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Brazil's pioneering solution to vaccine shortages
Oped, Joseph E Stiglitz, Achal Prabhala & Felipe Carvalho, Published on 06/12/2021
» The World Trade Organization was expected to meet the past week to consider a proposal that has been languishing for the past year: a temporary waiver of pharmaceutical intellectual property during the pandemic to allow poor countries to make many of the same tests, treatments, and vaccines that rich countries have had throughout the pandemic. Yet in a cruel reminder of the urgency of the problem, the WTO meeting was postponed, owing to the Omicron variant, detected by scientists in South Africa (though precisely where it originated remains unclear).
Pandemics and political performance
Oped, Francis Fukuyama & Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Published on 01/07/2021
» The Covid-19 pandemic has created a laboratory for testing different governance systems in the face of a public-health crisis, ultimately revealing massive variance in country performance. For example, countries in East Asia -- China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, tended to do a better job of controlling the pandemic than did many countries in the Americas and Europe.
200 years since the raising of the Argentine flag
Oped, Felipe Solá, Published on 13/11/2020
» Nov 6, 2020 marks an anniversary of great relevance in the protracted sovereignty dispute over the Question of the Malvinas Islands: On this date, 200 years ago, David Jewett, a US national at the service of the Argentine Navy, took possession of the Malvinas Islands (Falkland Islands), raising the Argentine flag on the islands for the first time.