El Acuerdo Estratégico Trans-Pacífico de Asociación Económica (TPP) es un acuerdo comercial muy especial. Es tan especial que los funcionarios del Gobierno que lo están negociando quieren mantenerlo completamente en secreto. ¡Es como un regalo especial de Navidad, así que quieren que sea una sorpresa! Y para asegurarse...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a very special trade agreement. It is so special that our government officials who are negotiating it want to keep it completely secret from us. It's like a special Christmas present so they want it to be a surprise! And to make sure...

La probabilidad y las estadísticas no figuraban en la lista de favoritos de la mayoría de los graduados universitarios que tenían que aprobar un curso en esta materia - todas esas permutaciones y combinaciones y distribuciones de probabilidad generalmente dejan a muchas cabezas dando vueltas. Pero su relevancia en el...

Allá por 2004, cuando las negociaciones -impulsadas por Washington- del "Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas" se dirigían hacia el colapso, el brasileño copresidente de las negociaciones, Adhemar Bahadian, describió pintorescamente la desilusión existente. Él comparó el acuerdo con "una bailarina de striptease en un cabaret barato".

"Por la...

Back in 2004, when negotiations for the Washington-driven "Free Trade Area of the Americas" were heading for collapse, the Brazilian co-chair of the negotiations, Adhemar Bahadian, colorfully described the disillusionment that had set in. He compared the agreement to "a stripper in a cheap cabaret."

"At night under the dim...

Mientras que la mayor parte de la noticia acerca de Venezuela, en la semana transcurrida después de la elección presidencial del 14 de abril, se ha enfocado en los esfuerzos del candidato perdedor Henrique Capriles por impugnar los resultados, otra campaña, basada en Washington, fue bastante reveladora -y ambas, sin...

El vídeo, tomado al azar por una cámara de seguridad de un almacén, es escalofriante. Cinco jóvenes están caminando por una calle tranquila en Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Un gran todoterreno negro se detiene, seguido por otro vehículo. Dos hombres enmascarados con chalecos antibalas saltan rápidamente desde el coche que...

After a short but bitterly fought, insult-laden campaign, Chavista standard-bearer Nicolás Maduro defeated challenger Henrique Capriles, thus assuring continuity in Venezuela after the death of President Hugo Chávez last month. But the election was much closer than the polls predicted: a margin of just 1.6 percentage points, or about 275,000...

The video, caught randomly on a warehouse security camera, is chilling. Five young men are walking down a quiet street in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A big black SUV pulls up, followed by another vehicle. Two masked men with bullet proof vests jump quickly out of the lead car, with...

La reacción sin precedente a la muerte del presidente Venezolano Hugo Chávez, en todo el mundo pero especialmente en el hemisferio occidental, ha ilustrado fuertemente el mundo multipolar por el que luchaba Chávez. 55 países fueron representados en su funeral el ocho...

The unprecedented worldwide response to the death of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, and especially in the Western Hemisphere, has brought into stark relief the "multi-polar" world that Chávez fought for. Fifty-five countries were represented at his funeral on March 7th, 33 (including all of Latin America) by...

Bertrand Russell once wrote about the American revolutionary Thomas Paine, "He had faults, like other men; but it was for his virtues that he was hated and successfully calumniated."

This was certainly true of Hugo Chávez Frias, who was probably more demonized than any democratically elected president in world...

Una vez Bertrand Russell escribió sobre el revolucionario americano Thomas Paine, "Él tuvo fallos, como cualquier otro hombre; pero fue por sus virtudes por las que él fue odiado y exitosamente calumniado".

Esto ha sido verdaderamente cierto en Hugo Chávez Frias, quien fue probablemente más demonizado...

Venezuela's recent devaluation has sparked quite a bit of discussion in the international press. The Venezuelan opposition has naturally framed it as a desperate move to head off inevitable economic collapse.

The opposition argument, supported by most of the international media (which relies on opposition sources), goes like this: Venezuela...

Rafael Correa is far ahead of his nearest rival in Sunday's presidential election in Ecuador, and expected to easily win another four year presidential term. It's not hard to see why.

Unemployment fell to 4.1 percent by the end of last year --...

Rafael Correa está muy por delante de su más cercano rival en las elecciones presidenciales de este domingo en Ecuador. Se espera que gane fácilmente otro período presidencial de cuatro años. Y no es difícil ver por qué.

El...

Alexis Tsipras has a tough job. He is leader of the Syriza Party of Greece, a left party that has risen meteorically in the past three years: from 4.6 percent of the vote in 2009 to 27 percent last June. It is now the most popular party in the country...

Economists like to say there's no such thing as a free lunch -- this was even the title of a 1975 book by Milton Friedman. But sometimes there is a free lunch -- in a vitally important sense -- and now is one of those times for a...

Imagine that you went to see the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln, and all you got was the viewpoint of Southern white slaveholders during the Civil War. That is analogous to what you are getting from almost all of the major media coverage on Venezuela.

Last week the New York Times...

President Obama hasn't picked a Treasury Secretary yet for his second term, so he has a chance to do something different. He can ignore what Wall Street and conservative media interests want and pick somebody who will represent what the electorate voted for. And not even just the people who...