Reads of the Week: Mixed Views on Mexico’s Economy and Peru’s Security

A worker at a luxury cowboy boot factory works on pairs of boots in the central city of Leon (Courtesy Reuters).
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A worker at a luxury cowboy boot factory works on pairs of boots in the central city of Leon (Courtesy Reuters).

Peru's new President Ollanta Humala is sworn in to office in Congress in Lima (Mariana Bazo/Courtesy Reuters).

Undocumented Migrants travel on raft bound for Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico (Daniel Leclair/Courtesy Reuters).

Coca leaf farmer John Basilio harvests coca leaves in Tingo Maria, Peru (Mariana Bazo/Courtesy Reuters).

A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks an area under a bridge crossing between the United States and Mexico (Eric Thayer/Courtesy Reuters).

Plans for a $340 million overhaul of Rio de Janeiro's iconic Maracana stadium are among those behind schedule for the World Cup (Sergio Moraes / Courtesy Reuters).
Latin America’s Moment looks at economic, political, and social issues and trends throughout the Western Hemisphere.
I had the pleasure of joining PBS’s Tavis Smiley on his Los Angeles based show earlier this week to talk…
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As part of the Council on Foreign Relations’, “Presidential Inbox” series, I sat down yesterday with Arturo Valenzuela, former assistant…
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