Canning Insights

62-03-19 Latin American Economy & Business Report

  • LatinNews

Anatomy of a catastrophic blackout

Venezuela has just suffered one Latin America’s longest power cuts.
Electricity supply across most of the country went down on 7 March. It
remained down or intermittent for the following seven days. It was not
until 14 March that the government was able to claim that some type of
normal service had been restored. Here we look at what may have gone
wrong and try to assess the economic costs and implications.

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Politics and the Military in Latin America

The recent anniversary of the end of the Porfiriato, the 30-year period in which Mexico was ruled by the military dictator Porfirio Díaz, and the beginning of the Mexican Revolution offers us a chance to reflect on how relations have changed between civilian governments and the military in the century since his regime was ended at the hands of Mexican revolutionaries - writes Joe Brandon.

  • Joe Brandon, Policy, Research and Operations Officer
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