It is good news that two-thirds of Chile’s voters have rejected the new constitution proposed by a convention made up mostly of loonies. That result seems to have given hope to some who had begun to write off Latin America,…
Three times in the past year, President Joe Biden has said we would defend Taiwan with military force, which would be a major shift in U.S. defense policy. Every time he has said that, his Cabinet and White House advisers…
I am astonished and impressed. I watch Joe Biden like you watch a rare bird at the zoo. If I don’t throw peanuts at him to find out how he eats, it’s only because he is too far away. It’s…
On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council resolved to address systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the context of law enforcement. It was, as is usual for the UN, a setup to bash the United States….
In the 1970s, the Latin American Left played a key role in the destruction of liberal democracy, which it attacked as an instrument of bourgeois domination. In many cases the leftists were so “successful” they helped bring about right-wing military…
In Nicaragua, the supposedly rehabilitated Sandinista Cold War dictator Daniel Ortega is cracking down on his opponents. Ortega ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990 with an iron fist, collectivizing land and redistributing wealth. The Reagan administration combatted Ortega’s regime by…
Iran has suffered a lot of bad luck during the past few weeks. We should be cheering for the people who have made it so and are working to ensure it stays bad. With any luck on our side, it…
To understand the illegal immigration problem on our southern border, we must first understand what is happening in Latin America. Why have millions of people left their homes, possessions, and families and endured hardships and perils of every sort in…
Did Joe Biden win the presidential election fair and square or did prevalent cheating steal votes from the true winner, President Trump? I can’t speak with authority about the issues of dead voters, multiple voting, ballot harvesting, or ballot dumping,…