L’US Navy se déploie

Relations Soured Once More: Colombia’s Search for Security Renders the Region Insecure, as Ecuador and Venezuela Fume

By COHA Research Associate Ashley Powdar

Analysis: Will Iran energy project work?

London: Chavez and his friends are an unholy alliance

Will U.S. economic woes expose Latin America to new turmoil?

Terrorist-Supporting Venezuelan Strongman Has Famous Allies

Colombia-Ecuador-Venezuela: A Close Call

By Senior Research Fellow Nikolas Kozloff

Obama on Latin American Trade: Muddled and Confused

By COHA Senior Research Fellow Nikolas Kozloff

‘Axis of Unity’ in Latin America Could Be Growing Threat for the U.S.

Chavez Orders Tanks to Colombia Border, Raises Risks (Update2)

Separating Chavez’s Bite from his Bark: Seeking a Rational Hemispheric Security Policy

By COHA Research Associate Shannon Holdeman and Monica Shah

Latin America and the U.S. Presidential Campaign: Nikolas Kosloff on John McCain

By COHA Senior Research Fellow Nikolas Kozloff

Dominica: The Caribbean’s Next “Terror Island”?

By COHA Senior Research Fellow Nikolas Kozloff

Chávez, Assailed on Many Fronts, Is Riveted by 19th-Century Idol

Analysis: Venezuela expands influence

The Blitz is On

By COHA Staff

All is Not Well in Georgetown: Guyana’s Emerging Hemispheric Role

By COHA Research Fellow: Alex Sanchez

Brazil’s Legislators React to Chavez’s Then Failed Effort to Obtain the Release of Several FARC Political Hostages

By COHA Staff

Analysis: Venezuela helps Cuban refinery

Sulfurous Fumes Detected over Guyana: Latin America’s Ominous New Geopolitical Scene Involving Georgetown, Washington and Caracas

By COHA Research Associate Montana James

Bank of the South: Another step toward Latin American integration

By COHA Research Associate Roberto Mallen

Peru, Yes; Colombia? Free Trade Agreements: Lessons from Latin America’s Recent Past

By COHA Research Associate Manuel Trujillo

Empty Calories of Economic Growth and the Battle for Participatory Democracy—Latin America's New Middle Class

By COHA Research Associate Katie Dickson

Chavez loss: a blip or a blow?

Chavez chastened, hardly capitulating

Chavez has shot at lifelong presidency

Is the “New Left” Simply More of the Same, or a New Political Force in Latin America?

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Montana James

The President and the Courts: Uribe’s Attacks on Colombia’s Highest Judicial Institutions

By COHA Research Associate Brent Buxton

Pluralism Bursts into the Western Hemisphere

By COHA Research Fellow Alex Sánchez

Bush’s Blast against Latin America’s “False Populism” May Be Getting It All Wrong

By COHA Research Associate Cassidy Rush

Nearly All-White Argentina Confronts Its Troubled Racist and Religious Past

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Michael Glenwick

We need a comprehensive anti-drug policy

By COHA Research Associate Cassidy Rush

Building a Global Southern Coalition: the competing approaches of Brazil’s Lula and Venezuela’s Chávez

By COHA Senior Research Fellow Sean W. Burges

Lula Wants His Yellow Submarine

By COHA Research Fellow Alex Sánchez

Argentina’s President Cristina

By COHA Research Associate Montana James

The Organization of American States: On its Deathbed?

By COHA Research Associate Sean Bartlett

Colombia: The Multi-faceted Motivation of the FARC and Prospects for Peace

By COHA Research Associate Brent Buxton

Entre La Espada y La Pared:
As Venezuela's desire to join MERCOSUR diminishes, Hugo Chávez flirts with a pro-free trade CAN

By COHA Research Fellow Alex Sánchez

Latin America’s Process of Economic and Social Stabilization: A Stagnant Experiment or a Force to be Reckoned With?

