Foreign Policy
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 00:00
Mexico is only one part, though probably the most important one, of a theater of operations that stretches from the Venezuelan-Cuban-Iranian alliance and the Andean Ridge, through Columbia and the FARC, up the cartel-controlled drug routes through Central
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 00:00
Rates of violent crime are on the rise in Mexico, but they remain lower than in the not-so-distant past -- and lower than today's violence in other Latin American countries of comparable size and wealth.
Friday, March 5, 2010 - 00:00
Washington's most reliable ally in Latin America, the Colombian president, is on his way out. That's a good thing.
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 00:00
Today the region, led by Brazil and Mexico, is a rising force in its own right. Many countries have global aspirations and interests, and they expect Washington to treat them as such.
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 00:00
Aid groups in the earthquake-battered country are inefficient and unaccountable. Luckily, there's a solution.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 00:00
State Department P.J. Crowley told The Cable that the redirection of funds from other countries' accounts was necessary but would not have consequences on the ground unless there is a long delay in receiving supplemental funding.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 00:00
Translation: We are going to keep saying we are all for Free Trade Agreements but everybody knows there's no bandwidth on Capitol Hill for that before the elections. So I'll mention here some countries so no one say I can forgot about them.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
Ultimately, I think, American commanders concluded that we had had conducted an elaborate pruning campaign in which the stupid and incautious were wiped out, and the leadership improved
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
As of last year, Haiti was paying $50 million a year just to service its debt, not even to pay down the principal. It owed hundreds of millions - more than a quarter of its GDP
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 00:00
Given FARC's dual status as a political militia and a criminal enterprise and its alleged murky connections to government supporters, it's not hard to tie it within a few degrees of separation to almost any nefarious global enterprise