Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "Colombia: Latin America Tries to Defuse Escalating Crisis."
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Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "Colombia: Latin America Tries to Defuse Escalating Crisis."
Latin American countries are rushing to defuse the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years after Ecuador and Venezuela cut ties with Colombia, deployed troops to the borders, and issued warnings of war in the wake of Colombia's airstrike Saturday on leftist rebels based in neighboring Ecuador.
The Organization of American States (OAS) moved to hold an emergency meeting Tuesday to press for a peaceful solution, but in the current heated atmosphere, some experts expect the issue to move quickly to the United Nations Security Council.
"Rhetoric, when it reaches a certain level, is in and of itself a concern," says Peter DeShazo, the director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "To move things in a positive direction [the countries must] stop the verbal confrontations." Read the article
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