The State Department and Chavez
The Undersecretary of State for Interamerican Affairs, Dr. Thomas Shannon, curiously expressed a positive attitude towards President Hugo Chavez by...
Month: January 2008
The State Department and Chavez
The Undersecretary of State for Interamerican Affairs, Dr. Thomas Shannon, once again expressed a positive attitude towards President Hugo Chavez...
Grimmacing to victory, grinning to defeat
For leaders in democracies, perhaps the most difficult decision is to change course. Decision-making is hard enough. Revisiting decisions...
Terry Elkes Democrats
Terry Elkes - stalwart of the old-style Democrats. On January 18th, America lost a gifted corporate leader, generous philanthropist and...
Chavez to Colombia: the FARC be with you
Uribe is succesfully battling the Chavez-backed FARC. (AP Photo) In the ongoing saga between Venezuelan despot President Hugo Chavez and...
Breaching conventions in statesmanship
Winston Churchill once said, " When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack...
The audacity of truth
It is hard to believe, but in just two weeks, American voters will all but determine the identities of the...
Chvez to Colombia: the FARC be with you
In the ongoing saga between despot Hugo Chavez and Colombian democratic President Alvaro Uribe over the hostage crisis due to...
Washington’s Pakistan debacle
by Alex Alexiev Musharraf - troublesome ally at best, a danger at worst. Three weeks after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto...
Front-gate
It is now a well-established tradition in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the...
Argentina’s Kirchner, ally of Chavez
The recent release of hostages Consuelo Gonzales and Clara Rojas after six years in captivity has been an orchestrated victory...
Globaloney
The President's Middle East trip will likely only increase the radical threat. (AP Photo) There is something surreal about the spectacle...
George in jihadland
US President George W. Bush arrived in Israel at the start of an eight-day tour of the Middle East at...
Colombia’s Uribe unmasks the FARC
After Uribe abruptly ended Chávez's intervention for the hostage rescue in November, the Venezuelan leader kept communicating with the FARC....
Colombia’s Uribe unmasks the FARC
In the December 20th issue of The Americas Report, we discussed how the international community was pressuring Colombian President Alvaro...
Purple heart in the War of Ideas?
Are Islamist sympathizers further penetrating the U.S. government? When the history of the George W. Bush administration is written, one...