RSSAccording to O Estado de São Paulo, the Chinese state-run oil company Sinopec has agreed to buy stakes in two offshore oil blocks from Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras. President Hu arrived in Brazil at the end of May for a meeting of the BRIC nations. Sinopec will probably take a twenty perc[...]
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Hillary Clinton Visits Latin America: A Renewed Opportunity for Regional Cooperation or an Intensification of the kind of Neo–Cold War Rhetoric that has Categorized U.S Latin American Policy to Date?
-The Obama Administration’s Latin American Policy to this point has been outdated and based on Cold War rhetoric - Hillary Clinton has the potential to either continue the status quo or to drastically alter the way in which the U.S handles Latin American foreign affairs Secretary of State Hillary [...]
The Future of Inter-American Relations, with Canada and the U.S. Barely Holding On
“[It is] important to keep before ourselves and the Latin American peoples at all times the reality of the thesis that we are a great power; that we are by and large much less in need of them than they are in need of us; that we are entirely prepared to leave to themselves those [...][...]
Winners and Losers of Venezuela’s Coercive Policy for Presidential Addresses
The Venezuelan government has received severe domestic and international criticism for blocking cable television channel Radio Caracas Television International (RCTV) from broadcasting its programming. While the natural immediate reaction for most outside observers is to condemn the action as a vi[...]
The Tonton Macoutes: The Central Nervous System of Haiti’s Reign of Terror
A Malediction on Haitian Society Few countries in the hemisphere have suffered through such an extensive run of unqualified repressive regimes and military dictatorships as Haiti. The nearly thirty years of harsh rule under François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, and his son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” D[...]
Chile: Implications of La Moneda Leadership in the Piñera Era, or Will the New Government Mark a Billionaire’s Flawed Vision in Santiago and a White House Too Prepared to do Business as Usual with a Vastly Changed Latin America?
The interim between Chile’s January 17th election and the inauguration of its victor, Sebastian Piñera, on March 11th, provides a useful opportunity to reflect on the course of recent U.S.-Chile relations, and the future prospects for cooperation, given the stand-pat tendencies of both government[...]
Chile’s Re-opened Human Rights Investigations and Piñera’s Balancing Act
• Earthquake jars Santiago, preceding a turnover in government and anticipating a paradigm shift in the nation’s values • Will Piñera fool us all or is Chile about to be peppered by intensified neo-liberalism? On March 11, less than two weeks following a devastating earthquake that [...]
Cuba’s Health Politics: At Home and Abroad
The original version of this piece, which has since been further adapted by COHA was published in Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism: Socialist Register 2010. Health Under Capitalism, edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (London: Merlin Press, 2009): 216-239. A modified chapter of this wo[...]
February 26th, 2010 - 8:24 am § in Environment, Front Page, Mexico, Press Releases, Reports, Uncategorized
Massive Earthquake Striking Chile Raises Once Again Issues of Environmental and Climate Migration in Latin America
This is the second installment of the research piece “Climate Migration in Latin America: a future ‘flood of refugees’ to the North?” which exclusively explores the migratory consequences environmental manifestations of human-induced climate change may have in Latin America. [...]
Revisiting the Falklands (Las Malvinas)
COHA’s research (which is about to be released) on the current confrontation regarding the Falklands (Las Malvinas) is focused on the sovereignty question and the respective political assets afforded by the strong public relations stand being taken by Argentinean diplomacy and the U.K.’s relativ[...]