M. A. Bastenier

Japan, China and the United States are taking up positions around a group of islets, in what is shaping up to be a sort of brewing cold war

Venezuela goes to the polls to decide the futures od Maduro and Capriles

Last week the FARC and the government agreed on the second point of the talks in Havana. But is this really a step toward peace?

At the height of the Cold War, no US ally would have talked back about spying

Faced with imitative xenophobic policies by centrist governments, voters might prefer the McCoy

The spectacle of American boys fighting in far-away rice paddies cried out for some geopolitical rationalization

Moscow and Washington used to share a world hegemony called bipolarity. But lately, lacking one of the two Atlases that sustained it, the system has become inherently unstable

Assange and Snowden have rendered a priceless service to Western public opinion by revealing the extent of cyber-spying

High Commissioner for Peace Sergio Jaramillo thinks that the stars are auspiciously aligned for a breakthrough

There are short and long views of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which condition the observer’s vision

As with the head of WikiLeaks, world opinion and the US courts are treating analyst Edward Snowden as a criminal

Popular uprisings in the Middle Eastern nation have a long and complicated history The actual political situation is an amalgamation of eclectic influences

The demonstrations in Brazil increased almost overnight from a few thousand to over a million protestors. But it is the middle classes who are pouring out into the streets

Criminal gangs will not give up their lucrative lifestyle until the state offers them something in return

Prime Minister Cameron welcomes the pretext offered by the rise of an anti-EU party to talk tough to Brussels

Madrid’s offer to mediate in the electoral dispute between Maduro and Capriles merely invites scorn

The legacy of the former president quickly crossed the Atlantic to find advocates chiefly in France and Spain

Venezuela’s voters have said “yes” to Chavism after Chávez, but with little conviction

At the international level, the fight for the post-Chávez legacy is on

Neither Maduro nor his rival Cabello fulfill the first requisite of a populist leader: charisma

Maduro may well be the government candidate, but the next elections in Venezuela will be a plebiscite on Chávez’s rule

Peña Nieto could take the country back to the heart of Latin American politics

Citizens are being asked whether to renovate or revolutionize the politics of the southern land mass

The Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, is now embarking on the decisive play of his mandate

The impetuosity of Rafael Correa may well keep Julian Assange imprisoned indefinitely in the Ecuadorian embassy