Nicaragua

September 5, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

America Needs to Leverage its Power to Stabilize Latin America and Stop Chinese Influence in the Region

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could count on and leverage the primacy of U.S. global leadership and economic influence to address a range of foreign threats...

August 27, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Beware of Falling BRICS

With the BRICS Summit coming to a close, it is unclear what has been accomplished.

July 13, 2023 | |

Iran’s President Conducts Influence Tour in Sub-Saharan Africa

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi wrapped up the final leg of his three-day visit to Sub-Saharan Africa with a stop in Zimbabwe on July 13, seeking to bolster Iran’s influence, trade, and business...

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 21, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Countering Threats Posed by Nation-State Actors in Latin America to U.S. Homeland Security

Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence

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...

June 13, 2023 | |

Iran’s Raisi Embarks on Five-Day Tour of Latin American Countries

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi landed in Caracas on June 12, the first stop of a five-day visit to Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua. Accompanying Raisi is a large delegation, including the Iranian ministers...

April 26, 2023 | Craig Singleton |

Upcoming Paraguayan Election a Bellwether for Taiwan’s International Standing

The outcome of this month’s hotly contested Paraguayan election will likely determine whether Asuncion maintains diplomatic relations with Taipei or switches recognition to Beijing, a move that would...

April 19, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Losing Latin America

The U.S. retreats while China’s Communist rulers advance

January 25, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How human rights activists chased off Venezuela’s strongman

The strongman leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, was due to attend a heads of state summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in Buenos Aires on Monday. Maduro planned to hold important...

December 16, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

FDD’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: The Year in Review

November 1, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

September 1, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

August 3, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: August

July 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Mystery Cargo

Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?

June 2, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June

May 11, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. national interest

A letter to J.D. Vance

May 2, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: May

April 27, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s overdue National Security Strategy

If he understands the threats, it won’t be what he planned

March 2, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia

Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest