Introducing Colombias own Obama
Versión en Español Six weeks ago, it seemed impossible. Today, it seems improbable but all too possible: Colombia could reject...
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Challenges to democracy, human rights & regional stability in Latin America
The Center for Security Policy's Menges Hemispheric Security Project presented its Second Annual Capitol Hill National Security Briefing on Latin...
Experts warn of escalating Chavez threat
Latin America experts are warning about the growing threat from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, citing new evidence of Chavez’s expanding...
The perils of peripheral warfare: Iran & Venezuela share the tactics of asymmetric war
When Epifanio Flores Quispe, the mayor of Requena, Peru received an invitation recently to visit Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, he...
Morales in Bolivia: ‘If you are not with the Party, you are the opposition. There is no middle ground.’
Evo Morales won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with an overwhelming 54% of the vote with his Movement toward Socialism...
Latin America in American national security
The Christmas bombing attempt at blowing up a Northwest Airline flying from Amsterdam to Detroit has rightly raised the level...
Pro-Iranian Chavista Daniel Ortega overturns term limits
In recent years, we have been witnessing a pattern in Latin America, where Presidents are elected democratically and then abuse...
Champions of democracy
"Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose...
Humbled by the Honduran people
I had the privilege of being part of a distinguished group that traveled to Honduras to serve as an international...
A Chavista in Uruguay?
As in Honduras, Uruguayans will go to the polls to elect a new president on Sunday November 29th. The most...
A very different face of Colombia
There's a good reason life in Pasto, Colombia appears different to a visitor from the capital, Bogota: it is. Pasto...
Who’s behind the Obama Honduras policy?
The Obama Administration has made serious mistakes in its handling of the crisis in Honduras where it supports the return...
Brazil’s tilt towards Chavez and Iran
For those of us concerned with hemispheric security, the big question has always been how do we contain Chavez‘s expansionist...
Otto Reich: Honduras, Venezuela & Obama
Hon. Otto Reich is the former White House Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives and former Assistant Secretary of State...
Revolutionary Anti-Semitism
"Sometimes I ask myself if Hitler wasn't right when he wanted to finish with that race, through the famous holocaust,...