Jeb Bush, the author of the new book “Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution,” probably never imagined that he’d find himself caught in the middle of the battle. .

By Jorge Ramos Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the two-time presidential candidate from the Party of the Democratic Revolution, will not recognize Enrique Pena Nieto as president of Mexico, just as he did not recognize Pena Nieto’s predecessor, Felipe Calderon. “The presidency was robbed from us twice … this time by throwing money around,” Lopez Obrador told me in a recent interview.

Guatemala’s Otto Perez Molina is the only sitting president in the Americas who supports the legalization of some illicit drugs, which also makes him a maverick among world leaders. Most presidents express similar opinions only after they have left office, once they are safe from political fallout. In recent years, after they’d stepped down, Perez Molina believes that in Latin America drug policies need to take a different path.

The pope and his men in the Vatican never fail to surprise me. I often marvel at their obsession with what goes on in other peoples' bedrooms. But now, Vatican officials have raised the bar, turning on American nuns who contradicted the church's advice.

Hugo Chavez is not your run-of-the-mill incumbent candidate seeking another six-year term. The president of Venezuela, who came to power in 1999, controls virtually every governmental agency in the country, and he has a strong influence on the apparatus that will tally the votes in this October’s presidential election. If Chavez has his way, he will hold onto the presidency for a couple of decades more.

In 1498, Christopher Columbus came to Venezuela’s eastern coast and was convinced that he had found paradise on Earth. Upon visiting the nation’s Los Roques archipelago, I can see why. Los Roques’ more than 300 islands, its white-powder beaches, lagoons and coral reefs are all still pristine. Neither giant hotels nor expansive tourist developments can be found in the area.

I’ll begin by stating the obvious, and I do hope that officials at the Vatican read this. Anyone who protects a criminal who has sexually abused a child or is involved in child pornography should himself be arrested, put on trial and imprisoned. And it does not matter whether that person is a priest.

The grisly massacre of 52 people at a casino in late August has ended any lingering pretense of normalcy in Mexico. This became quite apparent when I was covering the murders here. Upon hearing about the attack, I immediately went to Monterrey. I wanted to be there so that I could see for myself what was happening on the ground; so that no one could say that all I do is criticize my native Mexico from a distance.

U.S. President Barack Obama. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Luis Fortuno, governor of Puerto Rico have all broken promises made prior to being elected. Obama, during his 2008 campaign, promised to return to the gathering at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials annual conference, As president, he has been invited back three times but declined. "That is a lack of respect for our community," Juan Carlos Zapata, chairman of the NALEO Education Fund.