
A Long Time Coming: Unity on the Mayan Riviera
In February, leaders representing all the countries of the Americas, save the United States, Canada, and Honduras, came together to ...

Empire’s Apprentice: Canada in Latin America
In little more than a decade, starting with the election of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, the political orientation of the ...

Haiti Reconstruction: Factories, not Fields
In March, Haitian president René Préval called on the United States to stop sending food aid to Haiti so that ...

No Smoking Gun—Yet: Canadian Democracy Assistance in Bolivia
In recent years, Latin American leaders including Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Bolivia’s Evo Morales have denounced U.S. democracy promotion as ...

Canadian Mining: Still Unaccountable
On November 27, 2009, Mariano Abarca Roblero was shot dead outside his home in Chiapas, Mexico. Abarca was a well-known ...

A Time Line of the Canadian AntiColombia FTA Campaign
June 2007 The government of Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper launches negotiations for a proposed Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) ...

Against the Odds: Fighting Canadas Free Trade Deal With Colombia
After the failure of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in 2005, the United States and Canada were ...

Harpers Wise Words
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harpers alliance with the ideological aims of George W. Bush in the Americas was made evident ...