shifter
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Shifter said politicians on both the left and right have struggled to solve deep-seated problems in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Mr Shifter added that what he found more puzzling was the "contradiction" between the pardon and Trump's declared policy of clamping down on drug trafficking.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
“It’s all put Latin America on edge,” said Michael Shifter, past president of Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based research group.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025
“This is definitely not a ‘change’ election as many others have recently been in Latin America,” said Michael Shifter, a senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based research organization.
From New York Times • May 19, 2024
Shifter now began to be tired with rustick simplicity, and on the fifth day took possession again of his chambers, and bade farewell to the regions of calm content and placid meditation.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel
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