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Argentina Archive
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Videla: Argentine Asesino Dead
By Kimberly Bullard, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on May 20, 2013 | No CommentsThe author would like to thank COHA Director Larry Birns and recently appointed COHA trustee, Henry Raymont (formerly with The New York Times and the International Press Service), for their cooperation and sharing their extensive, first-hand expertise of Argentina’s Dirty War. COHA Senior Research Fellow Frederick B. Mills deserves thanks for his... -
The Free Market Experiment in Latin America: Assessing Past Policies and the Search for a Pathway Forward (The second of three parts)
By Dr. Ronn Pineo, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Towson University on April 11, 2013 | 4 CommentsNote: Part I of this three part series set the background regarding neoliberalism in the region. It explored the shortcomings of the free market strategy with respect to economic growth and development, especially by offering comparisons to the previous economic programs of state-led growth. Part II considers the social costs... -
Revisiting Iran’s Relations with Venezuela and Argentina
By Jennifer Aron, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsThe growing economic relationship between Argentina and Iran has been compared to a pact with the devil, but does this rather extreme metaphor have any justification in real life, or is it a product of rhetorical overkill? In 2002, President George W. Bush included Iran in his “Axis of Evil,”... -
Open Letter to The Economist – RE: “Hugo Chávez’s Rotten Legacy”
By Dr. Ronn Pineo, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Towson University on April 1, 2013 | 9 Comments“Hugo Chávez’s Rotten Legacy” bequeathed by The Economist offers many sloppy factual errors regarding the memory of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. In its shamelessly ideologized bushwacking of the Venezuelan leader, Chávez is presented as an anti-democratic, autocratic, and anti-private business zealot, as he allegedly cynically buys votes for himself by... -
Surprising Appointment of Controversial Pope
By Kimberly Bullard, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on March 25, 2013 | 9 CommentsThe selection of Argentine national Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the new world leader of Catholicism has revitalized the simmering debate over the Church’s alleged tainted role during the succession of military regimes in Argentina during the Dirty War (1976 – 1983). During the second presidential term of Juan Domingo Perón... -
COHA Statement: The Falklands/Malvinas Referendum – The Islanders’ Voice Is Far From Being Trivial
By W. Alejandro Sanchez, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on March 7, 2013 | 18 CommentsThe approximately 1,600 inhabitants of the Falklands/Malvinas islands that are eligible to vote will go to the polls on March 10-11 to vote on a referendum regarding their political paternity with London. It is widely expected that the inhabitants of these South Atlantic islands will vote in favor of remaining an...