Author: Geoff Demarest

The Colombian government recently killed the ELN’s senior leader, Vanegas Londoño, a.k.a. Uriel, in Colombia’s western Choco Department. Choco is home to the western Pacific coast reaches of a major…

On 9 November, the Peruvian congress voted 105-19 to remove President Martín Vizcarra, effective immediately. The two accompanying references, on which this comment relies entirely, are from well-established news outlets…

While Spain had announced that it was not sending an ambassador to Caracas, which regime leader Nicolás Maduro took as a slight, the government of Bolivia indicated that it would…

On 25 October, Chileans voted to rewrite their country’s constitution. They also voted to have it written by a group of 155 persons to be elected for the purpose. That…

Spain’s foreign ministry recently announced that it was not going to send an ambassador to Venezuela but would send a chargé d’affaires instead. This, according to the accompanying article from…

The first two accompanying references are from NarcoNews, a non-governmental investigative website that has been looking at the illegal drug phenomenon in Mexico for a number of years. The recent…

At least a slice of Latin American geopolitical observers are on board with the idea that the Communist Chinese government uses the vast Chinese fishing fleet as a geostrategic weapon…

The island country of Barbados has evidently decided to drop Queen Elizabeth as Head of State, effective a year from November. The accompanying reportage and editorial articles come from the…

Many reports are coming out of Venezuela indicating that societal decline there continues, dangerously. The first of the accompanying articles reports that most of the country’s inventory of fuel tanker…

The question of Catalonian separation from Spain returned to the front page this month, and with an interesting twist. Quim Torra is the President of Catalonia and an avowed separatist.…