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Spanish Enterprises Need Latin America for Expansion
Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 8:55 am | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
First the privatization of the service industry in Latin America and later the Eurozone crisis, have forced Spanish businesses to look to the region as a land of opportunity. While companies such as Telefonica and Repsol reap the benefits of a favorable overseas ... More >>
Venezuelan Opposition Rallies for "The Unit"
Friday, 27 January 2012, 5:34 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The U.S. presidential campaign season is rapidly taking on the political coloration of what can be expected from the low-grade ideological polemics that bulk so large in the political outcomes in Venezuela. Conservative opposition candidate Leopoldo ... More >>
Chile’s Student Rebels: Views From The Trenches
Saturday, 13 August 2011, 3:14 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Chile’s Student Rebels: Views From The Trenches Radio Toma, loosely translated as “Occupation Radio,” broadcasts non-stop information about the protests being staged in front of the University of Chile’s main building – literally a stone’s ... More >>
F-35, An Expensive Mistake for Canadian Forces
Saturday, 2 July 2011, 1:15 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
F-35, An Expensive Mistake for Canadian Forces During the 2011 Canadian federal election, there was an intense focus on Conservative party Prime Minister Stephan Harper’s decision to purchase 65 new F-35 Lightning II fighter planes. The story ... More >>
This Weekend’s Cuban Communist Party Congress
Sunday, 17 April 2011, 1:24 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Early last month in Havana, COHA Research Fellow J. Preston Whitt interviewed Josefina Vidal, head of the MINREX (Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs) North America division. In this interview, Vidal outlined the Cuban opinion regarding the Washington-Havana ... More >>
Climate Migration In Latin America: Part 2
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 1:14 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The second segment of this research piece identifies Mexico as an environmentally induced migration ‘hotspot,’ discusses development impacts in Latin America, and speculates on potential responses from Washington. More >>
FARQaeda* (FARC + Al Qaeda): A Real Threat ?
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 9:59 am | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Over the past several months, a number of reports have circulated that address the subject of drug trafficking ties between South American narcotics trafficking interests and terrorist organizations, principally Al Qaeda and its smaller affiliates now ... More >>
Next Year in Havana? Ending the U.S. Travel Ban
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 9:57 am | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Next year will mark a half-century since the Bay of Pigs, the failed assault on Fidel Castro’s young regime in Cuba that helped ignite the long cold war across the Straits of Florida. More >>
Haiti: US Role Must be More Than Rhetorical
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 12:45 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The crisis has thus far drawn significant contributions of humanitarian aid from around the globe, including $100 million pledged by the US and tens of millions more by public and private agencies, in addition to relief efforts bearing food, medicine, ... More >>
Haiti’s Tragedy Could Improve US-Cuban Relations
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 12:43 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Why is there almost no media coverage of Cuba’s medical assistance to Haiti? The Cuban government has provided free health care to the Haitian people since 1998 as well as many full scholarships to its medical schools. More >>
A Strange Concept of “Security”
Friday, 14 November 2008, 11:31 am | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A number of days ago, the U.S. Consulate in Bogota, Colombia denied a visa to Catholic priest Rafael de Jesus Gallego, after he had been given assurances through the Embassy’s Human Rights Office that it would be routinely granted to him. Father Rafael was ... More >>
Issues Affecting Mexico’s dividing line
Sunday, 14 September 2008, 11:45 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Mexico-Guatemalan border has been a troubled zone since the Americas gained their independence from Spain in 1821. Since the closing of the colonial era towards the end of the 19th century, repeated incidents have plagued the region encompassing ... More >>
The Brazilian Military Is Back
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 8:15 pm | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In recent years, the Brazilian military has embarked on a mission to re-invent itself by means of a combination of purchases of new military equipment, grandiose plans for constructing a nuclear submarine, and the leadership offered by a pronouncedly ... More >>
Stiglitz is Right, Friedman is Wrong
Friday, 5 September 2008, 11:19 am | A Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Among the throng of distinguished international guests participating in the first democratic transition of government in Paraguay’s 190-year history, former chief World Bank economist and current Columbia Professor of economics Joseph Stiglitz ... More >>
