By DANIEL F. RUNDE and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following is an abbreviated version of a brief written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. It is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) THE ISSUE A precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would endanger many of the social, political, economic and health gains that
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With a geographic distance of more than 14,500 kilometers separating his country from Mexico, a diplomatic staff of just one, and a suffering export economy that is struggling to diversify its garment- and leather goods-heavy portfolio (representing roughly 80 percent of all overseas sales) in a global market that is rapidly being devoured by China, Bangladeshi Ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For a country that just three decades ago was a nation on the brink of mass starvation, the Republic of Bangladesh has made tremendous strides in recent years, both socially and economically. Although it is still plagued by overpopulation, political instability, the scourge of Islamic terrorism and a reputation for unsafe working conditions for its laborers (not
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Until the Rakhine crisis – which began in 2016 after the Myanmar Army and police launched a massive military crackdown on the predominately Muslim Rohingya following attacks on Burmese border posts by Rohingya insurgents – the majority of the million-or-so Rohingyas lived in Rakhine, along Myanmar’s western coast
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