RSSThe 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[...]
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March 16th, 2010 - 8:38 am § in Front Page
Regarding Summer/Fall Internships
Regarding Summer Internships COHA has been oversubscribed by summer internship applications and has now had to close down the acceptance process. Only the applications which previously were being considered for possible acceptance will still be considered and these include just a handful of forms. H[...]
March 15th, 2010 - 12:34 pm § in Brazil, Front Page
Brazil’s Growing Pains
By now the emergence of Brazil as a major power not only in the Western Hemisphere, but also on the world stage, is an undisputed fact. The country, until recently mentioned outside its borders for seldom more than in reference to the Girl from Ipanema, is now on everybody’s lips. Brazil is possib[...]
March 12th, 2010 - 10:49 am § in Front Page, Uncategorized
COHA Vulture Fund Research
The linked letter to the just-resigned, upstate New York Congressman Eric Massa was issued on October 16, 2009. Other revised material later was issued on November 10, 2009 in a COHA research memorandum. This material was only directed to one aspect of Massa’s activities—his possible connectio[...]
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[...]
China Eyes Venezuelan and Brazilian Oil
• The burgeoning Chinese/Brazilian relationship • Why is China going after Latin America’s distant commodities? • Should the U.S. be alarmed by China’s poaching in its own “backyard”? As China’s economy soared during the 1980’s, its consumption of foreign oil rose as [...]
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[...]
March 10th, 2010 - 9:31 am § in Front Page, Obama
Announcement: Regarding the Public Statements of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela
What could prove to be occurring on a daily basis, COHA systematically will be distributing the key substantive regional policy statements being made by Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela to its entire mailing list. Similarly, it will be covering the hemisp[...]
March 8th, 2010 - 2:25 pm § in Front Page
COHA Director at Brandeis University in mid-March
For those in the Boston area interested in possibly interning at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, the organization’s director, Larry Birns, will be on the Brandeis University campus in Waltham, Massachusetts from March 18 to March 21. All those desiring to set up an appointment to discuss such [...]
March 5th, 2010 - 3:39 pm § in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Front Page, Guatemala, Honduras, OAS
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Does Latin America
• Argentina squeezed in at the last minute • Why Guatemala? • Brazil phase is rough • Secretary of State Clinton and her Assistant Secretary, on this try, do not seem to perceive that it is a changed world in terms of inter-American relations and that traditional concepts of pan-Americanism [...]