Saturday, March 7, 2026

The Good Old Imperial Way: Indirect US rule in Venezuela

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Many analysts, critics, and Trump himself, invoke the Monroe Doctrine, “Gunboat Diplomacy,” and the golden age of imperialism to explain or ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Mark Carney's election

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Inter-American Dialogue asked me to answer the following questions (in 250 words altogether!): What ultimately decided the race for Carney a...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Les petits matins blêmes du président Lula

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Les années Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) ont été pour le Brésil une époque de violence, de régression sociale et économique, de polarisation po...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

The Brazilian gun lobby's er... dysfunctions

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A funny one from my favourite Brazilian magazine , although, unfortunately, gun proliferation in Brazil is a sad, very serious and, literall...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Canada's review of its Cannabis legalization policy

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 [This short comment marks the return of the Little Crocodile, exceptionally, with Canadian content, but only because it is about drugs and ...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Bolsonaro and the Brazilian military

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Reacting on Facebook to my recent piece on Lula in Open Canada , Fraser Taylor pointed out that, aside from the Covid situation, the key var...

Lula is Back

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Brazil is going through the worst crisis of its modern history. As of this writing, the pandemic has killed more than 400,000 Brazilians, wi...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Thinking clearly about Amazon protection

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The world has suddenly rediscovered the Amazon. After a summer of record heat waves in Europe and North America, thousands of fires and a cl...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Lava Jato: beware throwing the baby with the bathwater

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The trove of documents that The Intercept is posting online shows increasingly clearly that Lava Jato Judge Moro and key prosecutors we...