{"id":13572,"date":"2012-08-29T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=13572"},"modified":"2012-08-29T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:39:06","slug":"new-article-at-ivn-five-foreign-policy-problems-the-next-president-must-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=13572","title":{"rendered":"New Article at IVN: Five Foreign Policy Problems the Next President Must Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.ivn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/earthfire.jpg?e83a2c\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have a new article up at<a href=\"http:\/\/ivn.us\/\"> <strong>IVN<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Five Foreign Policy Problems the Next President Must Face\" href=\"http:\/\/ivn.us\/2012\/08\/29\/five-foreign-policy-problems-the-next-president-must-face\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Five Foreign Policy Problems the Next President Must Face<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>3. THE NARCO-CARTELIZATION OF LATIN AMERICA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The recent,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/28\/world\/americas\/in-el-salvador-gang-truce-brings-tenuous-peace.html?pagewanted=all\">much heralded \u201cpeace agreement\u201d in El Salvador<\/a>\u00a0which reduced a sky high homicide rate from gang warfare is a white-flag harbinger of things to come where<a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2009\/03\/hollow-states-vs-failed-states.html\">\u00a0weak, failing or failed states in Latin America \u201chollow out\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by legitimizing the armed power of street gangs and narco-cartels with political concessions. The other states in Central America\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/row\/RL34112.pdf\">face similar gang problems<\/a>, while Colombia faces renewed paramilitary and guerrilla activity (mostly fighting over the drug trade) but Mexico takes the destabilization prize with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/from-drug-wars-to-criminal-insurgency\">a full-blown criminal insurgency<\/a>\u00a0that has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/12\/world\/americas\/mexico-updates-drug-war-death-toll-but-critics-dispute-data.html\">killed roughly 50,000 Mexican citizens<\/a>. &#8230;.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new article up at IVN: Five Foreign Policy Problems the Next President Must Face\u00a0 3. THE NARCO-CARTELIZATION OF LATIN AMERICA The recent,\u00a0much heralded \u201cpeace agreement\u201d in El Salvador\u00a0which reduced a sky high homicide rate from gang warfare is a white-flag harbinger of things to come where\u00a0weak, failing or failed states in Latin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,780,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-ivn","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13573,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions\/13573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}