Foreign Policy In Focus

Half a year into his presidency, Peru's Ollanta Humala has not been the Chavez clone his critics predicted.

A new book describes an attempt to map uncontacted tribes in the Amazon without contacting them.

Attitudes toward democracy are on the decline in Latin America, and U.S. foreign policy isn't helping.

Is a superpower confrontation over the Falkland islands a real possibility?

Multinational mining interests are using trade and investment treaties to turn profits and undermine democracy.

Caricatures of Cuba as intolerant of political expression may contain a kernel of truth, but they miss the richness of dissent in the daily life of Cuba's political culture.

A free-trade deal would normalize Panama's status as a notorious tax haven for U.S.-based corporations.