On Thursday February 9, 2012, COHA will be issuing an aide-mémoire that examines the intensifying hostility between two ancient friends, the United Kingdom and Argentina. The current sparring partners appear to be replaying the trails of the British-Argentine military engagement …
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Brazil Must Find its Voice Against Violence
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 …
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Re: “Brazil Finally Ready to Confront Abuses in Past Dictatorship” by Vincent Bevins
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, …
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Re: UN Conference Returns to Rio
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 …
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RE: “Seeking Protection”
Dear Editor, Although the cartoon accompanying your article, “Seeking Protection,” casts the symbolic Brazilian macaw in a miserably paranoid light, protectionist policies have met with success in the history pages of the world’s hustling economies. As a policy, protectionism enjoys …
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