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A small nation's lawful stand for self-determination

Monday, Sept. 14, 2009

The news from the State Department earlier this month was all but unbelievable. The United States announced it would not accept the results of a sovereign country's elections, unless the offending government would accept a disputed agreement that had nothing to do with the elections.

Not all that formidable

Chavez threatens his own people most of all

Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009

Hugo Chavez has been beating the war-scare drums since the June removal from office of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. His claims to sense the winds of war sweeping Latin America are clearly designed to boost his steadily eroding base among Venezuelans.

THOMSON: Tactical success, strategic loss

Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009

Outgoing President George W. Bush, earned his tactical spurs in Afghanistan and Iraq. There can be no doubting the stunning military victories, respectively in 2001 and 2003, that liberated 60 million inhabitants of these two blighted countries. It will become an important part of his presidential legacy.

THOMSON: Coal in the stocking

Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008

Henry Ford would be ashamed. His successors in America's largest industry groveled and begged Congress for $34 billion in "loans," which have little chance of repayment. When Capitol Hill balked, a resigned, poorly informed President Bush granted "only" $13.4 billion - original plans for $17.4 billion changed when less than $15 billion remained in the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

THOMSON: Chavez's fraud game

Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008

The kinds and extent of fraud already being applied by the Venezuelan government to the crucial elections today are unprecedented. Having originally won election to the presidency in 1999 in a remarkably clean contest, Hugo Chavez has progressively moved the process to one of unmitigated electoral larceny.

THOMSON: Wrong red line

Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

Bustling San Salvador, capital of Central America's smallest state, bears little resemblance to 18-20 years ago, when the city was fraught with insecurity and daunting danger.

THOMSON: Will we never learn?

Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008

What is it about the human condition that we seem never to learn from the past, much less from others? Why do we keep making the same mistakes, over and over again?

THOMSON: Mexico on the brink?

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

Mexico, which along with Canada is America's hemispheric free trade partner, has become home to countless drug cartels. The country is awash in the blood of assassinated police, bureaucrats, drug lords and innocents. Kidnappings this year could reach 1,000. Mexico is nearly incapable of controlling its social and economic destiny, similar to the near-fatal 1980-90s Colombian crisis.

THOMSON: Pakistan's presidential perils

Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

Perhaps it was wishful thinking. A few days ago, it could be hoped the resignation of Pervez Musharraf as Pakistan's president would usher in a period of military-supported reform of the country's weak, corrupt, democratically elected government.