Source: Foreign Policy  By Javier El-Hage and Thor Halvorssen This week, after three and a half years of diplomatic service in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Guillermo Cochez left his post as Panama’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS). He was dismissed from his job by President Ricardo Martinelli for critical statements [...]

Source: Heritage It has now been two months since Venezuela President Hugo Chavez departed Miraflores Palace (Venezuela’s White House) to undergo cancer surgery in Havana, Cuba. Very little is known about Chavez’s health. So far the only proof of life presented by senior officials are reported visits to the hospital where Chavez is being [...]

Source: Wall Street Journal BY OTTO J. REICH It’s the old story: Socialist government interferes with the marketplace, and the result is scarcity. There are now reports of severe food shortages in Venezuela, including milk, bread, sugar, poultry, dairy products and cooking oil. Vice President Nicolás Maduro—running the country in [...]

“Mi conciencia tiene para mi más peso que la opinión de todo el mundo” Cicerón La virtud, según Tomás de Aquino, es  un hábito operativo bueno. Es decir, es una especie de “memoria muscular” del alma que facilita a la persona actuar de la manera correcta en todas las circunstancias [...]

Fuente: Revista Vanguardia Pedro Delgado pudiera estar a punto de realizar el escape perfecto. Luego de admitir que durante 22 años ejerció como economista sin serlo, salió del país sin presión de las autoridades, con el argumento de tener un compromiso familiar y con la venia de su primo Rafael [...]

Source: Huffington Post In a not-too-surprising announcement, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has confirmed ongoing rumors that he has never truly recovered from the cancer which was first diagnosed in June of 2011. In a press conference the night of December 8th he has said he is returning to Cuba for another [...]

Source: Foreign Policy Online By Otto J. Reich and Ezequiel Vázquez-Ger Seventy-one years ago this week, on December 7, 1941, the United States changed forever. What began as a tranquil day in a country that thought it could avoid the violence wracking the rest of the world ended with a [...]

By Otto J. Reich and William Perry Source: Fox News Latino With the rest of the world in such potentially dangerous turmoil, we need a stable, cooperative México, as México needs us to pursue an attentive and intelligent policy beyond our southern border On December 1st, Enrique Peña Nieto will [...]

Source: Fox News Latino During the recently concluded U.S. presidential campaign, many Latin American journalists and academics asked why Latin America was hardly mentioned. Although Gov. Romney did mention the region in each of the three debates, the question deserves a more complete answer. This region is far too important [...]

Source: National Review Many observers have asked whether the election in Venezuela last Sunday, which returned self-described “socialist” Hugo Chávez to power, was free and fair. To the extent that Venezuelans were mostly unimpeded in gaining access to the polling stations and in casting votes that were apparently counted, the [...]