I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is.

The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

Egypt is doing to us in the south what Syria is doing to America in Iraq.