THE ELECTION of Mauricio Funes as president of El Salvador in 2009 set up a test of whether the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which had tried and failed to take power by force during a 1980s civil war, could govern the country democratically. Mr. Funes has mostly met the [...]

This shameful act needs to be explained. One of the main objectives of the ALBA nations is to leave Latin Americans without international protection so the governments can beat them up with impunity. We have just seen that painful spectacle at the 42nd meeting of the OAS, held in Cochabamba. [...]

The United States remains the largest destination for exports from Nicaragua, followed by Venezuela and Canada. As a whole, the three countries buy more than half of all products sold by the Central American country. Venezuela buys 12.56% of Nicaragua exports, as shown by the latest Nicaraguan statistics. State-run Center [...]

Four countries in Latin America have decided to withdraw from the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal. Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua no longer believe the regional defense treaty, dating back to the Cold War, is relevant. “Our countries have made the decision to bury what deserves to be buried, to throw [...]

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — Four Latin American countries announced Tuesday that they’re pulling out of a regional defense treaty while pressing for changes in the Organization of American States. The foreign ministers of Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua said on the final day of an OAS meeting that their countries are [...]

(WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement concerning a top Iranian official, Ali Saeidlo, who is on a tour of Latin American nations including Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ecuador, to promote the next Non Aligned Movement summit to be [...]