Monthly Archive: April 2006

The Tail Wags the Dog: Mexico’s “Televisa Law” Another Nail in the Coffin of Fox’s Legacy

From the upcoming edition of COHA’s bi-weekly print publication, the Washington Report on the Hemisphere. The WRH is considered by regional specialists to be an outstanding source for the most up-to-date information and analysis available on Latin America, Canada, and …

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Plan Patriota: What $700 Million in U.S. Cash Will and Will Not Buy You in Colombia

At a time of severe budgetary constraints in Washington, almost three quarters of a billion dollars is being poured into Colombia by the Bush administration Colombian President Álvaro Uribe escalates the military offensive against his country’s leftist guerrillas Uribe’s campaign, …

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Neither Honor nor Professionalism to be Found in Jackson Diehl’s Analysis of Latin America

Former Washington Post Latin America correspondent Jackson Diehl – and current Post columnist – has added to his already tarnished credentials as a chronically-biased source on regional affairs by writing a series of highly prejudiced columns on the Post’s editorial …

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Washington’s Faltering Anti-Drug Strategy in Colombia, and Bogotá’s Evaporating Extradition Policy

Extradition, a historic pillar of U.S. anti-drug efforts, now becomes a vanishing function and casualty of the paramilitary demobilization process. Washington’s subterfuge is to keep up filing extradition requests for demobilized paramilitaries, but will expect none of them to be …

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The Immigration Debate Rolls On

Mexico – So far from heaven; Washington – So far from fielding a legitimate and straight immigration strategy While long on heated rhetoric and mythology, the current immigration debate is short on historical perspective. The path to the current crisis …

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