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Colombia's Hired Murderers Lie Low. For Now -
The Russian was 13 years old when he first killed a man. He has no regrets about it; the man he killed had mistreated the Russian’s little sister. He built a weapon called a ...
Land for Peace in Colombia -
Even as Colombian troops fight FARC rebels in the jungle, the two sides are busy negotiating a peace deal. Land reform could pave the way to a lasting settlement and drive down the...
Rise of the High-Skilled Immigrant -
In surveys, immigrant workers in Chile express a positive opinion of the Chilean workforce. 60% say they do not feel discriminated against, 76% say they are paid the same as Chilea...
America's Expanding Drug War in Latin America -
In the most expensive initiative in Latin America since the Cold War, the U.S. has militarized the battle against the traffickers, spending more than $20 billion in the past decade...
Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2013 -
Every year, around the world, old conflicts worsen, new ones emerge and, occasionally, some situations improve. There is no shortage of storm clouds looming over 2013: Once ...
Latin America's Adaptive Gangsters -
Criminal networks distort the most important sources of change: globalization, technology, open markets, regional cooperation, and democracy. In a context of weak institutions, per...
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Obama Faces Latin America Revolt over Drugs - Brian Winter, Reuters
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...
Two More Wars Shut Down (Probably) - Gwynne Dyer, Winnipeg Free Press
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 signe...
Colombia's Plan to Integrate FARC - Anne Phillips, Foreign Affairs
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 ...
Venezuelan Vote May Determine Latin America's Future - Irish Times
The election has a geopolitical significance well beyond Venezuela. The continent’s politically predominant left has polarised between supporters of a Chávez-Castro axis, encour...
Latin America's Tale of Two Crises - Jorge Castaneda, Project Syndicate
If one were an irredeemable optimist, upcoming events in Venezuela and Colombia could be viewed as a harbinger of good things to come. In Venezuela, the October 7 presidential e...
Peace May Have a Chance in Colombia - Farid Kahhat, America Economia
The negotiations that are set to begin formally in October are by no means the first attempt to demobilize members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and incorpor...
U.S.-Cuba Ties Changing? - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ peace negotiations with his country’s FARC Marxist guerrillas could have widespread international repercussions: If the talks succeed, t...
Colombia Bets on Peace - Washington Post
Three times in the past 30 years Colombian governments have tried and failed to negotiate peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Government (FARC), a onetime Marxist guerrill...
Time to Rethink Cuba Policy? - Sarah Stephens, Politico
Just a few weeks ago, the Obama administration announced that Cuba would again be kept on the terrorism list for the 30th consecutive year. Among the allegations that the White ...
Colombian Cocaine Contradictions - Los Angeles Times
The White House says cocaine production in the South American country fell 25%. But a UN report says no. Who's right?...
Coca Still King in Colombia's Backwaters - Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Colombia has made dramatic progress in shaking off its dark past of drugs and guns. Coca crops and the homicide rate have dropped dramatically over the last decade, and the nation...
Five Signs Obama Is Losing Latin America - J.D. Gordon, Wash Times
Though most of Mr. Obama's newsworthy foreign policy proclamations have pertained to the Middle East, Europe and Asia, his judgment calls on Latin America have been equally bad -...
Democratic Deficit in Latin America - Myles Frechette, Miami Herald
For over two decades Latin America, except for Cuba, has been governed by democratic governments. Over the last 10 years there has been impressive economic growth in Latin Americ...
Dismantling Colombia's Armed Groups - International Crisis Group
he surrender of the Popular Revolutionary Anti-Terrorist Army of Colombia (ERPAC) in December 2011 risks going down as a failure. Only a fraction of the group took part; leaders ma...
FARC's Ferocious Female Warriors - Anne Phillips, Foreign Affairs
An inside look at the FARC's women fighters....
Political Feud Could Cripple Colombia - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
It's not unusual in Latin American politics for presidents to clash with their predecessors who once helped elect them, but the current feud between former Colombian President Al...
U.S. Lessons in Afghanistan Can Aid Colombia - Lolita Baldor, AP
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta got a glimpse into how America's military's experience in Afghanistan is contributing to the U.S. counterinsurgency training in Colombia....
Obama's Latin American Disconnect - Carlos Gutierrez, RealClearWorld
The unfolding Secret Service imbroglio has completely overshadowed the results of the Summit of the Americas that took place in Colombia last weekend. That is a pity, for the gathe...
The U.S.-Latin America Disconnect - Jose Cardenas, Foreign Policy
From the photographs of Hillary Clinton partying up at a Cartagena disco during last weekend's Sixth Summit of the Americas, it appears she was the only U.S. official who enjoyed ...
What Comes After the War on Drugs - Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen
Colombia's president has the right idea. We must, first, accept that the status quo is a mess. That doesn't mean committing to any particular change. It just means acknowledging w...
