Merely monitoring Iran's foray into Latin America is not enough. The United States must find its way toward adopting new forward-leaning policies that will frustrate Tehran’s plans to threaten U.S. security and interests close to home.

Republics do not normally commit suicide, but if current trends continue in Bolivia, we may witness the first alteration of the South American political map in more than a hundred years.

Bolivian politics threaten to turn the country once again into a charity case.

Keeping Bolivia's natural gas in the ground, socializing an economy of extreme povery, and wallowing in indentity politics are not going to solve the nation's problems.

The Justice Department’s recent announcement that an Iranian agent attempted to recruit a Mexican drug gang to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States presents an opportunity for the Obama administration finally to draw the line on Iran’s growing presence in the Western Hemisphere.

Ambassador Roger Noriega of AEI and Christopher Sabatini of Council of the Americas and Americas Society review documentary evidence of Iran's increasing influence in the Americas.

As Congress, Republican presidential candidates, and much of the U.S., South American, and European media are sounding the alarm on suspicious activities by Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America, the State Department is hitting the snooze button.

Merely monitoring Iran's foray into Latin America is the very least the United States must now do to frustrate Teheran's plans to threaten U.S. security and interests close to home.