Testimony before Caucus on International Narcotics Control United States Senate … Read more
Between March 19 and 23, President Obama will embark on a rapid visit to Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador. This is his first visit to South or Central America as President. Despite considerable fanfare, the trip comes at an awkward time, when global attention is riveted on the tragedy in… Read more
On January 27, Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo will don the sash of presidential office in Honduras. He becomes the eighth civilian president since military rule ended in 1982. Lobo and a new congress dominated by his National Party take power in one of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest countries—a nation badly scarred… Read more
On November 29, the people of Honduras took a step toward resolving the five-month political and diplomatic crisis that has divided and impoverished their nation. Voters selected a new president, legislators, and municipal councils through a constitutionally scheduled election process that was universally acknowledged by observers to be free, fair,… Read more
Ray Walser commenting on U.S. – Honduran relations. … Read more
Ray Walser commenting on whether Obama is supporting the ousted Honduran president. … Read more
Thirty years ago, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick charged the Carter administration with hypocrisy and doublethink. Why, she asked in “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” did President Carter always seem to find fault with the human rights records of friendly powers while letting unfriendly states off the hook? Why, she wondered, was the… Read more
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is a man consumed by an obsession. That obsession is the United States. The United...… Read more
One year after taking office, President Obama has yet to usher in the new dawn in relations with Latin America he talked...… Read more