Council on Hemispheric Affairs - Latest News [Page 50]
Midterm Elections Have Mixed Consequences
Tuesday, 19 November 2002, 9:53 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Following Midterm Elections, Latin America and Canada Fall off U.S. Radar Screen * Confrontation with Iraq dominates U.S. foreign policy agenda, with scant room left for Latin American or Canadian issues. More >>
What's needed is a changed Argentina & IMF
Friday, 15 November 2002, 12:29 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Council On Hemispheric Affairs - Argentina: Grim News - The Argentine government defaulted yesterday on its scheduled $805 million in debt payments to the World Bank, the country's only remaining extant creditor after its catastrophic default last ... More >>
Joy in Brasilia, Despair in Buenos Aires
Wednesday, 30 October 2002, 9:08 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
While a majority of Brazilians are seized by hope as a result of Lula's triumph in their country's presidential race, Argentina's economic crisis has left its population unemployed, deeply embittered, resentful of government corruption and snarling at ... More >>
Brazil And The World Await Lula's Path
Monday, 28 October 2002, 9:17 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
New president is certain to adopt his own road, veering Brazil from its traditional dependence and deference to the U.S. More >>
CUBA - Morris Morley & Chris McGillion
Thursday, 24 October 2002, 9:47 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
With the mid-term U.S. congressional elections approaching, one of their casualties can already be identified: any prospect that Washington's Cuba policy might be removed from its Cold War freezer and thawed to serve contemporary U.S. national interests. More >>
Brazilian Politics Begins Moving to a New Beat
Monday, 14 October 2002, 10:01 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Will Lula remain being Lula in the advent of a likely second-round electoral victory? * Complications for U.S.-Brazilian relations * Complications for U.S.-Venezuela relations * Complications for U.S.-Mexican-Brazilian relations More >>
Lula, Brazil and the United States
Tuesday, 8 October 2002, 11:00 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The birth of a contentious relationship. Elections in Brazil this weekend will mark an historic watershed in that country's relations with the U.S. in the event of a victory by left-wing frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). More >>
Dominican Republic President Hipólito Mejía
Wednesday, 2 October 2002, 8:34 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Sr. Mejía, you were in Washington September 26 to celebrate "Dominican Republic" week, which is an entirely manufactured public relations concept that has nothing to do with the country's people, and in fact would be better titled, "Dominican Republic ... More >>
Welcome to Washington Peruvian President Toledo
Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 11:30 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Once at 85%, your popularity today with your own people is deservedly at 17% in the polls and skidding. More >>
Bush-Fox Relations Deteriorate
Monday, 2 September 2002, 11:38 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Fox will make his state of the union address on Labor Day, giving a slanted assessment of his presidency More >>
Leaders Convene Amid Mounting Pressure For FTAA
Sunday, 18 August 2002, 11:09 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Washington could rue the day it came up with a strategy whereby self-serving trade considerations dominate its Caribbean strategy More >>
Deepening U.S. Military Involvement
Wednesday, 7 August 2002, 11:25 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On the Eve of an Expanded War: The Final Hours Before Uribe Assumes the Colombian Presidency and the Deepening U.S. Military Involvement More >>
US Secretary Visits Three Troubled Nations
Tuesday, 6 August 2002, 3:54 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Policy of benign neglect, which shifted to malign neglect under the State Department's Otto Reich, now lurches toward activism under a newly-energized Paul O'Neill. More >>
Homeland Security's Impact on Immigration Policy
Wednesday, 31 July 2002, 9:12 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Senate Should be Wary of Homeland Security's Impact on Immigration Policy as it Debates the Fate of the INS More >>
Guatemalan Violence and Ríos Montt's Resurgence
Saturday, 27 July 2002, 6:43 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Ríos Montt's Political Resurgence in Guatemala Not Surprisingly Coincides with Increase in Violence with Impunity More >>
Coca-Cola and Latin American Death Squads
Saturday, 20 July 2002, 8:01 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Reminiscent of the slaughter of trade union leaders in the 1980s at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City More >>
U.S. Hands Stained with Bolivian Blood
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 12:03 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* United States continues to fund its mercenary military group, the highly controversial Expeditionary Task Force More >>
Welcome Mr. Colombian President-Elect
Wednesday, 19 June 2002, 11:17 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President-Elect Uribe Arrives in Washington Seeking Counter-Terror Hand-Out Despite Colombia's Past Mismanagement of Billion-Dollar Counter-Narcotics Aid More >>
Bush's "Initiative for a New Cuba"
Tuesday, 21 May 2002, 9:56 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Uneducable on New Reality: Bush's "Initiative for a New Cuba," Repeats Same Old Bankrupt Policies as it Panders to Extremist Miami Exiles More >>
Request to Hold Hearings on Cuba Bio-Terror Charge
Thursday, 16 May 2002, 8:32 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Letter to Senator Biden of Delaware, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Calls for Full-Scale Probe of Bolton's Bio-Terrorism Charge Against Cuba. More >>