Showing posts for "Latin America"
Having undermined democracy in Honduras in 2009 and watched democracy disappear in Nicaragua as the Sandinistas regained power in 2011, it is perhaps not surprising that the Obama administration appears indifferent to the disappearance of democracy in El Salvador. But it is tragic to see the FMLN, the old communist guerrillas’ party, starting to subvert what has been decades of democracy since the Salvadoran civil war ended. Read more »
Iranian President Ahmadinejad leaves Sunday on a tour of Latin America “in an apparent effort to show he is not a universal pariah despite increasing tension between Tehran and the West.” But the tour instead demonstrates what a pariah Iran is becoming. Read more »
Pressure Points tracks developments in the Middle East and democratization and human rights issues globally.
Much has been written about whether the instability in Iraq, the warfare in Syria and the crises this causes for…
It is fashionable to claim that support for democracy in Egypt is a fool’s errand, given the strength of the…
In a blog post here on April 15, I noted that Secretary of State Kerry was doing a great deal…
To be called “Iran’s Lech Walesa” probably very badly hurt Mansur Osanlu, head of the Tehran bus drivers’ union and…
During Secretary of State Kerry’s visit to Moscow, it seems we have proposed an international conference on Syria as a…
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