National Defense and Delanteros
July 10, 2012 4 min. read

Given Mexico’s ongoing campaign against the narco-gangs and Colombia’s omnipresent civil war, it is not surprising that defense budgets are ballooning across Latin America. According to a report by Rachel Glickhouse of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI; see links below), Latin American countries spent […]

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Haiti: Continental Organizations Mobilize in Sao Paolo against UN Occupying Haiti
November 29, 2011 5 min. read
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“Haiti is a country that supported the fight for freedom in Latin America, a country that terrified slave owners across America and is now subjugated to foreign occupation that has nothing to do with humanitarian purposes, as proposed,” said Julio Turra, president of Unified Confederation of Workers (CUT French acronym). “It’s embarrassing,” added Turra during […]

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For Haiti, Brazil and the United States Need to Get it Right, Now
January 23, 2010 4 min. read

Can Brazil find its proper role in the long term efforts to rebuild Haiti and send it along a path to peace and prosperity

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