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		<title>Rousseff Strengthens Caribbean Ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s recent visit to Havana could easily have been a tense one.  On Thursday, January 19th, jailed Cuban dissident Wilman Villar died in a prison hospital under murky circumstances, while Brazil recently granted a visa to well-known online journalist and longtime Castro critic Yoani Sanchez to leave her native Cuba and attend a documentary film premier in Brasília.  Rousseff avoided publicly criticizing the Castro administration when pressed by reporters on what the Cuban opposition calls human rights abuses, instead referencing the human rights record of the United States in regard to the Guantanamo Bay military prison.  However, she seemed perfectly happy to discuss Cuba and Brazil’s burgeoning economic partnership, which has grown significantly in recent years. The renovation and expansion of Mariel, a key port near Havana, represents the latest manifestation of the aforementioned partnership between the two countries.  Brazil has provided USD 683 million in loans to the Cuban government for the project, which is spearheaded by Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht.  Brazilian officials have also signed a 10-year agreement to help modernize Cuban sugar company Azcuba’s sugar mills in Cienfuegos.  Brazil has given Cuba another USD 400 million in credits to buy Brazilian agricultural projects and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Must Find its Voice Against Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the clamor of international outrage in the wake of the failed United Nations Security Council vote for regime change in Syria, Brazil has remained conspicuously silent. While the United States closed its embassy in Damascus, and while the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called the vote “a great disappointment,” the dominant economic and political force in Latin America was not inclined to take action. Aspirations for a permanent spot on the UN Security Council are keeping Brazil from taking a bold and assertive stance on human rights and democracy in the Middle East. Commercial concerns with China and Iran, both key trading allies with Brazil who oppose intervention in Syria, are of course also on the minds of the Brazilian leadership. But if the country wants to become a major international player, it must take a broader and more generous view when it comes to the Arab Spring. In short, Brazil needs to denounce President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and to join the international call for its immediate removal. Although Brazil has held only a temporary position on the UN Security council, with its most recent rotation ending in 2011, it is vying for a permanent seat, and playing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COHA in the Public Arena (January 30 &#8211; February 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviews and Citations On January 29, COHA Director Larry Birns was interviewed by Al-Jazeera on the proposal by Cuban Lawmakers to institute term limits. On January 30, COHA Research Associate Christopher Araujo was cited by Policy Mic on crime and violence in Central America. On January 31, COHA Research Associate Jeniree Vasquez was interviewed by HispanTV on US cyberattacks on Cuba. On January 31, COHA Research Fellow Alejandro Sánchez Nieto by Telemundo on U.S. Presidential elections. On February 2, COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Fellow Alejandro Sánchez Nieto attended an off-the-record meeting at the Organization of American States with OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza. On February 3, COHA Research Fellow Alejandro Sánchez Nieto was interviewed by HispanTV on the no-fly list. &#160; Article links Mexico&#8217;s drug war: Not another Colombia &#8211; January 31 By: COHA Research Associate Natalia Cote-Muñoz Caribbean News Now! &#160; Panama News Latin America does not appear on the Radar Scope for Obama or his Republican Opponents &#8211; January 30 By: COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Robert Valencia The Cutting Edge News Brazil&#8217;s Grand Design for Combining Global South Solidarity and National Interests: A Discussion of Peacekeeping Operations in Haiti and Timor By COHA Research Fellow Alejandro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: “Brazil Finally Ready to Confront Abuses in Past Dictatorship” by Vincent Bevins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In his article,Vincent Bevins recalls Brazil’s deeply flawed past, referencing the notoriety that stained its era of military dictatorship and helped create one of Latin America’s most repressive societies starting in 1964. Today, as an increasingly formidable economic power, Brazil has achieved a good deal of self-confidence as signified by its growing willingness to investigate the human rights violations committed under military rule.  Responding to the insistence of its citizenry, the government has chosen for the first time to tackle underlying issues in the hope to foster a “healthier public.”  There is no denying that many Brazilians have been haunted by their country’s grisly past that plunged it into a “moral underworld.”  According to many high-minded Brazilians, the only feasible way for relieving the Latin American giant of the moral burden it now must bear, is a truth commission that can thoroughly delve into the military’s post-1964 all out war against the civilian population. &#160; Bevins reflects on the role of the United States during these years and he acknowledges bitter memories over distrust of Washington’s conspiratorial silence at the time. Many Brazilians question the legitimacy of what transpired during the period of what was trumpeted at the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: UN Conference Returns to Rio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Rio, about twenty years ago, 172 countries joined in declaring that the “right to development must be fulfilled so as to equitably meet the developmental and environmental needs of present and future generations.” Four main concerns surfaced at the Rio summit: these included the scrutiny of production to eliminate toxic byproducts, emphasis on public transport to reduce emissions, the growing scarcity of water, as well as a quest for alternative sources of non- fossil energy. Excluding the first concern, not much has been done to address the others. Carbon emissions continue to be a problem since the U.S. timorously refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol. Governors around the U.S. have rejected federal funding for high speed electronic rail, some Republican Presidential candidates (front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich included) are still refusing to acknowledge that global warming is a problem, and safeguarding water supply, is still a perennial hydra-headed monster, even in the U.S. With no viable successor to Kyoto in sight, this could be a uniquely opportune moment for Brazil to be hosting this conference. This summer, Brazil, as an emerging world power which has reached a take-off point in economic and political sectors, has a chance to [...]]]></description>
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