
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 ...

A Diplomatic Theater of the Absurd: Canada, the OAS, and the Honduran Coup
Canada congratulates the Honduran people. With these words, Canadas minister of state for foreign affairs, Peter Kent, effectively endorsed the ...

Whats Left for Latin America to Do With China?
Celebrated with much fanfare, Venezuela and China signed a strategic alliance in December. Under this new bilateral deal, Venezuela began ...