Latin America

Mexico's Forever War

Four years into Mexican President Felipe Calderón's assault on the drug cartels, all his country has to show for it is skyrocketing violence. It's time for a different strategy.

BY KEVIN CASAS-ZAMORA | DECEMBER 22, 2010

Is the WHO Becoming Irrelevant?

Why the world's premier public health organization must change or die.

BY JACK C. CHOW | DECEMBER 8, 2010

Art in a Time of Prosperity

Alvaro Vargas Llosa, son of Nobel laureate and Global Thinker No. 64 Mario Vargas Llosa, offers FP his look at the potentially bland future of Latin American literature.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | DECEMBER 2010

Child Workers of Bolivia, Unite!

Nearly 1 million children work full time in Bolivia's tin mines, in cemeteries, on buses, or in the markets. It's a tough life, but at least they're unionized.

BY HELEN COSTER | NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Echoes of the Drug War

Even in Mexico's most elite locales, it's impossible to escape the reverberations of cartel violence.   

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Not Your Father's Cuba

What Marco Rubio and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen don't get about the new generation of Cuban-Americans.

BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | NOVEMBER 5, 2010

New U.N. Report Reveals a Smarter, Healthier -- Yet More Unequal -- World

On the 20th anniversary of the world's most in-depth country ranking, the U.N. Human Development Index finds that global progress is largely on track. But those left behind are more numerous than ever.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Why Democracies Don't Get Cholera

It's about a lot more than just clean water.

BY JOE AMON | OCTOBER 25, 2010

All Roads Lead to Istanbul

Turkey is more popular now than it has been since the Ottoman Empire. But can it please all of its new friends at the same time?

BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 15, 2010

From Russia With Blood

C.J. Chivers talks with Foreign Policy about the Kalashnikov, the world's real weapon of mass destruction.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | OCTOBER 15, 2010

Rescued Relations

Did the Chilean mine rescue just end a 130-year feud?

BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | OCTOBER 14, 2010

Literature and Liberty

Renowned Mexican historian and journalist Enrique Krauze on how Mario Vargas Llosa's novels revealed Latin America's soul -- and exorcised its demons.

BY ENRIQUE KRAUZE | OCTOBER 7, 2010

Latin America's Literary Conscience

The 2010 Nobel laureate in literature is a political force in his own right: a champion of freedom, a fierce critic of strongmen, and clarion of democracy. Mario Vargas Llosa is not one to hold back. Here he is, in his own words.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | OCTOBER 7, 2010

The Revenge of the Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa, the new Nobel laureate, has always seen fiction as much more than just stories.

BY WILLIAM EGGINTON | OCTOBER 7, 2010

Chávez's Secret Nuclear Program

It's not clear what Venezuela's hiding, but it's definitely hiding something -- and the fact that Iran is involved suggests that it's up to no good.

BY ROGER F. NORIEGA | OCTOBER 5, 2010

Cuba's Pre-Existing Condition

It's too late for the Castros to create a market economy.

BY JOSÉ AZEL | OCTOBER 4, 2010

Chained in the Colombian Jungle

The FARC's most famous hostage, Ingrid Betancourt, tells FP what six-and-a-half years of captivity in the jungle felt like.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The Devil Comes to Collect His Due

Crime is soaring in Venezuela, and it's not too hard to identify the reason: Hugo Chávez and his pursuit of unbridled political power.

BY KEVIN CASAS-ZAMORA | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The Permanent Slum

The residents of Buenos Aires's Villa 31 have been shunted to the side for as long as they can remember. Now, they're looking to assert their identity in an unfriendly city.

BY JORDANA TIMERMAN | SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Taxing American Competitiveness

Why is Congress slapping fees on the most productive sectors of the U.S. economy?

BY JACOB F. KIRKEGAARD, ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN | SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This Week at War: The Iraq Gamble

Can Obama turn the page on the war he never wanted?

BY ROBERT HADDICK | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

This Week at War: Is Mexico's Drug War Doomed?

Learning to live with drug cartels -- and killer robots.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 13, 2010

Latin America's Shift to the Center

One of the most ideologically charged regions of the globe is turning to pragmatism.

BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | AUGUST 6, 2010

Colombia Kicks Over the Negotiating Table

Is President Álvaro Uribe trying to prevent his successor from making peace with Venezuela?

BY BERNARDO ÁLVAREZ | JULY 29, 2010

Good Times in Really Bad Places

Looking for a thrill on your next vacation? Here are seven resort destinations that are anything but tame.

BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JULY 27, 2010

Blood on the Tracks

Photos from the dangerous journey to El Norte.

PHOTOS BY FELIPE JÁCOME | JULY 23, 2010

Soccer Explains Nothing

Stop looking to the World Cup for history lessons. It’s just a game and, frankly, that’s good enough.

BY SIMON KUPER | JULY 21, 2010

The World's Worst Theme Parks

Where not to take the kids on your summer vacation.

BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JULY 4, 2010

The Long Emergency

Barack Obama's administration is taking an expansive, ambitious approach to global health. Does that mean giving up on combating HIV/AIDS?

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 25, 2010

The Oliver Stone Show

South of the Border is no portrait of Hugo Chávez or the Latin American left; it's about how one U.S. director views the world.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 24, 2010