The ungrateful chauvinism of U.S. foreign policy reaches far beyond a rant provided by Joe Scarborough, who at least has the excuse of being in the business of manufacturing polemics.
The Sucre will act as a payment compensation mechanism and allow ALBA nations in Latin America to reconcile accounts when they carry out commercial transactions in local currency.
The decision of Venezuelan authorities to send a 22-year-old university student to prison for trumped-up crimes has caused widespread public outrage, especially among students.
While sharing his vision of a more peaceful world with the UN and demanding big Pentagon cuts, Obama has also been lobbying Brazil to buy warplanes from shrinking defense giant Boeing.
What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.
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Nearly all analyses of important international relationships, whether internal or external, see the countries' systems through a prism that hides the power of clans and cabals.
The text of Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau's September 9 Wall Street Journal op-ed, with rebuttals for 21 incorrect statements in the text.
The world has turned out to be a lot less malleable and willing to adjust to American preferences than the president may have thought before taking office.
There is a good argument for treating religious liberty as the first freedom. If a government is unwilling to protect basic freedom when it comes to religious faith, then it is unlikely to tolerate political free-thinking either.
To argue about whether the deposition was a coup, whether Manuel Zelaya is a capable leader, or whether this is about Hugo Chávez's influence, misses the point entirely.
The meeting between Chávez and Uribe could, years from now, be seen as a crucial turning point for South America's political stability. Latin America, as a whole, is suddenly in bad shape.
Brian A. Nelson's new book The Silence and the Scorpion is a must read for anyone seeking to get an unbiased and comprehensive account of the two most controversial days of the Chávez presidency.
All enlightened governments, including Canada's, which just signed an investment agreement, should deem Venezuela a "no-go" zone.
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By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.
Any sport that can do no better than charges of "ungentlemanly behavior" can never claim to be a sport of the people.
The last thing president Lula and Brazilian democracy need is the United States on its northern border using the drug war to interfere in internal politics like it has done in the past with Mexico.
The Venezuelan media is not so restricted as in the U.S. Venezuela is not Colombia, where journalists have to flee the country in fear of their lives when the President denounces them.
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Congress and Courts belong to the rich and powerful who also control the military in cooperation with the Pentagon. Washington provided aid.
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