 AP Photo President Barack Obama will face an unprecedented revolt by Latin American countries against the U.S.-led drug war during his second term and he also may struggle to pass new trade deals as the region once known as "America's backyard" flexes its muscles like never before. TAGGED: Drugs, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, 2012, United States, Barack ObamaRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| Mitt Romney’s plan for a Latin American trade region to enhance U.S. export prospects faces an enduring problem: Two decades after President Bill Clinton proposed a similar idea, the region’s biggest economies remain as... more ›› |
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WHENEVER I’ve interviewed Mexican cartel killers, the aspect that I’ve found most disturbing about them is that they appear to be sane.
Even though they have described to me such unfathomable actions as hacking off the heads... more ›› |
| The aggressively expanding and gruesomely violent Zetas group dominates territory by controlling all aspects of local criminal businesses. more ›› |
| More or less at opposite ends of the world, two very long wars are coming to a negotiated end, with no victors and no vanquished. In the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino signed a peace agreement with the leaders of the Moro... more ›› |
| On October 17, formal negotiations commenced in Oslo between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). They will be followed by further peace talks in Havana in mid-November. In the press,... more ›› |
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