The real meaning of the new Argentina-Iran agreement
There is a new deal brewing between Argentina and Iran in order to improve relations between the two counties, which...
Luis Fleischman
Dr. Luis Fleischman is a Senior Adviser to the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy in Washington DC. He is also a professor of Sociology at Palm Beach State College. He is the author of the book, "Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Security Threat to the United States."
Insightful look at daily life under Chavez’ authoritarianism
Click here to purchase "The Lieutenant of San Porfirio" at Amazon for $16.77 Joel Hirst is a young writer and...
Questionable Chinese mining practices in Latin America
Originally published at the Americas Report China has conducted an economic foreign policy under the slogan of “win-win”. This concept...
Speculating on Venezuela’s Future
There is a great deal of speculation these days about the immediate political future after Chavez' expected death. Some analysts,...
The Gaza Crisis and the Intellectual Left in Latin America
The recent Gaza crisis, during which Israel responded with a limited military operation to stop Hamas missile attacks against Israeli...
Reflections on Regional Reactions to Chavez’s Victory
Two days prior to the Venezuelan presidential election, Francisco Toro, a Venezuelan journalist and blogger, wrote an op-ed in the New...
Election in Venezuela
The upcoming October 7th elections in Venezuela do not constitute just another round of elections in another country. These elections...
The consequences of Colombia’s negotiations with FARC
Early in October, peace negotiations will take place between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)...
The Importance of the War of Ideas
As anti-American feelings are being cultivated in large parts of Latin America, not much attention is being paid to the...
The Assange Case and Ecuador: Correa Positions Himself as Chavez’s International Successor
Ecuador’s decision to grant political asylum to the computer hacker, Julian Assange, is very revealing in relation to the character...
The Salvadorian Constitutional Crisis, Democracy and the International Community
Last month El Salvador experienced one of its most dramatic constitutional crises of the past 20 years. It began when...
The Future of Venezuela: Chavismo Without Chavez
Ever since announcing that he has cancer, the status of Hugo Chavez’s health and longevity has been an issue of...
The Summit of the Americas: A Major Disappointment
The Summit of the Americas, the largest gathering of leaders from the Latin American and Caribbean states plus the U.S....
The Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Another case of regional chauvinism
In recent months the government of Argentina has launched a new political and public relations campaign aimed at putting pressure...
Silence on fraudulent rule in Nicaragua detrimental to Latin American and U.S. interests
During the earlier part of this November, elections took place in Nicaragua. These elections displayed an element of fraud from...
Assassination plot in DC related to increasing Iranian presence in Western Hemisphere
Until Chavez assumed power Iran's presence in the Western Hemisphere was not as strong as it is today. Its proxy,...