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Luca Loggia

Luca is a a third-year Honours student in political science with a minor in psychology. Enjoying both Canadian and Italian citizenship, he was born in beautiful Victoria, British-Columbia, and raised in the cosmopolitan treasure that Montreal embodies. His fields of interest are Canadian foreign policy and Latin American politics, with a particular focus on the Venezuelan polity.

Cheese at the Root of Italy’s Political Disarray: Experts

Luca Loggia Apr 1, 2019

Something odd is brewing in Rome and it’s not the coffee. Within the governing coalition, tensions continue to boil over differences between Vice Premier Luigi Di Maio and the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. In last week’s parliamentary…
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The U.S.-Mexico War on Narcotics: One step forward, two steps back

Luca Loggia Aug 4, 2017

This article was initially published in Global Americans. The Rio Grande—long a symbol of connection between two increasingly interdependent partners on questions of trade and security—has recently come to symbolize the rift between the…
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Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau: A Promise is a Promise

Luca Loggia Mar 3, 2017

Dear Honourable Prime Minister, In 2015, you ran on a campaign promising Canadians real change. That election, your respect for the environment, your humanism towards refugees and your enthusiastic vow to enact electoral reform made…
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Venezuelan Petrol: Black Gold or the Devil’s Excrement ?

Luca Loggia Dec 15, 2016

“Ten years from now, 20 years from now, you will see oil will bring us ruin.” When former Venezuelan diplomat, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, spoke those words in the 1970s, his statement was predictably greeted with puzzlement, at a time when…
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Bolivarian Gatekeepers: the Road to Military Praetorianism

Luca Loggia Aug 16, 2016

Hugo Chávez was able to galvanize support and loyalty among the peasants during his tenure as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela through the implementation of what he referred to as “twenty-first century socialism.”…
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