By COHA Research Associate Concetta Kim Martens

Disaster Relief in the Caribbean Basin: Getting on the Right Side of Washington is No Easy Matter

By COHA Research Associate Montana James

The Oil Race is On: China Signs Multi-Billion Dollar Oil Contract with Venezuela, But India Also Wants Latin American Oil

By COHA Research Fellow Alex Sánchez

Grade B for Compassion for Peru

By COHA Research Associate Sean Bartlett

Competition, Contributions and Contracts: Chávez’s Checkbook Mission in the Caribbean Basin

By COHA Research Associate Katie Dickson

The Bush White House, Condoleezza Rice, and Latin America: “Transformational Diplomacy” and Other Fancy Talk

By COHA Research Associate Eva Silkwood

Ecuador’s Quest For A Coherent Foreign Policy

By COHA Research Associates Anna Gangadharan and Erin Nagy

Juntos Podemos? Together We CAN: Chile and the Andean Community’s Quest for Free Trade

By COHA Research Associate Eva Silkwood

Hemispheric Echoes: The Reverberations of Latin American Populism

By COHA Director Larry Birns and COHA Senior Research Fellow Dr. Nicholas Birns

Rice, Venezuelan Official Spar Over Closure

By COHA Research Associate Ryan McHenry

Washington’s Quest for Allies in its Battle Against Chavez’s Influence in the Americas and Beyond: The Case of Europe’s Progressive Disappearance from Latin America’s Map

By COHA Staff Research

COHA’s Nicaragua Staff Memorandum: Ortega’s Nicaragua—Fish or Fowl? Does Nicaragua, Along with the Rest of Central America, Need a Remedial Course in Democracy?

By COHA Research Associate Amber Davis

Posada Carriles, Child of Scorn: Yet Another Example of the White House’s Denigration of its War on Terrorism, which Woefully Lacks Integrity, Coherence or Consistency

By COHA Research Fellow Mike Lettieri

Think Guatemala 1954, When Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela Springs To Mind

By COHA Staff

Memorandum to the Press: Venezuela’s Security Factors and Foreign Policy Goals

By COHA Research Fellow Alex Sánchez

The Russian Arms Merchant raps on Latin America’s Door

By COHA Research Fellow Alex Sánchez

The President’s Latin American Journey: A Matter of Low Expectations and Utter Despair

By COHA Director Larry Birns with the assistance of Research Associate Katherine Hancy Wheeler

A COHA Report: Russia Returns to Latin America

By COHA Research Fellow Alex Sánchez

“On the Media” Interview with COHA Director Larry Birns on Venezuelan Democracy and Accusations of Chavez’s Media Censorship.

By COHA Staff

Hugo Chávez, the Media and Everybody Else

By COHA Resarch Associate Nicki Mokhtari and COHA Director Larry Birns

Ecuador Finds the Courage to “Just Say No”

By COHA Research Associate Kevin Alexander Watt

John Negroponte, Latin America’s Real “Mr. Danger,” Arises in a New Avatar

By COHA Research Associate Saul Cohen

Chávez and the media

By COHA Research Associate Kevin Alexander Watt

Will Democrats Cut and Run from Bush’s Deeply Flawed Latin American Policy?

By COHA Director Larry Birns

The Upcoming Venezuelan Elections Need not Be a Coronation for Chávez

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Joen Kellberg

Cuban Oil and Ethanol Could Prosper in Havana’s Hunt for Energy Supplies

By Research Associate Danielle Ryan

UN Delegations: Consider St. Lucia for the Security Council’s Latin American Seat

By COHA Research Associate Eytan Starkman

COHA Opinion: Drug Wars: Bush Launches Attack on Venezuelan Anti-drug Efforts

By COHA Research Associate Tiffany Isaacs

COHA Open Letter to the Financial Times

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Eytan Starkman

Venezuela’s Bid to the UN Security Council

By COHA Research Associate Eytan Starkman

COHA Opinion: Guatemala’s Heinous Human Rights Record and Non-compliance With UN Mandates Should Disbar it from UN Seat

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Tiffany Isaacs

Caracas and Washington: Though Politically Divorced, the Economic Union Goes on, Despite Worries Over Oil Shortages

By COHA Research Associate Alastair Sussock

Hugo Chávez’s Challenge to U.S. Preeminence in Latin America

By COHA Research Associate Matan Shamir

Venezuela’s Candidacy for the UN Security Council Appears on Track

By COHA Research Associate Tiffany Isaacs in collaboration with Research Associate Makiko Kurosaki

Democratic Decay in Venezuela

By COHA Research Associate Timothy Hatfield

COHA Report: MERCOSUR Presidential Summit Concludes with High Hopes

By COHA Research Associates Lauren Watts and Katie Bolduc

MERCOSUR Meeting in Cordoba Begins Today

By COHA Research Associate Katie Bolduc

Chávez Could Fuel U.S. Propaganda Campaign with Upcoming Bilateral talks with Kim Jong Il, If Misguided Strategy Is Adopted

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Tiffany Isaacs

The State Department Human Trafficking Report: Raw Ideology Rather Than Bona Fide Research

