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Latin American Affairs

Dec 28, 2009: Do You Remember Eugene Hasenfus?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs , War & Politics
I highly recommend a December 27, 2009, post at Daily Kos headlined “Blast from the Past. Gene Hasenfus: December 1986.” It is about an event I’d forgotten about but readily recalled once I read the article, which notes that: Twenty-three...

Mar 23, 2009: Wanted: A Consistent U.S. Position on Mexico
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
Denise Dresser, a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times' Opinion section and a columnist for the Mexico City-based newspaper Reforma, offers an insightful analysis of the often prickly relationship between Mexico and the United States as Secretary of State...

Jul 6, 2008: Castro Calls on FARC to Release Remaining Colombian Hostages
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs
According to Al-jazeera, former Cuban President "Fidel Castro has called on Columbia's FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebels to release its remaining hostages." The reportedly number around 700. The call came in the wake of the rescue of former...

Aug 13, 2007: China, Taiwan and Latin America
Comments: 1 | Categories: Latin American Affairs
Writes Daniel P. Erikson and Janice Chen ["a joint degree candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center and the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University" ] in an August 12, 2007, article in Latin Business Chronicle (LBC):...

Nov 7, 2006: Guardian Unlimited: 'Give Ortega A Chance'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs
"In what critics call another sign of waning American influence in Central and Latin America, an "all-out" effort by the United States to convince Nicaraguans not to elect former Sandinista president Daniel Ortega to a second term has apparently failed,"...

Sep 6, 2006: USA Today's Editorial On Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs
"If the turmoil following Mexico's July 2 [2006] presidential election has shown anything, it is that Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist candidate who narrowly lost, cares little about his nation's fragile democracy," declared USA Today in a September 6,...

May 19, 2005: Latin America, India, China and Western Corporate Interests
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs
Balaji Reddy, writing in the May 18, 2005 edition of India Daily, said "India and China in recent years have opened the floodgate of Western companies coming into their countries looking for cheap labor and slack environmental pollution laws." At...

May 19, 2005: 'Prosperity Theology' Reportedly Growing in Latin America
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs
The Christian Post has an interesting article on "Prosperity Theology." It quotes Professor Martin Ocaña, of the Baptist Seminary of South Peru, as saying "that an inability to escape critical situations, coupled with a loss of hope results in many...

May 18, 2005: World Bank: Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Still Lag Behind
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs
The World Bank announced in a May 18, 2005 press release that, "Despite their increased political influence,indigenous peoples in Latin America have made little economic and social progress in the last decade, and continue to suffer from higher poverty, lower...

May 15, 2005: 'Hugo Chávez to Launch '24-hour Hemispheric TV News Network'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Latin American Affairs
"On May 24, [2005] Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will launch a 24-hour hemispheric TV news network," with journalist Aram Aharonian "at the helm," The Christian Science Monitor reported May 13, 2005. The paper said, "the idea, Mr. Chávez has explained...