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Addressing the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis: Part I
Photo Credit: UNICEF Ecuador By Aanvi JhaveriStaff Writer The recent migration crisis in Venezuela has garnered attention across the world as millions of individuals and families have fled the nation to escape violence, conflict, and neglect. This humanitarian crisis is a result of ongoing political and economic conflicts that have severely impacted the quality of…
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A Song of Withering Sakura: Japanese Multinational Corporations Struggling in the Global Market
Photo Credit: sofi5t By Zerui PanContributing Writer Once as brilliant as Sakura, or cherry blossoms, the full bloom of Japanese Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in the 1980s and early 90s astonished the world. Corporations such as Mitsubishi, Mitsui, and Itochu swept the podium among the Fortune Global 500 in 1995, and nationally Japanese companies won 37…
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Explosives to Electronics: Examining the Historical Dynamics of Chile’s Mining Industry to Modernity
Photo Credit: Municipalidad Antofagasta By Mihir ShenoyContributing Writer Chile’s newly-elected president wants to reform the way the nation’s resources are managed. President Gabriel Boric ran on a platform of standing up to private mining interests, supporting tax hikes, suing companies for exorbitant water use, and proposing a state-owned lithium company to compete with existing firms.…