It is difficult to explain under what circumstances a group of individuals decides to forget the greatest tragedy experienced by the community of which it forms part. For this reason,
The United States president has prepared for the fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad & Tobago on 17-19 April 2009 by announcing a package of measures that will make
The cold war has concluded nearly everywhere and is not going to restart. Dmitri Medvedev-Vladimir Putin's Russia is often disgruntled, and seeking to expand its influence, but no
There is a major paradox in current United States-Latin American relations. In the very decade which many saw as the apex of Washington's latest and unrivalled "imperial
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian is at the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina. He earned a doctorate in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University school of advanced international studies, and
The "Bolivarian revolution" led by President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela is a particular mixture of nationalism, populism, militarism, and socialism. His and his supporters' protests against President
President George W Bush's politically even-handed, geographically-balanced, five-country trip to Latin America on 8-14 March 2007 is an encouraging signal of renewed interest from Washington after years of
It is probable that Latin America may have the best chance in decades to establish a positive triangular relationship with two major powers. A new linkage - interconnecting China, the
A spectre is haunting the world: the spectre of fragmentation. The western hemisphere too may in the near future face this (to it) new and urgent problem, one that indirectly
The re-election of Álvaro Uribe Vélez as president of Colombia on 28 May 2006 is viewed by many observers as an indication of the country's political and social
