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Confirmations for Valenzuela and Shannon Delayed
Saturday, 31 October 2009, 11:04 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Nine months after President Barack Obama took office, Washington still lacks two of its key Latin America policy-makers. Obama’s nominations for Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, and Ambassador to Brazil, ... More >>
USA: New Legislation Brings Limited Transparency
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 10:38 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After years of lobbying by human rights activists, Congress has approved the release of information on the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, the military training facility infamous for ... More >>
A Resurgent Cuban Tourism Market
Friday, 9 October 2009, 12:29 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
For almost fifty years, the United States has prohibited the vast majority of its citizens from traveling to Cuba as a part of its economic embargo on the island. However, a flood of American tourists may soon be unleashed on this forbidden island ... More >>
The Ghost of President Bush
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 12:52 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The U.S.’s shocking performance at the OAS regarding Honduras suggests that the State Department has not heard that President Obama won the election. Who in Washington is making the Obama administration’s Honduran policy? The answer is, for the most ... More >>
The President’s Words Versus His Performance
Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 5:02 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President Obama has not taken any decisive steps to veer away from Washington’s benighted, near half-century trade embargo against Cuba. By refusing to take advantage of the opportunity to reject a longstanding and morally-bankrupt policy, which has ... More >>
Canada and Honduras: Act Now
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:51 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
If Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to be taken seriously as an international figure, he must be able to simultaneously juggle domestic and international crises without dropping the ball. While the Liberal opposition threatens to bring down Harper’s ... More >>
PANAMAX 2009 and Honduras: Annual War Games?
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:50 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In another blow against the prestige of the de facto government, ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s unexpected return to Honduras has complicated matters for interim President Roberto Micheletti, who helped plan the seizure of the government on June ... More >>
What the Drug War Needs is a Debate
Monday, 21 September 2009, 1:32 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In what was to become a growing trend throughout much of Latin America, the Mexican government unleashed its security forces against the drug cartels several years ago in what ended up being a failed effort at interdiction. The strategy was then to ... More >>
Between the Lines: Q&A with Larry Birns
Friday, 18 September 2009, 12:18 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
For more than 40 years, political violence has been a fact of life in Colombia, as left-wing and right-wing guerrilla groups have fought the government and each other. The U.S. government, under President Bill Clinton, increased the U.S. role ... More >>
The Mapuche Struggle for Autonomy
Friday, 18 September 2009, 12:18 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On August 17, dozens of Mapuche communities in southern Chile united to form the Mapuche Territorial Alliance to continue their struggle for political autonomy. Many of them had carried on angry protests, most recently on August 12, when a police ... More >>
The Honduran Coup: Finagling by State Stonewallers
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 1:40 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Following the June 28 Honduran coup d’etat ousting President Manuel Zelaya, speculation began to be heard concerning the roles played by senior U.S. officials in orchestrating the overthrow of the country’s leader. Links connecting these officials and their ... More >>
Washington’s Double Standard on Cuba
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 11:38 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The recent lifting of Cuba’s suspension from membership in the Organization of American States indicates that Washington’s domination of the Inter-American system has passed. More >>
Obama Wrong on Latin America, Wrong on Cuba
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 11:37 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
COHA will be issuing a press release tomorrow morning chastising President Obama for not taking a decisive step to veer away from Washington’s benighted near half-a-century trade embargo against Cuba. More >>
COHA Kennedy Tribute
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 3:06 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Thirty-five Years of Being at the Senate’s Vital Center When it Came to U.S.-Latin America Relations: COHA’s Historic Ties to the Senator Who Did More for the Hemisphere than Any Other Legislator of his Time (COHA’s Tribute to Senator Kennedy will be ... More >>
Carbon Controversies in Costa Rica
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 12:01 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Everyone needs something to believe in, and for many Latin American progressives, that something for years has been Costa Rica. The country has long been cited as a beacon of progressive tranquility in a region better known for violence, inequality ... More >>
Looking Back to Look Ahead, Part II
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 12:49 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Born in Chile to a Methodist pastor and an American missionary, Valenzuela first came to the United States as an exchange student after an earthquake destroyed his high school. More >>
Ottawa’s Honduras Policy
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 12:42 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Repeatedly, COHA specialists have called upon Canadian authorities to use their nation’s positive image throughout this hemisphere to help build authentic democratic institutions and condemn human rights violations wherever they might occur in the region. More >>
damage of a drug war and an insurgency
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 12:15 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s summer visit to Washington reignited the still sputtering debate over U.S. military aid to Colombia and the country’s contentious human rights delinquency. These issues were then joined by the brand new firestorm ... More >>
Arturo Valenzuela: Looking Back to Look Ahead
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 12:07 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held an initial hearing on July 8 concerning President Barack Obama’s nomination of Dr. Arturo Valenzuela to the position of Assistant Secretary of State and head of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. ... More >>
Colombian Refugees in Ecuador
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 9:05 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s summer visit to Washington reignited the still sputtering debate over U.S. military aid to Colombia and the country’s contentious human rights delinquency. These issues were then joined by the brand new firestorm ... More >>
