• Many strive, while few manage to make it to the Big Leagues. The impossible dream of having millions of dollars flow from Major League Baseball (MLB). After the April 4th start of the 2010 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, fans once again have been filling ballparks and clinging to the often passionate hope that this season will end with their favorite team ending up as World Series champions. However, beyond batting averages and...
In the U.S. policy arsenal, a series of specialized weapons stand ready to defend democracy, and perhaps of equal importance, to serve Washington’s strategic interests abroad. In “Gunboat Democracy; U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Panama” (2006), Professor Russell Crandall, on leave from Davidson College in North Carolina, contextualizes a particular series of U.S. involvements in the Caribbean over the past several decades in order to pinpoint how strategic regional interests have...
The saying that old wounds run deep has never proven truer than in the case of the relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the two countries sharing the island of Hispaniola. Since declaring independence from its neighbor in 1844, the Dominican Republic has visibly outmatched Haiti economically and in many other respects. However, the Dominican Republic’s relative increase in prosperity has been accompanied by a surge in racism regarding Haitians. Over the years,...
COHA has received a number of letters in response to several of the articles it has published over the past few weeks. In the interest of fostering a healthy debate on the issues that COHA’s research addresses, we are printing a selection of the most considered responses below, and we encourage further thoughtful contributions from our readership. -COHA Staff _____ Regarding ‘Ecuador’s Correa at Trinidad Summit: Will it be His Last Presidential Trip?’ April...
