From the monthly archives: January 2008
A few weeks ago I wrote about the imminent release of hostages being held by FARC terrorists in the jungles of Colombia. We now know for certain Venezuela’s leader Hugo Chavez sole purpose had nothing to with playing “peacemaker,” but rather seek to legitimize a terrorist group.
During his State of the Union speech before the Venezuelan [...]
A picture taken somewhere in the Middle East? Guess again. Mexico. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (“EZLN”) recently hosted a women’s ”encounter” or “meeting” at the jungle settlement camp in Chiapas. I posted an image from their website since it is something rarely seen in our media yet such meetings and anti-American and anti-Western efforts are a common occurrence [...]
The National Intelligence Officer (“NIO”) for Latin America from 1990-1994, Dr. Brian Latell, published an op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that does a good job summarizing key recent events regarding the inevitable change in leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba. His analysis builds upon some of the arguments advanced in his [...]
For several months family members, international observers such as the Red Cross, media, and others anxiously waited for the release of several hostages held by Latin America’s largest terrorist organization, the FARC-People’s Army. As posted on December 28, 2007 on this blog, the leaders of this political stage-show were doing nothing more than a
In a post-09.11.01 world Floridians, as expressed through their elected officials, felt restricting the use of taxpayer monies for academic travel to a terrorist country was warranted. ACLU lawyers and a state entity that oversees public universities in Florida say that Florida voters, and the people they elected to represent them, are wrong and have asked an unelected federal [...]
No Oscar for Hugo Chavez/Castro as their FARC hostage public relations side show ends for now, with a dud. My prior posts on this subject can be found here.
During the weekend Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to expel our Ambassador and ban trade in U.S. dollars if newly imposed sanctions were not [...]
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