Mary Anastasia O'Grady
Monday, September 8, 2008 - 00:00
Mr. Obama would reverse regional trade progress. He supports House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opposition to the Colombia FTA
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 00:00
The region needs secure contract and property rights. If local leaders won't defend those rights, programs like Mr. Obama's $2 billion "global education fund" won't amount to a hill of frijoles
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 00:00
As long as Americans willingly bury Mexican drug traffickers in greenbacks, progress in constraining the trade is likely to be limited
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 00:00
In late December 1959, nearly a year after Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista had been run out the country by a movement that had a goal of restoring the 1940 Cuban constitution, Fidel Castro was tightening his grip
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 00:00
Last week, his handpicked supreme court ruled that 260 aspiring candidates for the November municipal and gubernatorial elections -- most of whom oppose him -- will be barred from the ballot
Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 00:00
That effort has provided important U.S. aid to the Colombian military, and no one understands its effects better than the FARC propagandists who've spent years trying to pin allegations of corruption and human-rights violations on Mr. Uribe
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 00:00
To truly grasp how much Mr. Uribe has changed this country for the better, nothing can substitute for getting out and talking to Colombians
Monday, March 24, 2008 - 00:00
Peru, Mexico and Central America all have FTAs with the U.S., which means that Colombia is automatically disadvantaged if it is denied one. And that could harm national security, which is so fragile
Monday, March 17, 2008 - 00:00
It is the first time in a decade of Chavez rule that a countervailing force, legitimate in the eyes of society, has successfully managed to challenge the president's authority
Monday, February 25, 2008 - 00:00
Instead of focusing on supply, he is concentrating on the suppliers, and specifically their ability to run business empires. It's about removing "the enormous economic and fire power" of the cartels which threaten the Mexican democracy