COMMENTARY President Trump's "law enforcement" capture of Venezuela's dictator will be regarded a failure if it doesn't mean democracy restoration — which may require more U.S. military force.

COMMENTARY King Herod — a monstrous Biblical ruler who in the Christmas legend forced Jesus' family to flee their country — has plenty of modern heirs driving our hemisphere's migrant crisis today.

COMMENTARY Could this week's mayoral election in Miami — the self-proclaimed capital of Latin America — reflect the broader challenges Trump's bid for alpha control of the hemisphere faces?

COMMENTARY President Trump's pardon of a former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker follows the South Florida exile doctrine that Latin American conservatives are never guilty.

COMMENTARY Haiti's remarkable qualification for the 2026 soccer World Cup won't rescue it from the country's gangs — but it reminds us that Haiti undoubtedly is worth saving from that monstrous evil.

COMMENTARY Latin America's inability if not refusal to make its law enforcement more 21st-century has only helped open the door to Trump's use of 20th-century-style military intervention in the region.

COMMENTARY Trinidad and Tobago's Persad-Bissessar should be applauded for steering away from Venezuela's Maduro — but questioned for steering into Trump's potential legal whirlpool.

COMMENTARY María Corina Machado deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for leading Venezuela's nonviolent democracy movement — but to succeed, should that effort rely on a U.S. military incursion?

COMMENTARY The English-only furor over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl gig disingenuously disregards America's historical reality — but so does a Spanish-only mindset that many immigrants still embrace.

COMMENTARY Across the Americas, the "terrorism" charge is being leveled so recklessly by both the right and left that everyone is now considered a terrorist — which creates an atmosphere for terrorism.