La OEA, con sus deficiencias y fragilidades, ha sido un foro útil para dirimir conflictos relacionados con Ecuador. Las críticas del Gobierno Ecuatoriano contra la OEA se profundizaron a raíz del fracaso de mediación durante el golpe de estado en Honduras. Con respecto a la OEA y Washington, Correa tiene dos agendas: una ideológica y otra electoral. Sumario La agenda de algunos mandatarios latinoamericanos, entre ellos el presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, es...
Monday, January 16th marked the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Salvadoran peace accords. FMLN President Mauricio Funes commemorated the occasion by asking the families of victims for forgiveness for the massacre of El Mozote—an unspeakably atrocious event of unprecedented magnitude that the government publicly had denied ever taking place for years. In the midst of the fiercely brutal civil war, the U.S.-trained Atlacatl battalion notorious for its brutality, entered the small village...
The drug war in Mexico grows more brutal daily. It is practically impossible to read news from that country without exposure to a myriad of literal rolling heads, mass graves, shootouts, and grisly abductions. While addressing the Council on Foreign Relations on September 8, 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton qualified the situation in Mexico as “looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago, when the narco-traffickers controlled certain parts of...
A number of Latin American countries have long struggled to administer justice fairly and efficiently; increasingly, in recent years this has been in regard to gay rights. Even though most of the region’s constitutions guarantee an array of personal rights, large gaps have existed between what is promised and the actual redress delivered by a given nation’s judicial system. Indeed, the region’s constitutions chronically have proven to be insufficient to protect the rights of...
La controversia está servida: cuatro países latinoamericanos –Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba y Ecuador- desoyeron el pedido de Estados Unidos de que pongan distancias con Irán. Los presidentes Hugo Chávez de Venezuela, Raúl Castro de Cuba, Rafael Correa de Ecuador y Daniel Ortega de Nicaragua dieron la bienvenida al presidente iraní Mahmoud Ahmadineyad, mientras aumentan las maniobras militares en el Golfo Pérsico y se aproxima un embargo para disuadir a Irán de continuar con su programa...
The controversy unfolds as four Latin American countries – Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador – ignored pressure from the United States to distance their politics from those of Iran. Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Raúl Castro of Cuba, Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua welcomed the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a moment when tensions were on the rise concerning increased Iranian military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf and an embargo...
The OAS at times has been a useful forum for discussing and resolving conflicts related to Ecuador, a country that just played host to visiting Iranian President Ahmadinejad. As of now, Ecuador’s government has voiced increasingly rambunctious criticism of the OAS due to its inadequacy in the arbitration during the Honduran coup. Regarding the OAS and Washington’s stand on it as seen from Quito, Ecuador’s president Correa is pursuing a double-edged agenda: an ideological...
On January 8, 2012, the U.S. State Department declared Venezuelan consul general Livia Acosta Noguera persona non grata and ordered her to leave the U.S for her alleged involvement in an Iranian computer scam. The announcement took place the same day that President Ahmadinejad began his four-country tour of Latin America, which included a stop in Venezuela. There is little question that at least part of the motivation for the State Department’s action was...
On January 8 2012, COHA Director Larry Birns was interviewed by KFPA radio on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Latin America. On January 9 2012, COHA Guest Scholar Francisco Acosta was interviewed by Voice of Russia on Nicaragua’s elections. On January 10 2012, COHA Director Larry Birns was interviewed by Jamaica Breakfast Club on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Cuba. On January 12 2012, COHA Research Associate Lauren Paverman was interviewed by HISPAN TV on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Latin America On January 12...
