COHA will react tomorrow (Friday) to the Obama administration announcement that the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs, Tom Shannon, will remain for now at his position until the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad in April is …
Monthly Archive: January 2009
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Chile: A Fading Concertación on the Road to Losing the Presidency?
- The Concertación has never lost a ballot since 1999 – The coalition’s model is threatened by internal squabbles and an increasingly well-organized right wing movement – An ill-portent for the moderate left throughout the continent? Local Elections May Foreshadow …
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Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth Fires Latest Shot in Debate Over Venezuela Report
The following is the latest exchange of letters between over 100 U.S. and Latin American scholars of regional affairs and the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, concerning HRW’s recent and contentious report on the human rights situation …
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Castro’s Plan to Loosen Controls Falters After Cuba Hurricanes
By Jens Erik Gould Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Aurora Garriga surveys the remains of the tobacco-processing plant where she worked in the Cuban town of Los Palacios. All that’s left are a few upright beams and heaps of ruined tobacco …
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Ramming the Matter Home: Peru-U.S. FTA Rushed, Diluted and Finagled
• García and Bush signed the FTA into force just before Bush left office. • In its final week of being in session, Peru’s Congress closed labor and environmental loopholes as new ones were opened. • Big shots in U.S. …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.coha.org/ramming-the-matter-home-peru-us-fta-rushed-diluted-and-finagled/
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