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Latin America and the United States.

Obama’s White House Turns Defense Policy Upside Down

How would it be if John F. Kennedy, or his advisors, had decided that the interests of global order were better served by dismissing photographic evidence of Soviet missile emplacements on the island of Cuba — and had made that dismissal the starting-point of a US policy?

One Man Rules Guatemala, and He Isn’t Jimmy Morales

In case you didn’t know, Guatemala went through a wrenching year in 2015. Its leaders were deposed and imprisoned on corruption charges. As the Organization of American States and others clearly saw, the literal decapitation of society was part of an attempt to cancel the country’s elections.

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The Antidote to Castro Apologists

Peruvian novelist and Nobel Laureate Marío Vargas Llosa once quipped that the greatest producer of anti-capitalist, anti-US propaganda was none other than the United States.

Cry-Baby Pérez Molina Is No Victim of the United States

From his prison cell, Otto Pérez Molina has played cry-baby by telling Russia Today — an odd bedfellow indeed — that the agent of his downfall was none other than the United States, up to its old tricks; and working in this case through the UN commission, the CICIG, a worthy partner in official corruption.

Guatemala Dodges a Guerrilla Bullet

The contest between the various candidates had been largely overshadowed by the imposition of criminal charges, only a few days before the vote, against the president and vice president — a situation that had taken the country to the edge of a coup d’état.

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