BOGOTÁ — Two major events last week bear directly on global debates about climate change and how to address it.

Latin America — and South America, in particular — has been in crisis for years. Yet foreign capital, both direct and financial investment, has continued to flow into the region.

The peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reached last month by the country’s government has received much-deserved praise. It is a historic achievement, one that promises to end more than a half-century of kidnapping, forced displacement, in

Puerto Rico’s economy has been contracting for nearly a decade — one of the worst recessions in recent history among economies not experiencing domestic conflict.Indeed, its slump has far outlasted that experienced by, say, the Baltic states, which also endured sharp contractions

Most of the world’s governments — eager to mobilise more tax revenues to finance development and curb pervasive tax-avoidance schemes, such as those revealed in the so-called Luxembourg Leaks scandal last year — have an interest in collaborating on taxation matters.