RSS– Spain takes the lead in trying to adapt the EU to Cuba’s rapidly transforming role. In January, Spain took over the presidency of the Council of the European Union. Despite being deeply affected by the global financial crisis, Spain confidently proclaimed ambitious objectives for its term at t[...]
Archive for the ‘Mercosur’ Category
July 1st, 2008 - 1:34 pm § in Argentina, Brazil, European Union, Front Page, Mercosur, Paraguay, Press Releases, Uruguay, Venezuela
The Politicization of MERCOSUR: With a Divided Past, Is There Hope for a United Future?
Today the leaders of Mercosur are convening in Tucumán, Argentina for their semi-annual conference and for the inauguration of Brazil’s Luis Inácio Lula da Silva as its pro-tempore president. San Miguel de Tucumán, the largest city in northwestern Argentina and the capital of the province of Tu[...]
The Greater Significance of the 2008 EU-LAC Conference
The fifth biennial summit between members of the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Countries was held in Lima, Peru on May 16-17, 2008. In spite of the regions’ active pursuit of tangible agreements that would address the problems of poverty and development, little progress wa[...]
May 27th, 2008 - 10:06 am § in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Economic, Ecuador, Front Page, Mercosur, Opinion, Paraguay, Reports, Uruguay, Venezuela
Still on the Drawing Board: the Banco del Sur a Half Year Later
COHA and the history of the Argentine human rights situation
COHA Director Larry Birns was recently mentioned in Hugo Alconada Mon's article, "Piden desclasificar los archivos sobre los desaparecidos," in La Nación. The article may be[...]
January 10th, 2008 - 12:16 pm § in Brazil, Colombia, Front Page, Mercosur, Press Releases, Venezuela
Brazil’s Legislators React to Chavez’s Then Failed Effort to Obtain the Release of Several FARC Political Hostages
CSIS’ Predictable Colombia Project COHA will shortly release an overview of what it sees as possible conceptual shortcomings in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) November 2007 report entitled “Back from the Brink: Evaluating Progress in Colombia, 1999-2007[...]
December 6th, 2007 - 11:12 am § in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Front Page, Mercosur, Mexico, Peru, Press Releases, United Nations, Venezuela
Peru, Yes; Colombia? Free Trade Agreements: Lessons from Latin America’s Recent Past
- Peru's Free Trade victory in U.S. Senate could later embarrass both Senato[...]
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
Argentina: At the Cusp of Change, Or, Continuity
- A tumultuous past, a potentially problematic future
- The candidates and projections of their political fate
- What will another Kirchner presidency mean for Argentina?
- Ideas about the nation's future
- Peronist-bred mystifications[...]
Entre La Espada y La Pared:
As Venezuela's desire to join MERCOSUR diminishes, Hugo Chávez flirts with a pro-free trade CAN
- Venezuela's return to The Andean Community of Nations (CAN) appears imminent as its prospects for entering MERCOSUR fades
- The ability of the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez to live within an EU-CAN Free Trade Agreement is put into question
- Chá[...]
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 [...]