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During the last several decades, the United States has invested billions of dollars in trying to help the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean deliver better lives for their citizens. This has meant helping them increase internal security by combating the illicit growing and trafficking in narcotics and the activities of terrorist groups, as well as helping them to shore up their democra

tic and free market institutions. Unfortunately, in recent years, continued progress in these areas has been threatened, not least by the elections of radical populist governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. These governments have instituted retrograde agendas that include the propagation of class warfare, state domination of the economy, assaults on private property, anti-Americanism, support for such international pariahs as Iran, and lackluster support for regional counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics initiatives. We are a group of concerned policy experts that fear the results of these destructive agendas for individual freedom, prosperity, and the well-being of the peoples of the Andean region. Our goal to inform American policymakers and American and international public opinion of the dangers of these radical populist regimes to inter-American security.

Don't miss 's new piece in the , "Out of Good Options for ."
05/11/2018

Don't miss 's new piece in the , "Out of Good Options for ."

We should encourage all Venezuelans — including soldiers — to restore their country’s democracy.

PDVSA Learns That Conoco Pain May Be Worse Than U.S. Sanctions
05/11/2018

PDVSA Learns That Conoco Pain May Be Worse Than U.S. Sanctions

ConocoPhillips may finish what U.S. sanctions started. The Houston-based company on Friday assumed control of Venezuela’s oil assets in the Caribbean island of Bonaire and filed court orders to do the same in Curacao and Aruba. The takeover is effectively stifling Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s abi...

Turns to I.M.F., Long Its Villain, as Its Peso Plummets
05/09/2018

Turns to I.M.F., Long Its Villain, as Its Peso Plummets

Argentina has begun negotiating for a line of credit with the International Monetary Fund, turning to the very organization that much of the country still blames for an economic implosion and debt default 17 years ago.

Soldiers Desert in Droves With Presidential Election Ahead
05/09/2018

Soldiers Desert in Droves With Presidential Election Ahead

Military officers are joining the exodus of Venezuelans to Colombia and Brazil, fleeing barracks and forcing President Nicolas Maduro’s government to call upon retirees and militia to fill the void.

Business Hates ’s Presidential Front-Runner. And He Doesn’t Care
05/09/2018

Business Hates ’s Presidential Front-Runner. And He Doesn’t Care

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, sharing a stage with crates of coconuts and limes, looks out upon a crowd of thousands: a sea of sombreros bobbing in the sun. They’re farmers, mostly—or used to be, before the North American Free Trade Agreement upended the old traditions here in the Mexican heart...

12 tons of co***ne, worth $360 million, seized in massive raid
11/09/2017

12 tons of co***ne, worth $360 million, seized in massive raid

Colombian authorities seized 12 tons of co***ne worth an estimated $360 million in the country’s largest-ever drug bust — and they put the goods on display.

Exclusive: ’s PDVSA misses debt payments to India’s top oil producer
11/09/2017

Exclusive: ’s PDVSA misses debt payments to India’s top oil producer

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Venezuelan state oil-firm PDVSA has not made debt payments to India’s top oil producer ONGC (ONGC.NS) for six months, and has previously used a Russian state-owned bank and another Indian energy company as intermediaries to make payments, two sources familiar with the transacti...

Why ’s Sliding Toward Dictatorship, Default
11/07/2017

Why ’s Sliding Toward Dictatorship, Default

Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia and more poverty than Brazil. Its previous leader, the late Hugo Chavez, sought to use the country’s reserves to light a leftist path to prosperity for Latin America’s poor. Under his protege and successor, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela hasn’t always been able to...

11/07/2017

U.S. plans to end temporary residency permit program for

The Trump administration is planning a January 2019 end to a temporary residency permit program for 5,000 citizens from Nicaragua who have lived in the United States for almost two decades.

"New evidence of criminality in ’s military emerges" via
11/07/2017

"New evidence of criminality in ’s military emerges" via

A leaked internal memo obtained by the Miami Herald reveals the prevalence of theft and corruption perpetrated by soldiers in the Venezuelan military. In the memo to the Venezuelan Minister of Defense, chief prosecutor of the military Edgar José Rojas Borges raises his concerns over the frequent inc...

New probe says prosecutor Nisman was murdered
11/06/2017

New probe says prosecutor Nisman was murdered

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A new police report has dramatically revived one of the greatest criminal mysteries in Argentine history — the possible murder of a crusading prosecutor that has roused grave suspicions about a president and added to doubts about the probe into the country’s most deadl...

Drug Kingpin Leading Venezuelan Bond Talks Has a Violent Streak
11/06/2017

Drug Kingpin Leading Venezuelan Bond Talks Has a Violent Streak

Vice President Tareck El Aissami has summoned bondholders to a meeting in Caracas as Venezuela prepares to restructure its crushing debt. For some, the meeting could land them behind bars.

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