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Fading Caribbean Island-States
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 12:32 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In the ongoing search for a way to reduce global dependence on crude oil, many countries are turning to alternative energy sources to satisfy their seemingly insatiable appetite for fuel. The British, for instance, are spearheading a growing movement to recycle ... More >>
Autonomy and Reintegration: The Rio Group and Cuba
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 12:17 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
It comes as no surprise that after decades of playing the role of hemispheric hegemon, the United States at the same time has created a critical mass that has inadvertently resulted in a backlash throughout Latin America. Founded in 1986, the Rio Group was ... More >>
Looking Back: The 2009 World Social Forum
Sunday, 22 March 2009, 1:44 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As hundreds of prominent figures in the global financial and political sectors convened in Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual gala, beginning on January 27, over 100,000 individuals traveled to Belém, Brazil for the rival ... More >>
Combating Impunity, Violence, and Crime
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 1:14 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As neighboring Mexico teeters on the edge of what some say is a societal breakdown, Guatemala serves as an important role-player and as a strategic pathway for northbound narcotics as well as for cartels seeking to spread their influence south to protect ... More >>
Salvadoran Presidential Election
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 1:12 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) candidate Mauricio Funes emerged as the narrow victor in El Salvador’s March 15 presidential election, with 51 percent of the vote. Funes overcame the fiercely negative and patently unfair campaign waged ... More >>
Obama and the Gatekeeper
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:15 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On Saturday, President Barack Obama will meet with Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in Washington. It is the first time Obama will meet with a Latin American head of state as President. Although it appears that energy policy will monopolize ... More >>
Mexico Goes Before the U.N. Human Rights Council
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:14 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On February 10, 2009 the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) evaluated the current state of human rights in Mexico, as well as provided guidance for improvement in the country’s historically far from distinguished record. The UPR, a process ... More >>
Let Down on Cuba
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 12:40 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On March 10, Congress passed a bill containing provisions that will relax travel, trade and remittance provisions within existing legislation, in a move toward implementing the pledges made by Presidential candidate Barack Obama while on the campaign trail. ... More >>
China Courts Costa Rica
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:52 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Costa Rica and China may seem to be an unlikely pairing; however, both governments have moved to deepen their ties and cement regional integration based on the pursuit of a free trade agreement, which was brought a step closer by the completion of the ... More >>
Mexico’s Problems Mount
Friday, 6 March 2009, 12:13 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Mexican economy and many of its national institutional structures may be on the brink of collapse. While drug war violence has dominated the recent news about the possible irreversible status as a society beyond remediation, the topic of immigration ... More >>
U.S.-Cuban Politics: Playing the Guantánamo Card
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 1:09 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In recent months, media coverage of Guantánamo Bay has focused on the relocation and plans for the prosecution of detainees now housed there by the United States government. But there is another issue that all but goes unaddressed - the legitimacy ... More >>
DAS Scandal Looms over Colombian Visit
Friday, 27 February 2009, 1:40 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Hat in hand, senior Colombian representatives arrived in Washington on February 24 to begin a lobbying blitz, yet were reluctant to acknowledge that their country is currently embroiled in a pervasive corruption scandal which discredits even the usually ... More >>
Bolivia’s Morales Struts His Stuff
Friday, 27 February 2009, 1:39 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As U.S. policy makers see it, Bolivian president Evo Morales faces two main challenges in the upcoming months, stemming from forces arising within his nation and coming from abroad. The first is to distance himself enough from his friend and close political ... More >>
The Fernández-Kirchner Political Touch
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 12:27 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The devastating drought that has ravaged the Argentine Pampas and other agricultural areas since March 2008, has reached an agricultural state of emergency. In January, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced a measure that allows farmers ... More >>
Need for Fresh Approach to Drugs in Colombia
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 12:25 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Early this month, a brutal massacre of Awá indigenous people left 27 dead in Colombia’s southern Pacific region of Nariño. According to various media sources, 17 were killed in an armed attack on February 4, during which 120 community members were captured ... More >>
Lula’s Last Year in Review and Future Expectations
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 12:13 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In 1823 U.S. President James Monroe set forth a new policy, later known as the Monroe Doctrine, which explicitly stated that no foreign power could meddle in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere without expecting swift U.S. retribution. Almost two centuries ... More >>
Parading Towards Equality: Transcolombia Awakes
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 12:10 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Ever since 1513, when the Conquistador Vasco Nuñez de Balboa decided to set his dogs on 40 Quarequa indigenous people for engaging in transvestism and homosexual acts, Colombia´s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) sector has enjoyed ... More >>
Panama's Electoral Tribunal
Saturday, 21 February 2009, 3:12 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Dr. Miguel Antonio Bernal is a highly regarded French educated professor of international affairs at the University of Panama, as well as a well-respected lawyer in Panama City, and a champion of civil and human rights. His career has been a symbol of the ... More >>
COHA Readership Responds to Haiti Analysis
Friday, 20 February 2009, 11:52 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Below, COHA is reprinting several letters that it recently received in response to its research finding issued on February 9, 2009, “‘The Rock in the Sun’: Haiti’s Préval Pleads For the U.S. and Rest of the World to End Global Negligence ... More >>
Lucky Bolivia and the Future of Lithium
Friday, 20 February 2009, 11:49 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As the global automobile industry looks to alternate fuel sources, at least one developing country is likely to have a gigantic influence on future developments in the energy sector. Lithium-ion batteries are projected to be supplying most of the alternative ... More >>
