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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>Tax Havens: Stunting Latin American Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin once stated, &#8220;In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.&#8221; However, with battalions of highly paid &#8220;tax professionals&#8221; searching for ways around tax legislation for multi-national corporations (MNCs) and wealthy individuals, taxes are not as inevitable as Franklin envisaged. In Latin America, taxation-related problems are rampant, especially in the Caribbean, where many islands are considered offshore financial centers (OFCs) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Along with facilitating tax evasion and money laundering, the use of tax havens for legal tax avoidance is contributing to poverty in much of Latin America. Tax havens are in many ways a legacy of the British Empire. The use of tax competition as a method of attracting foreign investment and promoting local development started in the 1960s when a number of countries, including many in the Caribbean, gained their independence from European powers. These newly independent nations were in search of development strategies that would be viable in tiny island states with few resources; they were led to believe that promoting &#8220;tax competition&#8221; would bring wealth to the islands. However &#8220;tax management&#8221; schemes have often been intimately related to the crippling inequality and injustice that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peril in Paradise: The Caribbean, the Fragile Third Border of the Drug Trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[• Crackdown on Colombian and Central American routes has caused a major shift of drug trafficking to the Caribbean basin • Growing violence on the islands resulting from drug trafficking is impeding growth and social development • The effects of kidnapping and money laundering have already begun to take root • Issues that make the CARICOM region susceptible to drug trafficking are not being effectively addressed, or even adequately discussed. Last May, a state of emergency was declared in Kingston, Jamaica, raising concerns over drug trafficking and other criminal activities in the Caribbean. The conflict arose following Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s decision to hand over the island’s top drug lord, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, in deference to Washington’s extradition request. The U.S. State Department had labeled him as one of the world’s most dangerous criminals and has been calling for his capture for over a year. In recent years Coke’s “Shower Posse” cartel had expanded its narcotic and firearm network as far as Brooklyn, N.Y. and even to parts of Canada. Following years of history, his widespread influence in the trade geographically and socially has made a deepening impact in Jamaica, as well as other areas such as the U.S., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Military&#8217;s Presence in the Greater Caribbean Basin: More a Matter of Trade Strategy and Ideology than Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington’s initiative to have access to at least seven Colombian military facilities has been criticized as an extension of the controversial Plan Colombia and as a breach of fealty to its sister republics. Suspicion also has surfaced that the base deal was fundamentally a move against Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, and would prove a recurring obstacle to fulfillment of U.S. policy goals in the region. Two of the facilities soon to be available to the U.S. are located in the Caribbean region &#8211; the military port in Cartagena and the air base in Malambo &#8211; and will serve the needs of the U.S. Navy. The new Caribbean coast facilities will join an array of existing U.S. military establishments in the region dating back to 1903. Up to now, the official raison d’etre for a U.S. presence in the Caribbean was to combat drug trafficking. However, the proliferation of security threats, in particular developments possibly against the interests of Chávez’s Venezuela, has led some to argue that no matter how much Washington’s officials deny it, an unspoken reason for the U.S. deployment to Colombia is to keep Chavez under check. With the Washington-Bogotá decision, it is necessary to discuss the relationship between [...]]]></description>
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