Send away the Marines?
"Send in the Marines!" For many generations, successive U.S. presidents have given those orders, from early in our Nation's history...
Mexico
The other Lockerbies
Senators Menendez and Lautenberg of New Jersey took to the microphone this week to express disappointment that witnesses from the...
Guatemala: A security challenge
I had a great opportunity to be part of group organized by the Atlas Foundation that participated in a seminar...
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...
Shattering Mexico’s glass house (A NAFTA immigration law?)
With the over-the-top criticisms of the new Arizona immigration law coming from the Mexican president and the Obama Administration (who...
The oil leak’s silver lining?
It is hard to see anything positive about the offshore drilling debacle that has countless barrels of oil washing ashore...
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...
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...
Israel’s opening to China
The growing power of the UN-based international community is one of the gravest emerging threats to Israel's national security. This...
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...
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,...
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,...