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Optimism about Mexico's political and economic future
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Optimism about Mexico's political and economic future

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Just back from Mexico, and I come away pretty optimistic about where the country is heading overall, and some of that is the context of Mexico in an environment where China-US relations are getting a lot more challenging. Mexico in many ways is the country that stands to benefit the most outside of the United States.

Iván Duque: I should have been more forceful with US on drugs
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Iván Duque: I should have been more forceful with US on drugs

Iván Duque has few regrets from his time as Colombia's president. But if he could go back and do better on one thing, perhaps he should have been more vocal on the War on Drugs. In a GZERO World interview, Duque tells Ian Bremmer that he brought this up with both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Can there be capitalism without freedom? No, says Iván Duque
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Can there be capitalism without freedom? No, says Iván Duque

Should the US still try to engage with countries run by regimes antithetical to its own? For former Colombian President Iván Duque, the democratic consensus in the Western Hemisphere means that "there's no space for autocracies or for dictatorships." That means not imposing democracy on everyone but defending democratic values everywhere, he tells Ian Bremmer in a GZERO World interview.

Five choices
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Five choices

In France, Hungary, Colombia, Brazil, and the United States, voters will choose future leaders in 2022 among some stark — and colorful — choices.

Don’t tax the dead: Colombia’s crisis
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Don’t tax the dead: Colombia’s crisis

Colombia is currently suffering its worst political crisis in recent memory, after a botched tax reform provoked massive protests and a violent crackdown. What was Colombia's unpopular President Iván Duque trying to do, and why did it fail so miserably?

Colombia’s Angela Merkel moment
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Colombia’s Angela Merkel moment

President Iván Duque has normalized the status of nearly 2 million Venezuelan refugees living in Colombia. The move could provoke a big backlash among the Colombian population. Why did Duque do it?




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Colombia's humanitarian gesture for Venezuelan refugees merits US support
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Colombia's humanitarian gesture for Venezuelan refugees merits US support

Ian Bremmer shares his perspective on global politics on this week's World In (More Than) 60 Seconds: Why did Colombia's president grant legal status to 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants? What are the political ramifications of Netanyahu's corruption trial? Finally, what is going on with Elon Musk and Bitcoin?

Colombia’s President Iván Duque on early pandemic response: “Multilateralism didn’t work as it should”
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Colombia’s President Iván Duque on early pandemic response: “Multilateralism didn’t work as it should”

In an interview with GZERO Media, Colombia's President Iván Duque discusses early missteps in global coordination on pandemic response that he feels exacerbated the spread of the virus. "If we all had acknowledged what was really going on in Asia, maybe we would have taken faster draconian measures to protect the world," he told Ian Bremmer.