Recent Blog Entries


  • The Dialogue Report

    A Second Chance: U.S. Policy in the Americas


    Mar 11, 2009

    A prominent, inside-the-beltway think-tank recently produced a "10-point programmatic agenda" designed "to guide the Obama administration through the most important challenges it is likely to confront in Latin America and the Caribbean." Here's an annotated review of those 10 points.


  • Carlos Slim

    Latin Billionaires Hold Summit


    Mar 08, 2009

    As the global economy crumbles around them, Latin America's richest men have arrived to Cartagena, Colombia for a luxurious meeting of the ultra-rich to schmooze, talk strategy, and have father-son chats.


  • TP

    Toilet Paper: Latin America 1, USA 0


    Mar 03, 2009

    We should celebrate our small victories, no? A Natural Resource Defense Council scientist says 98 percent of the U.S. toilet paper roll comes from virgin forests. In Latin America, up to 40 percent of each roll comes from recycled products. Luckily, Greenpeace is here to help everyone out.


  • fmln

    Obama's Take on the Left in Latin America?


    Feb 28, 2009

    Those curious about the Obama administration's foreign policy toward Latin America should watch the upcoming March 15 presidential elections in El Salvador.


  • impunity

    U.S. Senator: 'This is not Latin America!'


    Feb 25, 2009

    In response to a proposal from a fellow Senator about the possibility of a Truth Commission on the abuses of the Bush administration, Republican Sen. Arlen Specter had this to say...


  • eln

    Only in Colombia: Rebel Drug Potion


    Feb 24, 2009

    As part of an ongoing, if somewhat ad hoc, series of blog entries I'm introducing the series, "Only in Colombia," in which I will discuss peculiar news items coming out of Colombia. This inaugural entry looks at guerrillas drugging their superiors with a jungle opiate as part of their mass escape from the rebel group.