Drug cartels must move money between the consumers of cocaine—mainly in the United States and Europe — and the producers in the Americas. Their ability to do so is a … Click to Continue »
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For a quarter century, the United States has tried unsuccessfully to stem Venezuela’s democratic backsliding and alignment with American adversaries. With last week’s prisoner exchange and ea...
Venezuela once again is making headlines around the world, following dictator Nicolás Maduro’s threat to launch a military invasion of the Guyana-held region of Esequibo. But we should not los...
Argentina’s new libertarian President Javier Milei’s first week in office has been better than many international analysts had expected. While it’s too early to tell whether his drastic aus...
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is not likely to launch a full-scale military invasion of Guyana’s disputed Esequibo region, as he tacitly threatened in a speech this month. But he may … ...
BUENOS AIRES — Many Venezuelan, Cuban and Nicaraguans who oppose their countries’ dictatorships have high hopes that Argentina’s newly elected president, Javier Milei, will become a champio...
The two men in blue jeans and t-shirts were strangers but entered the governor’s gym in the Venezuelan city of Maturín looking as if they owned the place. They asked … Click to Continue »
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The mayor of a seaside Haitian beach town who flew to South Florida to meet with a politically ambitious Haitian-American pastor and others now accused in the July 2021 assassination … Click to...
If Sergio Massa wins the Nov. 19 elections, he should enter the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s first sitting economy minister who wins a democratic election despite having … Click to...
Cristian Cortes was already thinking about leaving Colombia to escape the gang violence ravaging his neighborhood when he came home to find a threatening flier shoved under his apartment door. �...
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MADRID — While visiting Spain on a book tour a few days ago, a headline in the daily La Vanguardia caught my attention: “Latin America is the world region that’s … Click to Continue »
A cyber breach at Colombia’s prosecutor’s office has exposed the identities of more than 100 agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal law enforcement entities, alo...
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A massive leak of confidential Colombian records adds to the mounting evidence that Venezuela’s military and government elite, not content with plundering the nation’s oil wealth, are now inc...
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The Biden administration is preparing to ease sanctions on Venezuela in the coming days if the government of Nicolás Maduro signs an agreement with opposition leaders committing to a framework �...
A few weeks ago, I was on the phone with a leading migrant labor advocate here in Florida. The subject got around to the temporary agricultural worker visas known as … Click to Continue »
In their quest for a political cause with which to win the 2024 election, former President Donald Trump and fellow Republican hopefuls are trying to convince you that the United … Click to Cont...
A new United Nations report reveals that Colombia’s coca plantations reached a historic record last year, but it drew relatively little international attention. It should be triggering alarm be...
When Colombian artist Fernando Botero died on Sept. 15 at age 91, media around the world noted that he was Latin America’s best-known painter and sculptor, and that his voluminous … Click to ...
When the leaders of the G-20 club of the world’s biggest economies held their annual summit recently in New Delhi, India, the big headline was that the 55-country African Union … Click to Con...
Sen. Xóchitl Gálvez’s nomination as the opposition coalition’s candidate who will challenge the leftist populist ruling Morena party in 2024 is fantastic news for Mexico. She is a formidabl...
Haiti National Police said Monday that they will soon launch an operation to retrieve the bodies of several church members who were gunned down over the weekend when a powerful … Click to Conti...
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A Port-au-Prince human rights group is calling on Haitian authorities to take action against “the perpetrators and accomplices” of a weekend massacre that left several church followers dead a...
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At first glance, the leftist populist party of convicted former president Rafael Correa won Ecuador’s Aug. 20 elections and is likely to return to power. But don’t be fooled by … Click to C...
A major new development could put a halt to China’s growing economic influence in Latin America and gradually increase America’s clout in the region: the end of China’s economic boom. … C...
President Gustavo Petro, the first leftist president in Colombia’s history, will mark his first year in office on Aug. 7. He will have very little to celebrate: Economic growth has … Click to...
A new poll showing that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is the most popular president in Latin America confirms what many of us have long suspected: Latin Americans are so … Click to Continu...
While the United States continues to view Latin America and Caribbean countries as simply the root of their immigration problem, the European Union (EU) is salivating to reactivate its relations ...
This was a sad week for European diplomacy. The July 18 summit of nearly 60 leaders from European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean (CELAC) in … Click to Continue »
The 27-country European Union is about to do something really stupid: Give a red-carpet welcome to Cuba’s dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel, even though Cuba is a massive human-rights violator and one...
Two years after the historic July 11-12, 2021, massive anti-government protests in Cuba, more than 700 people remain in prison for participating in largely peaceful demonstrations against the isl...