Twitter: latamthought- Correa to attend Santos investidura, but legal issues in Ecuador to continue http://bit.ly/9G46Jt
- Who is Joran van der Sloot? http://bit.ly/bs9Iy1
- This claim is based on "internal polls" carried out in the days leading up to the election. Interview here: http://bit.ly/bXqqvu
- Interview w/Colombian pollsters says they knew the gap b/w Santos-Mockus would be very large, but weren't allowed to publish the results
- New Post: Business as Ideology http://bit.ly/ahUmki HT @bloggingsbyboz
Category Archives: United States
Scare Tactics in Colombian Presidential Elections
Soft on Terrorism.
The well-worn phrase is one that the US public has grown accustomed to. Like nationalism, it is a tactic that political campaigners use in attempts to disparage one candidate while strengthening the other.
During the 2008 presidential campaign in the United States, Republican candidate John McCain accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama of being soft [...]
Also posted in Colombia Tagged Alvaro Uribe, Andres Felipe Arias, Antanas Mockus, Campaign Tactics, elections, FARC, Juan Manuel Santos 2 Comments
From Partner by Default to Partner of Choice: Shifting US Policy in Latin America
On March 26, US Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield said the US is close to signing bi-lateral military accords with two unspecified countries in Latin America.
In October 2009, following a failed attempt to keep the details secret, the US and Colombia hastily announced a deal allowing US troops and advisors to use seven military bases [...]
Also posted in Brazil, Panama Tagged Brazil, Diplomacy, drug war, U.S.-Latin America relations, United States 1 Comment
Interpol, the US, and Brazil
Brazil and the United States have had a troubled relationship in the past year, between a bitter trade feud, a high profile child abduction case, and currently, disagreements on Iran. But the latest international debacle between the two countries involves a powerful Brazilian politician and a New York lawyer.
It began in 2007, when the Manhattan [...]
Also posted in Brazil Tagged Brazil, corruption, international law, law, New York, Sao Paulo 1 Comment
Broad Regional Integration or a Case-by-Case Basis?
The AQ blog recently published an excellent article analyzing the effectiveness and utility of broad, multinational coalitions in the Americas:
This is not to call for unilateralism or a rejection of international norms at the expense of alliances and partners. What it does point to is a more limited, pragmatic agenda: engaging on specific, discrete issues with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Far-Reaching Demonstrations Against AZ Law