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September 7, 2023

Latin America Studies Program
Latin America This Week: September 7, 2023

Petro’s latest scandal could reenergize Colombia’s lackluster conservative opposition; foreign direct investment in Latin America defies global downturn.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro attends event with the Colombian government's peace negotiators and members of the ELN.
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil and Will Freeman Latin America’s Moment

July 22, 2015

United States
Guest Post: Endgame in Colombia - The Need for a Bilateral Ceasefire

Patrick Romano is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s unrelenting opposition to negotiating a bilateral ceasef…

Colombia Santos and Def Min
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

October 16, 2020

Election 2020
Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: What to Do About Afghanistan?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This week: how Donald Trump and Joe Biden say the United States should deal with Afghanistan

Soldiers
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

January 10, 2013

Politics and Government
The World Next Week: Future U.S. Troop Levels in Afghanistan, Colombia and FARC Peace Talks, and the North American International Auto Show

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the debate over future U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, the resumption of peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC reb…

U.S. president Barack Obama and Afghan president Hamid Karzai meet in Kabul in May 2012 (Kevin Lamarque/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

October 6, 2023

Venezuela
Maduro Regime To Accept Venezuelans Returned Home: Why Now?

The Biden administration has announced that the Maduro regime will henceforth accept the return of Venezuelans deported from the United States. Will sanctions relief will soon follow?

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

May 22, 2013

Regional Organizations
Winds of Change in the War on Drugs: An OAS Report That Won’t Gather Dust

It was half a century ago that UK Prime Minister Harold McMillan famously noted the “winds of change” buffeting the British Empire. Old verities were crumbling and Great Britain would need to adapt t…

A Colombian police officer stands guard near packs of confiscated marijuana in Cali
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist