Open Democracy
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 00:00
The first round of the contest to succeed Álvaro Uribe as Colombia's president produced one big surprise and five lessons.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 00:00
A vital constitutional decision and a party-primary vote have blown wide open the electoral campaign to succeed Álvaro Uribe.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 00:00
The United States's policies in Latin America are shaped by its domestic politics. The result is failure, discredit and loss of influence.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 00:00
While some have fretted that these zones could harbor jihadi terrorists, the real danger lies in the violence produced by bloody competition over these lucrative areas and the spread of criminal reach and power throughout the state and across frontiers
Friday, May 29, 2009 - 00:00
A decision by Colombia’s president to alter the constitution and run for a third term would have momentous political consequences
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 00:00
The Venezuelan state's monopoly on the legitimate use of force is being challenged both by sections of its own police force and by some of its committees for citizen security
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
The struggle of Colombia's Farc guerrillas has lasted more than four decades. But the pressures it is now facing - symbolised by the death of its legendary co-founder Manuel Marulanda - present the movement with a historic choice
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 00:00
A decisive breakthrough in Colombia's longstanding hostage crisis requires an imaginative new mediation process, argues former United States ambassador to Bogota, Myles Frechette.