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Council on Hemispheric Affairs - Latest News [Page 27]
Methamphetamine: Mexico's Dangerous Exports To US
Thursday, 17 January 2008, 9:48 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The average price per pound of methamphetamines in the U.S. is 13 thousand dollars, according to the United States Department of Justice, for an estimated value of 7.56 billion dollars of methamphetamines produced and exported to a worldwide market. More >>
Brazil's Legislators Mock Chavez's Failed Efforts
Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 12:02 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Washington understandably has been anxious to score points against the despised Hugo Chavez by depreciating what it saw as his offish role in seeking to unsuccessfully gain the release of hostages caught up in the bitter Colombian conflict. More >>
Containment Of Jamaican Gangs Is Not A Solution
Sunday, 16 December 2007, 8:50 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The proliferation of gang warfare is a growing cancer on the island, which, combined with corruption, political violence and common crime, creates a deadly pathological social cocktail that inevitably will prevent the nation from achieving its rightful ... More >>
Geopolitical: Sulfurous Fumes Detected Over Guyana
Sunday, 16 December 2007, 8:26 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A high-level security conference between the U.S. and Guyana was kicked off on Tuesday December 11, just after the recent revival of a long simmering territorial dispute between Guyana and the Bush Administration's arch nemesis, Venezuela. The conference ... More >>
Merida Initiative: A New Direction For US-Mexico?
Saturday, 15 December 2007, 11:22 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A redirection in policy could lead to a potentially problematic future, with dire results produced by U.S. drug policy and featuring Washington's politicalization of the issue and inventing facts where none exist. More >>
Abortion Ban In Nicaragua & Societal Implications
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 8:45 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
All forms of abortion (including those in which a mother's life may be in danger) have been illegal. Because an environment of fear has been created by the Church's behavior, most Nicaraguan doctors are hesitant to treat cases like that of Reyes'. More >>
Bank Of The South & Latin American Integration
Saturday, 8 December 2007, 9:38 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Since coming to power in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez may have been seen as a controversial figure, universally known for his confrontational stance regarding U.S. foreign policy aims. More >>
FTA's: Lessons From Latin America's Recent Past
Friday, 7 December 2007, 8:45 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Peru's Free Trade victory in U.S. Senate could later embarrass both Senators Clinton and Obama for their pro Peru stance, but also could spotlight President Garcia's complicity in massive human rights violations when the Shining Path Guerrillas were ... More >>
COHA: Brazil's Bolsa Familia At Risk
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 8:54 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
With the Calheiros scandal still hanging over it, an increasingly tarnished Lula administration cannot afford to lose the one social program that has brought it a modicum of luster. More >>
COHA: Latin America's New Middle Class
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 9:04 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Brazil, pointed to as a showcase for both its economic boom and the vast inequality that still persists in parts of the country, has become the new face of this emerging middle class. More >>
COHA: Bringing Polycentrism To Latin America
Sunday, 2 December 2007, 10:16 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Polycentrism has been reborn in Latin America, and Washington would be wise to adapt to that fact. Polycentrism is a system of interpreting a country's political activity around multiple and co-equal centers of sovereignty, characterized by parity and ... More >>
COHA: Is The "New Left" Simply More Of The Same"?
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 10:02 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
While some claim that these left-leaning nations reflect just an aberrant phase in the democratization process, others insist that this development is leading to the very embodiment of enhanced freedom, where citizens have the opportunity for their ... More >>
Pres. Uribe Attacks Colombia Judicial Institutions
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 4:41 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As Colombia's corruption scandal continues to heat up, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has turned his anger on a longstanding nemesis: the country's Supreme Court. More >>
Pluralism Bursts Into The Western Hemisphere
Monday, 19 November 2007, 11:37 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
No one is arguing that Latin America and the Caribbean have become a priority matter for international diplomacy, save for the U.S., which has witnessed a massive retreat of Washington's vigilance for what it once insisted were its longtime national interests ... More >>
Bolivia's "Agrarian Revolution" Hanging In
Monday, 19 November 2007, 11:35 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
This region was largely ignored in the previous agrarian reform effort over 50 years ago and is where the major opposition to Morales resides today. The President's Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party has fielded a comprehensive agrarian reform that will ... More >>
Latin America's Populism: Is Bush Getting It Wrong
Monday, 19 November 2007, 11:35 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Politicians find it exceedingly difficult to explain free trade's virtues without drowning the listener in a torrent of common coinage. For a recent example of this, take President Bush's speech in Miami, designed to shore up flagging congressional ... More >>
Mexico's Felipe Calderon - COHA Research Analysis
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 9:41 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Calderón assumed office on December 1, 2006, in the midst of a huge public uproar that made graphically evident Mexico's deep-seated, almost organic, divisions. Calderón's campaign promoted the slogan "A drive towards Mexico's future," which called for ... More >>
Preval Goes It Alone, But What About Aristide?
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 3:19 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
More than 18 months have passed since René Préval was decisively elected president of Haiti in what many regional analysts considered one of the country's most crucial elections. More >>
Argentina: At The Cusp Of Change, Or, Continuity
Friday, 12 October 2007, 9:12 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After a century of intermittent military rule, Argentina's infrastructure and economy were in shambles by the early 1980's, after the last and undoubted worst stretch of misrule by the generals (1976-83). More >>
Dominican Republic Pursues Modernity, Rectitude
Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 8:00 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Fernández offer some macro success at the expense of high quality rule. Big obstacles along the way. CAFTA to thunder ahead as Arias' Costa Rica squeezes out a narrow pro-free trade victory. Analysis Roberto Mallen. More >>
