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COHA: No Smooth Sailing for Bolivia’s Morales
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 9:06 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• A good man attempts to cope with a superabundance of problems within a completely democratic orbit • Too much drift within Morales’ rule • Autonomy fight now moves to the Constituent Assembly • Cochabamba’s obduracy could be replicated ... More >>
Off Course: Current U.S.-Latin American Relations
Thursday, 22 February 2007, 1:13 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President Bush has been witnessing the advent of a new bloc of left-leaning and sometimes robustly anti-American leadership that has sprung up in countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, among others. At the same time, there are a number ... More >>
COHA Report: Russia Returns to Latin America
Thursday, 22 February 2007, 1:10 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
With Washington obsessively focused on the Middle East, and with China and Iran’s stepped-up campaign to tighten their trade ties, as well as weapons procurement and resolve geopolitical matters with Latin America, the region’s importance is commensurately ... More >>
Uruguay TIFA with the US: Unraveling of Mercosur?
Friday, 2 February 2007, 12:00 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Mercosur’s summit ends with no major accomplishments and with dissatisfaction growing among its smallest members, Uruguay and Paraguay * Fears of a prospective FTA-caused rift among Mercosur members raise as Montevideo signs a TIFA arrangement with the ... More >>
A Beneficial Uruguayan Paper Mill: Pulp Fiction?
Wednesday, 31 January 2007, 11:47 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As Mercosur was about to meet, Uruguay’s President Vázquez signs papers with the U.S. that could lead to a free trade pact with Washington. Vázquez flirts with the idea of being forced to leave Mercosur if he goes ahead and binds himself to Washington. More >>
COHA: Cuba at The Crossroads?
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 11:01 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
An article on Haiti that appeared in Time magazine in January 1973 – at the end of the dictatorship of “Papa Doc” Duvalier and the commencement of his son “Baby Doc’s harsh rule– states: “There is also a sound on the city streets that to ... More >>
Mexican Leader Tough on Drugs
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 10:10 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s recent dispatch of military units to the states of Michoacán, Tijuana, and Guerrero is being hailed by some observers as a forceful launch for the new government’s energized anti-drug platform. U.S. Attorney-General ... More >>
Hugo Chávez, the Media and Everybody Else
Monday, 22 January 2007, 9:49 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Venezuelan leader would be wise to slow down his revolutionary pace, putting his boundless energy into further institutionalizing yesterday’s reforms rather than piling new ones upon a nation hardly able to grapple with his tempo. More >>
Ecuador Finds the Courage to “Just Say No”
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 9:47 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Throughout December of 2006, tensions began to flare between Ecuador and Colombia over the latter’s continued policy of sanctioning aerially-dispersed defoliants as a means to destroy narcotic crops along the two countries’ shared border. More >>
Ecuador Finds the Courage to “Just Say No”
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 8:25 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Anger grows as Bogotá resumes counter-narcotic aerial spraying programs along its border with Ecuador in spite of protests from Quito More >>
John Negroponte, Latin America’s Real “Mr. Danger"
Friday, 12 January 2007, 11:18 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
U.S. policy on Venezuela likely to harden after Negroponte’s confirmed * Chairman Biden to meet early test whether the Senate Foreign Relations committee again rolls over on Negroponte’s shocking record while ambassador to Honduras in the early ... More >>
John Negroponte, Latin America’s Real “Mr. Danger"
Friday, 12 January 2007, 8:32 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Chairman Biden to meet early test whether the Senate Foreign Relations committee again rolls over on Negroponte’s shocking record while ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s More >>
The Wreckage of the Bureau of Western Hem. Affairs
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:09 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Few will find fault with the conclusion that U.S.-Latin American policy has long been a problem area and that in the recent past, Washington at best has turned in an indifferent performance in conceptualizing and then carrying out a coherent regional ... More >>
Tom Shannon Inherits the Wreckage of the Bureau
Wednesday, 3 January 2007, 10:15 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A policy that, upon closer scrutiny, seems to be fundamentally flawed and without consistent direction More >>
Posada Carriles: Washington's Preferred Terrorist
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 7:29 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The upcoming immigration hearing for Luis Posada Carriles, the 78 year-old felon who is a self-confessed co-conspirator responsible for the detonation of a bomb which killed 73 passengers and crew members aboard a Cuban passenger airliner as it flew ... More >>
Posada Carriles: Washington Preferred Terrorist
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 9:59 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Bush Administration is harboring perhaps the Western Hemisphere’s most insidious terrorist, whose application for U.S. citizenship is presently on the docket and if granted, would represent an effrontery to this nation’s bona fides, as well ... More >>
The Dems & Bush’s Deeply Flawed Lat. Am. Policy?
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:28 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Is there, or will there be, a revitalized Democratic Latin American policy as distinct from the farrago of ineptitude witnessed under the Bush administration? To begin, in Bush’s eye, the Cold War remains. The head of his personal list of enemies is ... More >>
Nicaragua’s Elections: A National Turning Point?
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 2:12 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A statement by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) denouncing Ambassador Paul Trivelli’s patent intervention into the internal affairs of Nicaragua, and its urging the Bush administration to replace him. More >>
A Divided Chile Contemplates Pinochet’s Passing
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 11:47 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As millions around the world celebrated International Human Rights Day on December 10, the event was overshadowed throughout Chile as its citizens both mourned and celebrated the death of ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled the South American ... More >>
COHA: Revolution In Mexico Cannot Be Ruled Out
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 8:30 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
With Calderón’s Deeply Troubled Inauguration Last Night, Amidst a Deteriorating Security Situation in Oaxaca, the Possibility of a New Mexican Revolution Cannot Be Ruled Out More >>
