Subject: Editors' Picks: The Mauritius miracle has major costs, and a long wait for justice in Colombia continues
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:59:43 -0500 (CDT)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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10/18/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at how ghost offices and low taxes in Mauritius have allowed multinational companies to funnel public money away from poorer nations, why victims of sexual violence in Colombia say the 2016 peace deal’s justice provisions aren’t enough, and why Democratic candidates in the United States should back away from hawks on defense spending to win in 2020.

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FOLLOW THE MONEY: The small, isolated island of Mauritius has become a tax haven, funneling needed resources away from African governments—and the World Bank has turned a blind eye, Matt Kennard and Claire Provost report.

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PEACE WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY: Despite a much-lauded peace accord in 2016, Colombian victims of forced abortion and rape at the hands of the FARC guerrillas have yet to see perpetrators account for their crimes, Erika Piñeros reports.

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3

CUT THOSE COSTS: In order to win in 2020, Democrats should embrace the left’s ideas on foreign policy, not fight them, Ross James Gildea writes.

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4

HE ACED IT, TOO: Kevin Carrico took an online course in Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era—and wrote about it for Foreign Policy.

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5

SILVER LINING FOR THE APOCALYPSE: Last week’s grim report on climate change came with a chance to get it right before global emissions reach the point of no return—shifting from a drive to own to an incentive to share and reuse, Jason Hickel writes.

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