reading

Addressing the risk of a Cuban oil spill (Council on Foreign Relations)
How should the United States prepare?

Rethinking Latin America (Foreign Affairs)
Foreign policy is more than development

Reckoning with a genocide in Guatemala (The Atlantic)
A war-crimes trial in a culture of impunity

The loneliness of the Guyanas (Opinionator)
Why South America's Caribbean coast is full of border disputes 

Highlights
Political advertising in Mexico

From slogans to cigarettes

A century of vote-wooing propaganda

Race in Brazil

Affirming a divide

Black Brazilians are much worse off than they should be. But what is the best way to remedy that?

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