AEI scholar and Latin America expert Roger Noriega is available to comment on President Obama's March 19-23 Latin America trip.

The March presidential election in El Salvador, in which the conservative ARENA Party won its fourth consecutive victory in fifteen years, invites serious consideration and analysis.

Crackdowns on violent cartels in Mexico and Colombia have pushed the powerful narcotrafficking gangsters into Central America. Join us as we discuss the threat and ideas for international collaboration to provide the necessary material, political, and law enforcement support for the region.

The conservative ruling party in El Salvador is waging a surprisingly uphill battle against the leftist front that waged a bloody guerrilla war in the 1970s and 1980s.

The satisfaction from the show of bipartisanship on the Eisen confirmation lasted a good five minutes.

The United States remains the ultimate target of nihilist extremists who distort religion as a justification for murdering innocent men and women. We can try to behave as if that were not the case, but that sort of self-delusion could put the lives of innocent U.S. citizens at risk.

While the “lurch to the left” in the Americas may be a simplistic reading of recent events in the region--as left-of-center leaders govern moderately and responsibly in Brazil, Chile, and Peru, for example--Venezuela’s firebrand, Hugo Chávez, and his acolytes in South America continue to tear down democratic institutions to put...

Dollarization--the adoption of the dollar as both the unit of account and the cash medium of exchange in countries outside the United States--has become a reality recently in two Latin American countries (Ecuador and El Salvador) and is being considered in several others, including Argentina and Mexico. Proponents of...