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Mexico’s Military Malpractice
Saturday, 24 July 2010, 11:27 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President Felipe Calderón’s aggressive counter-narcotics campaign in Mexico has begun to sprout a disturbing trend of abuse emanating from the Mexican armed forces. More >>
Brazil’s Ficha Limpa (Clean Record) Legislation
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 11:15 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
“Popular wisdom tells us that example comes from above. Corrupt politicians stimulate all kinds of corruption in society. When political representatives steal, they give their voters the green light to behave the same way. In such circumstances, blessed ... More >>
“Cuba’s Gesture”
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 11:13 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After a July 7th, 2010 meeting that included President Raúl Castro, Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega, and Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, a representative of the Catholic Church announced that the regime would release 52 “prisoners of ... More >>
Guatemala’s Problematic Fight Against Impunity
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 12:45 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Corruption and impunity have pervaded Guatemalan society since the country’s perilous restoration of democracy after the 1996 UN-brokered Peace Accords ended its Civil War. More >>
Mexico’s Elections: Defined By Mixed Results
Wednesday, 7 July 2010, 10:46 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The results of Sunday’s elections, proved to be less clear-cut than some had predicted. The PRI did win the majority of the states up for grabs, taking the governorships of nine out of twelve states. More >>
Washington Strikes out on Honduras
Friday, 2 July 2010, 12:08 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
When President Obama took office in January 2009, his administration espoused a new style of broad, multilateral and direct diplomacy. Within the context of the Western hemisphere, a primary channel for inter-American diplomacy is the Organization of ... More >>
Timerman Appointed Argentina’s Foreign Minister
Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 12:30 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana resigned from his position several days ago after allegedly having a dispute with the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández Kirchner. The disagreement was largely centered, not so much on the way that foreign ... More >>
Concessions of a Leftist Party
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 12:49 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On June 1, 2010, El Salvador celebrated the first year of Mauricio Funes’ presidency. As the first candidate from the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) ever elected to the presidency, Funes’ victory revived a frustrated and marginalized ... More >>
El Salvador’s Slow-Motion Democratization
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 12:47 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President Mauricio Funes’ first year in office was heavily scrutinized as it came to a close. The moderate leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) was simultaneously seen as leaving many challenges unanswered and all but ... More >>
El Salvador Emerges from a Bloody Epoch
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 12:45 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After a year in office, one of the achievements brought about by the still completely untested Salvadoran administration of President Mauricio Funes, a space has been created for several innovative, yet not well known, projects like that of the University ... More >>
A Belated Happy World Environment Day
Thursday, 24 June 2010, 3:51 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Evo Morales Ayma, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has many promises and expectations to fulfill as viewed by his fellow indigenous. During his two terms in office, he has created many new opportunities for Bolivia’s native people, by enforcing the ... More >>
A Belated Happy World Environment Day
Thursday, 24 June 2010, 12:33 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Evo Morales Ayma, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has many promises and expectations to fulfill as viewed by his fellow indigenous. During his two terms in office, he has created many new opportunities for Bolivia’s native people, by enforcing the ... More >>
Struggle Between Indigenous Folkways and Law
Monday, 21 June 2010, 1:29 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Over the last twenty years, almost all applicable Latin American countries have been moving toward full recognition of their multiethnic citizenship. Peru codified indigenous rights in 1993, Ecuador legalized them in 1998, and Bolivia passed a new constitution ... More >>
Brazil’s Black Gold (But also its Black Stain)
Friday, 18 June 2010, 12:46 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Brazilian authorities have portrayed a complex issue of huge significance as a simplistic contest between nationalists and sell-outs. On Wednesday, June 9th, the Brazilian Senate passed a bill that alters regulations governing the exploitation ... More >>
Puerto Rico: Statehood and Strike
Thursday, 17 June 2010, 2:12 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Spanish American War ended in 1898, but one aspect of the conflict remains unresolved: the status of Puerto Rico. Despite the importance of the issue, it is rarely an agenda priority in the continental United States. Recently, the House of Representatives ... More >>
This Ongoing Institutional Crisis
Thursday, 17 June 2010, 2:10 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The election of Daniel Ortega to the presidency of Nicaragua in 2006 marked the commencement of his second presidential term following three unsuccessful bids for the office. As the leader of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), Ortega holds ... More >>
Peru’s Alan García: Low-Balling Human Rights
Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 4:17 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Research Associate Carly Steinberger Peru made international headlines several weeks ago when indigenous leader Segundo Alberto Pizango Chota returned to the country after almost a year in exile. Upon his arrival at the Lima airport on May 26th, he ... More >>
U.S.-Mexico Trucking Dispute Rolls On
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 5:42 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President Felipe Calderón’s visit to Washington last month carried high expectations for those who hoped for a resolution of the cross-border trade dispute between the United States and Mexico. More >>
Argentina Bicentennial: A Mixed Story
Saturday, 12 June 2010, 11:34 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Since its independence from Spain, Argentina has experienced two British invasions, a series of illegitimate governments, the Peronist movement, a dictatorship that cost 30,000 lives, the Falklands War and a neo-liberal economy during the 1990s followed ... More >>
The Nature of the U.S.-Mexico Drug War
Thursday, 10 June 2010, 1:27 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Mexico is suffering. Thousands of its citizens are trapped in the unyielding currents of the drug war, unable to escape the relentless stream of violence, poverty, and despair tearing through the country. The drugs, the crime, and the acts of brutality ... More >>
