VT Foreign Policy

On the eve of the inauguration of Brazil’s leftist President Lula da Silva, January 1st, out-going Jair Bolsanaro headed to the United States.

As Cold War escalated in the Indian Ocean Region this year, Sri Lanka’s duel US Citizen, Finance Minister, Basil Rajapakse, hastily Staged a Default in April for the first time in its history-- enabling the Washington Consensus to make deep inroads into the strategic island’s policy process.