Archive for Category: "South America"

February 16, 2011 05:45

Iran’s man in Ecuador

Documentary evidence now suggests that Hugo Chavez’s junior partner in Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is apparently forging his own dangerous alliance with the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime …

February 15, 2011 07:19

Obama gives up Colombia trade to China

America’s string-along -and-dither policy on a free-trade pact with Colombia is not only costing U.S. firms; it’s exacting a strategic price. China is now exploiting the void with a dry canal at a strategic choke point.

February 15, 2011 04:45

Drug submarine seized by Colombian navy

The Colombian navy has seized a submarine believed to have been built to smuggle cocaine to Mexico.

January 31, 2011 12:42

Farmers losing exports in Colombian free trade delay

As recently as 2008, U.S. farmers sold 80% of all farm imports in Colombia. That share fell to 41% last year and is expected to slump to 30% once Canada’s treaty kicks in.

January 18, 2011 10:26

Cruising for Trouble

Obama’s anti-British obsessions combined with Britain’s culpable and myopic dismantling of its own defenses create a highly dangerous situation.

January 14, 2011 05:55

Brazil floods: More than 500 dead

More than 500 people are now known to have died in floods in south-eastern Brazil, the country’s worst natural disaster for several decades.

January 7, 2011 07:39

Inflation of 27.2% in Venezuela in 2010, record in Latin America

How’s that socialist revolution workin’ out for ya Chavez?

January 6, 2011 09:14

Wikileaks exposes Chavez framing of opposition leader

According to a confidential WikiLeaks cable from the US embassy in Bolivia, the government of Evo Morales simulated a terrorist plot to blame UnoAmerica. The fraudulent scheme is identical to that used by Chavez later to arrest and jail UnoAmerica President, Alejandro Pena Esclusa.

December 30, 2010 06:52

U.S. Revokes Venezuelan Ambassador’s Visa Amid Diplomatic Feud With Chavez

The U.S. revoked the visa of President Hugo Chavez’s ambassador to Washington as part of a five-month diplomatic feud between the two countries.

December 24, 2010 07:27

Israel first to send aid to Colombian flood victims where 2 million have been left homeless

Two million people have been left homeless and hundreds have been killed in the floods in recent weeks. Most of the damage has been in Medellin.