The Progressive Iconoclast

Guatemala has the CICIG and Honduras now has MACCIH, but El Salvador has no international commission to assist its institutions in the figh...

Ever since the 2009 coup in Honduras, the Supreme Court has played a starring role in some of the most important political controversies in...

In conversation with colleagues recently, various theories emerged as to what has happened to USAID over the years.  Too much of a contracti...

Last week I interviewed El Faro's Carlos Dada , who published a lengthy story on the Romero case based on an exclusive interview with Al...

I was drawn to the comparison of the two Chavez's in Josh's Hemispheric Brief yesterday , especially by the op-ed by Prof. Jeffrey R...

With help from the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, the Washington Post today has a disturbing story today about I...

Here are a few graphs from a good op-ed (if I do say so myself) published this week at foreignpolicy.com : Although coup leaders and others ...

It's quite the indicator of just how mediocre the State Department has been that they think they can bluff their way through the various...

Even if the parties were to go back to the negotiating table, it is quite clear that the Honduran Congress will not agree to reverse their J...

Where to start in commenting on Honduras? The Economist piece cited in Josh's news summary today was on the money in its skepticism of ...

An editor at The National Interest reviews Obama's foreign policy views critically, but ends up with a good measure of respect: Perhaps...

The January 5th edition of the Wall Street Journal pays attention to some of Chavez's more pragmatic, post-referendum moves. I love th...

In an opinion piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal , former national intelligence officer for Latin America Brian Latell predicts a ...

There are many things to say about the voting process that just took place in Venezuela this past week, but this post will focus on only one...

Yesterday's march in favor of a NO vote on the constitutional reforms was reported by AP to be more than 100,000 strong, but interestin...

Several weeks ago, a story from AP found found Justice Department and GAO findings contrasted with the claims by drug czar John Walters of ...

Daphne Eviatar, a contributing editor to American Lawyer and a 2005 Alicia Patterson Fellow, has a piece in today's Washington Post Outl...

Last night I got a rather exuberant email from Chicago outlining for anti-CAFTA activists all the reasons they should be proud of their work...

The best coverage today comes from the Wall Street Journal , which details some of the last-minute vote-buying/bargaining from the Administr...

Okay, so he doesn't really delve into the issues, but this is a nice bit from today's op-ed from one of Maine's two Congressmen,...

Various polls show public sentiment on US policy in Iraq waning. Gallup, for example, says that 6 out of every 10 Americans favor a partial...

I guess I need to brush up on my U.S.-Cuba policy, as an article that appeared the last Friday in the Portland Press Herald surprised me wi...