U.S. Drug Appetite Plagues Latin America - Kristin Lewis, CS Monitor
As the drug war continues to ravage much of Mexico, other countries in Central America, and the Caribbean, the US Office of National Drug Control Policy could learn something from...
Latin Leaders Want to End Drug War - Benny Avni, New York Post
At this weekend’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, a number of leaders will plead with President Obama to end the futile war on drugs. Obama won’t change US pol...
Lift Latin America's 'Drug Curse' - Christian Science Monitor
At the Summit of the Americas, Obama will likely be asked to discuss alternatives to the get-tough tactics on the drug trade - even to endorse legalization. He should point to La...
Can Colombia's Santos Unify the Americas? - Llana & Eulich, CS Monitor
As Latin America asserted its diplomatic and economic autonomy from the United States over the past decade, Colombia was consistently seen as the outlier – a lackey of the ...
Time for Obama to Reconsider America's Drug War - The Observer
This week, at a summit in Colombia, the president has a chance to show he understands there has to be a political solution....
Colombia Needs U.S. Anti-Insurgency Aid - Michael O'Hanlon, Bloomberg
There are signs that violence is on the gradual increase again. The insurgents have learned from their reverses, a regrouping that began in Uribe’s tenure, and adopted more e...
Can Colombia's Santos Solve the Cuba Conundrum? - Tim Padgett, Time
Santos' Cuba conundrum, in fact, revolved around the question of how strongly linked the Summit of the Americas is to the OAS and its Inter-American Democratic Charter. The chart...
FARC's Insufficient Olive Branch to Bogota - The Economist
Kidnapping is hardly the FARC's only means of threatening public safety....
Cocaine: The New Front Lines - John Lyons, Wall Street Journal
Colombia's success in curbing the drug trade has created more opportunities for countries hostile to the United States. What happens when coca farmers and their allies are in cha...
The End of America's Pro-Democracy Pretense - Glenn Greenwald, Salon
Why should 'American interests' determine the type of government Egypt has? That it should is simply embedded as an implicit, unstated assumption in Alterman’s advocacy. Th...
Will the Americas Drift Apart in 2012? - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Hld
Latin America's Pacific rim countries may decide their future lies in becoming a bridge between Asia and the U.S. market. And Latin America's Atlantic rim countries may decide th...
Don't Blame U.S. for Changing Latin America - Greg Weeks, Miami Herald
Conventional wisdom holds that the United States has been ignoring Latin America, thus prompting governments there to seek new trading partners, different investors, and fresh co...
Latin Leaders Forge New Bloc, Exclude U.S. - Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Latin and Caribbean leaders form a new bloc that excludes the U.S. and Canada. Some hope the CELAC will replace the Organization of American States....
Two Models for Integrating Asia - Center for Strategic and Int'l Studies
In sum, the U.S.-led model is deep and requires massive political commitments by governments to legally bind themselves and reform current regulations and practices. The China-led ...
Santos Holds the Line Against FARC - and Wins - Sabatini & Berger, CNN
Santos’s security policy, built on his predecessors’ Andrés Pastrana and Álvaro Uribe, has put the defeat of the FARC in sight - after the 1990s when the region’s longest...
Colombia Vote Comes Amid Violence, Corruption - Jim Wyss, Miami H'ld
Colombia hopes municipal elections this Sunday will help burnish its international image, but violence and corruption hound the race....
Colombia Model for Afghanistan - Wolfowitz & O'Hanlon, Foreign Policy
Many analysts have noted that the surge strategy in Afghanistan needs to be fundamentally different from that in Iraq. It is not an accident but rather a product of geography ...
Latin America Deserves Attention - Jaime Daremblum, Weekly Standard
At a time when Washington is (understandably) consumed by disputes over how to boost employment and slash the federal budget deficit, all foreign policy issues are receiving shor...
The Impact of Colombia Free Trade - Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Human rights flaws sit heavily on Colombia’s reputation. As COHA Guest Scholar Robert Works has noted elsewhere, the present Santos administration would be wise to launch a m...
Is Venezuela a Narco-State? - Joel Hirst, Fox News
Venezuela has taken the next step in a long series of steps toward being publically labeled an international pariah....
Colombia's Spreading Scandal - Los Angeles Times
The U.S. provided nearly $6 billion as part of Plan Colombia, an anti-narcotics and counterinsurgency program. But did the money also pay for human rights abuses?...
Colombian Politics Remains a Deadly Profession - Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
As Colombia heads toward key elections in October, powerful new criminal gangs and left-wing guerrillas are putting their imprint on the race - by killing people....
FARC Keeps Terrorizing Colombia - John Otis, Time
Over the past three decades, the Colombian town of Toribío has suffered more than 600 attacks by Marxist insurgents, earning it the nickname "Toribistan" as a comparison wit...
As Washington Dithers, Europe Races Ahead on Trade - Washington Post
The Republicans have a valid complaint when they say that this entire mess could have been avoided if President Obama had long ago embraced the three trade agreements, which were...