17/04/2013 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Nicolas Maduro shoves aside democracy in Venezuela
THE ATTEMPT by the followers of Hugo Chavez to install a successor to the dead caudillo through a one-sided election is faltering. Now the Venezuelan regime appears to be preparing to maintain itself in power through brute force — and the oil-producing country is headed for a crisis that demands the attention of the United States and Latin America’s democracies.
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25/01/2013 | Frente Externo
Hillary Clinton’s clarity on threats in North Africa
“LET ME underscore the importance of the United States continuing to lead in the Middle East, North Africa and around the world,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday in testimony to Congress. “When America is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. Extremism takes root, our interests suffer and our security at home is threatened.”
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20/01/2013 | Frente Externo
US - Obama 2.0
PRESIDENT OBAMA took office in 2009 with a soaring message of inclusiveness and optimism that proved overly ambitious in the bleak economy he inherited. As he swears his oath for a second time, the nightmarish collapse is a memory, thanks in part to his leadership, and the potential for growth and renewal very real. We hope, given the opportunity, he will rededicate himself to being a president who is bigger than party and above partisan squabbling.
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21/04/2012 | En Parrilla
Argentina’s president rejects stepping into the future
WHEN CRISTINA Fernandez de Kirchner was reelected president of Argentina last October, we posited that she had a choice to make between continuing to pursue the autocratic populism she practiced before the election and leading her country back toward global markets and the democratic world.
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02/04/2012 | Frente Externo
Chipping away at China’s state capitalism
IN EVERY GENERATION, it seems, some Americans find a foreign alternative to this country’s brand of democratic capitalism. During economic downturns, the grass on the other side of the fence looks especially green. In the Great Depression, many in the United States thought that Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union had cured unemployment. Today, some say we must learn the lessons of China’s state-run capitalism.
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01/11/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico needs more U.S. help in drug wars
TIJUANA, one of Mexico's violence-racked border cities, was supposed to be getting better. A drug kingpin notorious for dissolving his enemies in acid was arrested; a record cache of 134 tons of marijuana was seized and burned. President Felipe Calderon said the city was a "clear example that the security challenge has a solution." Then came the massacre. On Oct. 24, gunmen attacked a drug rehabilitation center, slaughtering 13 men. That brought this year's death toll to 639 in a city of 1.5 million.
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16/12/2009 | Frente Externo
Colombia- A president's duty
THE SAME night that he won election to a second term as Bolivia's president earlier this month, Evo Morales began hinting about plans to stand for a third. That was no surprise: The elimination of presidential term limits has been a common feature of the new authoritarian populism in Latin America. After two tries, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez managed to remove the limit on his tenure through a referendum; Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega relied on a decision by the country's Supreme Court, which he had previously stacked with his followers. Suspicions that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya wanted to lift a presidential term limit prompted the prolonged political crisis in that country.
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27/12/2007 | En Profundidad
A Bagman's Tale. Did Hugo Chávez purchase the allegiance of Argentina's new president?
It's long been well known that the close relations between Venezuela and Argentina are not the result of mere ideological affinity: Under President Hugo Chávez, Venezuela has purchased some $4 billion in Argentine bonds, bailing out a government whose paper is widely shunned in international financial markets.
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30/10/2007 | En Profundidad
New President, Old Cycle
CRISTINA FERNANDEZ de Kirchner was elected president of Argentina on Sunday in a relatively free and fair vote. That's not to be taken for granted; not only has Argentina suffered from chronic political turmoil in the past, but several other Latin American governments, led by Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, are working to dismantle the liberal democracies established throughout the region in the 1980s.
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01/12/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Parents Are Urged To Notice Gang Signs
School Talk Aims To Bring Awareness
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22/03/2005 | Frente Externo
A Threat to Latin Democracy
Another Latin American democracy is on the verge of crumbling under pressure from leftist populism. The trouble comes this time in Bolivia, where a democratic president and Congress face a paralyzing mix of strikes and road blockades by a radical movement opposed to foreign investment and free-market capitalism.
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22/03/2005 | Frente Externo
A Threat to Latin Democracy
Another Latin American democracy is on the verge of crumbling under pressure from leftist populism. The trouble comes this time in Bolivia, where a democratic president and Congress face a paralyzing mix of strikes and road blockades by a radical movement opposed to foreign investment and free-market capitalism.
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