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Attorney General of Ecuador Visits COHA
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 10:56 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
During his recently concluded visit to Washington, Ecuador’s highly regarded attorney general, José Xavier Garaicoa Ortiz, privately met with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs’ (COHA) editorial board to discuss current issues affecting his country. More >>
COHA: Posada Carriles, Child of Scorn
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 10:54 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The case of Luis Posada Carriles is a prime example of the tentacle-like reach of Miami’s exile community into both the Washington foreign policy establishment and the U.S. judicial system. What is so instructive about the Posada case is how little ... More >>
Colombia’s President Uribe and the Para Scandal
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 10:48 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Just months after Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Vélez’s landslide re-election in May 2006, some critics began pointing to ‘cracks in the pedestal’ of his popularity. The ongoing brouhaha surrounding the evident connections between the Uribe government ... More >>
Think Guatemala 1954, for Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela
Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 11:54 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In 1954, United Fruit, in concert with the CIA, successfully orchestrated the overthrow of Guatemala’s democratically-elected government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, charging that the Central American nation had fallen under communist influence. The demise ... More >>
COHA: Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela - Guatemala 1954
Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 9:48 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In 1954, United Fruit, in concert with the CIA, successfully orchestrated the overthrow of Guatemala’s democratically-elected government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, charging that the Central American nation had fallen under communist influence. More >>
Welcome To Washington, Sr. Presidente Álvaro Uribe
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 10:05 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• On the right, one of the most controversial leaders in Latin America presides over a collapsing anti-drug war • Non-extradition pledge guarantees there will be more crime and no punishment • Free trade more important to Washington than ... More >>
Venezuela’s Security Factors and Policy Goals
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 4:51 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
· Venezuela builds up its weapon stock and deepens its ties to “pariah” nations · · Chavez’s very active regime policy intriguing some because it may be viewed as too presumptive · · Chavez plays his high-risk game with extraordinary skill ... More >>
Venezuela’s Security Factors and Policy Goals
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 11:00 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Venezuela builds up its weapon stock and deepens its ties to “pariah” nations • Chavez’s very active regime policy intriguing some because it may be viewed as too presumptive • Chavez plays his high-risk game with extraordinary skill More >>
Mother Russia Likes What She Now Sees in Cuba
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 11:35 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Relations between Cuba and the former Soviet Union amplified during the early 1960s, reaching their culminations in October of 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which put the world at the brink of a nuclear conflict between Washington and Moscow. Some ... More >>
Exchange may help solve Guantanamo Bay problem
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 2:50 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
"The US Refugee Exchange program as announced by Immigration Minister is useful for the US Administration, in the context of the looming closure demands by the US courts, as well as the increasing pressure on the US Administration coming from the ... More >>
The Govt. & the Drug lords: Who Rules Mexico?
Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 3:56 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Government and the Drug lords: Who Rules Mexico? • When it comes to the Mexican drug scene, there is usually far more than meets the eye • The Bush-Calderon drug war is as much operatic as it is functional More >>
Roadside Rampage: Salvadoran Murders in Guatemala
Saturday, 7 April 2007, 1:55 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Roadside Rampage: Salvadoran Murders in Guatemala Raise the Stake of Central American Drug-Addled Violence - In the aftermath of President Bush’s recent failed trip to Latin America, the diplomatic toll mounts: More >>
Roadside Rampage: Salvadoran Murders in Guatemala
Friday, 6 April 2007, 1:55 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Roadside Rampage: Salvadoran Murders in Guatemala Raise the Stake of Central American Drug-Addled Violence More >>
Brazil’s President Lula is Coming to Washington
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 12:10 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The leader of Brazil, the hemisphere’s emerging, if reluctant, super power, will be arriving in Washington on March 31 as the guest of President Bush at Camp David More >>
Russian Arms Merchant raps on Latin America’s Door
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 2:23 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Foundation established for Russian arms sales surge to region • Moscow’s military sales likely to surpass within the next several years the USSR’s high water marks • U.S. is being pushed out of market it once dominated • New status ... More >>
A Constructive Plot to Return Guantanamo Bay
Friday, 16 March 2007, 10:32 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
“The grant of the foregoing Article [regarding the leasing of Guantanamo] shall include the right to use and occupy the waters adjacent to said areas of land and water, and to improve and deepen the entrances thereto and the anchorages therein, ... More >>
Bush’s Latin America Trip: Understanding Protests
Thursday, 15 March 2007, 7:09 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President Bush is scheduled to return today from his seven-day trip to Latin America. Hoping to dispel growing criticisms that the U.S. has neglected its southern neighbors since the early days of Bush’s first term, the president traveled to five carefully ... More >>
Bush Pays a Visit to Brazil
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 4:59 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
No home-runs; maybe only a bunt single or at best the odd double, but at least he didn’t strike out. Clearly the Bush trip to Latin America never should have been scheduled. One thing is for certain: the President doesn’t have a clue about Latin ... More >>
The President’s Latin American Journey
Sunday, 11 March 2007, 5:19 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
At a time when his popularity has hit rock bottom at home, President Bush is slipping out of Washington today to visit five Latin American nations in the course of an six-day trip. Bush’s itinerary will take him first to Brazil, then south to Uruguay ... More >>
COHA: President Bush to Visit Colombia
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 1:17 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Significant ties to illegal paramilitaries found in Colombia’s Congress and President Álvaro Uribe’s Administration • Colombia negotiating with and showing leniency to mass-murdering “narcoterrorists” • U.S. acting suspiciously uncritical ... More >>
