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Sen. John McCain tells Newsmax that drug cartels and human traffickers have taken over Mexico and pose a direct threat to the security of the United States. -video

Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is promising to crack down on a wave of violence that has gripped his country, including the killing of at least six journalists recently.

Wants exemption for firms based in China and Russia – and how is that supposed to pressure Iran?

As the U.S. withdraws, our adversaries prepare to advance

Spain added to downgrades after Greece as the European financial crisis widens

Latin America experts are warning about the growing threat from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, citing new evidence of Chavez’s expanding ties with Iran and Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. Could our porous southern border become an even worse problem?

Fifteen months of Obama diplomacy have undermined Palestinian autonomy.

Supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega were in the streets of Managua last week firing on a hotel, burning cars, and otherwise trying to intimidate opposition members of Congress. The mob was mobilized because the legislature is standing in the way of a Hugo Chávez-style power grab by Mr. Ortega.

At the end of the recent nuclear summit, Obama spoke of nuclear proliferation and the Middle East, saying, “It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because, whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower. And when conflicts break out, one way or another, we get pulled into them.”

The Obama Doctrine seeks to avoid the burden of the latter by reducing America from the former.

A day after saying he wanted to cool tensions with Colombia, President Hugo Chavez charged Monday that his neighbor recently let a U.S. military plane carry out “electronic warfare” operations against Venezuela.