By COHA Research Associate Gabriel Garcia

U.S. aims to block Venezuela from Security Council seat

By COHA Research Associate Matan Shamir

Venezuela: Holding the Line against Drug Trafficking

By COHA Research Associate Gabriel Garcia

The U.S. Embargo against Venezuela: The State Department’s Mock Indignation Gives a Bad Name to U.S. Diplomacy

By The COHA Staff

Washington May Soon Try to Pin the Venezuelan Uranium Tail on the Iranian Nuclear Donkey

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Fellow Michael Lettieri

Neither Honor nor Professionalism to be Found in Jackson Diehl’s Analysis of Latin America

By The COHA Staff

Secretary Rice Out to Inoculate Latin America, but Chávez is all but Guaranteed a Clean Win

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Fellow Michael Lettieri

“The Devil Wears Prada:” María Corina Machado and Washington’s Indecent Game Against Venezuela

By COHA Director Larry Birns

PetroCaribe: Chávez’s Venturesome Solution to the Caribbean Oil Crisis and Trinidad’s Patrick Manning and Barbados’ Owen Arthur’s Ungracious Riposte

By COHA Research Associate Kaia Lai

The State Department’s Shannon

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Julian Armington

Venezuela’s Disloyal Opposition Serves the Bush Administration’s Narrow Ideological Interests, but Hardly Those of its Own Nation

By the COHA Staff

Spanish Arms Sale to Chávez: Venezuelan F-16s Bad; Chilean F-16s Good

By COHA Director Larry Birns and Research Associate Julian Armington

Evangelical Protestants in Venezuela: Robertson Only The Latest Controversy In a Long and Bizarre History

By COHA Senior Research Fellow Nikolas Kozloff

Robertson Advises Bush to Take Already Self-Destructive Vendetta Against Chávez to an Outrageous Extreme

By COHA Research Associates Teddy Chestnut and Jessie Gaskell

Look out Telenovelas, Telesur is in Town

By COHA Research Associates Melissa Nepomiachi and Daniel Pacheco

Rumsfeld and Rice on Chávez: But Where’s the Beef?

By COHA Research Associate Hampden Macbeth

Álo Presidente Hugo Chávez: Latin America’s Rising Superstar

By COHA Research Fellow Sarah E. Schaffer and COHA Research Associate Teddy Chestnut

Unfinished Business: Why Luis Posada Carriles, an Admitted Cuban Exile Terrorist, Should Face Justice in Venezuela

By COHA Senior Research Fellow Joshua Soren Graae

COHA On:

By COHA Research Associates Teddy Chestnut, Jessie Gaskell and Anita Joseph

The Not So Odd Couple: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro

By Research Associate Hampden Macbeth

Chávez and Posada

By Research Associates Kathryn Tarker, Paul Adams and Joseph Taves.

Hitting Rock Bottom - The Bush Administration’s Shameful Rejection of Venezuela’s Extradition Request

By COHA Director Larry Birns and COHA Research Associate Joseph Taves

Chávez Launches Hemispheric, “Anti-Hegemonic” Media Campaign in Response to Local TV Networks’ Anti-Government Bias

By COHA Senior Research Fellow Nikolas Kozloff, D.Phil

South American Unity May No Longer Be a Distant Dream

By COHA Senior Research Fellow Seth R. DeLong, Ph.D

Venezuela – Colombia To Washington’s Chagrin, Economics Bridge Ideological Divide

By COHA Research Associate Gabriel Espinosa Gonzalez

Washington’s Human Trafficking Charges Drag Down

By COHA Director Larry Birns and COHA Research Fellow Mark Scott

Venezuela’s Referendum Resolves Leadership Crisis, but Fails to Reconcile the Country’s Polarized Society

By COHA Research Associate Mark Scott

A Fateful Moment for Venezuela

By COHA Research Associate Mark Scott

Venezuela’s Opposition Looks to Washington For Hope, but Gets only Blank Stares

By COHA Research Associates Anthony Kolenic and Mark Scott

The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl Strikes Out on Venezuela

By COHA Director Larry Birns and COHA Research Associate Mark Scott

Venezuela Recall on August 15 Could Usher in Better Times

By COHA Research Associates Mark Scott and Anthony Kolenic

Venezuela’s August 15 Recall Vote Further Polarizes the Nation

By COHA Research Associates Anthony Kolenic and Mark Scott

The International Republican Institute: Promulgating Democracy of Another Variety

By COHA Research Fellow Jessica Leight

Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice

By COHA Research Associates Will Conkling and Sam Goble

Venezuela’s Most Challenging Moment Is Here

By Larry Birns, Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and Anthony Kolenic, COHA Research Associate