For the past three months most of the world has marched in lock-step behind Manuel Zelaya's demand to be reinstated as the president of Honduras...

The Organization of American States (OAS) grabbed headlines on June 28 when it became the international point-organization for dealing with the “coup” in Honduras that ousted President Manuel Zelaya...

We have heard a lot about Honduras lately, but there is much more at issue than the nighttime removal of President Manuel Zelaya...

A review of Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz, eds., China´s Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States...

Some pundits have taken to calling the violent military repression of post-election protesters in Iran a “Tehran Tiananmen.”...

Most Latin American leaders slammed the 47-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba at the mid-April Summit of the Americas in Trinidad...

Fidel Castro wasn't invited to the Summit of the Americas to be held in Trinidad and Tobago this week, but he may be able to dominate it nonetheless and humiliate the United States for its globally rejected policy toward Cuba...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) says it places high priority on making Mexico an important link in its widely publicized “win-win” expansion into Latin America...

Just two decades ago Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was unknown, or distinctly unwelcome, in most Brazilian and American homes...

Last week Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged that China will make a "concerted effort" to "establish a comprehensive cooperative partnership of equality, mutual benefit and common development" with Latin America, according to China's Xinhua news agency...

Vietnam today is in many respects “the darling of foreign investors and multinationals,” or at least that’s how the Economist magazine put it in a special report earlier this year...

The death of one of Latin America's top guerrilla leaders, Colombia's Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, who died last month of a heart attack at age 77, increases the chances for peace and stability in the region...

The explosive growth of China's links to Latin America in recent years are but the latest developments in a history that reaches back to the Spanish colonial empire in the early-16th century...

The explosive growth of China’s links to Latin America in recent years are but the latest developments in a history that reaches back to the Spanish colonial empire in the early-16th century...

There hasn't been a really good war in Latin America for many years, but a couple of Andean ideological hotheads are threatening to change that, as Venezuela and Ecuador mobilize troops at their borders with Colombia...

Not long ago, for the 16th year in a row, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the U.S. embargo on Cuba...

On Dec. 2, Venezuelans will be asked to vote on a whopping 69 constitutional amendments that would greatly reduce the country's democratic governance, strip citizens of still more individual liberties and thus expand President Hugo Chavez's power even beyond what it is today...

As I walked toward the grandiose Basilica of Saint Francis in this ancient city, I saw a familiar face at a souvenir stall on my left...

El 25º aniversario del fin de una guerra trágica es un momento oportuno para lamentar las pérdidas....

We finally have tolerably good evidence that Fidel Castro is really alive and at least to some degree recuperating after ten months and several surgeries...

Twenty-five years ago, two nations a third of the world apart concluded one of history's most foolish wars in one of the most isolated regions on earth....

We finally have tolerably good evidence that Fidel Castro is really alive and at least to some degree recuperating after ten months and several surgeries...

What a spectacle it was last March to see Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez chasing President George W. Bush up the length of Latin America, from Buenos Aires to Port-au-Prince, shouting challenges and insults at the American leader...

Earlier this month George Bush and Hugo Chavez, between them, shuttled through ten Latin American countries, large and small...

Gilbert and Sullivan could have written a brilliant comic opera about last month’s spectacle of Hugo Chavez chasing George Bush around Latin America from south to north, shouting all the way...

Only the most ungrounded of observers would expect George W. Bush to obtain during his first serious presidential trip to Latin American—which begins tomorrow—the achievements his father made in the region 17 years ago...

This week, President Bush will make one of the most important trips of his presidency to five Latin American countries...

In early December Hugo Chavez, the heir apparent of Fidel Castro’s half-century campaign to undermine the United States and promote “socialism” in the Americas, was handily re-elected president of Venezuela...

General Augusto Pinochet, whose death last week in Chile incited hundreds of thousands to public cheers and tears, was as polarizing a personality as Osama bin Laden...

The recently reelected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is widely seen as part of the potentially dangerous surge of the left in the region...

The knee-jerk question about Latin America these days is whether the region is "turning left"...

At the beginning of August, Cuba got a new “Maximum Leader” for the first time in almost a half century...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's world tour has landed him in China for the fourth time during his presidency

At the beginning of August, Cuba got a new “Maximum Leader” for the first time in almost a half century…

Fidel Castro sobrevivió la cirugía intestinal y celebró tranquilamente sus 80 años, aunque el mensaje a los cubanos es que estén preparados para malas noticias…

The time has finally come for us to begin thinking of Fidel Castro in the past tense…

Will Latin America’s trade and business with Asia continue to grow at strong levels the next two years?...

What impact has Milton Friedman had on Latin America?