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As Mexico sinks into economic and social depression, it may be time to dwell on some of the lessons of this new Mexican meltdown--the fourth major debacle in Mexico in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Issues concerning the election of Vicente Fox as Mexico's new president, ending many years' rule by the PRI, are discussed. Fox's leadership qualities and his party's plans to revive the economy, introduce reforms and stamp out corruption are evaluated.

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 [...]