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Hillary Clinton Visits Latin America
Tuesday, 8 June 2010, 4:13 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Lima on Sunday, June 6th for a four day Latin America and Caribbean tour, with further scheduled stops in Ecuador, Colombia, and Barbados. Clinton plans to attend the Organization of American States (OAS) 40th ... More >>
Secretary Of State Clinton In Latin America
Monday, 7 June 2010, 12:09 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A Renewed Opportunity for Regional Cooperation or an Intensification of the kind of Neo–Cold War Rhetoric that has Categorized U.S Latin American Policy to Date More >>
Are Brazil And Lula Out Of Their Depth On Iran?
Saturday, 5 June 2010, 11:55 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On May 15th, 2010, President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva of Brazil met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. More >>
The WTO Cotton Dispute
Wednesday, 2 June 2010, 6:42 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On April 20th 2010, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the two largest economies of the Western hemisphere, thus calming a decade-long, sometimes rancorous, dispute involving Washington and Brasilia over the subject of subsidies ... More >>
Jamaica: Different Drug War, Different Strategy
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 1:51 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A state of emergency was declared in certain areas of Kingston, Jamaica on Sunday, as violence broke out over the extradition of accused drug lord and local hero Christopher “Dudus” Coke. Coke is the alleged head of the “Shower Posse,” a gang that ... More >>
Mexico’s Calderón: “I Did It My Way”
Monday, 24 May 2010, 10:14 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Felipe Calderón achieved what may have been his finest hour in an otherwise lackluster presidency, in the course of his just concluded trip to Washington. Conducting himself with great personal dignity in his address to a joint session of Congress, he managed ... More >>
Mexico’s Calderón: “I Did It My Way”
Saturday, 22 May 2010, 11:42 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Calderón achieved what may have been his finest hour in an otherwise lackluster presidency, in the course of his just concluded trip to Washington. He managed to lay down a series of telling salvos targeted against U.S. culpability in arms trade. More >>
Mexican President Goes to Washington
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 3:05 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President Felipe Calderón arrived today in Washington, D.C. for a brief visit. His trip will mark one of the few occasions that may allow a Mexican president in the foreseeable future to penetrate the fog that surrounds his country’s relations ... More >>
Free Trade Agreements: Standing on One Leg
Saturday, 15 May 2010, 11:18 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Panama and Colombia’s human rights records are poor and will defy cosmetic rehabilitation. Obama’s credibility will be on the line if he tries to distort reality in order to justify that conditions are right for a Free Trade Agreement to be implemented. More >>
Soybean Wars
Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 4:15 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Land reform put on hold as President Lugo’s already mixed record becomes even more muddy, particularly when it comes to honoring his pledge to give land to the landless. More >>
Panama’s Plummeting Prospects
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 1:20 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Accusations of corruption and a hard veer to the right have caused considerable consternation among U.S.-based Latin American specialists, as local Panamanian civil groups and good government bodies have expressed their concerns abroad regarding the country’s ... More >>
Uruguay Inaugurates Mujica: Life after Vázquez
Saturday, 8 May 2010, 11:40 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On March 1st, José “Pepe” Mujica, former guerilla and today social democrat and leader of the Frente Amplio (Broad Front-FA) political coalition, was inaugurated as President of Uruguay. More >>
Migradollars and Economic Development
Friday, 7 May 2010, 1:00 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Remittances, the funds sent by foreign-based Latin American workers to their families back home (also called migradollars in Mexico where they constitute the third highest source of income after oil exports and tourism), represent one of the major economic ... More >>
Green is for Go in Colombia
Thursday, 6 May 2010, 4:58 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
An extraordinary event may be reflected in Colombia’s electoral polling: conceivably the politics of thuggery, corruption and Bogotá-inspired violence under the ruling Uribe administration, is being successfully challenged by Mockus’ Green Party. More >>
Colombia: Capital of Internally Displaced People
Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 10:29 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Having an estimated population of 43,677,372, Colombia possesses the second largest population on the South American continent. With a steamy history of political and social unrest, an undisputed leadership in the illicit narcotics trade, corruption, ... More >>
Reconciliation in Honduras
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 4:18 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On May 4, 2010, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Honduras will begin to try unraveling the events surrounding the June 28, 2009 golpe that ousted democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya. Porfirio Lobo Sosa, the current president of Honduras and ... More >>
Washington's Heavy Hitters Step Into War On Drugs
Saturday, 1 May 2010, 10:59 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The drug and gang war goes binational as Washington turns in its observer status in favor of a full combatant’s role. More >>
Washington’s Invented Honduran Democracy
Saturday, 24 April 2010, 11:25 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
With the wave of killings now besieging the country, the White House will be hard put to provide credible evidence that it has helped found a democracy in Honduras. More >>
Washington’s Invented Honduran Democracy
Friday, 23 April 2010, 12:47 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Since the constitutionally-elected government of President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by a military coup on June 28, 2009, Washington has dragged its feet and repeatedly has acted as an apologist in first defending the Honduran de facto government of ... More >>
The Achilles’ Heel of the Brazilian Economy
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 12:40 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
With a massive labor force and abundant natural resources, Brazil normally has offered a promising environment for foreign investment. But all too often these expectations have proved hollow. More >>
