Republicans and conservatives may have missed some important news this past weekend as they prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday: the historic victory of the conservative Popular Party (PP) last Sunday in Spain. Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister elect and leader of the PP, won an absolute majority and sent the Socialists to their biggest defeat …
Continue reading Spain’s election and U.S. foreign policy after 2012
The next Republican president needs to look at Brazil as we do Canada and Mexico. Consider that Brazil is currently the sixth or the seventh biggest economy in the world, and depending on whose projections you follow, is forecasted to become the fifth sometime in the next ten years. After 16 years of political and …
Continue reading Brazil and the next Republican president, part II
Having spent a week in Brasilia, Sao Paulo, and Rio meeting with senior representatives of the Brazilian government and major influencers in the country, it’s clear to me that Republicans and conservatives need to understand that Brazil could be as consequential to the United States in the next twenty years as Canada or Mexico are …
Daniel Runde 