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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Venezuela</title>
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		<title>Winners and Losers of Venezuela’s Coercive Policy for Presidential Addresses</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/winners-and-losers-of-venezuela%e2%80%99s-coercive-policy-for-presidential-addresses/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=winners-and-losers-of-venezuela%25e2%2580%2599s-coercive-policy-for-presidential-addresses</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Venezuelan government has received  severe domestic and international criticism for blocking cable television channel Radio Caracas Television International (RCTV) from broadcasting its programming.  While the natural immediate reaction for most outside observers is to condemn the action as a violation of Venezuela’s freedom of the press, an analysis of the issues surrounding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Eyes Venezuelan and Brazilian Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[•	The burgeoning Chinese/Brazilian relationship
•	Why is China going after Latin America&#8217;s distant commodities?
•	Should the U.S. be alarmed by China’s poaching in its own &#8220;backyard&#8221;?
 
As China’s economy soared during the 1980’s, its consumption of foreign oil rose as well, culminating in the country becoming a net importer of oil by 1993. Since this transition, China&#8217;s real [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Yanomami: Malaria, Genocide and Policy Prospects</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/the-yanomami-malaria-genocide-and-policy-prospects/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-yanomami-malaria-genocide-and-policy-prospects</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/the-yanomami-malaria-genocide-and-policy-prospects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[• A Black Mark for Brazil
• The situation couldn’t be more urgent
The Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon have been decimated in the last 20 years by an incursion of prospect-miners (garimpeiros) who brought diseases (especially malaria) and other maladies to their hitherto relatively isolated communities.  Here we follow the history of the garimpeiros incursion  examining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chávez: This Year&#8217;s Challenges and Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/chavez-challenges/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=chavez-challenges</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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All 167 seats of the Venezuelan National Assembly will be in play this coming September, and the current 141-seat controlling stake of ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) appears to be at risk.   Amid growing internal economic upheaval and violent street protests, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s embattled president, is facing a sharp decline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FARQaeda* (FARC + Al Qaeda):  A Real Threat or a Matter of Circumstantial Evidence?</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/farqaeda-threat-or-circumstantial-evidence/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=farqaeda-threat-or-circumstantial-evidence</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/farqaeda-threat-or-circumstantial-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several months, a number of reports have circulated that address the subject of drug trafficking ties between South American narcotics trafficking interests and terrorist organizations, principally Al Qaeda and its smaller affiliates now known to be based in Northern Africa.  These assessments have cited evidence pointing to a disturbing ring, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>¿Cambio? The Obama Administration in Latin America: A Disappointing Year in Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/cambio-the-obama-administration/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=cambio-the-obama-administration</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/cambio-the-obama-administration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coha.org/?p=7807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a memorandum written as Barack Obama assumed office in January 2009, COHA&#8217;s Research Fellows Guy Hursthouse and Tomás Ayuso considered the widespread Latin American expectations of a dramatic shift in approach from Washington under the new president, and outlined an agenda for change. This scenario was aimed at achieving this vision as the result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation and Corruption on the Horizon as an Endangered Chávez Gambles to Retain Popularity</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/inflation-and-corruption-on-the-horizon-as-an-endangered-chavez-gambles-to-retain-popularity/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=inflation-and-corruption-on-the-horizon-as-an-endangered-chavez-gambles-to-retain-popularity</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coha.org/?p=7795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 8th, Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías announced the devaluation of the Bolivarian Republic’s currency, the bolivar. In his address, Chávez distinguished between two classes of products, establishing separate exchange rates for “essential” and “non-essential” goods.  This news prompted concern for inflation among Venezuelan citizens and followed other signs of trouble that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chávez Must Look Homeward To Nurse His Ailing Revolution and Reinforce His Constituency</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/chavez-must-look-homeward-to-nurse-his-ailing-revolution-and-reinforce-his-constituency/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=chavez-must-look-homeward-to-nurse-his-ailing-revolution-and-reinforce-his-constituency</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/chavez-must-look-homeward-to-nurse-his-ailing-revolution-and-reinforce-his-constituency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-	Economic hard times eroding his constituency
-	Venezuelan leader would do well to more carefully choose his shots	
	In 1998, Venezuelans broke with political tradition by electing a well-known and controversial populist colonel named Hugo Chávez Frias as president. They ignored precedent because the long-established, IMF-inspired, neoliberal prescriptions were hurting the nation and no longer credible. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmadinejad – No Great Bargain for a Struggling Chávez</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/ahmadinejad-%e2%80%93-no-great-bargain-for-a-struggling-chavez/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ahmadinejad-%25e2%2580%2593-no-great-bargain-for-a-struggling-chavez</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/ahmadinejad-%e2%80%93-no-great-bargain-for-a-struggling-chavez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the initial election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, Iran has become one of Venezuela’s most durable allies. But as this self-described &#8220;Axis of Unity&#8221; has developed, a predictable group of detractors has emerged. In a widely noted September op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, long-standing Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau argued that this alliance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COHA In The News: América Latina, la materia pendiente para Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/america-latina-la-materia-pendiente-para-barack-obama/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=america-latina-la-materia-pendiente-para-barack-obama</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/america-latina-la-materia-pendiente-para-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by Panorama
November 28, 2009
Brasil, México y Colombia seguirán siendo las prioridades de Washington en una Latinoamérica de poca importancia para la Casa Blanca. 
Texto: Juan Pablo Crespo 
Una nueva cara, de orígen hispanoparlante, no se traduce necesariamente en un cambio profundo en la histórica relación de Washington hacia América Latina. 
El nombramiento de Arturo [...]]]></description>
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