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...
Menges Hemispheric Security Project
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...
Revolutionary Anti-Semitism
"Sometimes I ask myself if Hitler wasn't right when he wanted to finish with that race, through the famous holocaust,...
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...
Delahunts Banana ‘Slip’
On September 4, 2009 on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer, US Rep - D. William Delahunt (member of the United...
Is Ecuador’s lawsuit against Chevron ‘messianic’ justice?
Unbeknownst to many, there is now a high stakes legal battle taking place between the Chevron Oil Company and the...
Cuban Intelligence Operations in the US
Since Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, one of the government's top priorities has been to spy on the...
What’s wrong with Insulza and the OAS
This is the second of two articles on the situation in Honduras and how it relates to OAS Secretary General,...
What’s wrong with Insulza and the OAS
By now, we are all aware of the situation in Honduras where President Manuel Zelaya tried unsuccessfully to use the...