The whole experiment, it is said, was a failure from the beginning. Adherents say the downward spiral will continue until the chavistas are removed from power, either through elections or through a coup—most pundits don’t seem to care which. The reality is somewhat more complicated.

The Vatican’s participation in the mediation effort in Venezuela poses an unusual challenge to US policy in Venezuela and the region. On…

Honduras has become the most dangerous country in the world for environmental and human rights activists

From 2004 — after the Chávez government got control over the national oil industry — until 2014, real income per person grew by more than 2 percent annually

It is vitally important that human-rights organizations stick to their avowed principles and defend human rights without regard to the objectives of US foreign policy

Rousseff would probably never have been vulnerable to this attack if not for the economy being immersed in its worst recession in more than 25 years

One of the main purposes of the TPP is to bind the United States to a set of rules that our political leaders would have difficulty putting into law in the U.S.

It is pretty clear that voter disenfranchisement is the bedrock of Republican power. As such, the legitimacy of the Republican Party is questionable

Do liberals really want to trash Trump for taking positions that are less aggressively militaristic than the nation’s most warmongering neoconservatives?

The interim government is doubling down on austerity, and has generated all the investor confidence of a big, fat banana republic