Morning Bell: Bringing the Light of Freedom to Cuba
The society that Pope Benedict XVI will find when he lands in Cuba next week will be a destitute one, prostrate in every way. The… Read More
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Vice President Biden: Right and Wrong on Mexico and Central America
This week, the White House dispatched its peripatetic Vice President Joe Biden south to Mexico and Honduras. Biden rightly sees criminal violence and insecurity as… Read More
Iranian Broadcasting Targets Latin America
Challenges to U.S. international broadcasting and public diplomacy continue to mount. Iran, joining China and Russia, also nourishes ambitions as a global power and is… Read More
Hugo Chavez’s Surgery and the Politics of Deception
On February 21, President Hugo Chavez told the Venezuelan people he will soon undergo another round of surgery. The breaking story was characteristically brief and… Read More
Chavez Allies’ Hysterical Response to a Democratic Challenge in Venezuela
Within 48 hours of the impressive victory in Venezuela’s first-ever presidential primary, the winner Henrique Capriles Radonski, who favors an end to polarization and national… Read More
Congress Notes Iranian Threat in Latin America
As we have been reporting, Iran is increasingly expanding its presence in Latin America, as evidenced in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent tour to Ecuador,… Read More
In Castro’s Cuba: Academic Honors for Tyranny, Failing Grades for Freedom
Friends of improved relations with Cuba argue that citizen contact, people-to-people interaction, and lifting current impediments to travel and trade will pave the way for… Read More
The 2012 Index of Economic Freedom: Latin America’s Underperformers
Today, the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom launches. For 17 years, The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal have reported on the status of… Read More
Who Lost Nicaragua? Daniel Ortega Begins an Unconstitutional Third Term
Daniel Ortega—sporting pink campaign colors rather than the combative red and black of the Sandinista Front (FSLN) and dressed in a business suit, or guaybera,… Read More
Hugo Chavez: Between the “Devil” and the “Clown”
In an infamous and vulgar U.N. speech delivered in September 2006, Venezuela’s populist authoritarian President Hugo Chavez likened President George W. Bush to “the devil.”… Read More
