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Cuban Bio-Terror: Fact Or State Dept Fabrication?
Friday, 10 May 2002, 9:17 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* The administration is attempting to perpetrate a super hoax on the American public to secure Cuban-American electoral support for the Bush Brothers and blunt the upcoming visit of the Carter delegation to island. Havana's biotechnology industry is grotesquely ... More >>
COHA Opinion Piece On Venezuela
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 9:41 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Last Thursday's failed effort to remove President Hugo Chavez from power at the behest of Venezuela's powerful business and several labor groups (undoubtedly with the knowledge and eager acquiescence of U.S. officials), tested the political will of that nation, ... More >>
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Is Restored
Tuesday, 16 April 2002, 9:35 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Without question the big loser, in every respect, to the extraordinary sequence of events in Venezuela, is the Bush White House, its National Security advisor and press secretary. Lurking behind these figures is Otto Reich, who, as the chief Latin Americanist ... More >>
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Overthrown
Sunday, 14 April 2002, 9:07 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
· Bitter legacy of the Chavez overthrow could afflict rest of hemisphere · Extra-constitutional ouster of Venezuelan President sends wrong message to other Latin American nations with controversial leaders · Given the recent history of the Latin American military, ... More >>
The U.S. Shares Culpability In Argentina's Plunge
Thursday, 24 January 2002, 11:13 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Economic mismanagement is merely a symptom of Argentina's fundamental institutional crisis, which stems from a flawed political culture More >>
Colombia-Again Perched at the Edge
Friday, 11 January 2002, 10:57 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
[Notice to the Media: On COHA's staff are researchers who have met with Colombia's president, national security advisor, as well as several of the country's guerrilla leaders.] More >>
Latin America-2001 Overview
Monday, 7 January 2002, 9:18 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* "Terrorism" factor is today's guiding star for U.S. policymakers, carrying with it ominous implications More >>
Argentina At The Brink - The World Must Do More
Monday, 7 January 2002, 9:10 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As Argentina falls even further into economic and political melt-down, one featuring its president du jour, the international community must intercede on an emergency basis. This is not only because the country's woes could cause a pandemic among its ... More >>
Argentina: Penniless, Friendless, Soulless
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 11:18 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Larry Birns is director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Jeremy Gans is a research associate at the council. More >>
Argentina's Upheaval
Friday, 21 December 2001, 10:09 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Larry Birns, has made two extensive trips to Argentina over a number of months, where he met with a large number of government officials, economists, legislators, journalists and members ... More >>
Why Trade Promotion Authority Should Be Defeated
Friday, 7 December 2001, 1:07 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
· House of Representatives to vote on the Thomas Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill today, though it is still questionable whether it will pass More >>
Welcome To Washington Mr. Bolivian President
Friday, 7 December 2001, 1:05 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
· President Quiroga arrived in Washington this week where he meets with President Bush, Congress, the OAS and World Bank, IMF and IDB representatives More >>
Widening Opportunity For Washington And Havana
Wednesday, 21 November 2001, 10:44 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* U.S. offer to directly deliver food to Havana, in wake of most devastating storm to hit Cuba since 1944, is a watershed event and could be step one in a breakthrough in relations More >>
Trade Promotion Authority And The FTAA
Thursday, 15 November 2001, 12:05 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
For immediate release: Thursday, November 15, 2001 01: 23 Trade Promotion Authority and the FTAA: Anti-terrorism spin on Thomas TPA bill a tactic to enact legislation which could threaten labor, the environment and erode national sovereignty More >>
Upcoming Nicaraguan Presidential Elections
Wednesday, 31 October 2001, 5:06 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
* Washington flagrantly misuses the terrorism card as it brazenly intervenes in Nicaragua's upcoming presidential race as Powell's absentee role on Latin America continues More >>
Japan's Favorite Terrorist Alive and Well in Tokyo
Thursday, 11 October 2001, 9:54 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
· Increasingly tense standoff between the two nations heightened by Japan's disregard for an international arrest order issued from Lima against Peru's disgraced ex-president, Alberto Fujimori, now in exile in Tokyo More >>
Fox's visit to Washington DC and New York
Friday, 5 October 2001, 9:33 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Fox may not like what he hears today in Washington, but it is a dramatically changed ballgame More >>
Bush Could be Courting Disaster in Colombia
Saturday, 1 September 2001, 11:46 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The high-level mission headed by Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman, which arrived back in Washington today after traveling to Colombia on Wednesday, targeted as its main concern the peace talks that the administration of Andrés Pastrana has been ... More >>
Startling statistics about Mexican immigration
Friday, 17 August 2001, 10:18 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox ponder various strategies for immigration reform in anticipation of the latter’s September 5th visit to Washington, an urgent and thorough examination of U.S.-Mexican immigration practices will inevitably ... More >>
Goodbye Mr. Bolivian President
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 9:30 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Banzer’s health forces his resignation today, leaving behind an unraveling Bolivia - Banzer may be indicted for crimes against humanity if cancer does not claim him first More >>
