Back to Sub-saharan Africa

While Foreign Policy magazine says a Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine is increasingly likely and armed motorcycle gangs or “colectivos” continue to terrorize and murder protesters across Venezuela, Africa continues its economic development. A couple of weeks ago GE’s Jay Ireland was in IESE talking about the potential for Africa and how GE has profoundly […]

After Crimea, What about Venezuela?

As expected, Russia has annexed Crimea and will have enormous influence on Ukraine’s interim Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk unless he wants to also lose the Eastern half of his country. At issue is that . Without allied support, U.S. President Barak Obama can not threaten military action because he will then look too much like […]

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Crimea & Ukraine

As I write,  apparently Russian troops are, according to CNN, taking strategic positions in Simferopol, the capital of the autonomous region of Crimea, which has been formally part of Ukraine since 1954. Russian troops are also reportedly being deployed around the Russian bases which have been leased from Ukraine. The provisional Ukrainian government, which was […]