Julia E. Sweig

Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 00:00
This NSA episode is precisely the sort of challenge that proves the need for the two big guys of the hemisphere, for you and President Obama, to break down stereotypes and keep talking.
Monday, July 29, 2013 - 00:00
While the effects of tighter regulation will not be felt overnight, such steps will offset widespread regional views that the United States remains indifferent to its own role in exacerbating one of Latin America's most significant challenges.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 00:00
Falta algo entre as duas potencias - algo que podemos chamar de ausencia de ambicao
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 00:00
Cuba's influence over Venezuela should not be underestimated. The balance of power lies squarely in Havana
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 00:00
Julia E. Sweig, CFR's director of Latin American studies, says the Obama administration has prioritized domestic politics over foreign policy in its relationship with Cuba, even as Cuban President Raul Castro has been "moving in the direction of the
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 00:00
A new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)-sponsored Independent Task Force report asserts "that it is in the interest of the United States to understand Brazil as a complex international actor whose influence on the defining global issues of the day i
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 00:00
The case against Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles is remarkable for the cooperation it has produced between the Cuban and U.S. governments.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 00:00
The United States represents only a slice of Brazil's global agenda: Brazil's emphasis on multipolarity and multilateralism assumes the decline of U.S. influence.
Monday, May 4, 2009 - 00:00
Hiding in plain sight, the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay is the ideal place for Obama to launch a far-reaching transformation of Washington's relationship with its communist neighbor
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 00:00
Put yourself in Sen. John McCain's shoes. You want to flash your war-on-terror and free-trade bona fides, expose your rival's vulnerabilities and change the conversation from Iraq. Just three hours from Miami is the place to be: Colombia.