Fierce and growing protests over media freedom have left at least two students dead in Venezuela, and graphic images depicting violent tactics employed by the police there have started to flood the Internet. Why is the Obama administration silent?
Archive for Category: "South America"
January 26, 2010 15:26
Venezuelans Protest as Chavez Closes Another TV Station
Police and protesters have clashed in several Venezuelan cities after a TV channel opposed to President Hugo Chavez was taken off air.
One student was reported killed and several officers injured in the city of Merida amid fighting between pro- and anti-Chavez groups. This is the same country that Obama’s FCC appointee called
January 13, 2010 14:33
Al Qaeda, Venezuela linked to drug aviation network
document warned that a growing fleet of rogue jet aircraft was regularly crisscrossing the Atlantic Ocean. On one end of the air route, it said, are cocaine-producing areas in the Andes controlled by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. On the other are some of West Africa’s most unstable countries.
January 12, 2010 08:54
Latin America in American national security
With more countries in Latin America and the Caribbean facing an increasing amount of drug related crimes, the prospect of a widespread general state of anarchy and lawlessness in the region becomes a real possibility. If that turns out to be the case, a situation similar to the one existing in Afghanistan will take place just south of our border.
October 26, 2009 15:14
U.S.-Colombia FTA: American Workers Wait as Congress Dithers
Congress should quickly approve the pending trade agreement with Colombia — and start tallying jobs that have been truly
