Tag: Latin America

Ninety-three percent of Venezuelans do not have sufficient money to cover their food expenses. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Yield-starved investors pounce on Nicolas Maduro’s hunger bonds

Itziar Aguirre · August 8, 2017 4:01 am

7.2 million people flocked to the polls to reject the government's attempt to turn Venezuela into a second Cuba. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

The beginning of the end for Maduro’s Venezuela?

Alvaro Vargas Llosa · July 29, 2017 4:01 am

The opposition in Venezuela had found no other way than to create a parallel legal structure to confront the most powerful government in one of the soon-to-be one of the poorest countries on the continent. Venezuela faces not only starvation but one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world, with a growing refugee population seeking protection mainly in the United States, Colombia, and Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela nears the road’s end between populism and dictatorship

Jose Mauricio Gaona · July 29, 2017 4:01 am

Puerto Rico’s governor: ‘False narrative’ that Trump would block statehood

Anna Giaritelli · June 28, 2017 6:00 pm

There was no taco salad this year, but President Trump sent his best to people celebrating Mexico on Friday. (Screengrab/Twitter)

Trump lifts a glass to Mexicans

Anna Giaritelli · May 6, 2017 1:10 am

Is Anyone Up to the Task of Aiding Venezuela?

John Londregan · April 21, 2017 3:15 pm

The riots were in response to the parliament passing a bill that would lift presidential term limits. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

National Security

Paraguay protesters set congress on fire over presidential term limit vote

John Siciliano · April 1, 2017 2:54 pm

The number of illegal aliens apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in January was down compared to recent months, but higher than any January in the past five years. (AP Photo/Christian Torres)

Border apprehensions down in January, but still high

Anna Giaritelli · February 27, 2017 11:31 pm

Francisco Marroquin University has been turning out free-marketeers for 45 years. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Bond villain libertarians of Guatemala

Dan Hannan · December 19, 2016 5:03 am

Beltway Confidential

Maybe you laugh at Bitcoin, but they don’t in Latin America

David Freddoso · November 30, 2016 4:15 pm

National Security

Senator alarmed by ISIS outreach to Latin Americans

Joel Gehrke · November 14, 2016 5:30 pm

Washington Secrets

Mi Presidente: Clinton’s top global support in Latin America, 86% in Mexico

Paul Bedard · November 4, 2016 12:31 pm