Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Mexico’s Drug War?

By Eliot Brockner | Published: January 11, 2009
On 12 January, US President-Elect Barack Obama will meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderón to discuss the future of US-Mexican relations. The two have a lot to talk about. Mexico is limping out of one of its most violent years in history, in which 5,630 people were killed in drug and gang-related [...]
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Pass FTA and amend Plan Colombia, from the Washington Times

By Sebastian Chaskel | Published: December 2, 2008
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

By Sebastian Chaskel | Published: October 20, 2008
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

By Elizabeth Jordan | Published: March 10, 2008
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 [...]
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Barack, Hillary, and the Latino Vote

By Michael Bustamante | Published: February 6, 2008
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 [...]
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