A Long Time Coming: Unity on the Mayan Riviera

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

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

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

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

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 Anti–Colombia FTA Campaign

A Time Line of the Canadian Anti–Colombia 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 Canada’s Free Trade Deal With Colombia

Against the Odds: Fighting Canada’s 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 ...
Harper’s ‘Wise Words’

Harper’s ‘Wise Words’

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper’s alliance with the ideological aims of George W. Bush in the Americas was made evident ...
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