24/03/2014 | Frente Externo
First Civil, Now Gang Wars. Who Would Want To Be President of El Salvador?
Here’s something you probably didn’t know: Salvadorans are poised to pass Cubans as the third-largest Latino group in the United States, behind Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.
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18/02/2014 | Frente Externo
Chocolate and Chávez
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves. Big deal. This is Valentine’s week, when cocoa matters more than crude — and what’s important is that Venezuela produces the world’s best chocolate.
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16/01/2014 | Frente Externo
Spin on Venezuelan star’s murder seeks to obscure rampant violence
Latin American leaders don’t know how to stop their violent-crime epidemic, but they sure know how to spin it.
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05/09/2013 | Frente Externo
Latin America’s Doc Deficit: Brazil, a Continental Giant, Still Needs to Import Cuban Medics
A Brazilian prosecutor is investigating whether President Dilma Rousseff’s government violated federal labor laws by recruiting 4,000 Cuban physicians this month to work in remote areas like the Amazon.
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16/06/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Edward Snowden, NSA Whistleblower, Wins Unusual Sympathizers in Latin America
Ecuador is no human rights darling. Left-wing President Rafael Correa has built a decidedly authoritarian reputation that includes a yen for prosecuting journalists who irk him. This week he won passage of a media bill that slashes the number of private outlets, greatly increases state-controlled broadcasting and makes Correa the nation’s de facto media censor.
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04/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Legalize Marijuana and Other Ways U.S.-Mexico Can Win Drug War
There was a lot of drug-war hand-wringing in the U.S. leading up to President Barack Obama’s visit to Mexico this week. That’s because Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is in change-the-conversation mode: he wants the world, especially Washington, to focus less on his country’s awful drug violence—some 60,000 narco-related murders in the past seven years, with little sign of abating—and more on its robust economic potential.
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25/12/2012 | Frente Externo
The World Didn’t End, But the U.S.’s Arrogant Disregard for Mexico Should
I once took a Classics professor friend of mine, a real Hellenophile, to the majestic Maya ruins of Palenque in southern Mexico. I wanted him to see why the Maya, thanks to their advanced astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, are considered the Greeks of the New World.
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01/12/2012 | Frente Externo
Mexico’s Peña Nieto Talks to TIME: ‘We Can Move Beyond the Drug War’
Enrique Peña Nieto takes office tomorrow, Dec. 1, as the next President of Mexico—whose young and otherwise successful democracy is beset by narco-bloodshed (60,000 murders in the past six years), an underachieving economy (average annual growth of only 2% since 2000) and a feeling that its Latin American leadership role has been eclipsed by its fast-developing South American rival, Brazil.
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09/10/2011 | Frente Externo
Can a Young Prime Minister Reform Jamaica's Old Criminality?
When Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced his resignation last month, the only surprise was that it took him so long. Since last year, Golding, leader of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP), has been embroiled in one of the worst scandals to hit Jamaica since it won independence five decades ago.
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24/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The ´Deadliest Zone´: Hillary Clinton Visits Central America's Narco-Nightmare
With the exception of catastrophic Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and the Honduran coup of 2009, the world has all but forgotten about Central America since its civil wars obsessed the Reagan Administration in the 1980s. But here, along with the storm and the putsch, is what happened in the meantime: the region has become what U.S. Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command, calls “the deadliest zone in the world” outside Afghanistan and Iraq.
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24/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The ´Deadliest Zone´: Hillary Clinton Visits Central America's Narco-Nightmare
With the exception of catastrophic Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and the Honduran coup of 2009, the world has all but forgotten about Central America since its civil wars obsessed the Reagan Administration in the 1980s. But here, along with the storm and the putsch, is what happened in the meantime: the region has become what U.S. Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command, calls “the deadliest zone in the world” outside Afghanistan and Iraq.
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31/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Fearsome La Familia Has Been Quiet — Too Quiet
If the banners hanging from bridges in the western state of Michoacán this week are to be believed, Mexico's horrific drug war has turned a hopeful corner.
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31/07/2010 | Frente Externo
The 'Dangerous' Border: Actually One of America's Safest Places
When U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled on Wednesday that key provisions of Arizona's new anti-immigration law were unconstitutional, she could have also declared them unnecessary.
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19/07/2010 | Frente Externo
Why Venezuela's Chávez Dug Up Bolívar's Bones
Shortly before he died in 1830, Simón Bolívar asked his doctor, "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?!" Bolívar was South America's most celebrated independence hero — remembered today as El Libertador, the continent's liberator — but the Venezuelan general and Latin American sage passed away unhappily in Colombia, ousted from power while once-adoring crowds jeered him as a tyrant. As a result, although he was said to have died from tuberculosis, conspiracy theories have long surrounded his demise.
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17/07/2010 | Frente Externo
U.S. Fails to Respond to Cuba's Freeing of Dissidents
Fidel Castro, decidedly languid but reasonably lucid, showed up on Cuban television Monday evening, July 12, to warn the world that the U.S. is poised to attack North Korea and Iran. (We'll take that under advisement.) But the rare appearance by the 83-year-old former Cuban leader was more noticeable for what he didn't mention: last week's surprising decision by his younger brother, current President Raúl Castro, to release 52 political prisoners who had been arrested in 2003 during one of Fidel's harshest crackdowns on dissidents while he was President.
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24/09/2009 | Frente Externo
Chávez and the Latin Left: Muzzling the Media?
Talk like a communist, walk like a democrat. That has been the paradoxical strategy pursued by Latin America's new radical left — at least until now. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will gush effusively in the presence of Fidel Castro one moment, then just as earnestly he'll remind the world that he submits to the kind of free elections and free speech that Castro and his brother, Cuban President Raúl Castro, still forbid.
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21/10/2008 | Frente Externo
What's Got McCain Down in Florida
No Democratic presidential nominee has won Sarasota County, set on one of the most affluent and conservative strips of Florida's Gulf Coast, since Franklin Roosevelt did in 1944.
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21/10/2008 | Frente Externo
What's Got McCain Down in Florida
No Democratic presidential nominee has won Sarasota County, set on one of the most affluent and conservative strips of Florida's Gulf Coast, since Franklin Roosevelt did in 1944.
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14/03/2007 | Frente Externo
Bush's New Friend in Mexico
Unlike a lot of the pugnacious leaders Latin America is known for, Felipe Calderón doesn't look the part of the tough guy. The new President of Mexico is short and bespectacled, an owlish lawyer and economist who evokes technocrats like Michael Dukakis.
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10/01/2006 | En Parrilla
2006: Will Latin America Turn Left? A Nine-Country Election Preview
As several nations south of the border go to the polls in 2006, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez claims that Latin America is witnessing a major anti-U.S. leftward swing.
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