Foreign Policy In Focus
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
Rather than retooling its diplomatic approach to fit the new reality in Latin America, Washington is expanding its military footprint.
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
Is the United States willing to risk regional peace and security simply to support Colombia and score points against Venezuela?
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 00:00
Ciudad Juarez now holds the world record in homicides per capita. The city beats out war zones in the number of violent deaths because unofficially, it too is a war zone. This border city of two million is the frontline of one of the most violent and most
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 00:00
If the Obama administration truly wants to broaden relationships with South America and value respect for human rights, it should not create a fortress in Colombia in concert with the region's worst rights violators, the Colombian army
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 00:00
Far more than any previous debate over a trade deal, the political contest over the Colombian agreement has come to focus on questions of basic human rights — and labor rights, in particular — instead of the usual back-and-forth about protectionism
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 00:00
Compounding this uncertainty is the more worrisome shadow of war that increasingly casts a pale over U.S.-Venezuelan relations
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 00:00
Obama’s foreign policy team, on the other hand, mixes crusty veterans with new thinkers and appears to be in flux. This shows in the Latin America policy proposal
Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 00:00
The immediate crisis has been averted. But the geopolitical divisions in the region threaten to lead to more conflicts in the near future
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 00:00
Even after so much scorched land and hardship, there is more coca being grown today in Colombia than there was seven years ago when Plan Colombia began
Monday, May 7, 2001 - 00:00
Deep within the Defense Department’s civilian bureaucracy, the Clinton administration made a quiet shift in 1999 that speaks volumes about the current U.S. relationship with Latin America.