The next few years will be difficult for Latin American countries. Low petroleum and commodity prices are adversely affecting the economies of the region. At the same time, there is increased pressure on the governments for economic and social reforms.
Colombia, which has had a strong economy, recently passing Argentina
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Iranian jets struck ISIL targets in Iraq, according to a senior U.S. defense official. What makes this report so bizarre is that it means the Iranians are working toward the same objective, destruction of ISIL, as their avowed enemy, the Great Satan, according to Iran’s Supreme Leader. Here is one
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Members of Covington & Burling’s Public Policy and Government Affairs Practice Group were in Mexico last week for the 12th annual Mexico Business Summit, which convened heads of state and business leaders from around the world to engage in discussions about Mexico’s future economic development and tapping into Mexico’s
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The next General Election in the UK is scheduled for 7 May 2015, and the outcome is far from certain. Where the power lies will influence the business environment for long after May 2015, particularly if no one party secures an outright majority in Parliament or if the result leads
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The second round of the Brazilian Presidential election coming on October 26 will be decided between incumbent Dilma Rousseff from the left leaning PT (Workers Party) and the challenger Aécio Neves from the centrist PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party). The stakes are huge for the country and for companies doing
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In view of the importance of privacy issues to readers of GlobalPolicyWatch, we have reprinted below a blog post by Morgan Kennedy from Covington’s Washington office which appeared on the Covington InsidePrivacy blog on September 12.
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Forever 21 Faces Point-of-Sale Data Collection Class Action Lawsuit
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While members of Congress, the news media, and the American public debate the merits of President Obama’s new strategy to confront ISIS in the Middle East, Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, participated in a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday on this
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Companies doing business in Eastern Europe are likely to face an uncertain political climate in the near future. Part of this is the fallout from the Russian Ukraine controversy. Another factor is the residual effects of the 2008 economic collapse and the inability of economies to recover. A third is
The Washington Post yesterday quoted Covington’s Rob Kelner in a front page article about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. From the Post, “Even though the additional millions flowing to candidates and parties ‘is real money, in the grand scheme of our campaign finance
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For companies doing business in Russia and following with concern the possibility of further sanctions, next week will be critical. On August 26, senior EU officials will be gathering in Minsk, Belarus. It is likely that Russian President Putin will also be meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Poroshenko, for the
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