Opinion

It's a mistake to see Guaidó's fight to oust Maduro as an attempted coup. His actions are a legitimate attempt to put an end to a dictatorship, just like the fight against Pinochet in Chile, or against apartheid in South Africa, or slavery in the United States. The 'neutral' position adopted by AMLO in Mexico places him on the wrong side of history.

"This administration treats asylum seekers on our southern border as criminals the moment they arrive in the United States."

Great and powerful nations should have more than ad hoc policies and need to communicate them in a disciplined fashion in order to convey authority. The slapstick miscues and contradictions by senior U.S. officials regarding Venezuela indicate there is much that needs to be improved in the Trump Administration’s handling of this crisis. My advice: do more, say less, and stop playing around like amateurs.

López, a Harvard-educated former mayor and presidential candidate, was a leading figure in the powerful protest movement against Maduro that began in 2014.

The temple at Angkor Wat is, without a doubt, one of the great wonders of the world, comparable only to the temple complexes of the ancient Aztecs and Incas. Not far from Angkor was one of the camps where the tyrant Pol Pot massacred thousands of his own people between 1975 and 1979.

The president claims that homicides are decreasing. Yet the government's own figures suggest that Mexico is experiencing a particularly deadly year. Confronting a president when his numbers don't add up is what journalists do.

Half a millennium since the brutal conquest of the Americas by Europeans, the practice of slavery has been outlawed and eradicated. In its place the enslaving and dehumanizing practices of official corruption have become pandemic, once again separating the haves from the have-nots. It’s time to change cultural attitudes and eradicate this pernicious form of modern slavery.

The Trump administration has declared the most severe new sanctions against Cuba since President John F. Kennedy imposed an economic embargo banning all trade with the communist island in 1962.

When the political chaos forced my family and me to abandon Managua in June 2018, I felt fairly certain that Ortega’s days were numbered. In a democratic society, I might have been right.

2019 may well turn out be one of the hottest years on record. Unfortunately, the coming years could be even worse.