RSSYesterday, March 18th, COHA Research Associate Kaycie Rupp will be talking with Ray Suarez on Destination Casa Blanca discussing Latin American Affairs. Today, March 17th, COHA Research Associate Kath Zeminskey appears on the Jamaican Breakfast Club discussing the recent eruption of violence in Mex[...]
Archive for the ‘In the News-Front Page’ Category
June 19th, 2009 - 10:18 am § in Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Environment, Free Trade, Front Page, In the News-Front Page, Press Releases, Venezuela
Water for Sale
Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America -What is called for is an international code for the public’s access to a guaranteed supply of water as a basic human right. The Corporate Crusade to Commodify Water Water has been characterized as the oil of the 21st century. Blue[...]
June 8th, 2009 - 12:45 pm § in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Front Page, In the News-Front Page, Opinion, Reports, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela
COHA on Ecuador’s adherence to ALBA
-Implications of Ecuador Joining an Uncertain Alliance Just at a time that analysts were crossing out Hugo Chávez as a ranking regional player, with the days ago adhesion of Ecuador to the Venezuela-inspired organization, he has managed to propel a new spurt of momentum to the Caracas grouping and [...]
June 3rd, 2009 - 11:09 am § in Brazil, Commodities, Free Trade, Front Page, In the News-Front Page, Press Releases
Global Ethanol Summit Highlights Muddled U.S. Policy
Forthcoming COHA research will analyze the regional effects of U.S. biofuel and agricultural protectionism, including the feasibility of Cuban contribution to sugarcane ethanol production (estimated between 2 and 3.2 billion gallons per year), and its implications for U.S. agriculture and energy pol[...]
May 25th, 2009 - 10:44 am § in Colombia, Front Page, Honduras, In the News-Front Page, Press Releases
21st Century Socialism Comes to the Honduran Banana Republic
(COHA will provide equal space and distribution to those who dispute the findings of this article) Zelaya of Honduras: A misunderstood but honorable leader or an amiable varlet? Better known for bananas and “Chiquitaism” than political experimentation and new directions, big changes s[...]
May 14th, 2009 - 1:46 pm § in In the News, In the News-Front Page
COHA Research Fellow Nominated for Most Censored News Story Award
COHA Research Fellow Mary Tharin was recently selected as a finalist for the Most Censored News Stories of 2008-2009 Award by Project Censored for her article The World Ban and Climate Change: Sustainability or Exploitation?. Hundreds of news stories were nominated this year and Tharin’s has been [...]
¿Qué cambiará con Valenzuela?
May 13, 2009 By Carlos Chirinos Vásquez BBC Mundo La designación de Arturo Valenzuela como subsecretario de Estado adjunto para Asuntos Hemisféricos no sorprende, pero abre varias interrogantes en Washington sobre los cambios que será capaz de hacer en la política hacia América Latina. Valenzu[...]
Guatemala rejects allegations of role in lawyer’s death
May 12, 2009 By Arthur Brice and Saeed Ahmed CNN Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has dismissed an allegation that he was behind the death of a lawyer who left a video blaming the president if anything happened to him. A video with Rodrigo Rosenberg appears on YouTube in which he accuses Guatemala&[...]
Venezuela’s Chavez courts Iran as US shows concern
May 3, 2009 By RACHEL JONES Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez met with a delegation from Iran on Saturday to prepare for an upcoming visit from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — an alliance that has provoked concern in Washington. Venezuela’s ambassador to Iran[...]