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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Nicaragua</title>
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		<title>Interview with Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua Francisco Campbell / Entrevista con el Embajador de la República de Nicaragua Francisco Campbell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COHA: Como puedes caracterizar las relaciones entre Nicaragua y los Estados Unidos? En estos momentos yo puedo decir que estamos trabajando en la construcción de una relación madura por primera vez en la historia.  Cuando el presidente Barack Obama participó en la V cumbre de la Américas en Trinidad y Tobago en Abril, 2009,  decía que quería inaugurar una nueva era en las relaciones entre los Estados Unidos y los países de América latina incluyendo a Nicaragua; y esta relación &#8211; decía el presidente Obama &#8211; tendría que estar basada en el respeto mutuo.   El presidente Daniel Ortega, comparte esta visión, y creemos que es importante tomar los pasos para traducir esta energía en hechos concretos, lo que significa una relación madura y de respeto mutuo.  Para nosotros esa relación madura debe tener contenido.  Este contenido debe formar parte integral de la agenda bilateral, entre los dos países.  Un tema que es de fundamental importancia tanto para Estados Unidos como para Nicaragua, es el tema de la seguridad, nosotros compartimos con Estados Unidos el criterio que hoy por hoy, la principal amenaza hemisférica es la lucha contra el narcotráfico y el crimen organizado. Es un tema que se tiene que [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicaragua: The Other Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2003, Oscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica, appealed to the Constitutional Court (Sala IV), claiming that the article that prohibited the re-election of a president and vice-president was in violation of basic human rights guaranteed by the same Constitution, which declares that all laws must apply equally to every citizen.  The Constitutional Court ruled 5-2 in favor of Arias, who was subsequently re-elected by a suspicious margin in a controversial election. In 2009, Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, as a result of an election staged in 2006, appealed to the Supreme Court of Nicaragua, asking it to revoke the article that prohibited his re-election, where he used the same arguments as Arias.  After studying the case, the Nicaraguan Supreme Court followed the example of Costa Rica and declared the article unconstitutional, thereby opening the way for Ortega to be a candidate for re-election in 2011. The opposition parties in Nicaragua immediately decried that decision and claimed that it was a “Sandinista trick,” pointing out that the non-Sandinista members of the Court did not participate in the decision (failing to mention that several of them had left the country deliberately, leaving a legal quorum of only Sandinistas in attendance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Many Political Faces of Daniel Ortega</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/the-many-political-faces-of-daniel-ortega/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever your politics, it is not easy to get at the truth about Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a man whose supporters and detractors often appeared to have taken up their positions long ago and clung to them rigidly, new data be damned. His recent landslide re-election victory is a case in point. There was no denying that Ortega had a strong lead, consistently polling over 10 percent (sometimes a lot more) above the nearest challenger in the months leading up to the ballot. However, a range of onlookers from the U.S. government to Transparency International, as well as the Organization of American States, have pointed to some degree of irregularity in the electoral process. As Ortega defenders rightly point out, the U.S. is hardly an impartial observer when it comes to Ortega. Washington has expended a lot of energy over the years on anti-Ortega skullduggery, funding the murderous Contra forces against his Sandinista rebels, imposing economic sanctions when he first came to power in the 1980s, and now, in a new century, declaring long before the elections took place that they would most likely be illegitimate. Parallel charges have been leveled against many critics of the election. Fundación Grupo Cívico [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Trafficking: Central America’s Dark Shadow</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/drug-trafficking-central-americas-dark-shadow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drug trafficking through Central America is more threatening than ever before. To combat high levels of organized crime, cartel activity, violence, and institutional corruption, Central American countries must develop coordinated efforts and joint security measures, with a particular focus on community development. The U.S. must recognize its role in the crisis and implement long-term financial and social commitments, and work toward effective policy changes to reduce the nation’s persistent demands for drugs. For years, Central America has served as a one-way transit route for drugs traveling north toward the United States. Now, with increasingly frequent crackdowns on drug trafficking in Mexico and continued U.S. demand, Central America has become a pivotal route; an astonishing 84 percent of illegal cocaine that reaches the U.S. passes through Central America.[i] Colombia and Mexico are the predominant producers of narcotics, and the resulting drug trafficking throughout Central America cannot be ignored. As Francisco Campbell, the Nicaraguan Ambassador to the U.S., remarked to a COHA audience, “Unlike the imaginary threats of the past, this one is real. This is the first time we can talk about an honest hemispheric threat.”[ii] Central America needs to implement integrated and viable security strategies to ensure hemispheric security, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home, Sweet Home: Migration between Latin American Countries</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/home-sweet-home-migration-between-latin-american-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coha.org/?p=14752</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://lokheilorrainecheung.wordpress.com/ In the final decades of the twentieth century, Latin America – once a prominent destination for migrants – slowly transitioned to become the largest migrant source, mainly as a result of the economic crises that took place in the 1980s. As the number of European and Asian immigrants to countries like Argentina and Brazil dramatically decreased, Latin American emigrants accounted for an astonishing nine percent of all emigrants worldwide. Today, migration patterns in Latin America are changing once again.  More potential emigrants now stay within the region as new education and work-related opportunities expand their reach to a larger segment of the population. Yet, there still exist vast economic and social disparities between neighboring countries throughout the region.  As a result of these disparities, as well as difficulties associated with emigrating to the U.S., those who leave their homes in search of better opportunities often do not travel as far: Guatemalans emigrate to Mexico, Nicaraguans to Costa Rica, Colombians to Ecuador and Venezuela, and Bolivians and Paraguayans to Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. While many Latin Americans previously migrated in response to political violence, today migration is mostly motivated by economic reasons. Mexico and Costa Rica are just a few [...]]]></description>
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