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Cuba: Gardening its Way Out of Crisis
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 5:30 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Sunlight brightens the paved streets and historic buildings of Havana, Cuba, bouncing off the tents of vendors and the tin drums of a street band. Once stricken by poverty and inequality, the city has slowly blossomed as a result of the bustling enterprise ... More >>
Cuba: Gardening its Way Out of Crisis
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:55 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Sunlight brightens the paved streets and historic buildings of Havana, Cuba, bouncing off the tents of vendors and the tin drums of a street band. Once stricken by poverty and inequality, the city has slowly blossomed as a result of the bustling enterprise ... More >>
Obama and the Honduran Crisis
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:45 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As the OAS prepares to send a delegation to Honduras – basically on terms dictated by Roberto Micheletti, the head of the golpista government – one can be excused for questioning why this crisis in democratic governance has yet to be resolved. ... More >>
Brazil and Paraguay:Brazil concedes on Enerdy Deal
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 4:08 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
July 25, 2009 marked the passage of a landmark piece of reform that was brokered between Brazil and Paraguay. The agreement, signed in Asunción, finally resolved a decade long disagreement between the two governments regarding the Itaipú dam. More >>
Microsoft Blitzes Cuba and Latin America
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:18 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
During the last week of May 2009, Microsoft abruptly and inexplicably banned access to its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging service in Cuba. In response to several inquiries, the company defended its action by asserting that “Microsoft has discontinued ... More >>
Ten Years of “Plan Colombia”
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 4:05 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Colombia is likely to become the regional hub for the Pentagon’s Latin American activities and its Fort Apache as U.S. and Colombia near a cooperation agreement that would expand U.S. military presence in the country. The U.S. seeks to increase ... More >>
Guatemalan Poor: Garbage Dump Education System
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 3:45 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Guatemala City garbage dump, situated in a ravine, occupies 40 acres of land in the nation’s capital. Guatemala is the most populated nation in Central America, with more than 13 million residents. This landfill, one of the largest and most toxic ... More >>
Violence Against Women in Mexico
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 3:44 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Juárez is nicknamed “the capital of murdered women.” The border city of 1.5 million inhabitants draws tens of thousands of young women from small, poor towns with $55-a-week jobs in maquiladoras operated by such wealthy major corporations ... More >>
Colombian Trade Unions: Targets for Intimidation
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 3:43 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Luis Adolfo Cardona worked as a forklift operator at an American-owned bottling company that packages 50,000 cases of Coca-Cola’s famous fizzy beverages a month. On an unassuming morning, Cardona narrowly escaped death when right-wing paramilitary troops ... More >>
Daniel-Style Politics as Usual?
Saturday, 1 August 2009, 5:55 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Daniel Ortega, popular from his days as the leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), has twice served as President of Nicaragua. First known as a fiery revolutionary during his initial term in office, Ortega now presents himself as a ... More >>
The Coup in Honduras
Saturday, 1 August 2009, 5:54 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Over a month has passed since the Honduran Congress ordered the military ousting of the country’s legitimate Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, sparking hemispheric-wide unrest and nasty flashbacks to a recent history of military coups, which many had ... More >>
China’s Policy Paper on Latin America
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 1:12 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On November 5, 2008, the Chinese government released a policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean, as it had previously done so for Europe in 2003 and for Africa in 2006. Although it may not come as a huge surprise that Latin America is the most ... More >>
Nationalism and the Drift Towards Statehood
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 5:06 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Near the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Cuba lies another, smaller island, the inhabitants of which have never experienced sovereignty. The arrival of Christopher Columbus [Colón] to its shores in 1493 heralded an era of enslavement and destruction ... More >>
U.S.-Venezuela Relations
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 5:05 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On June 26, 2009, almost a year after U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy was ordered to leave Caracas, the Chávez and Obama administrations were able to come to an agreement that allowed Duddy and his Venezuelan counterpart Ambassador Bernardo Álvarez, to ... More >>
Déjà Vu in Central America: Iran’s recent push
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 4:21 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On January 23, 1981, President Reagan chose to suspend aid to Nicaragua, fearing that the Sandinista revolution and Daniel Ortega’s subsequent rise to power could turn the small Central American country into “another Cuba” that eventually would ... More >>
Honduras Both Sides Say: No Retreat
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 4:20 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Events in Honduras on the morning of June 28 divided hemispheric public opinion over the question of what constitutes a coup. For some observers, the military’s removal of President José Manuel Zelaya at the behest of the country’s congress and judiciary ... More >>
Barack Obama and The Cuba Issue
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 4:19 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In the forty-eight years since the severance of official diplomatic ties and the institution of the U.S. trade embargo, Washington has seen to it that Cuban-American relations have remained virtually frozen, only altered by a few incremental shifts. ... More >>
The AUC Scandal
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 5:06 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In recent years, the administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, with support from the United Nations, has taken important steps towards maintaining peace through demobilization between Bogotá and the nation’s paramilitary organizations, by ... More >>
García’s Decline in Peru
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 5:05 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
When Alan García first came to power in Peru in 1985 under the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) party, he was hailed as “Latin America’s Kennedy.” Unfortunately, his reign was instead marked by corruption, economic disaster, violence from leftist ... More >>
Mexican Midterm Elections
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 1:59 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
“PRI crushes the President,” declared Mexico City’s Milenio newspaper following the midterm elections on July 5. Mexico’s conservative President Felipe Calderón endured a significant setback when his Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) was unseated ... More >>
