Mateo Haydar is a research assistant for Latin America in The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy.
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the Biden administration announced an easing of sanctions on Venezuela. With the midterm elections safely behind President Joe Biden, the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Soon after Brazil’s leftist former president, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, secured a non-consecutive third term in October, the White House rushed to embrace the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
When former Marxist terrorist Gustavo Petro won Colombia’s presidential elections in June, the United States lost its most important military ally in Latin America. Late… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Costa Ricans have elected a new president, Rodrigo Chaves, who will take office May 8 to succeed Carlos Alvarado. Here’s what you need to know… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Gabriel Boric, Chile’s youngest president ever, was sworn into office on March 11, and will shape the direction of the country over the next four… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A federal court in Virginia recently granted Microsoft the authority to seize websites used by a Chinese state-linked hacking group. Known as Nickel, the group has… Read More
InternationalCommentary
When President Joe Biden met Nov. 18 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico at the White… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The recent kidnapping of 17 missionaries—16 American, one Canadian, and five of them children—and a local driver in Haiti has drawn international attention to the epidemic of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In recent months, Nicaragua’s brutal and longtime dictator-president, Daniel Ortega, and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, have plunged the Central American nation into… Read More
