UNASUR, the worthless
Last Friday, the ministers of defense and foreign affairs of the twelve South American nations were to meet in Quito, the Ecuadorean capital. The Venezuelan government had made it clear…
Last Friday, the ministers of defense and foreign affairs of the twelve South American nations were to meet in Quito, the Ecuadorean capital. The Venezuelan government had made it clear…
In a great number of ways, my last two years of high school in Hong Kong were quite different from my years of schooling in Colombia. For one, my Hong…
Sometimes it is easy to forget that the FARC are still out there. President Hugo Chavez’s provocations have kept Colombians wondering whether the autocrat of Caracas will go to war…
President Luis Inacio Lula of Brazil wants Colombians and Venezuelans to start trusting each other again. That is no easy task, even for the Giant of South America. This week…
I have never believed in such a thing as universal jurisdiction. It is a weird concept, product of the intellectual chimeras of elitist scholars, an illogical misconstruction, an affront to…
All women should have a right to abort if their pregnancies are the product of rape or put their lives at risk, or if their unborn babies suffer severe deformities.…
Moises Wasserman, headmaster of Colombia’s National University was kept inside his car against his liberty for six hours. As he attempted to leave campus, a group of 300 students surrounded…
Agricultural subsidies are a nasty thing. They are a source of government waste, inexplicable tax money handouts for a few, an affront to the free market principles that are essential…
Imagine you are the CEO of a big multinational who wants to start operating in Latin America. You want to open one branch in a large South American country…