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Byline: Jorge G. Castaneda The summit of nonaligned countries held last week in Havana was an occasion for all sorts of things: speculating on Fidel Castro's health, supporting all the [...]

Byline: Jorge G. Castaneda (Castaneda is Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York University.) As always in countries like Cuba, speculation is by definition idle. [...]

Byline: Jorge Castaneda Is Latin America swerving left? Is that the right question? Clearly, the people who are winning elections today are not the ones who won them 5, 10 [...]

Byline: Jorge Castaneda (Castaneda, Mexico's former foreign minister, will be taking leave as a NEWSWEEK International contributor until after the 2006 Mexican presidential elections, in which he is a candidate.) [...]

Castaneda was foreign minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003. Mexico and Vicente Fox are at an impasse. Halfway through Fox's term as president, Mexicans are disconcerted with his government, [...]

Castaneda was foreign minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2002. Latin America has begun to pick itself up. Under its charismatic new president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil is [...]

Castaneda stepped down as Mexican foreign minister in January 2003; he teaches International Relations at the National Autonomous Mexican University and at New York University. In Chile and Mexico a […]

There are many reasons for Vicente Fox's victory. His charisma, his obstinacy and vitality, his constant efforts to reach out both to the left and the PRI to build a [...]

There are only six weeks to go before Mexico's presidential election. The dead-heat phase of the campaign ended with the presidential debate on April 23. Now voters are facing a [...]

Immigration is not exactly a new issue in U.S.-Mexican or hemispheric relations, and it is not often that it gives rise to fresh ideas or exciting opportunities. The only novelty [...]

Castaneda teaches political science at New York University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. If Mexico's upcoming presidential elections were held today, PRI candidate Francisco Labastida would win by [...]

Venezuela: There's something about Chavez that defies the conventional wisdom about Latin American populists. Hugo Chavez started 1999 on a roll, and closed off his first full year in office [...]

Castaneda teaches political science at New York University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Washington's problems are everyone else's, too, and nowhere is this more true than in Latin [...]

Voters in Latin America these days are confusing pundits--and themselves. Judging from recent elections and ongoing campaigns, voters are sending mixed signals that seem to point toward political paralysis and [...]

Between late October and the middle of the year 2000, several Latin American nations will hold presidential elections, starting with Argentina and culminating with Mexico next July. Not for the [...]

In the central-western canyons of the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, where waterfalls and abandoned mines blend in with secret landing strips and vertical mountain plots, the few remaining peasants [...]

Chile has always been a sort of leading indicator in Latin America, foretelling the direction other countries are headed, or suggesting where they should be going. In the 19th century [...]

On the eve of a momentous election campaign, Mexicans can't agree about anything. The only way to reconcile two terribly contradictory perceptions about Mexico's prospects is to understand how deeply [...]

When Colombia's new president-elect Andres Pastrana announced his intention last year to restart the peace process in his country, no one paid too much attention. After all, he was the [...]

Latin American countries should work toward ending Washington's annual dance Few things--not even Hollywood movie sequels--are as predictable as the drug-certification process that takes place in Washington every February, just [...]

The revolutionary icon spent time with the rebel leader in 1965--and he wasn't all that impressed IN THE EARLY YEARS OF Laurent Kabila's fight, he received a helping hand from [...]