Little international attention has been paid to the recent conflict between the Peruvian government and thousands of indigenous people in the oil-rich Amazon region over President Alan Garcia's attempt to make it easier for tribal communities to sell their land.

By Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON -- Who is responsible for the astronomical price of oil? Most of the blame, as exemplified by the recent shenanigans in Congress with oil executives defending their paychecks under questioning by sanctimonious, eyebrow-raising legislators, is being put on petroleum companies.

By Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON -- In the 1830s, Richard Cobden and John Bright started a campaign against the protectionist laws that were keeping food prices high in Britain.

By Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON -- The Cuban government has finally blocked access to a Web log written by Yoani Sanchez, a young woman who has caused a sensation on the communist-ruled island with her daily postings about life in Havana. But she says she has found a way to outsmart her censors.

By Alvaro Vargas Llosa BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Few things better illustrate the tragedy of Latin American populist and nationalist politics than the crisis related to natural gas in South America.