Latin America
Winning Ugly in Venezuela
How Hugo Chávez is painting his opponent as a gay, Zionist Nazi out to destroy the country.
BY PETER WILSON | FEBRUARY 24, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Remembering a fallen journalist, protests hit Afghanistan, and Carnival around the world.
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
In Mexico, An Activist Says Her Farewells
For more than a decade, Norma Andrade has been working to defend Mexico’s women from violence. Now she’s decided to get out.
BY LARRY KAPLOW | FEBRUARY 24, 2012
Off the Beaten Path
Some of the best economic innovations come from places you wouldn't expect.
BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | FEBRUARY 16, 2012
The Sick Man of Europe Is Europe
A new study shows Europe's power waning -- and if the continent doesn't get its act together soon, it could put the global order in serious jeopardy.
BY JUSTIN VAÏSSE | FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Embarrassment of Riches
Natural resources would seem to promise easy money. Welcome to the dark side.
BY PETER PASSELL | FEBRUARY 9, 2012
The Debate the GOP Didn't Have in Florida
Instead of repeating tired applause lines about Fidel Castro, here are the vital Latin American issues the Republican candidates should be talking about.
BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | JANUARY 30, 2012
Guns and Butter
Countries around the world are finding that military involvement in private business is a major barrier to reform. But pensioning off CEOs in uniform is easier said than done.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 24, 2012
Girl Power and the Fragility Trap
Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.
BY PETER PASSELL | JANUARY 20, 2012
Haiti's 1 Percent
A look at the lives of plenty in the land of the poor.
BY ARNAUD ROBERT (TEXT), PAOLO WOODS (PHOTOS) | JANUARY 12, 2012
The Skyscraper Slums of Caracas
How Hugo Chávez built a squatter city in his backyard.
BY PETER WILSON | JANUARY 6, 2012
War Dogs, Boomtowns, and Dead Dictators
Foreign Policy’s most popular photo essays of 2011.
DECEMBER 28, 2011
To the Barricades
From Tahrir Square to Wall Street to the Kremlin, 2011 was a year when politics was conducted in the street.
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Next Year, in Review
From the fall of Ahmadinejad, Assad, Castro, and Chavez to the rise of cyberattacks -- the top 13 stories that could dominate the headlines in 2012.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | DECEMBER 12, 2011
Rise of the TIMBIs
Forget the BRICs. The real economies that will shake up the world over the next few decades need a new acronym.
BY JACK A. GOLDSTONE | DECEMBER 2, 2011
Head of the Class?
From Harvard to Pacific Western, a look at the sometimes surprising U.S. universities that have educated today’s new crop of world leaders.
BY URI FRIEDMAN, KEDAR PAVGI | NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Look South, Not East
The Obama administration is turning to Asia for the defining competition of the next century. But if the United States actually wants to win, it'll need Latin America.
BY PARAG KHANNA | NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Sins of Commission
After nine years, the alleged al Qaeda mastermind of the USS Cole bombing is finally getting his day in court. But does anyone still think a military commission at Gitmo is a fair trial?
BY LAURA PITTER | NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Gateway Interventions
Drones along the Mexican border, commandos in Central America -- the war on drugs looks more than ever like a real war. But do Americans have any idea what they're getting into?
BY JAMES POULOS | NOVEMBER 10, 2011
The End of FARC?
Why the killing of the Colombian insurgency's leader is a real chance for peace.
BY SILKE PFEIFFER | NOVEMBER 8, 2011
The Rise of Ortega-ismo
Latin America's savviest left-wing firebrand shakes his fist with one hand while accepting donors' cash with the other -- and he's about to consolidate power even further in a bold stroke of undemocratic electioneering.
BY MALCOLM BEITH | NOVEMBER 4, 2011
The New Stars of Cannes
Some surprising economies are hogging the spotlight at this year's G-20 summit.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | NOVEMBER 3, 2011
This Week at War: Mowing the Grass
Kenya and Turkey struggle to control the chaos next door.
BY ROBERT HADDICK | OCTOBER 28, 2011
A Brief History of Plan Colombia
Is the U.S.-backed anti-drug war in Colombia really a success worth replicating in Afghanistan?
BY URI FRIEDMAN | OCTOBER 28, 2011
Plan Afghanistan
Why the Colombia model -- even if it means drug war and armed rebellion -- is the best chance for U.S. success in Central Asia.
BY PAUL WOLFOWITZ , MICHAEL O'HANLON | OCTOBER 28, 2011
Do Graves of Dictators Really Become Shrines?
A tour of contentious burials from Qaddafi to Hitler.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | OCTOBER 26, 2011
Der Pizza-Präsident
Herman Cain may not want to talk about the world, but the world sure is talking about him.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | OCTOBER 19, 2011
Haiti Doesn't Need Your Yoga Mat
A visual history of the West's misguided attempts to send its hand-me-downs to the developing world.
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Country for Old Men
A dissident reports from the ruins of the daddy state, where Papá Fidel is now just the patient-in-chief.
BY YOANI SÁNCHEZ | NOVEMBER 2011
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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