Underestimating Chavez is a perilous pursuit as far as the Bush administration is concerned, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Pakistan has suffered from the fall-out from Afghanistan but this would be nothing compared to a US war on Iran, writes Graham Usher in Islamabad

US President Bush's Latin American tour sheds light on the prickly relationship between Washington and what was once considered its own backyard, writes David Dumke