Barack Obama has already signed the Executive Order requiring the closing of Guantanamo Bay’s detention facilities within the year. Meanwhile, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has offered the new Administration’s first official comments on Cuba, acknowledging a change underway in the Cuban-American community and assuring that the Administration is “sensitive” to it. Both moves indicate a certain […]
Raul Castro’s visit to Russia at the end of January may have turned some heads, but it did not receive the front-page treatment once demanded by news on relations between these two countries. Reports on Raul’s week-long stay generally show that Castro and Medvedev stuck to mutual concerns that included agriculture, manufacturing, science and tourism. These […]
For the last several years, U.S. Representative Jose Serrano (D, NY-16) has brought the Cuba Reconciliation Act before the House and urged its passing without success. Its intent? “To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes.” This year it was slated under H.R. 188 and introduced on January 6, 2009—the first day […]
BBC World News this past weekend held an interesting discussion on the current global financial crisis and its possible future effect on the world economy in its show The World Debate. The discussion surrounded the policies governments, CEO's, banks and international financial institutions used that brought us into crisis, and how those institutions could remedy […]
Latin America, while feeling ignored for the better part of eight years was one of President Obama's first international meetings that held the weight of his future power in his discussion with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last week. Mexico has spent the better part of 2008 fighting an intense conflict against internal drug cartels and […]
This article has also been posted on FPA's Latin America Blog TVO.org out of Ontario, Canada presented a show this week concentrating on Colombia, security, human rights, trade and relations with the US and Canada. The panel consisted of 5 experts on Latin America and Colombia from FOCAL, The Latin America Working Group, The Inter-American […]
This has also been posted in FPA's Year in Review 2008… Summary: Latin America 2008 Pride has become a mainstay in many ways in Latin America this past year. Colombia especially has achieved great progress in the last year against its major issues fighting drug cartels and kidnapping by making great strides in dismantling the […]
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans fled their country when the Taliban was pushed out. They weathered the US invasion in Pakistani refugee camps and have been gradually returning to their home country. As the political situation stabilized, the wealthiest of these migrants returned to reclaim their land. This year, 300,000 of the most impoverished of […]
The New York Times featured this video on the psychological aspects of going through the asylum process in the United States, which I found worth sharing: Njoya Hilary Tikum has been waiting for the approval of his request for two years. He left his country because of persecution and his student activism in the English-speaking […]
This week the Queen's Representative in Canada must decide whether or not the Opposition's plan to overthrow the sitting Government will pass, creating a precedent in the history of Parliamentary democracy. The fall of Government has come in the midst of a global economic meltdown, and claims for the Coalition of the Opposition comes because of an […]
Elections in Venezuela's regions forced many in Chavez's government to take a hard look in the mirror in their attempt to build political support for Constitutional reforms that would extend Chavez's mandate in office eternally from the point of view of much of his opposition. In the latest round of elections, Chavez's party won much […]
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