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Archive for January, 2009
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The Calderon Visit Part II: U.S.-Mexican Ties Remain a Case of More Style than Substance — Photo-Op Lite
By COHA Research Associate Tomás Ayuso on January 13, 2009 | No CommentsFelipe Calderon In Washington As recent tradition would have it, Felipe Calderon was the first foreign leader to meet with President-elect Obama since winning the Nov. 4 election. During their often interrupted 90 minute-long conversation, the leaders discussed several topics of shared interest. The deeply troubling security situation in Mexico... -
Scholars Respond to HRW’s Kenneth Roth’s Riposte on Venezuelan Human Rights
By COHA Staff on January 13, 2009 | No CommentsBelow is the latest communication regarding charges being exchanged by a group of Latin American scholars and the staff of Human Rights Watch concerning alleged derelictions by the Venezuelan administration of Hugo Chavez. This response to Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth was sent to Roth and members of... -
The Value of Alvaro Uribe’s Medal of Freedom
By COHA Staff on January 13, 2009 | No CommentsBy Joel Wendland 1-08-09, 10:40 am Before leaving office, George W. Bush plans to award Colombian president Alvaro Uribe the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian medal he is able to give to anyone. Bush says Uribe deserves the medal for promoting democracy and human rights. That Bush is making... -
Obama Suggests Cuba Policy Reform
By COHA Staff on January 13, 2009 | No CommentsNot Beholden to the Florida Vote, President-elect Has Room to Make Change By Aaron Wiener 12/31/08 9:25 AM As the world ushers in the new year, Cuba will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power and sparked an intense political conflict with the United... -
Cuba Marks Revolution After Storms, Commodity Bust
By COHA Staff on January 13, 2009 | 1 CommentBy Jens Erik Gould Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) — Cuba’s communist revolution marks its 50th anniversary today at a time when the leaders who shaped its last half-century are trying to fashion a future that will survive them. President Raul Castro, 77, is likely to extol the revolution’s history when he... -
Obama set to duck challenge of a close, premature engagement with Mexico. Is Mexican crime and violence merely structural, or is it systemic?
By Research Associate Tomás Ayuso on January 12, 2009 | 1 CommentThe most middling of ties are scheduled to develop in the early stages of the relationship between the incoming U.S. president and his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa: Luke warm ties with Washington not scheduled to grow under a Barack Obama relationship. • A long-troubled relationship in the fields of...