Over the last two weeks, the COHA Blog has been evolving, now adding immigration to its agenda of issues being addressed from a variety of different perspectives. This piece discusses the relationship between the stream of money sent back home by Latino immigrants working in the U.S. to an increasingly restrictive border, the diminishing world value of U.S. earnings, and strong economic growth in many Latin American Countries. While millions of families in the...
On Thursday, May 19, President Obama took the bold step of publically proposing a solution to the current Israeli-Palestinian peace deliberations, reverting to the terms of Israel’s pre-1967 borders. In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden and mounting Arab revolts against authoritarian rule throughout the region, this announcement has become one of the first and one of the most pressing of the international issues he finds himself confronting. This in turn...
The recent deaths of two terrorists – one famous, one not so much – provides an illuminating examination of how America continues to conduct its controversial war on terror. Making headlines across the United States and called a defining moment in Barack Obama’s presidency, the dramatic raid into Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden is one side of the equation. The quiet passing of Orlando Bosch in Miami that elicited scant attention outside the...
On April 24, 2011, hundreds of classified documents regarding the military prison camp maintained by the U.S. Government at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were released to The New York Times and National Public Radio (NPR). The documents had originally been turned over to WikiLeaks, but both the Times and NPR maintain that WikiLeaks was not their source. Among the documents distributed were the profiles of several prominent inmates of the facility, reports regarding life at...
Mientras la violencia continuaba en Libia a finales de Febrero, comenzaron a aparecer rumores informando que el líder del pais nor africano había escapado a Venezuela. Estos rumores probaron ser falsos eventualmente, sin embargo es importante mencionar que uno de los ex ministros de Muammar Gaddafi (ahora parte de la oposición) sugirió que el líder Libio viajaría a Caracas para obtener asilo. Mientras que la situación en Libia se deteriora y las operaciones militares...
