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Paraguay: Ex-President's Daughter Murdered
Monday, 7 March 2005, 7:16 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
*• The abduction and murder of former President Raúl Cubas’ daughter is the most dramatic in a string of recent high-profile kidnappings to hit the crime-wracked nation. More >>
Bermuda Independence Group: Beating a Dead Horse?
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 8:18 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Premier Alex Scott and his Progressive Labour Party continue to lobby Bermudians for independence despite falling approval rates in January and February. More >>
CARICOM: Unity on All Fronts is Necessary
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 10:09 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• United we stand, divided we fall over the choice of the next OAS Secretary-General. Will CARICOM vote as a united entity or fracture its formidable bloc? More >>
Chavez’s Land Reform More Like Lincoln Than Lenin
Monday, 28 February 2005, 12:31 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Land Reform is the traditional third rail of left-of-center governments and social reform movements. More >>
China's Role in Latin America: a Threat to the US?
Friday, 25 February 2005, 11:35 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
*• Until recently, Washington has all but ignored that China is making important inroads in the region—China and a number of western hemispheric countries have deepened their cooperation, especially in the areas of trade and development. More >>
Negroponte: Nominee for Baghdad Embassy
Friday, 18 February 2005, 10:29 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Negroponte pressed Powell to pressure Chile’s and Mexico’s weak-willed leaders to discharge their U.N. ambassadors over Iraq votes. More >>
The Sad Decline of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega
Friday, 18 February 2005, 9:42 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Sad Decline of Daniel Ortega: Rewriting the Nicaraguan Constitution Once Again, with the Help of Corruption Incorporated, Arnoldo Alemán More >>
Bolivia’s Strife Intensifies
Monday, 14 February 2005, 10:24 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Bolivia’s Strife Intensifies: The Autonomy Being Sought by Santa Cruz Departmental Leaders threatens Political stability More >>
Haiti’s Upcoming Elections: Fanmi Lavalas Opts Out
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 11:12 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On 1 February 2005, nearly one year after the de-facto coup against Haiti’s democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the AP reported that the Lavalas party will not participate in the local and municipal elections scheduled for October, ... More >>
Aid Finally Arriving to Devastated Guyana
Wednesday, 2 February 2005, 2:16 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Over the last five weeks floods have ravaged Guyana, killing six, causing enormous property damage as well as displacing thousands and affecting over half of the country’s population. More >>
COHA: Powell's Blemished Latin American Record
Friday, 28 January 2005, 1:29 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In the February issue of the Foreign Service Journal, two researchers at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) noted that the replacement of Secretary of State Colin Powell by Condoleezza Rice would provide an appropriate opportunity to assess his ... More >>
Powell’s Latin America Legacy assessed
Friday, 28 January 2005, 10:26 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Powell’s Latin America Legacy assessed in forthcoming issue of the Foreign Service Journal "A Blemished Latin American Record" More >>
OAS Secretary-General Candidates Jockey for Votes
Thursday, 27 January 2005, 12:11 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Secretary-General seat of the Organization of American States (OAS) is still up for grabs, but three candidates have appeared as the most likely to succeed former and now disgraced Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodríguez as OAS Secretary-General: ... More >>
COHA: Upcoming Mexican Presidential Elections
Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 1:34 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Throughout 2004, the race for Mexico’s 2006 presidential elections intensified, largely relegating the country’s economic development to the backburner and leaving little hope that President Vicente Fox can carry out significant reforms in the remaining ... More >>
Lackluster US-Latin American Relations To Continue
Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 12:35 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Yesterday George W. Bush officially began his second term in office and those familiar with U.S.-Latin American relations have little hope for improved ties between Washington and its traditional ''backyard.'' More >>
Rice's Confirmation Bad News for Latin America
Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 12:33 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Rice's outdated Cold War credo suggests her term at the helm of the State Department will witness no new diplomacy, let alone innovative ideas. More >>
Will Washington tolerate Chinese-Venezuelan Pact?
Monday, 17 January 2005, 10:08 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Venezuela is quickly emerging as a major player in the global energy game due to China’s skyrocketing energy demands and the escalating instability of oil sources in the Middle East and West Africa. More >>
The Coke Report Guatemala:
Thursday, 6 January 2005, 11:58 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• According to State Department and DEA officials in off-the record conversations, Guatemala is seen as being the “kingpin” in Central America’s drug operations, the single most important component in the area’s drug trade. More >>
Chile: Less than meets the Eye
Wednesday, 29 December 2004, 10:40 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Chile's much-belabored "economic miracle," fashioned from high growth rates, macroeconomic stability and explosive export expansion, is widely considered by neoliberal advocates to be the masterpiece of the economic model that the International Monetary ... More >>
Honduras Again Validates Banana Republic Status
Thursday, 23 December 2004, 5:31 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As Christmas approaches, Washington turns a blind eye to human rights abuses as Honduras strives to maintain its hemispheric lap-dog status More >>
