RSSWashington’s initiative to have access to at least seven Colombian military facilities has been criticized as an extension of the controversial Plan Colombia and as a breach of fealty to its sister republics. Suspicion also has surfaced that the base deal was fundamentally a move against Venezuela[...]
Archive for the ‘Guyana’ Category
May 28th, 2008 - 10:50 am § in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Front Page, Guyana, Peru, Reports, Venezuela
Brazil Spearheads UNASUR Defense Council, but in a Surprise move, Colombia Withdraws
• Implications for Brazil
• The Venezuela-Colombia Rift
• Regional Autonomy
• The Rebirth of the Fourth Fleet and with it the Ghost of Gunboat Diplomacy
• The new Pattern of United States-South American Relations
Member states of the Union of South American Nat[...]
All is Not Well in Georgetown: Guyana’s Emerging Hemispheric Role
• Guyana and Venezuela’s longstanding territorial dispute: the “frozen conflict,” which is asleep for now and hopefully forever • Will Guyana’s Jagdeo become Washington’s new best friend on the continent? The latest confrontation between Venezuela and Guyana, which indisputably too[...]
December 14th, 2007 - 9:12 am § in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Front Page, Guatemala, Guyana, Press Releases, Venezuela
Sulfurous Fumes Detected over Guyana: Latin America’s Ominous New Geopolitical Scene Involving Georgetown, Washington and Caracas
To Our Readers
Today, December 14, 2007, from 12:45 to 2:00pm COHA Director, Larry Birns, will Appear on the Fox Business Channel from Washington to Discuss the Bank of the South and other U.S.-Latin American Trade MattersNovember 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
September 10th, 2007 - 10:44 am § in Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Chile, Cuba, Front Page, Guyana, Mercosur, Mexico, Peru, Press Releases, United Nations
India: The Relatively Quiet, but Growing Presence of a New Asian Powerhouse in the Western Hemisphere, Particularly Brazil
Is curry chicken along with a caipirinha (a Brazilian drink) on its way to becoming a ubiquitous combination throughout the South American behemoth? A collaboration on nuclear energy and what could turn out to be a competitive struggle for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council From Cuba to [...]
July 24th, 2007 - 10:05 am § in Bahamas, Caribbean, Front Page, Guyana, Reports, Trinidad and Tobago
COHA Report: Another in a Series of Reports on Drugs, Terror and Criminality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Growing Criminality Along With the Advent of The ‘Terror” Factor in the Caribbean In the past, matters of U.S. concern with the Caribbean have been related to stepped up flows of illegal northbound immigration as well as the region’s ominous role as an emerging major portal for incoming narcot[...]