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- 20 Years On - November 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Historical moments are best judged from a distance, when the eye is able to focus on the whole canvas. Given the misconceptions that seem to surround the...
- Mexico's Debacle -- A Teaching Moment - October 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Moises Naim, the editor of Foreign Policy magazine, recently wrote that what is said about Brazil today -- that the country's potential has finally been...
- Beyond the Suitcase - October 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Between August and December 2007, Latin America was enthralled by a political melodrama involving a suitcase with $790,550 confiscated after a private...
- Are We Stuck With the Dollar? - October 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Like so many people, I own gold and silver as a hedge against the "Latin Americanization" of the United States -- money printing, deficits and debt. The...
- Peru's Barking Dogs - October 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Salomon Lerner Febres, the philosopher who headed Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has received a barrage of death threats. His two dogs were...
- Polanski's World - September 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Roman Polanski, the famed film director arrested in Zurich under a U.S. extradition request, has a perverse ability to bring out the worst in the judicial...
- Hilda Molina in Buenos Aires - September 23, 2009
- BUENOS AIRES -- A few weeks ago, Hilda Molina, a delicate, soft-spoken neurosurgeon, obtained an improbable victory against Cuba's regime when she left Havana and joined...
- The Enemy of Iran's Enemy - September 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Being a buffoon can buy a lot of time in international politics -- you can do naughty things for a long while before people begin to take them seriously....
- Hell in a Bubble - September 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In a new book on the housing bubble published by the Cato Institute, Swedish writer Johan Norberg likens the financial crisis that erupted last year to the...
- The Swiss Scapegoat - September 2, 2009
- GENEVA -- Repercussions continue to mount here over the deal by which Switzerland will give the names of presumptive tax evaders to the U.S. government. I'm referring,...
- The Tyranny of Oil - August 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Recessions can be a good thing -- they wring the excesses out of the economy and focus people's attention on public policy mistakes that often are the root...
- Hugo Chavez's Imperial Chess Game - August 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has never been coy about his imperial plans. What started as the Cuba-Venezuela axis now includes Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and...
- Are the Banks Out of the Woods? - August 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Several U.S. banks posted impressive second-quarter earnings. Citigroup's $4.3 billion, Bank of America's $3.2 billion, Goldman Sachs' $3.4 billion and...
- OAS is Part of the Problem in Latin America - July 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Honduras, where an ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez triggered a military response after violating the law in his attempt to stay in power, reminds us that...
- Bruno's Decadence - July 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "Bruno," Sacha Baron Cohen's new shock-and-awe movie, is being accused of fanning prejudices about homosexuality, defaming Austria, using false...
- Michael Jackson: A Modern Heretic - July 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Although I do not entirely rule out having tried to imitate his moonwalk on a moving skateboard in my earlier years, I was more fascinated by Michael...
- Zelaya's Coup - July 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Anytime a bunch of soldiers break into a presidential palace, pick up the president and put him on a flight to exile, as happened in Honduras last Sunday,...
- Not Tears for Them in Argentina - July 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The midterm elections in Argentina have dealt a devastating blow to President Cristina Kirchner and her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, who is...
- Not Their Finest Hour - June 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It has been painful to see so many political leaders in the United States devalue the Iranian uprising -- potentially the most important event since the...
- The Rise of the Poor - June 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Two years ago, the life of Manuel Mendez del Rio, general director and head of global risk management at the Spanish bank BBVA, took an unexpected turn....
- Europe Goes Right - June 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The European parliamentary elections have dealt a devastating blow to the left. Even if many of the victorious right-wing parties have been responding like...
- Showdown in Caracas - June 3, 2009
- CARACAS, Venezuela -- A group of foreign writers, academics and politicians was invited here to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Cedice, a Venezuelan think tank that...
- Uribe Must Be Stopped - May 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- No one who has talked to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe can be surprised that his country's Senate has now approved a constitutional referendum that...
- A Time of Reckoning for the Poor - May 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the last few years, an abundance of consumer demand, credit and investment coming from the rich nations combined to pull millions out of poverty...
- Under the Cassock - May 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The sex scandal of the Rev. Alberto Cutie, a Catholic priest well-known throughout the Spanish-speaking world who was photographed frolicking with a woman...
- An American Eccentric - May 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- With the market value of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway down 30 percent in the last year, financial oracles seem highly overrated. But a few got...
- Should the Cuban Embargo Be Lifted? - April 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Most Americans seem to reject the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. According to a Washington Post/ABC poll, 57 percent of Americans now oppose the policy....
- The Idiot's Bible - April 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Hugo Chavez's gift to President Obama at the recent Summit of the Americas -- a copy of Eduardo Galeano's "Open Veins of Latin America" -- has many people...
- The Summit of the Americas -- Memo to Obama - April 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Memo to President Obama: The Summit of the Americas taking place in Trinidad & Tobago this week will be your first trip to the Latin American region....
- Crimes of State - April 8, 2009
- But prosecutors built a devastating case demonstrating Fujimori's responsibility for the strategy, the operational structure and the political cover-up related to...
- Angela Merkel: Voice of Reason - April 1, 2009
- In response to the pressure to boost public spending, the German chancellor offers this devastating logic: "This crisis did not come about because we issued too...
- Has the G-20 Learned the Lesson? - March 25, 2009
- This monetary alchemy was no different, in essence, from the one that led to the Crash of 1929: During the 1920s, the money supply grew more than 60 percent in...
- Peru's Legacy of Graft - March 18, 2009
- Quiroz's book presents corruption as a continuum that runs through the different types of governing systems Peru has endured. In doing so, it underscores the...
- Time to Decriminalize It? - March 11, 2009
- Echoing the Prohibition era in the United States, illegality has engendered organized crime empires that, in order to supply narcotics, undermine the peace and...
- Let Those Banks Fail! - March 4, 2009
- The banking system is in a humongous mess. Potential losses by U.S. banks on loans and securities amount to nearly $2 trillion. The response by two consecutive...
- Slumdog Millionaire's Indian Critics - February 25, 2009
- One example of this balderdash is a lawsuit filed by Tapeshwar Vishwakarma, who represents a charity and claims that the human rights of the slum dwellers have been...
- Venezuela's Bright Side - February 18, 2009
- Even though the opposition was not able to defeat Chavez this time, the referendum confirmed that he still faces millions of Venezuelans who abhor his regime. The...
- Darwin and the Right - February 11, 2009
- Darwin did not set out to deny God. Anyone who has read "The Origin of Species," "The Descent of Man" or his correspondence is immediately struck by how careful...
- End the China Bashing - RealClearWorld - February 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Several Chinese readers have contacted me to express astonishment at the chorus of voices blaming China for the U.S. recession. They wonder: Is this the...
- China Bashing - February 4, 2009
- China-bashers maintain that Beijing cheapened its exports through currency manipulation, encouraging Americans to devour them; the Chinese then invested part of...