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Let regional discussions not only be experienced in the Middle East and North Korea, but also in Cuba A bipartisan delegation of ten members of the U.S. Congress are now visiting Cuba and represent a ray of rare hope that President George W. Bush will tolerate a modest beginning of a settlement of the age-old split between the two ancient foes Washington should not only limit itself to pointing the way to a multilateral...
Bush’s Latin American policy and what can be expected now that the Democrats control both Houses of Congress Up to now, the Democrats have either ignored or lacked much wisdom on regional issues Is there, or will there be, a revitalized Democratic Latin American policy as distinct from the farrago of ineptitude witnessed under the Bush administration? To begin, in Bush’s eye, the Cold War remains. The head of his personal list of enemies...
A statement by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) denouncing Ambassador Paul Trivelli’s patent intervention into the internal affairs of Nicaragua, and its urging the Bush administration to replace him: Although Daniel Ortega’s compromised presidential victory and promises of reform propelled him to the nation’s executive mansion, he might have problems reconciling the two distinct versions of what he publicly advocates Ortega’s victory delivered a hard blow to U.S. policy toward Latin America as...
As millions around the world celebrated International Human Rights Day on December 10, the event was overshadowed throughout Chile as its citizens both mourned and celebrated the death of ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled the South American country from 1974 to 1990. The street in front of La Moneda, the nation’s executive mansion, teemed with anti-Pinochet protestors who lashed out at the police as they tried to disperse the march with tear gas and...
