RSSThe linked letter to the just-resigned, upstate New York Congressman Eric Massa was issued on October 16, 2009. Other revised material later was issued on November 10, 2009 in a COHA research memorandum. This material was only directed to one aspect of Massa’s activities—his possible connectio[...]
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Chile’s Re-opened Human Rights Investigations and Piñera’s Balancing Act
• Earthquake jars Santiago, preceding a turnover in government and anticipating a paradigm shift in the nation’s values • Will Piñera fool us all or is Chile about to be peppered by intensified neo-liberalism? On March 11, less than two weeks following a devastating earthquake that [...]
COHA Reviews Memoir of Former UN Special Advisor to Haiti
Reginald Dumas has written a detailed, if not an essential, account of his tenure as U.N. Special Adviser on Haiti in order to illuminate some of the events following the forced resignation of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004 and his subsequent flight from the country. Appointed by [...]
March 1st, 2010 - 4:12 pm § in Forum, Uncategorized
Welcome to the Free Forum
Our inaugural topic is aimed at helping COHA continue to improve. Director Larry Birns wants to know your thoughts on the council. Are we doing a good job or do we need a lot of work? What are we excelling at and where are we dropping the ball. [...]
Cuba’s Health Politics: At Home and Abroad
The original version of this piece, which has since been further adapted by COHA was published in Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism: Socialist Register 2010. Health Under Capitalism, edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (London: Merlin Press, 2009): 216-239. A modified chapter of this wo[...]
February 26th, 2010 - 8:24 am § in Environment, Front Page, Mexico, Press Releases, Reports, Uncategorized
Massive Earthquake Striking Chile Raises Once Again Issues of Environmental and Climate Migration in Latin America
This is the second installment of the research piece “Climate Migration in Latin America: a future ‘flood of refugees’ to the North?” which exclusively explores the migratory consequences environmental manifestations of human-induced climate change may have in Latin America. [...]
Revisiting the Falklands (Las Malvinas)
COHA’s research (which is about to be released) on the current confrontation regarding the Falklands (Las Malvinas) is focused on the sovereignty question and the respective political assets afforded by the strong public relations stand being taken by Argentinean diplomacy and the U.K.’s relativ[...]
February 25th, 2010 - 2:19 pm § in Brazil, Front Page, Press Releases, Reports, Uncategorized, Venezuela
The Yanomami: Malaria, Genocide and Policy Prospects
• 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 co[...]
February 22nd, 2010 - 10:00 am § in Front Page, Uncategorized
To be Released Shortly
Haiti: In spite of Ambassador Jones’ advice, reconstituting the historically brutal, now dismantled Haitian military would be a mortal mistake. [...]
January 29th, 2010 - 4:30 pm § in Uncategorized
Time for the U.S. and Cuba to Talk and More
The modest collaboration between the State Department and the Cuban government concerning the use of Cuban airspace and cooperation in providing medical relief to the Haitian people represents an opportunity for transition toward a more positive relationship between Washington and Havana. This coope[...]