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Davos in existential crisis

The World Economic Forum (WEF), holding its annual summit of leaders across the board of professions, emerged in the early seventies of last century. It positioned itself at the right of centre in the politico-economic spectrum and made no bones about it. It symbolised the neo-liberal ideology that had begun...

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How to avoid a war in Venezuela

One month after Juan Guaidó, the speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly, said he was assuming the powers of the Venezuelan presidency, currently held by Nicolás Maduro, the country's political crisis remains far from over. Tensions have escalated to the point that a full-blown civil war - a seemingly implausible scenario...

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