Caribbean

January 12, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Toby Dershowitz

Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee Should Face Justice

If Rezaee travels with impunity, Iran will seek to further push the limits, and legitimize the accused in the same way that it has done with near impunity in the nuclear file.

March 19, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Good Climate Policy Should Fight Corruption and Organized Crime

They are key drivers of deforestation and environmental degradation.

October 1, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Two More Reasons to Worry About China

Keep an eye on China’s relationship with Cuba, for starters.

May 22, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

COVID-19 in Latin America: Organized Crime Gains and States Weaken

COVID-19 cases in Latin America are surging as the region heads into the Southern Hemisphere winter. Across the region, the pandemic has created opportunities for organized crime to step into the void left...

December 3, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Did you have a horrible Thanksgiving?

The blame-America-first crowd always does, and insists you should, too

December 13, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Jose Luis Stein

Trump Should Cut Hezbollah’s Lifeline in the Americas

A crackdown is long overdue.

May 18, 2018 | Michaela Frai

How the US Can Keep Venezuela from Becoming a Failed State

On Sunday, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will face his country’s hungry, impoverished voters. The election will be neither free nor fair, so another win for the corrupt Socialist pa...

February 26, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Mystery Martyr

Death came suddenly for Samer Ibrahim Atoui, a 48-year-old native of the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam. On October 2, 2017, a Syrian opposition social media account posted photographs showi...

January 8, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Hurricane-hit countries slash cost of citizenship-by-investment programs

Caribbean nations ravaged by recent hurricanes are selling citizenship a...

June 8, 2016 | Michael Braun

The Enemy in our Backyard: Examining Terror Funding Streams from South America

Download the fulll testimony here...

April 28, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah: Iran’s Henchmen in Brazil

Across Latin America, Iran’s public face appears innocuous: mosques, cultural centers...

March 7, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Washington must resist Europe’s pressure over Visa Waiver Program

In December, Congress passed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act. The legislation created exceptions to the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), including for dual citiz...

January 4, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

A Better Way to Sell Citizenship

Last October, the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia announced it would launch a citizenship-by-i...

July 1, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia

Two Iranian truck drivers sat idly in the parking area of the Poti Free Industrial Zone(FIZ), waiting for customs authoriti...

March 27, 2015 | Claudia Rosett |

Obama’s Iran Policy Is Lost at Sea

American negotiators and their cohorts are trying to close a deal that would let Iran keep its nuclear program, subject to intricate conditions of monitoring and enforcement. Yet how is a deal li...

January 20, 2015 | |

Alberto Nisman’s Warning About Iran

Beyond puzzling over the circumstances, is there any response the U.S. can make to the sudden death this past weekend of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman? Nisman spent the pas...

January 2, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Quoted by Colby Adams, Kira Zalan - ACAMS |

In Latest Sanctions, U.S. Again Targets Iranians Holding Caribbean Passports

For the fourth time this year, U.S. officials blacklisted an Iranian national using a Caribbean passport while purportedly helping Iran circumvent sanctions.  The U.S. Treasury Depa...

December 23, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How Iran Uses Dual Citizenship in the Caribbean to Skirt Sanctions

St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN) is a miniscule Caribbean nation whose biggest employer is the state sugar corporation and whose currency features wading sea turtles and the visage of Queen Elizabeth II...

December 3, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

The Neo-Ottoman

Turkey should have been part of the solution. Instead it’s become part of the problem. The problem, of course, is the spread of jihadism throughout the Middle East, North Africa and beyond....

July 14, 2014 | |

North Korean Ship Tests the Waters Near America’s Shores

It’s not often that North Korean-flagged freighters turn up near America’s shores, but when they do, they deserve attention. North Korea has a prolific record of arms smuggling, narco...