The FARC’s senator
On September 27, 2010, Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba was removed from her senate seat. The country's Inspector General provided evidence...
Bolivia
Guide to the perplexed
Israel's leaders are reportedly concerning themselves with one question today. Are there any circumstances in which US President Barack Obama...
The first rule of strategy
The first rule of strategy is to keep your opponent busy attending to your agenda so he has no time...
La Relacin Entre Procesos Polticos en Amrica Latina y La Seguridad Regional
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Connecting the dots: Internal developments in Latin America & regional security
Versión en Español Today, a large part of the Latin American continent is in danger of collapsing into a situation...
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...
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...
A Chavista in Uruguay?
As in Honduras, Uruguayans will go to the polls to elect a new president on Sunday November 29th. The most...
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...
Revolutionary Anti-Semitism
"Sometimes I ask myself if Hitler wasn't right when he wanted to finish with that race, through the famous holocaust,...
Making hash of Honduras
Now that the Honduran crisis has moved back into the media spotlight, we should examine what actually took place in...
High stakes in Chile
Chile will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday December 13, 2009, with a run-off scheduled for January 17, 2010...