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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 >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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