Category: Americas

By Fernando Brancoli | 16 November 2010   The 58th President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe In January 2009, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe affirmed that after decades of defeats, his country, together with...

By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 03 November 2010 An Anglo-French military treaty, due to be signed today, has been greeted with dismay in some quarters while indicating to others that the...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 28 October 2010   The death of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner (2003-07) provides an opportunity to reflect on Argentina’s domestic politics, economy and foreign policy. The past...

By Prof. James Petras | 09 October 2010 The abortive military-police coup in Ecuador, which took place on September 30, has raised numerous questions about the role of the US and its...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 09 October 2010   On the surface the result in Brazil’s presidential election was relatively predictable. Both the principal parties’ candidates, Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party...

By Simay Özlü Diniz | 03 October 2010   Zafer Caglayan, the state minister for foreign trade of the Republic of Turkey, visited the United States with the ambition of improving Turkish-American...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 26 August 2010 The decision by Peru's indigenous communities to form a political party ahead of next year's presidential election poses a number of questions. These...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 29 July 2010 Last weekend the UNITAS naval exercises between the US and several South American navies, including 1300 from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru...

By Walter Russell Mead | 17 July 2010 In spite of what some conspiracy-minded critics on the right think, mainstream journalists like Time’s Joel Klein do not often agree with Fidel Castro.  That...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 24 June 2010 Sunday's second round election saw Juan Manuel Santos beat his rival, Antanas Mockus of the Green Party, by 69% to 27.5%. His primary commitments...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 10 June 2010 For much of the past century Latin America has been characterised as Washington’s ‘backyard’. Economically and militarily, the region’s states have never been in a position...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 10 May 2010 The opposition of several Latin American leaders against the attendance of the Honduran leader, Porfirio Lobo, at the upcoming EU-Latin America summit in Madrid...

By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar** | 02 June 2010 President Obama's National Security Strategy may echo that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, but it is also almost identical to that suggested by...

By Steven J. Rosen | 01 April 2010   U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to confront Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Israeli construction activity in East Jerusalem has been greeted by...

By Dr. Talat Ulussever | 01 April 2010     It is a well-known fact that financial markets, especially banks, are subject to more developed regulatory mechanisms than other sectors of the economy...