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The Case for Ending Maduro’s Rule
Washington has spent over ten years being lectured by the same class of foreign policy caretakers who confuse timidity with wisdom. They warned that pressuring Maduro would spark chaos, that confronting a narcostate would destabilize the region, that any assertive move by the United States would summon ghosts from a century ago. They sold fear as strategy. They were wrong every time. And the loudest of them, Juan González, was a political adviser elevated into a national secu

Rick de la Torre
Nov 213 min read


The FCPA: Handcuffing Americans, Bankrolling Beijing
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was born out of a well-meaning but ultimately naïve vision of American virtue. It sought to impose a...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 123 min read


Trump’s ODNI Pick Deserves Scrutiny
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was supposed to fix things. Created in 2005 in the wake of 9/11, it was meant...

Rick de la Torre
Jan 303 min read


Petro’s Antics are a Threat to Colombia’s Stability and U.S. Relations
Gustavo Petro has made it abundantly clear that he’s less interested in leading Colombia and more interested in stirring up controversy....

Rick de la Torre
Jan 232 min read


Trump's Cease-Fire
The recent cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas represents a much-needed pause in one of the region’s most devastating...

Rick de la Torre
Jan 153 min read


China’s Spy Games in Cuba
China’s intelligence operations in Cuba represent a calculated provocation, a middle finger to U.S. sovereignty delivered from just 90...

Rick de la Torre
Dec 7, 20243 min read
Revisiting the “September 10th Mindset”: A Dangerous Complacency in the Face of Modern Threats
A small, daily reminder that complacency is the enemy, and that the resolve we showed then must guide us now.

Rick de la Torre
Aug 26, 20243 min read
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