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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>Rafael Correa Sueña con estar Distanciado de la OEA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[La OEA, con sus deficiencias y fragilidades, ha sido un foro útil para dirimir conflictos relacionados con Ecuador. Las críticas del Gobierno Ecuatoriano contra la OEA se profundizaron a raíz del fracaso de mediación durante el golpe de estado en Honduras. Con respecto a la OEA y Washington, Correa tiene dos agendas: una ideológica y otra electoral. &#160; Sumario La agenda de algunos mandatarios latinoamericanos, entre ellos el presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, es alejarse lo más pronto y lo más lejos posible de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), vista por ellos como la máxima representante del poder hegemónico de Washington. En este enrarecido ambiente, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) es una víctima colateral que, por ser adscrita a la OEA, arrecian las críticas en su contra, muy a pesar de que su trabajo difiere del accionar inoperante y politizado de la OEA. La corriente de desconfianza en contra de este foro hemisférico, en el caso de Ecuador ha hecho que el país busque otros foros, como Unasur, Alba y ahora la Celac, para hacer oir su voz Uno de los personajes del  escritor austriaco, Karl Kraus exclamaba: “El que tenga algo que decir, que dé un [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of the Absurd: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) Proposes to Wield her Mighty Rhetorical Sword</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Controversial Bill On Wednesday July 20, 2011, the Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) initiated its markup of pending House bill H.R. 2583 to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for the 2012 fiscal year.[i] The stir created earlier, which was prompted by the controversial features of the measure, was introduced by the committee’s chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) on July 11, 2011, and made it into the ‘hottest topic’ on the House’s website.[ii] The bill has proposed the restriction of funding for U.S. aid commitments to Palestine, Lebanon, and Pakistan, as well as to several international organizations, amongst them, the Organization of American States (OAS). Section 102 of Ros-Lehtinen’s bill, states that USD 1.5 billion is to be allocated to contributions to international organizations.[iii] An hour-long debate over the pending legislation on Wednesday resulted in a resolution to withdraw the entire USD 48.5 million annual U.S. contribution to the regional organization, a mere three percent of the total that would have been allocated to international organizations.[iv] &#160; Republicans versus Democrats Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) argued in favor of the initiative by insisting that, “The OAS is an enemy of the U.S. and an enemy to the interests of freedom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zelaya to Honduras; Honduras to the OAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 20:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 22nd, Honduran President Porfirio Lobo and former President Manuel Zelaya signed an accord in Cartagena, Colombia providing a path for Zelaya’s return to Honduras from exile, as well as the readmission of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS). A May 2nd ruling by the Honduran Supreme Court annulled the criminal charges against Zelaya, thus permitting him to safely return to his country. His main advisor, Rasel Tomé, announced that Zelaya is likely to arrive on the weekend of May 28th.1 Zelaya’s return to Honduras is the principal requirement for Honduras’ readmission to the OAS. Accordingly, OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza has announced that Honduras has already met the necessary conditions for its reentry into the organization. &#160; Insulza has suggested convening an extraordinary session of the OAS to reinstate Honduras before the next scheduled assembly on June 5-7 in El Salvador. Calling for an extraordinary session requires the backing of two-thirds of the 35-ambassador OAS Permanent Council. The urgent nature of the attempts to reinstate Honduras is partly due to the Assembly’s already overbooked schedule, but also to Honduras’ critical central location, which enables it to play a strategic role contributing to greater cohesion on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti&#8217;s Electoral Underworld</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The contested results of the first round of the presidential elections and the recounts of the ballots have nursed an ongoing political crisis in Haiti On November 28, 2010 Haiti staged presidential and legislative elections. Even before the publication of their results, the process was surrounded by tension and controversy. To begin, the Port-au-Prince government agency in charge of supervising the elections, the CEP, prevented fifteen political parties from officially endorsing any popular candidate for the presidency. This included anyone coming from Haiti’s most representative party, the Fanmi Lavalas of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Moreover, outgoing President René Préval, who appointed all nine of the members of the CEP, was accused of meddling in the elections in order to promote his chosen successor, Jude Célestin. After the February decision eliminating Célestin from the run-off ballot, Préval was successful in setting his presidential mandate extended to May 14, 2011. On December 7, 2010 the CEP had announced results for the first round of the country&#8217;s presidential election: former Haitian first lady Mirlande Manigat (from the Rally of Progressive National Democrats Party) and Jude Célestin (chosen successor for Préval’s INITÉ party), gained 31.37 and 22.48 percent of the votes respectively. Popular [...]]]></description>
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