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Bush's Millennium Challenge Corporation: Same Old?
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 9:00 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Bush's Millennium Challenge Corporation: A New Approach to Overseas Development, or the Same Old Strategy? More >>
Venezuela Justice and Luis Posada Carriles
Friday, 12 August 2005, 10:01 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Unfinished Business: Why Luis Posada Carriles, an Admitted Cuban Exile Terrorist, Should Face Justice in Venezuela More >>
Bolivia Still Seized by Unrest and Instability
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 7:08 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
With Bolivia Still Seized by Unrest and Instability, there are Lessons to be Learned about Autonomy from Nicaragua’s Comparative Experience More >>
FTA: How Long Can Panama Hold Out?
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 5:08 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Free Trade Showdown: How Long Can Panama Hold Out for an Agreement that Reflects its Own National Interests? More >>
COHA: Washingtn Short-Sighted toward Latin America
Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 11:37 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Neighborly relations have been neglected far too long, making the U.S. an increasingly isolated nation among Western Hemisphere states. Assistant Secretary of State, Roger F. Noriega’s departure is unlikely to shift the situation. More >>
U.S. Canadian Relations in Need of Further Repair
Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 11:29 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Rocky Road: U.S.-Canadian Relations in Need of Further Repair, Now that Both Sides Make Concessions on Devils Lake Dispute More >>
Argentina's Labor Unions: Moyano’s Heavy Mantle
Friday, 5 August 2005, 10:46 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As if reflecting the comparable divisive events now afflicting the U.S. labor movement, Hugo Moyano was officially installed on July 14 as the Secretary General of Argentina’s largest trade union conglomerate, the General Confederation of Workers (CGT). This ... More >>
Latin American Debt Relief Less Than Meets the Eye
Thursday, 4 August 2005, 9:18 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
At the beginning of July, the G8 nations set forth a precedent-setting “100 percent” debt relief plan for qualifying African and Latin American countries. However, the majority of Latin American debt is owed to parties not included in the plan. As a ... More >>
U.S. Inaction a Surrender in Colombian Drug War
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:27 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Barring U.S. Congressional action, Colombia will continue its near comatose condition as a blood-stained narco-state living off the U.S. taxpayers’ dime. This is despite the best of intentions of Republican and Democratic administrations over the past ... More >>
COHA: Latin American Debt Relief
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:15 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• At the beginning of July, the G8 nations set forth a precedent-setting “100 percent” debt relief plan for qualifying African and Latin American countries. More >>
Brazil’s Lula: Corruption Crisis
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 10:23 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- Mushrooming allegations of bribery in President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva’s administration are part of a wave of corruption charges sweeping through the Brazilian government. More >>
Multinational Pharma Backs Down on Brazil AIDS Med
Monday, 1 August 2005, 10:12 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On June 24, Brazil issued an ultimatum to the Illinois-based pharmaceutical corporation Abbott Laboratories that it must lower the price it charged for the AIDS medication Kaletra, or the government would move to break the patent and manufacture the drug ... More >>
COHA: Who’s Afraid of the Haitian Media?
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 4:46 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
One long day in Pointe Noire, on my vacation from volunteer work in the forest, the Congolese painter Trigo Piula and I sat arguing in his jumbled studio about whether there is a spiritual element to canvasses. There was little common ground to be found ... More >>
Brazil: Lula’s Leadership Fading
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 10:10 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Fome Zero Program – Brazil’s Losing Struggle to Help the Hungry: Lula’s Leadership Fading More >>
Beginning Of End to a Coherent U.S. Drug Strategy
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 10:09 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• In an effort to resolve a part of Colombia’s decades-old drug and anti-government conflicts, President Álvaro Uribe and the Bush administration have yielded to the demands of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group, thus discrediting ... More >>
Rising To The Occasion: Moreno & The IDB
Monday, 25 July 2005, 1:23 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On July 27th, the governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will choose their new president. Currently, the position is held by Enrique Iglesias of Uruguay, who revitalized the IDB and infused it with ethics and a sense of professionalism ... More >>
The Intolerable Abuses of Guatemalan Women
Monday, 25 July 2005, 1:20 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The plight of Guatemala’s women is just part of an Alice in Wonderland story that the Bush administration is inaccurately supplying the American people. More >>
Washington Secures Long-Sought Hemispheric Outpost
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:23 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Council on Hemispheric Affairs http://www.coha.org/ Monitoring Political, Economic and Diplomatic Issues Affecting the Western Hemisphere Word Count: 2050 Wednesday, July 20 2005 More >>
Nicaragua: A Three-Way Political Battleground
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:21 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In February, a new political group was formed in Managua called the Movement for Nicaragua. Some 500 irate citizens, calling themselves non-partisan, rallied under the banner “Tomorrow is too late,” and called upon the people to “rescue” their country ... More >>
El Salvador Ratchets Up its U.S. Ties
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:36 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• With all of the hullabaloo focused on CAFTA, Washington is moving ahead with a new police training facility in a troubled Central American country. More >>
