The top Republican in Congress on Tuesday called for stepping up U.S. "engagement" and interventionism in Latin America in order to obstruct various bogeymen that pose no threat to America. "The best defense against an expansion of Iranian influence in Latin America -...
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, while on a trip to Colombia, claimed that Iranian attempts to expand its influence in South America amounted to "expanding terrorism." "We always have a concern about in particular the [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] and [their]...
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has announced the Central American country will defy U.S. orders and decriminalize drugs to put an end to the U.S.-led drug war. "We are not doing what the United States says, we are doing what we have to do," said Perez, who...
The Kaibiles, the ruthless U.S.-trained Guatemalan state militia infamous for their role in killing civilians during Guatemala's civil war, are being recruited in large numbers to violent Mexican drug gangs. Mexico's Zetas drug cartel is paying large sums to a...
