Challenges Continue After Maduro’s Election in Venezuela
According to results reported by the national Elections Committee of Venezuela (CNE), Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s chosen successor and protege, won...
Hugo Chavez
Could the papacy play a role in post-Chavez Latin America?
Following the spirit of the constitution, the next elections in Venezuela are scheduled for April 14th. Nicolas Maduro will be...
Jon Perdue: Latin America After Chavez
Jon Perdue, Director of Latin America Programs, The Fund for American Studies; Author, The War of All The People: The...
After Chavez
The death yesterday of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez should be a cause of celebration for freedom-loving people throughout the Western...
Chavez’s Deeds: He Was A Threat to America and His Own People
Hugo Chavez died on March 5th, 2013 exactly 60 years after Josef Stalin. The Mexican political scientist Fredo Arias wrote...
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...
China’s Battery and Assault
With Roger Noriega, Gordon Chang, Dean Popps, and Andrew McCarthy. AEI scholar ROGER NORIEGA discusses what the chances are of...
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,...
Terrorists on Twitter
With Fred Grandy, Fred Fleitz, David Brog, and Bill Gertz. FRED GRANDY of the Center for Security Policy talks about...
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 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...
Obama’s all-hat-no-cattle diplomacy
The multinational negotiations held over the weekend in Turkey with the ostensible purpose of halting Iran's nuclear weapons program will...