Latin America
Lessons from America's Other Counterinsurgency
The United States and Colombia have been testing out COIN strategies for years. But the major lesson for Afghanistan is a tough one: there are no clean answers in messy wars.
BY ADAM ISACSON | DECEMBER 16, 2009
Latin America's New Cold War?
Venezuela's and Colombia's ambassadors to the United States tell their sides of an increasingly tense story.
BY BERNARDO ALVAREZ HERRERA, CAROLINA BARCO | DECEMBER 8, 2009
Take the R Out of BRIC
What on Earth is Russia doing on the list of top emerging economies?
BY ANDERS ÅSLUND | DECEMBER 2, 2009
Democracy Loses the Honduran Election
It's an abomination that Sunday's presidential vote came without consequence for the country's coup-makers.
BY KEVIN CASAS-ZAMORA | DECEMBER 1, 2009
The Sham Elections in Honduras
Why Obama shouldn't turn a blind eye to the undemocratic shenanigans in Tegucigalpa.
BY GEORGE VICKERS | NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Calm Down, Chávez
War-mongering Venezuela is stirring up trouble down south again. But will he really go to war with Colombia this time around?
BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Planet Slum
Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen spent six weeks living in the slums of Nairobi, then Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta. His remarkable panoramic images take us inside slum families' lives, revealing the profound human impulse to fashion not only shelter but a home.
BY JONAS BENDIKSEN, CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 5, 2009
The Embargo on Change
Obama or no Obama, U.S.-Cuba relations are unlikely to improve anytime soon.
BY ROQUE PLANAS | OCTOBER 28, 2009
Honduras Is An Opportunity
And the United States shouldn't squander it.
BY OTTO J. REICH | OCTOBER 27, 2009
Why Brazil Won
How Lula brought the Olympic Games to his rising power.
BY EDUARDO J. GÓMEZ | OCTOBER 2, 2009
Courting Disaster in Honduras
When Zelaya came back, he rendered all things uncertain except one: The crisis is moving from the negotiating tables to the streets.
BY KEVIN CASAS-ZAMORA | SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
How to Save Lives by Breaking All the Rules
How former U.S. Global AIDS coordinator Mark Dybul ditched the bureaucracy, stopped intergovernmental turf wars, pushed for results, and helped create an anti-poverty machine that actually works.
BY MARK DYBUL | SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
The Least Among Us
The recession may be ending for Wall Street, but for the millions of migrants who make the U.S. economy run, the crisis is just beginning.
BY MANUEL OROZCO | SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Brazil's Public Option
What Obama can learn from Lula about universal health care.
BY EDUARDO J. GÓMEZ | SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
Chávez’s Covert War
Obama needs to call Venezuela’s president what he is: a terrorist and a drug-trafficker.
BY OTTO REICH | AUGUST 28, 2009
How High Will It Go?
How the price of oil might superspike once again.
BY THE MCKINSEY GLOBAL INSTITUTE | SEPT. / OCT. 2009
How Big Is Your Rocket?
There's a new global space race on, as countries spend billions to join the nine that have successfully launched rockets into orbit. Here's a look at four of the contenders.
BY JAMES DOWNIE | SEPT. / OCT. 2009
Scenes from the Violent Twilight of Oil
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil -- and the people and places that make it -- was my obsession.
BY PETER MAASS | SEPT. / OCT. 2009
Church and Narcostate
Mexico is at war with violence drug cartels that will stop at nothing to keep their dark trade going. Why is it taking so long for some Catholic clergy to speak out?
BY RODERIC AI CAMP | AUGUST 13, 2009
Who's Lobbying for the Coup?
How a Washington split on Honduras policy came to be.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | AUGUST 4, 2009
America's National Embarrassment
Why is the rest of the world so much better at signing up the vote?
BY WENDY WEISER, MARGARET CHEN | JULY 29, 2009
Brazil's Blessing in Disguise
How Lula turned an HIV crisis into a geopolitical opportunity.
BY EDUARDO J. GÓMEZ | JULY 22, 2009
Planning for the Worst in Honduras
Dark clouds are gathering over negotiations on the country's future.
BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | JULY 21, 2009
Lowered Expectations
The greatest threat to democracy in Latin America is Latin Americans themselves.
BY SEBASTIAN CHASKEL | JULY 13, 2009
Great Expectations
The most perilous threat to democracy in Latin America is Latin Americans themselves.
BY SEBASTIAN CHASKEL | JULY 10, 2009
Uribe Falls to Earth
Colombia's president is used to being wildly popular. But now, his flirtation with a third term may be getting him into trouble.
BY ADAM ISACSON | JULY 3, 2009
Iran Seen Through Venezuelan Eyes
Iran and Venezuela have seemingly little in common. But the recent
dissent over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election proves one strong
similarity.
BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JUNE 25, 2009
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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