As Colombian president Alvaro Uribe prepares for his visit to Washington this afternoon, his primary objective will be to pressure Barack Obama to secure congressional ratification of the US-Colombian free trade agreement (FTA). According to a White House press release, Uribe and Obama...
Shannon O’Neil, an unfailingly smart analyst of all things Latin America, outlines a new strategy for tackling the growing threat of Mexican drug gangs in the most recent edition of Foreign Affairs. The broad arc of her argument, unsurprisingly, is that in order for Mexico to...
An interesting footnote to the “false positives” controversy: At the end of April, the British government ceased bilateral military aid to Colombia, citing the human rights violations bound up with the false positives revelations. Among the programs the British saw fit to cut was an...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe arrived in Ottawa this week to promote a free trade agreement to skeptical members of the Canadian parliament. As part of his itinerary, Uribe met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and opposition leader Michael Ignatieff before holding a spirited, and...
All eyes were on Cuba this week at the Organization of American States gathering in Honduras. The island nation, whose membership in the regional body was suspended in 1962, was welcomed back into the institutional fold after intense negotiations between the thirty-four member-states over...
