Twitter: latamthought- Evo Morales will meet with new Uruguayan President Jose Mujica to talk about potential Bolivian port in Uruguay http://bit.ly/cIdZZL
- Julia Sweig on Secretary of State's visit to Brazil: http://www.tinyurl.com/yfdd8xh
- LatAmThought post on AQBlog argues that in Colombia's elections not being disliked may be as important as being liked. http://bit.ly/aNeHTZ
- Latin Americans don't care what the U.S. thinks. http://bit.ly/d3sRoV
- Transportation strike in Bogota continues. http://tinyurl.com/yghxlkz
Category Archives: United States
Paraguay’s Anti-Terrorist Group and the US
On 4 November 2009, the United States announced they would donate US$1.39 million in equipment towards the formation of an elite unit of highly trained troops in the Paraguayan army. Backed by US funding (sources put the total amount of the expedition at US$3 million) and training from SOUTHCOM, the troops are trained in counterterrorism [...]
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Russia, Bolivia, and the new US model
On a recent trip to Moscow in May 2009, Bolivia’s Viceminister of Foreign Affairs Hugo Fernández Araoz said that Bolivia would be making a multimilliondollar arms and transportation purchase from Russia in efforts to combat drug smuggling and production in Bolivia. El Pais reported on 21 May 2009 that Bolivia used to make these purchases, [...]
US-Brazil relations
While much of the media attention in the following days is sure to focus on Obama’s appointment of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina woman to join the Supreme Court, another suspected Obama appointment in the coming days may prove pivotal to the direction of US-Latin American relations. On 26 May Southern Pulse reported that Thomas Shannon, current [...]
Broad Regional Integration or a Case-by-Case Basis?