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Pass FTA and amend Plan Colombia, from the Washington Times
The Washington Times published an op-ed yesterday that I co-authored with Shannon O’Neil. It originally appeared here and I am including the entire text below.
The Washington Times
Monday, December 1, 2008
O’NEIL/CHASKEL: Pass FTA and amend Plan Colombia
Shannon O’Neil and Sebastian Chaskel
Two years ago President Bush and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe negotiated a free trade agreement (FTA). [...]
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The Next President’s Policies Toward Latin America
Back in 2000 then-candidate George W. Bush pledged to make this a “Century of the Americas.” ”Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America,” then-candidate George W. Bush told a Miami audience in 2000. ”Should I become the president, I will look south not as an afterthought, but as a fundamental [...]
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Para Votar Obama
In an occasion not unfamiliar to your average twenty-something, I received an email the other day (prior, I should note, to the Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont Democratic primaries) with the following: a pithy subject line and a link to a YouTube video. I clicked on the link and found this: a homegrown [...]
Barack, Hillary, and the Latino Vote
A bit of a depature from the obstensible subject matter of this blog, but of interest I imagine to potential readers as well.
I’ve just turned off tonight’s primary coverage. If I have to hear Wolf Blitzer’s awkward rambling or trite references to “The Best Election Team on Television” one more time, I may turn off [...]

Mexico’s Drug War?