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Archive for January, 2009
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Forthcoming COHA Research: Alan Garcia’s Peru – Pushing Through the FTA with the U.S. At Any Cost
By COHA Research Associate Will Petrik on January 27, 2009 | No CommentsNot even the financial earthquake that was simultaneously threatening the U.S. economy and its ramifications sure to afflict Peru were enough to distract the Bush and Garcia administrations from chucking prudence and proceeding full speed ahead in achieving a trade pact that could prove devastating to both countries. -
Mixed Results In Salvadoran Elections
By COHA Research Associate Kira Vinke on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment- U.S. Embassy’s historically interventionist role - Ambassador Rose Likins, among others, had led campaign to block FMLN from winning the ballot - Tony Saca and his predecessors slavishly aspire to be Washington’s best friend in Latin America A little over a week after polls closed in El Salvador’s municipal... -
A Brief Recent History of Bolivia and the Rise of President Morales
By COHA Staff on January 26, 2009 | 1 CommentPolitical Affairs, 24 January 2009 Original source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs From Rightist Chaos to Leftist Constitutionalism: The Institutionalization of Bolivian Populism A Historic Moment Since the start of the new millennium, popular movements in Bolivia have learned to mobilize en masse to form a united front of class and... -
Coming next from COHA Research: Obama in Latin America – a New Dawn or Mixed Signals in his Hemispheric Strategy?
By COHA Staff on January 23, 2009 | No CommentsIn the coming days, COHA will release an overview of the cluster of issues relating to U.S.-Latin American relations under the Obama administration: -Barack Obama inherits a neglected region – largely due to the Iraq distraction – from the Bush administration and as a result, faces a series of unique... -
From Rightist Chaos to Leftist Constitutionalism: The Institutionalization of Bolivian Populism
By COHA Research Fellow Chris Sweeney on January 23, 2009 | 3 CommentsA Historic Moment Since the start of the new millennium, popular movements in Bolivia have learned to mobilize en masse to form a united front of class and ethnicity to oust two presidents and reject a third candidate. Bolivians have also elected one of their own, who without strong middle... -
El Salvador’s ex-guerilla group loses capital, strong elsewhere
By COHA Staff on January 22, 2009 | No CommentsMon January 19, 2009 By Arthur Brice (CNN) — Tallies from Sunday’s nationwide voting showed El Salvador’s main leftist party losing its hold on the capital but opening a lead Monday in the Legislative Assembly. Violeta Menjivar, the incumbent mayoral candidate of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or...