Jon Perdue is the director of Latin America programs at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, and is the author of the forthcoming book The War of All the People (Potomac Books)
Elections in Equatorial Guinea will underwrite oppression
Equatorial Guinea, a tiny nation on Africa’s central western coast, bears a distinction above any other country in the world – the world’s longest-serving dictator
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Maduro victory could speed the end of Chavismo
As the fragile ground of Chavismo without Chávez begins to crumble under the feet of Maduro, those once willing to tolerate the clownery of Chávez may begin to seek more solid ground
- 15 April 2013
Diminishing differences between Kirchner and military dictator that invaded Falklands in 1982
Cristina Kirchner may be more Machiavelli than Clausewitz, but, like Galtieri, she's using the Falklands to distract from the increasing domestic problems that are festering under her tenure
- 21 June 2012
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