Ana Quintana is a senior policy analyst for Latin America and the Western Hemisphere in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies.
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President Barack Obama has nominated Roberta Jacobson, the current assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Mexico… Read More
InternationalCommentary
A humanitarian crisis is developing in Central America along the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Earlier this week, the Nicaraguan military began refusing to… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Over the weekend, four important elections occurred in the Western Hemisphere. Argentina and Guatemala held presidential elections; Colombia held local and municipal level elections. (Haiti… Read More
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Over the weekend, massive anti-government protests swept across the South American country of Brazil. Its citizens were calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff… Read More
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On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a resolution to rename the street in front of Cuba’s embassy in Washington, D.C. after slain Cuban dissident Oswaldo… Read More
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Today a Cuban embassy will open in the United States, and an American embassy will open in Cuba. While the Obama administration fawns over its… Read More
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On Wednesday, President Obama announced that the U.S. and Cuba have reached an agreement on reestablishing diplomatic relations. As part of his normalization bid with the… Read More
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If there was any confusion as to where Congress stood on Cuba, this week definitely put that to rest. From spending bills to legislation, a… Read More
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For much of the last century, Latin America has seldom been a major focus for U.S. foreign policy. Yet President Obama’s controversial Cuba policy appears… Read More
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A recently released poll by Univision/Fusion and The Washington Post would have you believe the iron curtain in Cuba has been lifted. That is definitely… Read More
