In the past three weeks Latin American leaders have spoken out expressing their concerns over electoral conditions in Venezuela. While welcome, these individual voices don’t equal a larger institutional voice that can threaten sanctions if things should go awry in Venezuela.
The election of Mauricio Macri will bring a range of positive changes in Argentina’s foreign and commercial relations, on everything from Venezuela, to the Pacific Alliance, to China to Russia. Is the U.S. ready to take advantage?
Reflections on a special trip to Cuba provide the main themes on Latin Pulse this week. The program includes interviews with a U.S. delegation on a cultural and educational exchange in Cuba, including the delegation’s leader, the former governor of Missouri. The program also includes viewpoints on the U.S. embargo of Cuba and the possibility of business development on the island. The discussion ranges through politics, economics and shared interests between the U.S. and Cuba.
As the deadline looms, the logistics of the ceasefire in Colombia remain controversial. If the parties are committed to ending hostilities before the March 2016 deadline, their negotiators in Havana must agree on a ceasefire model before the end of the year.
En el debate presidencial Macri estuvo muy firme en pedir por la libertad de los presos políticos en Venezuela y la aplicación de la cláusula democrática del Mercosur.
Capitalism does need to be saved from its own excesses in Chile, but few public leaders today have the moral authority to do so.
In the run-up to the Venezuelan legislative elections on December 6th, 157 legislators from the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru sent a joint letter to President Nicolas Maduro.
It is a sad state of affairs when a U.S. Senator cannot differentiate between beachside resorts and the impoverished, dangerous situation in which many Hondurans live.
The scandal over price fixing by private cartels that produce toilet paper has left Chileans believing that their market is unfair and going down the toilet.
There’s more that President Obama can do if he wants to cement his legacy of policy change on Cuba.
