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William Brownfield’s Address on Colombia
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 1:57 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The U.S.-Colombia relationship has surfaced as a key point of contention among Latin America policy groups, as Colombian President Álvaro Uribe had his first meeting with President Obama on Monday, June 29. In a session at the White House, the presidents ... More >>
Colombia President Comes to Washington
Friday, 10 July 2009, 11:35 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The author of this COHA analysis is COHA Research Associate Juliana Sojo. Additional research and findings below are by COHA Research Associates Gretchen Knoth and Charlotte Griggs. More >>
Caudillismo in Action: Looking Back on Honduras
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 10:56 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The unfortunate events that have besieged the relatively few and brittle democratic institutions of Honduras in the last few weeks cannot be neatly compartmentalized into right or wrong, as certain insider and outsider actors would like to do. More >>
Guatemalan Democracy: Hanging on By its Fingernail
Friday, 3 July 2009, 1:48 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In a country where an average of 17 murders are committed each day and 98 percent of criminal cases remain unsolved, the May 10, 2009 assassination of prominent Guatemalan lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, could easily have been dismissed along with thousands ... More >>
Honduras: Clarification of COHA’s Position
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 4:22 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On Friday, June 26, COHA issued a statement regarding recent events in Honduras. As a result of this communiqué, the organization has received a heavy volume of mail on the subject, most of it intensely critical. The article was drafted by Brian ... More >>
Political Reform in President Zelaya’s Honduras
Sunday, 28 June 2009, 3:10 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On June 25, Hondurans awoke in a state of anxiety and uncertainty. The previous night, President Manuel Zelaya announced the sacking of General Romeo Vasquez, head of the Honduran armed forces. General Vasquez had declined to lend logistical support to ... More >>
COHA Responds to the UN World Drug Report
Sunday, 28 June 2009, 3:07 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its 306-page annual World Drug Report on Wednesday, providing a mix of statistical findings and normative policy recommendations which hold implications for U.S. and international trade, security, ... More >>
Lou Wolf Testimony
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 11:23 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Since 1946, the School of Americas (SOA), then based at the American base, Fort Gulick in Panama, trained ten different Latin American military officers who would become the most renowned dictators in the hemisphere, and hundreds of senior and mid-level ... More >>
A Thoroughly Un-American Institution
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 11:21 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Today, June 24, 2009, Congress will vote on an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act which would require the School of the Americas/WHINSEC to release to the public the names, ranks, countries of origin, courses taken and dates of attendance of all ... More >>
The Uribe Government of Colombia
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 10:07 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The most outspoken Democratic proponent of an ill-deserved Free Trade Agreement with Bogotá has not only reversed his own position on the deal, but has defended and legitimized a corrupt, venal government, heavily tied to political scandals and ... More >>
The Amazon Rainforest: Worth the Fight?
Tuesday, 23 June 2009, 12:11 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Brazil is home to one-third of the world’s rainforest and half of the Amazon. Between its vast rainforests and bodies of water, Brazil hit the planet’s natural resource jackpot, although both are rapidly disappearing habitats. Despite its ecological ... More >>
Corporate Control of Water in Latin America
Monday, 22 June 2009, 1:54 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Water has been characterized as the oil of the 21st century. Blue gold. It is essential to life, and yet humanity faces a growing water crisis as a result of severe mismanagement in water and sanitation, which will be exponentially exacerbated in the coming decades ... More >>
Obama’s Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Friday, 19 June 2009, 1:22 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Reference to the pending U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement resurfaced in the final presidential campaign debate between Barack Obama and John McCain on October 15, 2008. At the time, Obama voiced his disapproval of the FTA, stating that continued ... More >>
New Kids on Latin America’s Block
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 2:27 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Today, the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are holding their first summit meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia. These states are the world’s four major emerging economies (constituting 15 percent of the world’s $60.7 trillion economy) ... More >>
U.S.-Bolivian Relations
Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 1:33 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Since the inauguration of President Evo Morales in 2006, relations between Bolivia and the United States have taken an unprecedented, although sometime episodic, turn for the worse. Issue after issue in which the countries are engaged has ended up ... More >>
Colombia’s Establishment and False Positives
Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 1:32 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
This second section of a two part article analyses the Colombian Government’s response to the “false positives” scandal. It finds that while measures by the authorities appear to have been significant, it may be too early to say whether false positives ... More >>
Peru: Indigenous Rights v Corporate Interests
Monday, 15 June 2009, 12:58 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Alan Garcia is no friend of the indigenous, thus his close relationship with the former Bush Administration should come as no surprise. Garcia’s sponsorship of regularizing the opening up of the Amazon to exploitation for oil exploration and ... More >>
The U.S. and Cuba: an Environmental Duo?
Monday, 15 June 2009, 12:56 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Through accidents of geography and history, Cuba is a priceless ecological resource. The United States should capitalize on its proximity to this resource-rich island nation by moving to normalize relations and establishing a framework for environmental ... More >>
Havana’s Potential Geo-Political Bombshell
Friday, 12 June 2009, 12:31 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As the Obama administration slowly inches towards normalizing its relations with Cuba, pressure is mounting on the new president to lift the decades-old, and universally acknowledged, anachronistic embargo. A relic of the Cold War, the Cuban embargo witnessed ... More >>
Continued Disregard for Indigenous Autonomy
Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 2:07 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
While the hemisphere is riveted by the posthumous accusation by lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg predicting his own demise at the hands of Guatemalan President Àlvaro Colom, there is another story in Guatemala that is not being told. At Goldcorp’s annual stockholders ... More >>
