Latin America Policy

President Obama's Credibility on the Line in Honduras

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, Honduras Zelaya, Hillary Clinton, Thomas Shannon, Barack Obama, State Department, Foreign Policy, World News

The Obama team brokered the accord in Honduras, and got a commitment from the coup leaders. If they go back on it, how much will the Obama administration's word be worth on anything else?

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How Much Repression Will Hillary Clinton Support in Honduras?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Honduras Zelaya, Honduras, Hillary Clinton, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Barack Obama, Manuel Zelaya, Foreign Policy, World News

The United States has been the only major country to maintain an ambassador in Honduras throughout the dictatorship, and has also maintained a deafening silence about the repression there.

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Putting the Honduras Debate in Perspective

Abraham Lowenthal | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Obama Latin America, Honduras, US Hegemony, Manuel Zelaya Honduras, U.S. Policy in Latin America, World News

The new US authorities understand that the United States no longer has the means to exert quick control in such countries as Honduras, and that trying to do so could undermine more promising multilateral avenues for achieving US objectives.

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Obama Should Change Course and Support Democracy In Honduras

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Honduras Crisis, Honduras Coup, Obama Latin America Policy, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Obama Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, Obama Latin America, Honduras, Barack Obama, Politics News

President Obama is making a big mistake in coddling the dictatorship in Honduras, and putting his administration at odds with the rest of the hemisphere.

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Obama's Continuance of Bush Policies in Latin America is a Serious Mistake

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Honduras, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Barack Obama, World News

Obama's Honduras response has drawn only mild rebuke because he's still enjoying somewhat of a honeymoon, and he's not Bush. But he is doing serious damage to U.S.-Latin American relations.

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Honduras: Term Limits When Governments Benefit People

Nelson P. Valdes | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Dominican Republic, Chile, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Henry Kissinger, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Military Fascism, Us-Policy-in-Latin-America, Manuel Zelaya Honduras, Post-Cold-War, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Chavism, Coup D'etat, Secretary Clinton, Anti-Castroites Miami, United Nations Development Programme, Cia, Oscar Arias, Richard Nixon, US Embassy, State-Department-Human-Rights-Report, Guatemala, Lyndon Johnson, Salvador-Allende, Undp, World News

Congress and Courts belong to the rich and powerful who also control the military in cooperation with the Pentagon. Washington provided aid.

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Washington's Sad History in Latin America

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Obama Latin America Policy, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Obama Honduras, Obama Latin America, Honduras, Obama Coup in Honduras, World News

While Obama has passed his first test in Latin America, the coup in Honduras, he still must overcome a sad and addled history of U.S. interventionism in the region.

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Latin America Drags a Reluctant Washington Into Supporting Democracy in Honduras

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Honduras, Organization of American States, State Department, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, World News

Why such reluctance to openly call for the immediate and unconditional return of an elected president, as the rest of the hemisphere and the United Nations has done?

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Hillary Clinton Recognizes Multi-Polar World, Failures of U.S. Latin America Policy

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Ecuador, Argentina, US Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Evo Morales, Bolivia, World News

For the first time we have an acknowledgment of our failure in Venezuela.

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Is President Obama Serious About a New Relationship with the Americas?

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Obama NAFTA, Empire, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Obama Summit of the Americas, Summit of the Americas, Latin America Policy, Superpower, President Obama, Evo Morales, Nestor Kirchner, Cuban Doctors, Daniel Ortega, Mexico Drug Wars, Cuba, World News

Will Obama rebuild our relationship with the south on a foundation of respect for democracy? Or will it be more of the same superpower policies cloaked in collaborative and intelligent rhetoric?

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President Obama and the Summit of the Americas

Abraham Lowenthal | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Americas Summit, Mexico, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, 5th Summit of the Americas, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, World News

Obama would do well to remember Ronald Reagan's comment on returning from his first trip to South America as President: "These Latin American countries are all very different from each other."

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Revisiting American Involvement in El Salvador: The Massacre at El Mozote

Jon Santiago | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: El Salvador, Latin America, Latin America Policy, El Salvador 2009 Election, Crimes Against Humanity, Foreign Policy, World News

Many people know that the U.S. has intervened in Latin American politics. Rarely do discussions of this proceed beyond a verbal slapping ourselves on the wrists for having "meddled."

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The United States and Bolivia: A New Beginning?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Venezuela, Latin America Policy, Us-Latin-America-Policy, Latin America, Evo Morales, Bolivia, US Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, World News

With Obama's policy towards Venezuela and Cuba pretty much decided, Bolivia is left as a government in the region where the hostility of the Bush administration could be quickly reversed.

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All Hail the World's Latest Presidente for Life!

David Paul Appell | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: President Hugo Chavez, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Venezuela Referendum, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Chavez, Chavez Referendum, Venezuela Referendum, Obama Latin America, Latin America, Latin America Policy, World News

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has long coveted the prize that now puts him in the company of endlessly "election"-holding paragons such as Robert Mugabe, Alexander Lukashenko and Kim Jong-Il.

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The Contradictions Facing a Black President of the American Empire

Johann Hari | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Bush Administration, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Obama Administration, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Allende, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News

If you want to know if Obama is really altering the tectonic forces that drive American power, keep an eye on the rooftop of the world.

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U.S. Secretary of State: A Cautionary Tale

Al Giordano | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Human Rights, Colombia, US Secretary of State, Obama's Cabinet, Mexico, Latin America, Latin America Policy, International, Politics News

In Latin America, as everywhere, the doctrine of Human Rights, begun in the Carter administration but left to atrophy by all administrations since, walks hand in hand with any pro-democracy agenda.

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Iran's Offensive in Latin America: The Chicago Connection

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago

Read More: U.S. Latin America Policy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Latin America Policy, Ecuador, Chicago, Hezbollah, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Iran Latin America, Eyal Sela, Israel Iran, Chicago News

Tuesday morning, the Honorable Eyal Sela, Israel's Ambassador to Ecuador, held a roundtable discussion about Iran's growing influence in Latin America.

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Letter From Nicaragua: As Elections Approach, What'll It Be -- Lula or Hugo?

David Paul Appell | Posted 12.13.2008 | World

Read More: Obama Nicaragua, Latin America, Daniel Ortega, Latin America Policy, Central America, Nicaragua, U.S. Policy in Latin America, Sandinistas, Ortega, Bolivarian Movement, Hugo Chavez, Chavez, Arnoldo Aleman, Oxfam, Sandinismo, Aleman, World News

What the United States needs to do under the Obama administration is, first off, pay more attention and engage not just with Nicaragua but to Latin America in general.

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Should Obama, If Elected, Make a Clean Break With Bush's Latin America Policy?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Latin America Obama Policy, Venezuela, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Barack Obama, Chavez, Politics News

The "divide and conquer," Cold War strategy in Latin America has only succeeded in further reducing Washington's standing in the region, which is now lower than it has ever been.

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Bolivia Racked by Political Divisions on the Eve of a Recall Vote

Medea Benjamin | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latin America, Latin America Policy, Brazil, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Indigenous, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Foreign Policy, South America, Evo Morales Recall, Politics News

A win at the polls is crucial for Morales, but it is not likely to stop the growing tensions that have polarized the country and led to increasingly violent clashes between supporters on both sides.

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