Category Archive: COHA Letters to the Editor

Re: “New Study: Chinese Exports undermine Latin American manufacturing”

The article published on your website entitled “Trade Competition from China” by Osvaldo Rosales painted in a somewhat entirely deserved negative light the impacts of such Chinese exports on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.  However, the region could also view such trade as …

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Re: “Food Crisis as Drought and Cold Hit Mexico” by Karla Zabludovsky

In the article, Karla Zabludovsky discusses the harsh conditions in Mexico during its recent drought crisis, adverse crop-devastating weather patterns and how the indigenous and rural communities have been absorbing such blows. The indigenous communities that are located predominantly in …

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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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