Eyes are on Mexico's July 1 presidential showdown in which Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN) of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) holds a robust lead despite a short-lived surge in May by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) backed by the...

Over the past three months, the administration of President Mauricio Funes in El Salvador has undertaken a high-stakes policy gamble in negotiating with some of the largest and most violent gangs in the hemisphere in the hopes of reducing his country's chilling homicide rate...

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Russia

• Additional note on the Shura of the Caucasus Emirate’s (CE) Nokchicho (Chechen) Vilaiyat
• Video statement of DV Shura suggests new DV Amir is ‘Abu Mukhammad (Usman)’ Rustam

As former UN secretary general Kofi Annan’s peace plan struggles to make headway, there are few good options to deal with what are likely to be years of unrest and socioeconomic and political instability. The Annan plan called for a Syrian-led political process...

Corruption in the Philippines diverts, delays, and distorts economic development, undermines the quality and credibility of democracy, and reduces the quality of life.

At the May 2012 G8 Summit at Camp David, President Obama led the group in renewing the pledge it had made in L’Aquila in 2009 to improve global food security and in building on that commitment this year with the “New Alliance for Food Security and...

IN DEPTH: "Argentina: Fernández administration faces increasing heat"

IN THE NEWS: Regional, Jamaica, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico - U.S., Colombia, Peru

PROGRAM NEWS: Amb. David Johnson named...