Topic for the Semester

Dana and me are particularly interested in posting about the political situation in Latin America, which is so hot right now given the ammount of emerging progressive-leftist governments. The main issue here is how some of those governments are somewhere beyond simple progressive countries and are somewhat socialist (some countries even appear to be somewhere beyon socialism). A clear example of this is the role Venezuela and his spokesman/president Hugo Chavez. How does this affect International Relations?
Just some days ago Hugo Chavez called for the union of some Caribean countries ( Venezuela included) to become a block anti U.S. How does this affect International Relations? I’ll let it speak for itself!

Not to get caught up only with what Chavez says about “Mr. Danger” (as he calls President Bush) I also want to clarify that Venezuela’s brief example was no more than that, and example . This semester we will not only try to keep you updated and informed about the situation in Latin America if not that we will try, after an objective presentation of the situation, to convey our personal opinions, both from my Latin American and Dana’s North American perspectives, as I.R. students.