Huffington Post
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 00:00
Juan Manuel Santos got 69 percent of the vote in Sunday's runoff in a ringing endorsement of his promise to continue the U.S.-backed security policies of outgoing conservative President Alvaro Uribe that he helped craft.
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 00:00
The man most likely to become Colombia's next president this Sunday has played a previously undisclosed role as a corporate officer of the company hired to run the nation's elections over the last decade.
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 00:00
DAS developed elaborate defamation campaigns to destabilize NGOs, create divisions within opposition movements, fabricate false ties to guerrilla groups to ruin defenders' reputations, and undermine the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 00:00
As it has for many successive years now, Colombia continues to be the union murder capital of the world.
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 00:00
The Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is about to raise some important new questions about the costs and limits of U.S. policy toward Cuba.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 00:00
This is an urgent plea to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Immediately condemn the violence unleashed against the Honduran people by the de facto regime and take every peaceful measure possible
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 00:00
Gunfire, the smell of burning tires, and teargas woke me up this morning
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 00:00
As has been the case throughout this crisis, the statements coming from the U.S. have not been as strong or clear as the statements coming from Brazil and the OAS
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 00:00
Apparently deterred by rising unemployment in the U.S., the number of Mexican immigrants who crossed the border dropped sharply in the past year to the lowest level in a decade, even while undocumented workers already here are opting to stay
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 00:00
I found that the legal and logical deficiencies were so obvious that no neutral observer could conclude that Manuel Zelaya received anything remotely resembling due process