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Open Season on Intervening in Bolivia
Wednesday, 7 May 2003, 11:33 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On the morning of March 22, 2003, Bolivia's Vice President Carlos Mesa worriedly delivered a letter from the U.S. Embassy to Evo Morales, a former presidential candidate and the new parliamentary leader of the opposition group, Movimiento al Socialismo ... More >>
A Populace has Lost its Head, Heart & Direction
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 4:47 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Argentina's Presidential Election: A Populace that has Lost its Head, Heart and Compass Direction More >>
Venezuela - A Year Later
Saturday, 12 April 2003, 9:26 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A year ago, Venezuela's democracy narrowly survived a major test as rightist sectors of the middle-class-led opposition joined with several ranking military officers to briefly overthrow President Chavez, taking advantage of an ongoing popular protest ... More >>
Upcoming Argentine Presidential Election
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 10:22 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Fractured Parties, Chaotic Economics and Bleak Historical Legacy, and a Societal Clock That Doesn't Keep Time More >>
Aznar Could Cost Spain Ties With Latin America
Saturday, 15 March 2003, 11:11 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Aznar's Courtship of Bush Regarding Iraq Could Cost Spain the Fruit of its Return to Latin America More >>
Scant Prospects Emerge From Meeting On Venezuela
Wednesday, 12 March 2003, 9:38 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Acting Assistant Secretary of State Curtis Struble met with diplomats from Brazil Mexico, Chile, Portugal and Spain, in Brasilia on Monday to discuss the prospects for an electoral solution to Venezuela's simmering political crisis. A complex mediation ... More >>
Mexico On The UN and Iraq - Arm-Twisting Diplomacy
Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 10:12 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Mexico and Iraq - Arm-Twisting Diplomacy: The Consequences of U.S. Pressure on Mexico over Iraq in the Security Council More >>
Consequences of U.S. Pressure on Mexico over Iraq
Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 9:21 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Bush administration is about to be successful in breaking Mexico's will by bringing it to heel over Iraq. While Fox will continue to sweet talk his decision and speak bravely, the fact is that in the end he permitted himself to be manipulated by Washington. More >>
The Slippery Slope Approaches in Colombia
Tuesday, 4 March 2003, 7:56 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Washington seeks a "strong response" to the current abduction crisis in Colombia, setting the basis for an accelerated posting of U.S. military personnel to the country More >>
Pressure Jeopardizes Survival of Bolivian Pres.
Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 3:06 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
1. President Sanchez de Lozada about to announce expansion of “legal” coca crop 2. Political stability sometimes comes before drug eradication 3. The heavy price of U.S. intervention 4. Bolivia’s civil society becoming increasingly potent 5. Viability ... More >>
Welcome To Washington Mr. Ecuadorian President
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 10:50 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- Visiting President Gutierrez will find that one cannot be all things to all people. - Going back to the Peron presidency in Argentina, Latin American populist presidential candidates, once in office, often turn out to be more responsive to Washington than ... More >>
The “Drugocracy” of Guatemala
Tuesday, 4 February 2003, 10:31 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- Powell ducks his responsibility by waiving the decertification of Guatemala by making Central America’s free trade agreement more important than upholding a coherent anti-drug policy, exposing the U.S. regional anti-drug policy as a sham. More >>
Venezuela: Tainted Journalism or Paranoia?
Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 10:03 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As part of the ongoing debate concerning the current political instability in Venezuela, we are reprinting an article, authored by Thor Halvorssen, published in the commentary section of the The Washington Times on Jan. 22, 2003, attacking the position of the ... More >>
Bolton Goes East – The Wrong Man For Korea
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 10:04 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
State Department's John Bolton the Wrong Man to Send to Korea * Peace emissary is one of the administration's prime unilateralists and a jingoist nationalist. * Progenitor of invented Cuban bioweaponry charge, strangely silent when it came to proving it. More >>
Otto Reich Re-surfaces Again, This time at the NSC
Thursday, 16 January 2003, 9:29 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The "What to do with Otto Reich Problem" Temporarily Solved, but the Solution Most Likely will come to Haunt the Administration More >>
Venezuela: Courting the Implosion
Friday, 3 January 2003, 4:09 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
An Opinion Piece Compiled from COHA Research - As well known for its venality as its commitment to democracy, Venezuela's middle class long tolerated the corruptocracies alternately fielded by the country's two main and equally tainted political parties. More >>
Burning Down the House to Rid It of Its Termites
Monday, 23 December 2002, 12:00 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* The country's anti-Chávez forces are not their nation's loyal opposition, but a group of anti-constitutional zealots - many of them with tarnished backgrounds and questionable credentials - who are prepared to risk the destruction of the country's ... More >>
Venezuela - News Analysis
Saturday, 7 December 2002, 11:18 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Playing a dangerous game of chicken * By winning, the opposition could lose * By playing by the rules, Chávez is almost on the ropes * Does the opposition wish to negotiate or merely forcibly oust a constitutional president - dialogue or diktat? More >>
Powell In Bogotá; The Empire Visits the Satrapy
Wednesday, 4 December 2002, 10:25 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The U.S. State Department has confirmed that former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs Otto Reich will not be travelling to Colombia today with Secretary of State Colin Powell. This move is a telltale sign that Reich will ... More >>
Kissinger - The Wrong Man for Every Season
Monday, 2 December 2002, 11:14 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* A compelling case can be made that he belongs in jail rather than at the head of the investigation into September 11 * His stint as chairman of the 1983-84 National Bipartisan Commission on Central America was not at all bipartisan and produced a ... More >>
