Citations for: The Mexican Debates: New Perspectives, Same Electoral Results

(1) http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/06/us-mexico-debate-idUSBRE84509S20120506

(2)  http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/196933.html

(3) http://eleconomista.com.mx/columnas/columna-especial(-politica/2012/06/12/debate-ganadores-perdedores

(4) http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2012/06/11/actualidad/1339389512_089683.html

(5) http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2012/06/19/actualidad/1340140246_892772.html

(6) http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/cs201/projects/2006-07/latin-america/mexicoAccess.html

(7) http://elsemanario.co m.mx/categorias/Negocios/?id=10&nota_id=8284

(8) http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2012/06/19/actualidad/1340140246_892772.html

Citations for: The Lure of Cuban Energy Independence: One Twist After Another

(1) http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41522.pdf 

(2) http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/30/2823567/repsols-move-raises-questions.html 

(3) http://desde-cuba.blogspot.com/2012/06/nota-informativa.html 

(4) http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/06/10/cuba-seeks-to-boost-alternative-energy-production-by-12-pct/ 

(5) http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:23214755~pagePK:34370~piPK:42770~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Citations for: Obama’s DREAMers Announcement : Too Little Too Late?

(1) http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/15/news/la-pn-thwarted-by-congress-obama-will-stop-deporting-young-illegal-immigrants-20120615

(2) http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/12/18/135759/dream-act-republicans-graham/?mobile=nc

(3) http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/watch-obama-announces-new-dream-immigration-policy-full-video-and-text/politics/2012/06/15/41604

(4) http://bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2012/06/17/mitt-romney-says-president-obama-immigration-order-was-politically-motivated-but-does-not-say-would-repeal/TpR0aPTwpZQ2nYbsFfeKDO/story.html

(5) http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/07/26/128772646/deportations-higher-under-obama-than-bush

(6) http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/watch-obama-announces-new-dream-immigration-policy-full-video-and-text/politics/2012/06/15/41604

About Gustavo Setrini

Gustavo Setrini holds a Ph.D. in political economy and comparative politics from the Political Science Department at MIT, where he is currently a post-doctoral research associate. He is also a research affiliate at the Centro de Análisis y Difusión de Economía Paraguaya, in Asunción. As a Fulbright scholar in Paraguay from 2007-2009, Gustavo conducted field research on the evolution of political clientelism since Paraguay’s democratization and on the effectiveness of Fairtrade certification and similar donor-funded, NGO-led development projects that promote sustainable agricultural techniques and integrate poor farmers into global supply chains.

His publications and media appearances about Paraguayan politics include,

“Veinte Años de Democracia Electoral en Paraguay: del Clientelismo Monopólico al Clientelismo Plural” “Twenty Years of Electoral Democracy in Paraguay: from monopolistic to pluralistic clientelism” in Estado y Economía en Paraguay (1870-2010). Ed. Fernando Masi and Dionisio Borda. Centro de Análisis y Difusión de Economía Paraguaya (CADEP): Asunción, Paraguay. November 2011.

“Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz Invited To Paraguay,” Interview for Backstory on Radio Adelaide (Australia), October 1, 2008.

Stiglitz Goes to Paraguay: Move over Chicago, a Cambridge-boy is in Town,” www.upsidedownworld.com, August 28, 2008.

Citations for: Land Reform Issues Intensify as Paraguay Enters Into a Political Crisis

(1) “Carperos ahora se sienten víctimas.” ABC Color (June 21, 2012). http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/politica/carperos--ahora-se-sienten-victimas-416564.html.


(2) Germani, Clara. “Paraguayan peasants battle for land. Land disputes in Paraguay are rising sharply. They signal new stridency on the part of landless peasants and fresh opposition to strong man Stroessner.” Christian Science Monitor (April 7, 1988). http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0407/opara.html.


(3) “Informe Final.” Comisión Verdad Justicia y Reparación: Defensoria del Pueblo (2003). http://www.verdadyjusticia-dp.gov.py/documentos.html.


(4) Ruiz Diaz, Natalia. “Paraguay: Land Conflicts Threaten to Boil Over.” Inter Press Service (February 28, 2012). http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/02/paraguay-land-conflicts-threaten-to-boil-over/.


(5) Tana, Kyle. “Soybean Wars.” Council on Hemispheric Affairs (May 11, 2010). http://www.coha.org/soybean-wars/.


(6) Servin, Pedro. “Paraguay: 17 killed in violent land dispute.” Associated Press (June 16, 2012). http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gSgX8Nv1C77dhtNWsdp_RCOvaBIQ?docId=17d8d16d5f56489fa6b6a0ffd6b7db53.


(7) “Hoy ganó el prebendarismo y el clientelismo en la decisión de rechazar el veto de amplicación para el TSJE.” Ultima Hora, (May 24, 2012). http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/531066--Hoy-gano-el-prebendarismo-y-el-clientelismo-en-la-decision-de-rechazar-el-veto-de-ampliacion-para-el-TSJE.     

Citations for: Brazilian Environmental Policy: Talk or Action?

(1) http://www.economist.com/node/21556245 

(2) This idea of “integrate, don’t abdicate” underlies the Brazilian governmental policy towards the Amazon.

(3) Shankland, Alex and Hasenclever, Leonardo – Indigenous peoples and the Regulation of the REDD+ in Brazil: Beyond the War of the Worlds?, IDS Bulletin, Special Issue: Political Economy of Climate Change, vol. 43, nº3, May 2011, p.80-88.

(4) Kolk, Ans – Forests in International Environmental Politics: International Organisations, NGOs and the Brazilian, International Books, Netherlands, 2006.

(5) Examples of these are Amazon Cooperation Treaty, OTCA, Lei de Gestão das Florestas Públicas.

(6) http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/05/20125261123137515.html