GUATEMALA CITY — Retired Gen. Otto Perez Molina was sworn in as president of Guatemala on Saturday, calling on the United States and Mexico to h...
Eric Farnsworth | Posted 01.15.2012 | World
We have now entered a new era in Central America and elsewhere in Latin America, where the quest for security and economic expansion trumps democratic ideals.
AP | Posted 12.22.2011 | Latino Voices
CARACAS, Venezuela — An opposition-aligned television channel said Saturday that it will appeal a fine of more than $2 million imposed by Venezu...
David Perez | Posted 06.05.2011 | World
Mexico will elect a new president in 2012. Facing mounting pressure to change course, Calderon's successor may choose scale back the anti-drug offensive return the country to its pre-2006 days. But that would be a mistake.
Luis Alberto Moreno | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Despite headlines of drug violence and political polarization in some countries, these trend lines underscore a positive new narrative quietly taking shape across the hemisphere.
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The past ten years in Latin America have seen a historic shift to the left in government power and the streets. The US needs to learn from these examples if we are to break out of our stagnant political culture.
Al Giordano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
In Latin America, as everywhere, the doctrine of Human Rights, begun in the Carter administration but left to atrophy by all administrations since, walks hand in hand with any pro-democracy agenda.
Christopher Sabatini | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Latin America is at its most divided, ideologically and in its economic trajectories. Do we have the intellectual tools and framework to deal with it?
Chris Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
That old metaphor -- Latin America as the U.S.'s backyard -- is indicative of the American habit of viewing the region solely in terms of problems to be solved. What a shame: There is so much opportunity to be found in Latin America.
Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Over the past ten days, I was amazed to see window with signboards for Antanas Mockus, the presidential candidate of the Green Party. It's the Colombian version of the Obama syndrome.
Ming Holden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
When is it not a political act to honor victims of dirty wars, in Latin America or anywhere else? "Political" strikes me as one of the most ill-used words in American conversation.
Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
And with Iran's documented exportation of terror into Latin America, Venezuela is Iran's ultimate forward base for that terror state's ambitions in Latin America.
Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
There is an anecdote circulating in Washington. It is about a meeting between the Colombian foreign minister Bermudez and the president of the Senate ...
Oliver Stone | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Is Hugo Chávez really the anti-American pariah we've read about for years? Is he really all that different from the other democratic, left-of-center leaders who now govern most of the region? I don't believe so.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign....
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Hillary Clinton's Latin America tour is turning out to be about as successful as George W. Bush's visit in 2005, when he ended up leaving Argentina a ...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organization of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countri...
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
With both Chavez and the U.S. looking to reverse their political fortunes in Latin America, could Haiti become the setting for geopolitical tensions?
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The Obama team brokered the accord in Honduras, and got a commitment from the coup leaders. If they go back on it, how much will the Obama administration's word be worth on anything else?
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
In June, the Honduran military abducted President Manuel Zelaya at gunpoint and flew him out of the country. Conflicting statements from the Obama administration have left many confused.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The United States has been the only major country to maintain an ambassador in Honduras throughout the dictatorship, and has also maintained a deafening silence about the repression there.
Abraham Lowenthal | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The new US authorities understand that the United States no longer has the means to exert quick control in such countries as Honduras, and that trying to do so could undermine more promising multilateral avenues for achieving US objectives.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Obama's Honduras response has drawn only mild rebuke because he's still enjoying somewhat of a honeymoon, and he's not Bush. But he is doing serious damage to U.S.-Latin American relations.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
President Obama is making a big mistake in coddling the dictatorship in Honduras, and putting his administration at odds with the rest of the hemisphere.
Nelson P. Valdes | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Congress and Courts belong to the rich and powerful who also control the military in cooperation with the Pentagon. Washington provided aid.
AP | ROMINA RUIZ-GOIRIENA | Posted 01.14.2012 | Latino Voices