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The Changing Face of Socialism in the 21st Century
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 12:15 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The era of U.S.-sponsored, direct interventions in the affairs of Latin America appears to have ended, with the U.S. instead retreating to an attempt at domination via the “dollar diplomacy” of institutions like the International Monetary Fund. In direct ... More >>
Chaos And Anarchy: A Day After
Tuesday, 5 October 2010, 3:42 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
A day after the political upheaval in Ecuador, buses are running and traffic is starting to resume. In spite of last night’s violence between the military and the police, Quito seems to have returned to normal. More >>
Santos’ Uncertain Victory Over The FARC
Tuesday, 5 October 2010, 3:40 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On 23 September, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the FARC militant, “El Mono Jojoy,” whom he called a “symbol of terror” in Colombia, had been killed in a military operation against the FARC. More >>
Honduras: Obama Administration Lacked Backbone
Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 12:46 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
During the first months of President Obama’s term, it looked as though U.S.-Latin American relations would turn a new page. An initial sign was the United States’ participation in several conferences pertaining to the Americas, most importantly ... More >>
Castro’s Change of Heart
Saturday, 18 September 2010, 11:13 am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After four years of silence induced by grave physical illness, punctuated only by occasional newspaper commentaries, Fidel Castro has regained his voice. To the surprise of many, he is using it to make some startling comments on the escalating conflict ... More >>
Fruits of Peruvian Economic Development
Thursday, 16 September 2010, 1:21 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
“Between 2004 and 2009, approximately $1.13 billion in revenue generated by the Camisea natural gas project was transferred to local governments in Camisea’s sphere of influence. However, more than five years after the start of operations, critical ... More >>
Sebastián Piñera’s Full Plate
Friday, 10 September 2010, 4:27 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On March 11, 2010, Sebastián Piñera was sworn in as the Republic of Chile’s 35th president in a ceremony at the National Congress in Valparaíso. The new president received a dramatic greeting as a 6.9 magnitude earthquake rocked the inaugural ceremony. More >>
COHA Opinion: Brazilian Election
Thursday, 9 September 2010, 5:01 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In a scene from my first book, Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006), I discuss how Brazil became an ally of Venezuela during a key moment of heightened political tensions. It was December, 2002 and Venezuelan ... More >>
A Hot Few Days In Argentina
Friday, 3 September 2010, 2:04 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Alleged wiretapping hearings lead by a politician, the shutdown of an Internet provider and the investigation of a newsprint factory have all occurred in Argentina over the last few days. More >>
Inhumane, Ineffective: Brazil’s Prison System
Friday, 27 August 2010, 4:28 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Despite Brazil’s rise as a world power, willing on occasion to challenge the hegemony of the United States, a dark stain of human rights violations can still be found in the country’s prison system. More >>
The Privatization Of Venezuelan Aid
Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 4:33 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega took office for his second presidential term in 2007, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez announced his plan to meet Nicaragua’s oil needs. More >>
Argentina’s Embedded Migrants
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 12:40 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
News coverage of Latin American immigration patterns normally focuses on the movement of migrants from Latin America to the United States. This interpretation overlooks the fact that there are major immigrant communities in many Latin American cities, ... More >>
Misguided Priorities at Mercosur Summit
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 12:39 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
At a Mercosur summit on August 3rd in Argentina, member states applauded their success in finally making the trade organization into a full customs union, a process that has been heatedly debated since December 1994. Almost completely absent from the ... More >>
Lifting the Travel and Trade Restrictions on Cuba
Monday, 9 August 2010, 4:28 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Since 1960, Washington has been seeking ways to punish Cuba for its transgressions, real and imagined. The embargo was also meant to force the Cuban leadership, as well as the island’s population to repent for worshipping their communist canons. Fifty ... More >>
Regarding Fall Internships
Monday, 9 August 2010, 3:47 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
COHA’s summer internship program this year involved 32 research associates chosen from a record number of applicants. COHA is now inviting intern applications for its 18-week long Fall 2010 internship class. To augment prospects that an applicant ... More >>
Wyclef Jean Seeks the Haitian Presidency
Saturday, 7 August 2010, 1:54 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Wyclef Jean, famous hip-hop/reggae artist and founder of the humanitarian organization Yelé Haiti, on August 5, 2010, made official his candidacy for the presidency of Haiti. The goodwill ambassador and nephew of the Haitian ambassador to the U.S. himself ... More >>
Los Zetas and the Gun Laws that Help Them Thrive
Saturday, 7 August 2010, 1:52 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
It is possible for terror to originate from a recognized symbol of power, safety, and strength. When a manifestation of all that is good betrays the trust bestowed upon it and becomes instead an agent of destruction, ruthlessness, and brutality, ... More >>
Hope for America’s Undocumented Youth
Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 3:49 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
On July 1st, Barack Obama delivered his longest immigration speech to date at American University, where he called for congressional action to fix our “broken immigration system.” He took a pragmatic position, calling neither for total amnesty nor mass ... More >>
Pacific Rim v. El Salvador
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 1:34 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama published an opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune entitled “Why I oppose CAFTA.” In his article, released on the same date as the Senate vote on the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (“DR-CAFTA”), ... More >>
Human Trafficking in the Western Hemisphere
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:34 pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Human Trafficking is a global industry that transcends borders, regions, and cultures. Within the Western Hemisphere trafficking is an important issue that arguably helps to shape relations between Latin American and the United States. In June 2010, the ... More >>
