Gangs and violence in Central America
Central America has the misfortune of being placed between drug supply and drug demand. The flow of cocaine from South...
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Gangs and violence in Central America
Central America has the misfortune of being placed between drug supply and drug demand. The flow of cocaine from South...
Bush sides with Mexican killers vs. U.S.
State Department lawyer John Bellinger says international law should be used in U.S. courts. By Cliff Kincaid Mr. Kincaid is...
RCTV: Dictatorship Chavez-style
Venezuela 's commitment to democracy has suffered a serious blow as the government forced private television station RCTV off the...
Echoes of 1919
Blind Wilsonian idealism is bad enough, but isolation and defeatism are worse. Both critics and supporters of US President George W....
FARC’s atrocities
Recent reports from several media outlets focused on declarations made by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe who has ordered the...
Democrats pushing Colombia away?
The Americas Report has have been covering the most recent events in Colombia and Mr. Uribe's efforts to get the...
Last stand for American sovereignty
CNN's Lou Dobbs asked me, during a discussion of the North American Union, why our media show no interest in...
Venezuelan oil bonanza
Despite the Bonanza of PdVSA shelling tremendous amounts of foreign exchange into the Venezuelan state budget, there are indicators that...
Energy Squeeze
The international energy market of the twenty-first century is witnessing an unprecedented period of turmoil and instability, an indication of...
DoD in Catch-22 when dealing with EADS
Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of the clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle....
Citgo: A Chavez-Kennedy enterprise?
Many of us have seen the CITGO, the Venezuelan-owned oil company TV commercials running across the United States, which promote...
Assault of the ‘transies’
Most thoughtful observers of the contemporary American polity are astonished that the highly partisan fight over the future of Iraq...
Latin America’s radical grassroots
The logo of Hezbollah in Venezuela by Dr. Luis Fleischman and Nicole M. Ferrand The emergence of neo-populism...
Latin America’s radical grassroots (part 1)
The emergence of Latin American neo-populism, as well as the political mobilization indigenous peoples, has created a new class of political prey for radical leaders...