Ecuador

June 22, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba Exploit the U.S. Border Crisis

Latin America’s authoritarians are cooperating to increase illegal immigration to the United States.

March 13, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

US ships begin long, slow trip to build Gaza dock in unique operation

The ships that are on the way now include the USAV James A. Loux, the USAV Montorrey, USAV Matamoros and USAV Wilson Wharf.

February 28, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is bringing new risks to Europe

China’s grand vision of the world-changing BRI may have not been realised, but something else is emerging in its wake — a powerful lever to bend authoritarian-leaning countries toward Chinese interests

October 17, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Cash, corruption, crumbling dams — that’s China’s Belt and Road Initiative, 10 years in

As the celebrations for the BRI’s 10th anniversary kick off, attending countries would do well to ask whether their citizens have anything to gain from 'win-win' cooperation with China, Elaine Dezenski writes.

July 18, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

How Xi Jinping’s Policies Could Lead China to Economic Implosion

At the most basic economic level, China needs the United States—a fact that Xi clearly either hasn’t yet realized or refuses to admit.

June 30, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Washington Needs a New Economic Security Framework for the Americas

Washington must bring powerful answers to pressing issues in the region: populism, political unrest, and disinformation; water and food insecurity; extreme weather; mass migration; the evolving drug trade; money laundering and corruption; and weakened democratic institutions.

June 16, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Tehran Takes Caracas

On Monday, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi began a five-day tour of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, three Latin American countries governed by authoritarian, anti-Western regimes. Raisi’s three predecessors...

May 18, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

China Is Bailing Out Its Bad Bets, and Handing the West a Geopolitical Opening

China has created its own subprime infrastructure crisis, and now it is trying to bail itself out. The rescue efforts are focused on loans for China’s much-touted Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, Beijing’s...

August 12, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Ivana Stradner

Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth

When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.

February 23, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Soleimani U

A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America

February 19, 2022 | Aykan Erdemir, Kursat Gok

Turkey Could Become the Middle East’s Next Narco-State

If Turkey joins Syria and Lebanon as the third narco-state in the Eastern Mediterranean, this will only compound the region’s trafficking and money laundering problems, while also presenting illicit non-state actors greater opportunities to exploit.

April 1, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Mischief in Morocco Is a Problem

Iran has historically supported any militancy against pro-Western regimes, regardless of their religious or political orientation.

October 3, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

Did China help rig the South Korean election?

One of the probable goals of the manipulation, for the CCP at least, is to nurture a political constellation in South Korea that is more likely to eventually move to expel US forces from the peninsula, changing the strategic calculus in the whole Indo-Pacific. This could be a problem for India.

September 22, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How Hezbollah Collaborates With Latin American Drug Cartels

Plus, an explanation of "black cocaine" and why authorities should worry about charcoal exports.

March 29, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

UN Extends Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran

The UN Human Rights Council last week passed a resolution extending the mandate of the special ra...

July 18, 2017 | Tyler Stapleton |

Congress and the Administration Need to Reinvigorate HIFPA

On December 18, 2015, the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act (HIFPA) was signed into law by President Obama after yea...

March 16, 2017 |

Ecuador, Iran, and Latin America’s Pink Tide

Ecuador will elect a new leader on April 2 to replace its left-wing, populist president Rafael Correa. Washington should pay close attention. Correa’s vice-president Lenin Moreno is a close...

December 18, 2014 | Claudia Rosett |

Historic Day for Washington, Havana…and Pyongyang’s Hackers

On a day when hackers working for North Korea managed to shut down the release of an American movie, on American soil, by threatening terrorist attacks on American theaters, one might have suppos...

February 14, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer FDD Policy Brief |

Turkey Remains on Terror Finance ‘Gray List’

The Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, the international body for setting the global standards to combat terrorist financing, held its plenary session this week in Paris. In the days before th...

February 10, 2014 | |

The U.N. Assault on the Catholic Church

In the name of protecting children,the United Nations is now preaching to the Vatican. A report on the Holy See—released by a U.N. committee last week to much media fanfare—alleged th...