“I’m a trouble maker. I’ve been one all my life,” Laura Alonso told Lillian Cunningham:

Alonso, an outspoken congresswoman in Argentina representing Buenos Aires, ….. took office in December 2009, after years of working as an activist for …

A fierce dispute is raging over the new pope’s moral integrity and credibility as a promoter of human rights and democracy. The arguments center on what Jorge Mario Bergoglio did or didn’t do during the “dirty war” of Argentina’s …

A new grand strategy for US foreign policy should promote democracy through the attractive “pull” of successful example rather than the coercive “push” of power, say two leading scholars of international affairs.  

The strategy should “be refocused on initiating …

Cronyism, political expediency and conflict between elite oligarchs all feature in President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s decision to nationalize Argentina’s biggest oil company, observers suggest.

The move “has placed her nation in the camp of Latin America’s radical populist …