For the last several years, U.S. Representative Jose Serrano (D, NY-16) has brought the Cuba Reconciliation Act before the House and urged its passing without success. Its intent? “To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes.” This year it was slated under H.R. 188 and introduced on January 6, 2009—the first day […]
Countries face new UK visa rules South Africans visiting the United Kingdom will need a visa, under new rules issued by the Home Office. Bolivia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Venezuela also failed a test of the threat posed by their citizens in terms of security, immigration and crime. Immigration agency's airline flies tens of thousands of […]
BBC World News this past weekend held an interesting discussion on the current global financial crisis and its possible future effect on the world economy in its show The World Debate. The discussion surrounded the policies governments, CEO's, banks and international financial institutions used that brought us into crisis, and how those institutions could remedy […]
Latin America, while feeling ignored for the better part of eight years was one of President Obama's first international meetings that held the weight of his future power in his discussion with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last week. Mexico has spent the better part of 2008 fighting an intense conflict against internal drug cartels and […]
This article has also been posted on FPA's Latin America Blog TVO.org out of Ontario, Canada presented a show this week concentrating on Colombia, security, human rights, trade and relations with the US and Canada. The panel consisted of 5 experts on Latin America and Colombia from FOCAL, The Latin America Working Group, The Inter-American […]
This has also been posted in FPA's Year in Review 2008… Summary: Latin America 2008 Pride has become a mainstay in many ways in Latin America this past year. Colombia especially has achieved great progress in the last year against its major issues fighting drug cartels and kidnapping by making great strides in dismantling the […]
TVO.org out of Ontario, Canada presented a show this week concentrating on Colombia, security, human rights, trade and relations with the US and Canada. The panel consisted of 5 experts on Latin America and Colombia from FOCAL, The Latin America Working Group, The Inter-American Dialogue and a number of North American universities where issues and […]
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans fled their country when the Taliban was pushed out. They weathered the US invasion in Pakistani refugee camps and have been gradually returning to their home country. As the political situation stabilized, the wealthiest of these migrants returned to reclaim their land. This year, 300,000 of the most impoverished of […]
The New York Times featured this video on the psychological aspects of going through the asylum process in the United States, which I found worth sharing: Njoya Hilary Tikum has been waiting for the approval of his request for two years. He left his country because of persecution and his student activism in the English-speaking […]
This week the Queen's Representative in Canada must decide whether or not the Opposition's plan to overthrow the sitting Government will pass, creating a precedent in the history of Parliamentary democracy. The fall of Government has come in the midst of a global economic meltdown, and claims for the Coalition of the Opposition comes because of an […]
Elections in Venezuela's regions forced many in Chavez's government to take a hard look in the mirror in their attempt to build political support for Constitutional reforms that would extend Chavez's mandate in office eternally from the point of view of much of his opposition. In the latest round of elections, Chavez's party won much […]
With the recent anarchy in the global economic system and Macroeconomics textbooks being reedited worldwide, many experts in the field have gone silent or have admitted their inability to predict the latest collapse and inability to give a definitive answer to the problem. In the midst of this chaos, the traditional debate of American foreign […]
This Blog has also been posted in FPA's Latin America Blog. Japan has always maintained a certain level of intrigue for foreigners, especially since the end of the Second World War due to its history, culture, economic progress and people. While Japan stands out as one of the most influential nations of the 20th Century, […]
With the victory of Mr. Obama in the US Presidential elections a wave of celebration washed over the world media as praise for Obama took place, and in many cases rightly so. He is not only the first African-American President elect in US history, but more so a change from eight years of the Bush […]