Tim Padgett
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 08:47
When Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto visited President Obama on Jan. 6, hundreds of Mexican Americans demonstrated outside the White House. Hundreds more picketed at Mexican consulates across the U.S.
Monday, April 7, 2014 - 00:00
Washington (is) trying to jam the square peg of 20th-century Cold War cloak-and-dagger into the round hole of 21st-century Latin American politics.
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 00:00
But this Sunday's presidential runoff election is a stark reminder of how far Costa Rica has slipped lately. And, if we're lucky, it's also a sign of how willing it seems to restore itself as a model.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 00:00
Chavez was a prime reminder in the 21st Century - much as Fidel Castro was in the 20th - that when democracy and capitalism don't deliver what people need, they'll turn to someone who they think will.
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 00:00
Leopoldo Lopez is a rock star among Venezuelans in South Florida. But in west Caracas he's the rich guy. And those contrasting images could affect the outcome of street protests playing out in Venezuela.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 00:00
But even if peace comes, tourism won't solve the country's most entrenched problems. Much of its road infrastructure is barely 20th-Century let alone 21st. Its economic inequality remains Latin America's worst.
Friday, September 6, 2013 - 00:00
The Obama Administration may have to swallow Latin America's acute regional sensitivity to revelations like these. But emerging powers like Brazil and Mexico may have to resign themselves to the more high-stakes game of cyber-intelligence.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 00:00
Brazilian prosecutor is investigating whether President Dilma Rousseff's government violated federal labor laws by recruiting 4,000 Cuban physicians this month to work in remote areas.
Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 00:00
Their political and economic systems remain in too many ways as corrupt, indifferent and dysfunctional as they were when Brazil had only two classes, the very rich and very poor.
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 00:00
The countries most inclined to take Snowden in - that is, those with leftist governments like Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, which would love to hold him up as an anti-U.S. trophy - also sport some of Latin America's more checkered human-right