RSSIn 1983, while aboard a New York subway, I noticed someone reading that day’s issue of the New York Post. The front page headline screamed, “YANKS INVADE TERROR ISLAND.” It was early on in the Reagan administration and the U.S. had just militarily intervened in the C[...]
Archive for the ‘Dominican Republic’ Category
February 26th, 2008 - 12:47 pm § in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Front Page, Press Releases, Uncategorized, Venezuela
Dominica: The Caribbean’s Next “Terror Island”?
November 16th, 2007 - 12:41 pm § in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mercosur, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Press Releases, Venezuela
Pluralism Bursts into the Western Hemisphere
* While Russia, Europe and China are wooing Latin America and the Caribbean the
The Dominican Republic Pursues Modernity and Rectitude
- Fernández offer some macro success at the expense of high quality rule
- Big obstacles along the way
- CAFTA to thunder ahead as Arias' Costa Rica squeezes out a narrow pro-free trade victory
Bleak Prospects For A Democratic Renaissance in Guatemala
The September 9, 2007 Guatemalan presidential elections will experience, for the first time, an indigenous woman attempting to capture her country’s highest office: Rigoberta Menchú is challenging candidates Alvaro Colom, General Otto Pérez Molina and Alejandro Giammattei. If Menchú wins the ba[...]
Hispaniola: The Caribbean’s New Big Leaguers in the Drug Trafficking Trade
- The Dominican Republic and Haiti have become major routing points and trafficking destinations for drugs moving South America on their way to the U.S. and Europe - Drug trafficking involving the island of Hispaniola has reached alarming levels, prompting the governments in Santo Domingo and Port[...]
June 25th, 2007 - 9:51 am § in Caribbean, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Front Page, Reports, Uncategorized
Open Drug Warfare Could be Part of Europe’s Panorama in Months to Come
Below you will find another in an ongoing series of articles on Latin American Drug Trafficking. In the next several weeks COHA will issue in-depth reports on drug trafficking in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Previous articles in this series include Martha Lauer’s “Mexican D[...]
The Promise and Limitations of International Human Rights Activism
BREAKING SILENCE The Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights by COHA Senior Research Fellow Richard Alan White Georgetown University Press Washington, D.C. Chosen as one of six Outstanding Political Science Titles in 2005 by the American Association of School Libraries and the Public Library Ass[...]
Neighborly Quarrels: The Dominican Republic and the Perennial Haitian Immigrant Issue
Research Associates Alicia Asper and Joseph Taves[...]
HAITI: A Brutal Regime Shows Its Colors
CARICOM Spurns Latortue once again Violence and Human Rights abuses escalate On October 9, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) voted once again to postpone the resumption of normal relations with the Washington-installed Haitian government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, citing the latter’[...]