COHA Report: Reseach Fellow Michael Lettieri will be in Mexico the week of the presidential election, monitoring the ballot. Michael's deep grou...
The Colombian Civil War: Uribe Now In Washington In A Move That May Make Or Break His Presidency - Uribe’s termination of extradition to the U.S....
Illustration by Margaret Scott As a landlocked country in South America and a nation whose economy heavily depends on illicit smuggling acti...
Help for Mexico: the U.S. plan to support Calderon’s counter-narcotic initiative criticized for its secrecy, its assumptions, and its questionable evidence. Washington is encouraged to tackle the deadly magnitude of illicit U.S. weapons sales to Mexico and the mechan...
Bank of the South: Another step toward Latin American integration * Member countries analyze the proposal as Banco del Sur (Bank of the South) is about to be launched * Lula, while skeptical, is moving ahead * Dealing with the opposition to the Bank * Not a...
Peru, Yes; Colombia? Free Trade Agreements: Lessons from Latin America’s Recent Past * Peru’s Free Trade victory in U.S. Senate could later embarrass both Senators Clinton and Obama for their pro Peru stance, but also could spotlight President Garcia’s complicity...
Bolivia’s “Agrarian Revolution” Hanging In * Constituent Assembly’s partisanship holds back constitutional reform process * President Morales’ land reform proposal is being challenged, as his strategy to get through other issues, seems to be flagging * Bolivi...
Politicians find it exceedingly difficult to explain free trade's virtues without drowning the listener in a torrent of common coinage. For a recent example of this, take President Bush's speech in Miami, designed to shore up flagging congressional support for pendin...
Nearly All-White Argentina Confronts Its Troubled Racist and Religious Past Tuesday's manifestation by the indigenous in Buenos Aires proclaimed that neglect of the country's first people must not be ignored. Land raids in the indigenous area of Chaco leads to ...
In 1994, Guillermo O'Donnell, one of Latin America's most prominent political scientists, identified a "new species" of democracy that was now present throughout most of Latin America, and labeled this phenomenon "delegative democracy," a type that is neither represe...
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