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Costa Rica: Polling Tight As Elections Approach
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 11:05 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After four years under the leadership of Oscar Arias, Costa Ricans will vote for a new president this Sunday, February 7th. In October 2008, Laura Chinchilla resigned as Vice President and Minister of Justice and Peace to launch her presidential campaign ... More >>
Harper's Attempt To Save Face To Canada's Cost
Friday, 5 February 2010, 2:27 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended the Canadian Parliament for the third time since he first took office in 2006 and the second time in just over a year. This comes at a time when Harper has faced increasingly vocal criticism from the opposition. More >>
Time for the U.S. and Cuba to Talk and More
Monday, 1 February 2010, 10:40 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The modest collaboration between the State Department and the Cuban government concerning the use of Cuban airspace and cooperation in providing medical relief to the Haitian people represents an opportunity for transition toward a more positive relationship ... More >>
Senior Research Fellow Spotlight: Dr. Greg Grandin
Friday, 29 January 2010, 10:30 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
COHA Senior Research Fellow Greg Grandin also serves as a professor of History at NYU, and was the 2009 National Book Award Finalist for the current best seller, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books). More >>
Ecuador: Trials with Democracy
Friday, 29 January 2010, 10:28 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Ecuador is a country that, according to conservative human rights body, Freedom House, stands “at the threshold” of democracy, but not for the first time. The small Andean country has a long history of inconsistent democratic governments, interrupted ... More >>
Another Disaster for Central American Democracy
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 9:52 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Tomorrow, January 27th, as the world’s eyes continue to be riveted on the unfolding disaster in Haiti, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo will be installed as Honduras' president, succeeding de facto president Roberto Micheletti. While Lobo represents a marked ... More >>
¿Cambio? The Obama Administration in Latin America
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 9:50 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In a memorandum written as Barack Obama assumed office in January 2009, COHA's Research Fellows Guy Hursthouse and Tomás Ayuso considered widespread Latin American expectations of a dramatic shift in approach from Washington under the new president, and outlined ... More >>
Inflation and Corruption on the Horizon
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 11:58 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías announced the devaluation of the Bolivarian Republic’s currency, the bolivar. In his address, Chávez distinguished between two classes of products, establishing separate exchange rates for “essential” ... More >>
The Dirty Little Secret: Nuclear Security Issues
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 11:42 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Globally, nuclear power has become an increasingly important source of energy, accounting for about 15% of the world’s electricity supply. When it comes to Latin America, 3.1% of electricity comes from this source. More >>
How Much Energy Will It Take to Make Portuguese Go
Friday, 1 January 2010, 12:18 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
was invited to participate in a radio interview with the Voice of America. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was ending, and once again, as has been the case throughout the 2000s, Brazil was up front as a major protagonist. More >>
Latin America Makes an Impact at Copenhagen
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 10:10 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A frustrated group of European politicians has, over the past several days, come down hard on a number of Latin American countries whom it considers to have thwarted attempts to reach a legally binding agreement at the climate change talks, which ... More >>
Modern Day Slavery in Mexico and the US
Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 10:26 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On December 3, Mexico City police freed 107 human trafficking victims who were forced to manufacture shopping bags and clothespins under “slave-like” circumstances. More >>
Argentine Same-Sex Marriage Debate Returns
Monday, 21 December 2009, 10:40 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In 2002, Argentina was at the forefront of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) rights debate when it became the first country in the region to allow same-sex civil unions. More >>
Bus Rapid Transit and the Latin American City
Friday, 18 December 2009, 12:33 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Over the past fifteen years, cities throughout Latin America have achieved a modest, yet significant, revolution in urban design through the adoption and refinement of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems. More >>
Tupamaro Revolutionary José Mujica’s Presidency
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 10:56 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
José “Pepé” Mujica of the left-center coalition, Frente Amplio (Broad Front-FA), won the run-off election in Uruguay with 53.2% of the vote compared to the 42.7% of his opponent, former president Luis Alberto Lacalle. More >>
Honduran Election Results Need To Be Scrutinized
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 11:04 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A growing number of nations in the international community have decided to recognize the recent Honduran elections administered by the country’s unlawful de facto government, citing high rates of voter participation as evidence that a “free and fair” election ... More >>
The U.S. Targets Canada’s Oil Sands
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 11:02 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Even though climate change legislation has stalled within the United States, President Obama’s willingness to bypass Congress using the authority of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signals that he is seriously prepared to cut U.S. carbon ... More >>
COHAEcuador’s Flirtations With Democracy
Monday, 14 December 2009, 1:31 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After a careful analysis of FLACSO’s Guillaume Long’s admirable, if highly critical letter on Ecuador, which devastatingly took to task yesterday’s (December 9th, 2009) COHA research release on Ecuador, we decided that the quality of Long’s analysis ... More >>
COHA Congratulates Senior Research Fellow
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 2:44 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs is proud to congratulate COHA Senior Research Fellow Greg Grandin for the recent recognition by the editors of the New York Times Book Review More >>
Chávez Must Look Homeward
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 2:39 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In 1998, Venezuelans broke with political tradition by electing a well-known and controversial populist colonel named Hugo Chávez Frias as president. They ignored precedent because the long-established, IMF-inspired, neoliberal prescriptions were ... More >>
