While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective, Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.