When ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias failed to show up in Caracas for his fourth inauguration on January 10th, it was widely perceived that the South American nation was finally embarking upon a process of executive transition after fourteen years of rule by the...
The genesis of El Salvador’s youth gangs can be found in the historical civil strife and tensions between the Salvadoran government and paramilitary groups stretching back to the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992) during the rule of The Revolutionary Government, a conflict which...
President Obama’s energy policy has recently come under fire by Mitt Romney and other Republican Party members – especially in the House of Representatives. In recent litigation over the federal energy policy, the House of Representatives requested the Obama administration...
As all stock-addicts and CNN-watchers must undoubtedly know by now, the global economy is in rapid decline. The US recovery is now at snail-pace and the Europeans are about to self-destruct. Much has been made about Sachs’ anointed bloc of countries – the BRICs that were to...
Late last year, a regiment of 600 soldiers and federal police surrounded a band of Zeta drug cartel combatants in the small town of Vallecillo, Mexico. The fighting that ensued claimed the lives of 22 the drug cartel members, two police officers and one soldier, according to...
Canada is a great place to come for a vacation if you would like a subsidized holiday paid by Canadian taxpayers. Last week a record of 110 Hungarian Roma (also known as “Gypsies, which was an increase from the daily 50) arrived at Pearson International Airport applying for...
The world of the Latin American drug wars is a gruesome one. It is perpetuating, complex, and particularly violent. I say “wars” in this case to highlight that there are several of these conflicts underway in that region. They are not conventional wars. Some, like Mexican...
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