Open Drug Warfare Could be Part of Europe’s Panorama in Months to Come Part one of COHA’s ongoing series on Latin American Drug Trafficking St...
- The Dominican Republic and Haiti have become major routing points and trafficking destinations for drugs moving South America on their way to t...
In this, the fourteenth year of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it is of the utmost importance—in terms of its continued applicati...
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 ...
Is It a Question of “What’s in it for Santiago?” After a 30 year hiatus from participation in the South American trading bloc it once helped to establish, Chile rejoined the Andean Community of Nations (Comunidad Andina de Naciones – CAN by its Spanish acronym) as...
The clock is ticking on Bolivia’s constituent assembly and its mission to draft the country’s new constitution. The assembly began its deliberations in July of 2006 to foster what President Evo Morales hoped to be a “plural, participative, communitarian and represent...
Open Drug Warfare Could be Part of Europe’s Panorama in Months to Come Part one of COHA’s ongoing series on Latin American Drug Trafficking Strong Euro Lures Drug Traffickers to Ship to EU Market While North America continues to represent the largest single c...
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