It's time to relegate the bankrupt counterinsurgency doctrine into the “dustbin of history.”
Regions / Latin America & Caribbean
The governments of Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico all called for developing more effective responses to drug trafficking based on promoting public health, respect for human rights, and harm reduction.
Indigenous activists in Honduras risk their lives to protect their lands from predatory "development."
The western hemisphere’s preoccupation with the drug war is sapping resources that could be better employed to meet other security challenges.
Just over a year after the implementation of a new free trade agreement with the United States, Colombia’s sugarcane cutters continue to face widespread labor rights violations.
Philanthropists use microlending and financial literacy programs to conscript world’s poor into the service of free markets.
Nelson Mandela has long enjoyed the support of Fidel Castro, and many right-wing Cuban Americans have never forgiven the anti-apartheid leader for it.
NSA spying is sullying Washington's relationship with nearly every one of its global partners and competitors.
The lesson from the streets of Brazil, Turkey, and the Arab world is to avoid underestimating social movements still in their infancy.
With a million people demonstrating in the streets of Brazil, everyone's scrambling to understand how a 20-cent bus fare hike turned into a social revolt.