No matter how long it takes to find Muammar Gaddafi, it is now relatively easy to draw up a scorecard on the six-month conflict in Libya and anoint the winners and losers.
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The Andean engagé
The role of the politically committed intellectual has a long and ubiquitous history. The Spanish-French novelist and screenwriter Jorge Semprún, who died recently, was for many years…
Mexico’s former foreign minister on the Mexico-Canada relationship
Jorge Castaneda, Mexico’s former foreign minister and a professor at New York University, talks to the Globe and Mail’s editorial board about Mexico’s drug war, the country’s upcoming election in 2012, and its relationship with Canada.
Visiting Latin America’s real success stories
US president will see a drastically changed region in trip through Latin America, Mexico’s former foreign minister says.
Is the U.S. Actually Trying to Help Mexico Terminate the Drug Syndicates?
CONCHITA SARNOFF.- Jorge Castaneda, a former Foreign Minister of Mexico in 2000-2003 and a wise friend, wrote an analysis recently in which he credits President Obama for leaping into Mexico’s drug war at the outset of his administration…
Wikileaks: pas de preuves accablantes sur l’Amérique Latine
S’il n’y a pas de preuves accablantes dans les révélations de Wikileaks sur la politique américaine en Amérique Latine, il s’y trouve un filon d’informations, de confirmations, de réflexions, et d’enseignements que la région pourra exploiter pour les anné
The Non-Smoking Gun
Everyone these days, it seems, has their own favorite American diplomatic cable – or will soon – given that the 250,000 documents obtained by WikiLeaks include references to almost every country in the world…
It’s Springtime for Radicals
JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA.- Obviously the U.S. midterm elections stole most people’s attention this week, but several important events in Latin America may have consequences almost as far-reaching, at least for the region itself.
Principle must match ambition
JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA.- The first round in Brazil’s upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for Oct. 3, may turn out to be the only round.
Relative quiet in the region is only temporary
JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA.- The perpetual seesaw in Latin American geo-politics is more vibrant than ever. The so-called “Americas-1” countries — those that are either neutral in the confrontation between the United States and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez