Waning Interest in Venezuela?
Bottom Line Up Front As it becomes more evident that Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro will remain in power, the Trump administration seems to have […] More
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Is Venezuela Approaching a Tipping Point?
Bottom Line Up Front Recent unrest in Venezuela and the continuing uncertainty over whether embattled President Maduro will step down continues to drag on. […] More
Talking with Bill Evanina About Threats, Spies and Social Media
Bill Evanina is the Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) – a part of the U.S. Intelligence Community that leads and supports […] More
North Korea’s Denuclearization: Is Cuba a Better Model than Libya?
A revised and improved “Cuba model” for denuclearizing North Korea might have gotten a more receptive ear from Pyongyang than US National Security Adviser John […] More
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Don’t Expect Change from Cuba’s New President
It’s very interesting that today will be the first time in almost 60 years that one of the Castro brothers has not been president of […] More
The Sound and the Fury: Sonic Weapons in Cuba
Talk of espionage today has focused on Russian spies and the hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But recent reports of painful and unexplained […] More
Trump Turns Back the Clock on U.S.-Cuba Relations
President Donald Trump today announced a rollback to the Obama-era opening to Cuba in a speech at the Manuel Artime Theater in Miami’s Little Havana. […] More
Why Trump Should Keep Obama’s Cuba Policy
On Feb. 3, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced “we are in the midst of a full review of all U.S. policies towards Cuba.” […] More
Cuba Lingers in Limbo
In an historic proclamation, then President Barack Obama announced in December 2014, “the United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of […] More
Trump’s Options for an Unchanging Cuba
I remember remarking to Cuban American friends in Miami some 20 years ago and in the wake of the passage of the Helms-Burton Act (which […] More
Why Trump May Reverse Cuba Policy
President Donald Trump has indicated he will reverse the Obama administration’s policy on Cuba, despite previously saying the deal was fine. The Cipher Brief asked […] More
What is the Future of U.S. Policy in Latin America?
Aside from a “big, beautiful wall” and so-called “bad hombres,” references to the southern border and illegal immigration, the U.S. campaign season has largely neglected […] More
Priorities for the Next U.S. Administration
Since the turn of the century, perhaps earlier, there has been a consistent distancing between the U.S. and Latin America. Today it is difficult, perhaps […] More
Cubans Don’t Want to be Poor Anymore
I am not an expert in anything that has to do with Cuba. I don’t speak Spanish. I visited the country for the first time […] More
Connecting with Latin America
President Barack Obama’s arrival in Havana, Cuba marks the first visit by a sitting U.S. President in 88 years. But more than just a warming […] More
The Region's Security Outlook
President Barack Obama’s trip to Argentina and Cuba gives welcome attention to the dynamics and challenges of Latin America and the Caribbean. While designed to […] More
Maintaining Momentum and a New Chapter
Frank Mora, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere, told The Cipher Brief that President Barack Obama has two distinct objectives […] More
A Matter of Time
I remember reading many years ago a critic describe the passage of time as one of the cheapest of dramatic devices—an easy way to advance […] More
Russian Influence in Latin America
On November 30, 2015, on the sidelines of the United Nation COP21 Climate Change Summit in Paris, the Presidents of Peru and Russia signed an […] More