Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is moving to enact a new press law calling for disturbing changes to the rules governing journalists that has some critics fearing a slow reversion to the era of dictatorship. Recent shake-ups in …
Monthly Archive: September 2004
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Recently Confirmed Porter Goss Is Still the Wrong Man for the Job as Evidenced by His Haitian Involvement
As a CIA veteran and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Porter Goss brings an exceedingly controversial record as CIA head and probable future intelligence czar. After leaving the CIA, Goss’ subsequent sixteen- year career in the …
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Haiti: Smoldering on the Edge of Chaos
Disbanded Haitian army seeks to be reconstituted Latortue government is more a cruel joke than a professional presence UN special representative and military force still too invisible Six months after the abrupt and violence-laced departure of constitutionally elected President Jean-Bertrand …
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Changing of the Guard at the Organization of American States
Selected at last June’s meeting by the Organization of American States (OAS) to replace outgoing Secretary General Cesar Gaviria, former Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria assumed his new post today at a special meeting of the OAS’s Permanent …
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Welcome to Washington, Mr. Peruvian President
President Toledo, you will arrive to Washington carrying the dubious distinction of being one of the America’s most unpopular leaders since Latin America’s re-democratization commenced a decade ago. As of September 12, your popularity stood at a miniscule 14% while …
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