At the same time that the United States is praising democracy in the Middle East, it is helping to suppress it in Honduras.
Regions / Latin America & Caribbean
Except for populist Ollanta Humala, Peru's presidential candidates leave the public cold.
At the end of December, the first popular uprising in the region against a government of the left took place in Bolivia.
What might have been a high-profile trip heralding a new U.S. partnership with Latin America based on equity and mutual interests turned out to confirm the same old top-down approach to north-south relations.
Over the years, Texaco, now owned by Chevron, dumped nearly 20 billion gallons of toxic sludge in the jungle.
A free-trade agreement that floods Colombia with cheap U.S.-produced grains could drive farmers to coca production.
"Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up" addresses a terrorism campaign against Cuba orchestrated from U.S. soil, with complicity from the U.S. government.
Rewarding body count, during wartime or not, is a recipe for mass murder.
A tale of two helicopters.
A humble political scientist created the world's most widely used strategies for toppling authoritarian regimes.