Barring U.S. Congressional action, Colombia will continue its near comatose condition as a blood-stained narco-state living off the U.S. taxpayers’ dime. This is despite the best of intentions of Republican and Democratic administrations over the past decade. On Friday, July …
Category Archive: COHA Opinion
Permanent link to this article: http://www.coha.org/congressional-inaction-will-lead-to-us-surrender-in-the-colombian-drug-war/
Moreno May Have to Reinvent Himself as the New IDB President
On Wednesday, the Board of Governors of the International Development Bank (IDB) elected their new president. As predicted, Luis Alberto Moreno, the present Colombian ambassador to the United States, won the position, beating out the most highly qualified candidate, Brazilian …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.coha.org/moreno-may-have-to-reinvent-himself-as-the-new-idb-president/
In a Standoff with the Brazilian Government over AIDS Medications, Multinational Pharmaceutical Company Backs Down
On June 24, Brazil issued an ultimatum to the Illinois-based pharmaceutical corporation Abbott Laboratories that it must lower the price it charged for the AIDS medication Kaletra, or the government would move to break the patent and manufacture the drug …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.coha.org/in-a-standoff-with-the-brazilian-government-over-aids-medications-multinational-pharmaceutical-company-backs-down/
Who’s Afraid of the Haitian Media?
One long day in Pointe Noire, on my vacation from volunteer work in the forest, the Congolese painter Trigo Piula and I sat arguing in his jumbled studio about whether there is a spiritual element to canvasses. There was little …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.coha.org/who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-the-haitian-media/
The Fome Zero Program – Brazil’s Losing Struggle to Help the Hungry: Lula’s Leadership Fading
Of Brazil’s 180 million people, an estimated 46 million go to bed hungry every night. In an effort to help alleviate this problem, President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, upon his inauguration in 2003, started the poverty program Fome Zero …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.coha.org/the-fome-zero-program-%e2%80%93-brazil%e2%80%99s-losing-struggle-to-help-the-hungry-lula%e2%80%99s-leadership-fading/
Subscribe to the Washington Report on the Hemisphere
COHA on Facebook
Loading tweets...