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		<title>Brazil and China Commercial Ties Blossom Despite Limitations, while Brazil-U.S. Diplomatic Ties Remain on Course, with Some Exceptions</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/brazil-and-china-commercial-ties-blossom-despite-limitations-while-brazil-u-s-diplomatic-ties-remain-on-course-with-some-exceptions/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=brazil-and-china-commercial-ties-blossom-despite-limitations-while-brazil-u-s-diplomatic-ties-remain-on-course-with-some-exceptions</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According 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&#8217;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 percent stake in these two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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?</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/hillary-clinton-visits-latin-america-a-renewed-opportunity-for-regional-cooperation-or-an-intensification-of-the-kind-of-neo%e2%80%93cold-war-rhetoric-that-has-categorized-u-s-latin-american-policy-t/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=hillary-clinton-visits-latin-america-a-renewed-opportunity-for-regional-cooperation-or-an-intensification-of-the-kind-of-neo%25e2%2580%2593cold-war-rhetoric-that-has-categorized-u-s-latin-american-policy-t</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coha.org/?p=9250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[-The Obama Administration’s Latin American Policy to this point has been outdated and based on Cold War rhetoric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 Clinton arrives in Lima on Sunday, June 6th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Inter-American Relations, with Canada and the U.S. Barely Holding On</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/the-future-of-inter-american-relations-with-canada-and-the-u-s-barely-holding-on/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-future-of-inter-american-relations-with-canada-and-the-u-s-barely-holding-on</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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“[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winners and Losers of Venezuela’s Coercive Policy for Presidential Addresses</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/winners-and-losers-of-venezuela%e2%80%99s-coercive-policy-for-presidential-addresses/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=winners-and-losers-of-venezuela%25e2%2580%2599s-coercive-policy-for-presidential-addresses</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/winners-and-losers-of-venezuela%e2%80%99s-coercive-policy-for-presidential-addresses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 violation of Venezuela’s freedom of the press, an analysis of the issues surrounding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tonton Macoutes: The Central Nervous System of Haiti’s Reign of Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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” Duvalier that ended in 1986, are likely the most infamous epoch in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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?</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/chile-implications-of-la-moneda/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=chile-implications-of-la-moneda</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/chile-implications-of-la-moneda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 governments. Piñera will be Chile’s first right-of-center president since 1990,  elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chile’s Re-opened Human Rights Investigations and Piñera’s Balancing Act</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/chile%e2%80%99s-re-opened-human-rights-investigations-and-pinera%e2%80%99s-balancing-act/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=chile%25e2%2580%2599s-re-opened-human-rights-investigations-and-pinera%25e2%2580%2599s-balancing-act</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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•	Earthquake jars Santiago, preceding a turnover in government and anticipating a paradigm shift in the nation&#8217;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 rocked Chile’s south-central region and even reached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba’s Health Politics: At Home and Abroad</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/cuba%e2%80%99s-health-politics-at-home-and-abroad/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=cuba%25e2%2580%2599s-health-politics-at-home-and-abroad</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/cuba%e2%80%99s-health-politics-at-home-and-abroad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 work, by COHA Senior Research Fellow Dr. Julie Feinsilver, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive Earthquake Striking Chile Raises Once Again Issues of Environmental and Climate Migration in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/climate-migration-in-latin-america-a-future-%e2%80%98flood-of-refugees%e2%80%99-to-the-north-part-2/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=climate-migration-in-latin-america-a-future-%25e2%2580%2598flood-of-refugees%25e2%2580%2599-to-the-north-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/climate-migration-in-latin-america-a-future-%e2%80%98flood-of-refugees%e2%80%99-to-the-north-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second installment of the research piece &#8220;Climate Migration in Latin America: a future &#8216;flood of refugees&#8217; to the North?&#8221; which exclusively explores the migratory consequences environmental manifestations of human-induced climate change may have in Latin America.
 
To read the first installment of this two-part series click here.
COHA Weekend Contact Telephone Numbers:
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Now that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Falklands (Las Malvinas)</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/revisiting-the-falklands-las-malvinas/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=revisiting-the-falklands-las-malvinas</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 relatively subdued and almost languorous response. The growing distance between a technologically [...]]]></description>
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