

May 12, 2010
Six weeks ago, it seemed impossible. Today, it seems improbable but all too possible: Colombia could reject the Presidential candidate most in the mould of retiring President Alvaro Uribe Velez.

April 02, 2010
When Epifanio Flores Quispe, the mayor of Requena, Peru received an invitation recently to visit Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, he wondered to himself what had made him so important. Requena is a very small city in the Upper Amazon region of Peru (population 25,000), near a tri-border area with Colombia and...

February 05, 2010
In the last several weeks we are hearing about more turmoil in Venezuela. According to news reports, protests in Venezuela broke out on January 23rd as a result of electricity and water rationing. Indeed, Venezuela was suffering major shortages of electricity at crucial times. As protests grew more...


