Articles by: Marco Fernandes

A New Leader’s Big Banking Opportunity to Improve Global Development

A New Leader’s Big Banking Opportunity to Improve Global Development

Will the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement be able to fulfill their original mission with the arrival of the new bank president Dilma Rousseff? The first event of President Lula da Silva’s long-awaited visit to China in mid-April 2023 is the official swearing-in ceremony of Dilma Rousseff as president of the New Development Bank (popularly known as the BRICS[Read More…]

by 13/04/2023 Comments are Disabled World
Could China Help Brazil to Overcome Its Economic Crisis?

Could China Help Brazil to Overcome Its Economic Crisis?

The election victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the president of Brazil for a third term on October 30 is expected to revise the relations between Brasília and Beijing. Brazil is going through a serious economic, political, social, and environmental crisis. Fighting poverty, resuming economic growth with income redistribution, reindustrializing the country, and reversing environmental abuses are urgent tasks, which will[Read More…]

by 29/11/2022 Comments are Disabled World
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Why Latin America Needs a New World Order

The world wants to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine. The NATO countries, however, want to prolong the conflict by increasing arms shipments to Ukraine and by declaring that they want to “weaken Russia.” The United States had already allocated $13.6 billion to arm Ukraine. Biden has just requested $33 billion more. By comparison, it would require $45[Read More…]

by 10/05/2022 Comments are Disabled World
Washington Watches as China and Latin America Deepen Their Ties

Washington Watches as China and Latin America Deepen Their Ties

Less than a week after the start of Russia’s military intervention, Juan Sebastian Gonzalez, senior director of Western Hemisphere affairs at the U.S. National Security Council, in an interview with Voice of America (a State Department asset), stated that “the sanctions against Russia are so robust that they will have an impact on those governments that have economic affiliations with Russia, and[Read More…]

by 07/04/2022 Comments are Disabled World
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