U.S.-Cuba policy change advocates: This is your ally?
Reforms intended to promote openness in Cuba are about to be rolled back. But is this the administration with the moral authority to do it?
Christopher Sabatini
June 12, 2017
The U.S. Congress throws Venezuelans a lifeline
A bipartisan bill from the U.S. Congress does what the Venezuelan government and others should have done long ago: offer assistance to its long-suffering citizens. Maduro isn’t likely to accept, but will other countries step up?
Christopher Sabatini
May 3, 2017
Venezuela’s crisis: predictable (yes), preventable (we will never know)
Many knew where Venezuela was heading long ago, even as early as the 1999 election of the Constituent Assembly. So why wasn’t the regional community more prepared?
Christopher Sabatini
April 21, 2017
Maduro’s three-card monte: Keep your eye on the (OAS) card
Don’t be fooled. President Maduro’s call for UN help in addressing Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis—of the government’s own making—is just another in a long line of distracting tactics.
Christopher Sabatini
March 26, 2017
Cuba should prepare for the Trump hard line
President’s vow to roll back Obama-era opening must be taken seriously.
Christopher Sabatini
March 23, 2017
Could Trump succeed where Chavez failed and unite Latin America against the U.S.?
U.S. President Donald Trump’s disrespect for the Mexican president and his ugly attacks against immigrants and—by implication—Latin American citizens have given Latin American leaders like Rafael Correa and Danilo Medina a moral platform they don’t deserve.
Christopher Sabatini
February 23, 2017
The Islamist threat in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do we really know?
Some of the people slated to enter the administration have made a career peddling theories of Islamist threats in our hemisphere. There are genuine reasons for concern, but not for the disproven assertions many have been pitching for years.
Christopher Sabatini
January 26, 2017
¿Quedó ahogada en el agua la apertura de Estados Unidos a Cuba?
Dos años después de que Obama relajó el embargo de Estados Unidos sobre Cuba y normalizó las relaciones, ¿están esas políticas a punto de ser revertidas por la administración de Trump?
Christopher Sabatini
January 19, 2017
Is the U.S. opening to Cuba dead in the water?
Two years after Obama loosened the U.S. embargo on Cuba and normalized relations are those policies about to be rolled back by a Trump administration?
Christopher Sabatini
January 17, 2017
The populist enemy of my populist enemy is my populist friend… or so many seem to believe
Why are opponents of Venezuelan and Cuban dictators willing to overlook the troubling traits of a U.S. president-elect they hope will advance their own narrow policy preferences?
Christopher Sabatini
January 10, 2017