Latin America Opens the Door for China in the New Trump Era
As Donald Trump takes office as President of the United States, it is still unclear how the triangular relationship between the United States, China, and Latin America will evolve. During the presidential campaign, Mr. T
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Russia in Our Blind Spot: Using Intelligence Networks in South America to Infiltrate the United States
January 2017 • Issue 2 Russia, like the Soviet Union before it, is a source of expansion and aggression in Crimea, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Syria, and in cyberspace. These are regrettably only the visible si
Continue readingPeru summit provides opportunity to ramp up fight against ISIS
When President Barack Obama visits Lima this week for a two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, the fight against Islamist terrorism should be at the very top of his agenda. In the last year, ISIS affi
Continue readingOpinion: Watch out Rio 2016, Islamic terror networks are not new in Brazil
On the eve of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Brazilian and international authorities are working overtime on necessary countermeasures against a potential terrorist attack. Over the last month, more than a dozen Islamic ex
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Gobernando desde el balcón
Las discusiones no deben seguir llenando el escenario polÃtico Si la discusión polÃtica continúa centrándose en temas ajenos a la preocupación y el entendimiento de las grandes mayorÃas, como ocurrió antes en Ve
Continue readingISIS exporting global terror
The world is once again grieving from yet another radical Islamic terrorist attack. Drawing eerie similarities to the attack at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris — sieged by three heavily armed ISIS agents last November â
Continue readingUS Should Help Argentina Solve Terrorism Case
Will the presidential victory of Mauricio Macri in Argentina finally bring justice to the victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires? Will it solve the murder of the AMIA investigatio
Continue readingIran Taking Over Latin America
During the last couple months, Iran and Saudi Arabia have been playing a political tug of war over Latin America. On November 10, 2015, Iran's deputy foreign minister held a private meeting with ambassadors from nine La
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