by | Mar 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….

by | Feb 24, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….

by | Feb 9, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication…

by | Jan 6, 2024

Nicaragua’s anti-Catholic regime rounded out 2023 with nearly 20 Catholic clerics imprisoned, earning sharp criticism, especially from the U.S. On New Year’s Eve, Fr. Gustavo Sandino Ochoa became the 15th priest abducted by President Daniel Ortega’s paramilitary police in December….

by | Jan 3, 2024

Writing in the Diplomat, R. Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College professor of Latin America research, warns about “China’s Growing Strategic Position in Nicaragua.” The Nicaraguan regime headed by Daniel Ortega is expanding trade with China and inviting more Chinese…

by | Aug 15, 2023

Latin America’s youth are on the march, if a recent survey is any indication — but we won’t like where they’re headed.  As the Economist pointed out on July 20, 2023, the latest Latinobarómetro contains several troubling indicators for the…

by | Jun 22, 2023

The National Liberation Army (ELN) — a Marxist insurgency group that formed in the early ’60s — and the Colombian government agreed to the longest ceasefire in their history earlier this month, reports CNN. Though ELN and Columbia, which was…

by | Jun 16, 2023

Honduras opened a new embassy in China this week. The move was a response to the opening of a Chinese embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras’ capital, reports the South China Morning Post. Predicated upon Honduras removing its recognition of Taiwan, these…

by | Jun 6, 2023

Three politicians recently campaigned in Los Angeles for the presidency … of Guatemala. The local newspaper’s account expressed shock not at the candidates who trolled for votes 2,500 miles away from Guatemala City but at the ones who stayed home….

by | May 7, 2023

Back in 1936, E. Alexander Powell flew to two dozen republics and colonies “fringing and dotting the Caribbean,” in “half that number of weeks,” relying heavily on Pan Am clippers, a flying boat. In his book Aerial Odyssey, he offered…

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