Tim Padgett
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 00:00
If anything it continues the region's welcome race to the middle, away from the leftism Chavez revived in the 2000s but also from the conservative neoliberalism of the 1990s that Chavismo was reacting against.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 00:00
Now that Zelaya is coming home and Honduras has declared the crisis behind it, it's time for the banana republic to get its act together.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 00:00
Many of Martelly's supporters are also too young to remember the early 1990s, when he was an avid supporter of a brutal military coup that overthrew a democratically elected president.
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 00:00
"The Mexican military, which was apoplectic about the Pascual cable, expected its President to stand up and defend it"
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 00:00
Are the U.S. and Mexico in "distant neighbors" mode again?
Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently declared 2011 the Year of Tourism - and he insisted that despite all the negative drug-war publicity Mexico gets these days, "99.9%" of visitors to his sun-splashed country "have pleasant vacations
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 00:00
Some of the conspiracy theories coursing through the Port-au-Prince media this week posited that either Martelly or Preval, or both, may have actually encouraged Duvalier to fly to Haiti.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 00:00
Two weeks before Haiti's Nov. 28 presidential election, voter polls show Manigat the clear front runner in a field of 19 candidates.
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 00:00
Before the rescue drama that gripped the world this week, Chile rarely if ever regarded laborers as heroes.
Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 00:00
Fortunately for the opposition, something else has been growing in Venezuela besides Chavez's power - namely, voter dissatisfaction with his left-wing, anti-U.S. Bolivarian Revolution and its failure to rein in violent crime and inflation.