Tim Padgett
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 00:00
Chavez's regime could very well be unraveling from within, especially as the government's economic ineptitude, from sky-high inflation to shortages of basic items like toilet paper and cooking oil, keep nullifying the strides the revolution has made in re
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 00:00
Washington feels more urgency to look south at the moment largely because of China's increasing incursion into the hemisphere.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 00:00
Maduro, whom Chavez had handpicked as his successor, laid bare two things about Chavismo without Chavez
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 00:00
It comes at a moment when Brazil could use a little less samba and a little more sobriety as it assesses where it is and what it’s doing. And, on second thought, that does include quotidian details like nightclub regulation
Friday, January 4, 2013 - 00:00
Venezuelans are turning to his so-called Bolivarian constitution for guidance — and what they’re finding instead is a murky map that could send the western hemisphere’s most oil-rich nation into precarious governmental limbo
Friday, December 21, 2012 - 00:00
The U.S., especially our foreign policy and media elite, gets a perverse superiority kick out of dismissing Canada and Mexico, but especially Mexico, in ways that other world powers, like Germany, would never snub their neighbors
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 00:00
His relapse is certainly a blow to a party that he's left conspicuously ill prepared for his absence. But it also affords his allies the opportunity to prove that their revolution is more than just a one-caudillo show.
Friday, December 7, 2012 - 00:00
Bottom line: business and bureaucracy might be easier in Mexico, but in Brazil they're actually cleaner.
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 00:00
Personally, I'm against legalization; I don't think it's the [right] route. But I am in favor of a hemispheric debate on the effectiveness of the drug-war route we're on now.
Friday, September 7, 2012 - 00:00
Marxist guerrilla warfare - the very tool that brought the Cuban Revolution to power 50 years ago - is over, and no place is a more stinging reminder of that fact than Cuba itself.