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		<title>An Economy Blinded by the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a Small World After All As globalization has carried with it a greater degree of potential for economic integration among different nations, the tiny English-speaking Caribbean states are fighting for their place in an ever-shrinking world. Aside from the potential boon associated with globalization, the spread of free trade and increased competition between transnational corporations could pose another considerable threat to vulnerable Caribbean nations that are often ill-equipped to retaliate against more economically formidable societies. As far back as the eighteenth century, national economies experienced the initial phases of industrial capitalism. During this era imperial powers, such as England and Spain, exploited the colonies, forcing them to export raw materials to the mother-countries for processing, which prevented the Caribbean islands from achieving a proper degree of progress. For instance, the island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis historically had come to depend heavily upon on sugar exports and had the potential to complete the entire production process from inception to launch. However, raw sugar was then required to be shipped to England for refinement, after which the Saint Kitts and Nevis government had to pay to import granulated sugar back to their island.[1] In the 1960s, after centuries of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Caribbean Policy Expands to Renewable Energy Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: U.S. Dept. of State Official Blog On June 22, Secretary Clinton attended the High-Level Caribbean-U.S. Conference to discuss progress in the areas of regional security and renewable energy. She reported a funding increase from USD 44 million to USD 77 million in the fiscal year 2011 for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), a program which consists of counter-trafficking and maritime security programs. Adding to the security funding, Secretary Clinton also announced the conferral of grant funding for pilot projects in renewable energy. Generally speaking, Caribbean nations struggle economically from high levels of debt, natural disasters, and an exodus of skilled workers to more developed countries. Their small sizes and  limited tax base generate a constant state of fiscal instability. As an extreme example, St. Kitts and Nevis’debt is 170 percent of their GDP.  In its support of the region, the U.S. State Department focuses broadly on developing institutional reform, youth programs, and human rights support. However, as the majority of U.S. support goes to defense and security spending, these broad and commendable goals are not reflected in the actual financial assistance. The Caribbean is a strategically located shipping route, making it critical in both formal international trade and illicit narco-trafficking. To defend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding Macedonia/Greece and Dominica</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greek Ambassador to Washington Responds to Op-Ed piece by COHA Senior Research Fellow Zlatko Kovach The points made by Zlatko Kovach in his Op-Ed piece, &#8220;Macedonia: Reaching Out to Win Latin American Hearts and Minds,&#8221; have been responded to by the Ambassador of Greece to the United States of America, Alexandros P. Mallias, in the following letter. Click here to see this exchange Dominica: No Terror Island On February 28th of 2008, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs published a memorandum to the press titled &#8220;Dominica: The Caribbean&#8217;s Next &#8220;Terror Island?&#8221;" published by Dr. Nikolas Kozloff, a COHA Senior Research Fellow. This was a speculative article based on the prospects that the island of Dominica, which recently became a member of the Venezuelan-sponsored ALBA alliance, could be targeted by the White House in the wake of a possibly electoral victory by Republican candidate Senator John M. McCain, who has been featuring an ultra-combustible Latin American policy. Based on the spirit of &#8220;YANKS INVADE TERROR ISLAND,&#8221; an article that appeared on the front page of the New York Post at the time of the U.S. Invasion of Grenada in 1983, Dr. Kozloff&#8217;s article foreshadowed the possible issues and consequences to Dominica if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latin America and the U.S. Presidential Campaign: Nikolas Kosloff on John McCain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the event that John McCain is elected president, the stage soon could be set for a confrontation with the present Dominica leadership if it continues to follow an independent road regarding its relation with Hugo Chávez’ Venezuela, the vehicle for this could be his ties to a relatively obscure body based in Washington. The Arizona Senator has chaired the International Republican Institute (IRI) since 1993. Ostensibly a non-partisan, democracy-building outfit, in reality the IRI serves as an instrument to advance and promote a far right Republican foreign policy agenda. More a cloak-and-dagger operation than a conventional research group, IRI has aligned itself with some of the most antidemocratic movements in the Third World.
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In Haiti, IRI aggressively funded anti-Aristide groups and in Venezuela, IRI generously financed anti-Chávez civil society operations. When Venezuelan opposition politicians, union and
community leaders went to Washington on a private mission to meet with U.S. officials just a month before the April 2002 coup, IRI picked up the bill. The IRI also helped to fund the country’s notoriously corrupt Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (which played a major role in the anti-Chávez destabilization campaign leading up to the coup). IRI also arranged for Súmate, whose director just happened to be at the presidential palace in Caracas with the other backers of the coup, where she decided to sign her name to a document identifying her presence with the other golpistas.
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