#NewWorldReport: Troubled elections Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
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#NewWorldReport: Troubled elections Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/panama-court-likely-revoke-first-quantum-copper-mine-contract-2023-11-13/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-central-bank-says-economy-could-have-shrunk-third-quarter-2023-11-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/thousands-honduras-march-anti-government-protest-2023-11-11/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-economy-minister-announces-stimulus-measures-amid-recession-2023-11-09/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/south-americas-andes-shrinking-lake-titicaca-rings-climate-alarm-bell-2023-11-10/
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| 0:45.8 | the Americas where there is trouble now, trouble expected, permanently trouble. |
| 0:51.9 | Elections are troubling moments which is why they have in the past |
| 0:55.6 | been very successful. You solve problems with the vote. We come first to Panama. The |
| 1:01.8 | election is next year, but Panama couldn't be more critical to the success of the United States these last hundred years since the building of the Panama Canal. |
| 1:11.0 | At the same time, Panama is a banking center and a legal center for |
| 1:15.0 | Central America for the Americas, for the Europeans. |
| 1:19.6 | And to my knowledge, it is also the nexus of the anxiety about migration through the now |
| 1:25.5 | infamous Darien gap thousands tens of thousands coming from all over the world |
| 1:30.4 | towards the southern border of the US. But now, Professor, it started out as a dispute |
| 1:36.7 | over a copper mine that is contributing more and more to the income of Panama as the Panama Canal struggles through the drought and a cut back in traffic. |
| 1:47.0 | However, if I understand correctly, I get lost quickly when I try to summarize how a mine, copper mine that they didn't know was there until they found it, |
| 1:56.7 | and a contract with that copper mine leads to tens of thousands in the street in Panama City, |
| 2:02.2 | and the question of next year's election is now in |
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