COHA in EnglishNorteaméricaWRH WRH Archive July 24, 2017November 21, 2019 COHA Volume 38 – 2018 Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 38 Issue 7 China’s Encroachment in Latin America: An Economic Analysis – by Dominic Ferrara Powerful Farm Lobbies Delay EU‑ MERCOSUR Trade Deal – by Ben Tannenbaum Cuba After the Castro Era – by Jim Baer Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 38 Issues 5 & 6 Open Letter in Support on Media in Venezuela, Not Sanctions Behind the Throne: Colombian Elections Strengthen ex-President’s Power – By Ben Tannenbaum Military Intervention in Rio – By Alexandra Gale Interview with Maria José Libertino – By Eugenia Rosales Matienzo Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 38 Issue 4 High Expectations for California’s New Marijuana Policy – By Alexandra Gale Referenda: The Back and Forth of Ecuadorian Politics – By Jehivian A. Hernandez Same-Sex Marriage Repeal in Bermuda – By Olivia Anderson Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 38 Issue 3 Costa Rica 2018: The Rise of Fabricio Alvarado – By Olivia Anderson – The State Department’s Inconsistent Response to Undemocratic Proliferation in Latin America – By Alexandra Gale – Grenada at a Crossroads – By Ben Tannenbaum Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 38 Issue 1 & 2 Violence and the 2018 Local and State Elections: Mexico’s Fragile Security Situation – By Bjorn T. Kjelstad Who to Watch in the 2018 Brazilian Election – By Alexandra Gale The Termination of Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador – By Jasmin G. Chicas Peru in the Wake of Fujimori’s Pardon – By Katherine Lenahan Volume 37 – 2017 Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 20 Infrastructure and Megaprojects in Latin America – By Gavin Allman The Cuban Legacy in Africa – By R.O. Niederstrasser Country Brief: Mexico – Eleven Years Seeking Justice: Women of Atenco vs the Mexican State at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights – By Maria Rodriguez-Dominguez Country Brief: Argentina –Argentina’s Missing Submarine and the Specter of Praetorianism – By Jack Memolo Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 19 Marichuy and Mexican Leftist Indigenous Politics – By Jordie Conde Indigenous Brazilians Massacred on the “Uncontacted Frontier” – By Madeline Asta Country Brief: Ecuador – State-owned Media Failure in Ecuador – By Tomas Bayas Country Brief: Argentina – Argentina’s Midterm Elections – By Jack Memolo Country Brief: Bolivia – Bolivia’s Continued Fight for Coastal Access – By Kristina Duran Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 18 “Industrialized” Methamphetamine Production in Mexico – By Jack Memolo Capitalism vs Climate in Chile – By Kristina Duran Country Brief: Chile – Upcoming Elections in Chile – By Kristina Duran Country Brief: Paraguay – A Rising Guerilla Movement in the Northern Plains – By Bjorn T. Kjelstad Country Brief: El Salvador – Homicides Surge in September – By Gavin Allman Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 17 The Frente Ciudadano por México and the Possible Benefits for MORENA – By Bjorn T. Kjelstad The Balance of Power in Latin America in the 21st Century – By Maria Alejandra Silva Country Brief: Mexico – AMLO, MORENA, and the 2018 Mexican Elections – By Arianna La Marca Country Brief: Honduras – Candidate Profile for November Elections – By Gavin Allman Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Double Issue 15 & 16 Successes and Failures of Gender Quotas: Lessons from Latin America – By Arianna La Marca Do Deportations Really Put “America First“? – By Louis Epstein The Future of Electronic Currency in Ecuador – By Tomas Bayas Beyond Venezuela: Cuba Continues to Seek Foreign Investment to Break Economic Interdependence – By R.O. Niederstrasser Country Brief: Argentina – Where is Santiago Maldonado – By Eugenia Rosales Matienzo Country Brief: Colombia – Pope Brings Hope to Post-FARC Colombia? – By Maria Alejandra Silva Ortega Country Brief: Panama – Battles with Espionage and Embezzlement Continue – By Maria Rodriguez-Dominguez Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 14 The Belize-Guatemala Border: History and Dispute – By Paxton Duff Labor & Tax Reform in Costa Rican ’18 Election – By Madeline Asta Odebrecht Scandal Threatens Peruvian Infrastructure – By Liam Timmons Country Brief: Uruguay – Banks in Uruguay Say Nope to Dope – By Jack Pannell Country Brief: Northern Triangle – IDB Pledges Aid to Northern Triangle – By Liam Timmons Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 13 Narcotics Trafficking in Central America – By Felipe Galvis-Delgado OECD – BEPS Addressing, Preventing, and Eliminating Tax Avoidance in Latin America and the Caribbean – By Sheldon Birkett Country Brief: Honduras and Guatemala – Customs – By Martina Guglielmone Country Brief: Panama – Odebrecht Corruption in Panama – By Sheldon Birkett Country Brief: Argentina – Upcoming Elections – By Jack Pannell Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 12 The Incident at Ahuas: A Case Study into the DEA’s Detrimental Role in Latin America – By Alex Rawley Continued OPEC Cuts Unlikely to Raise Prices of Venezuelan Oil – By Jack Pannell Colombia to Send Military Troops to Afghanistan: Will this Hinder or Help the Peace Process – By Emma Pachon and Clément Doleac Country Brief: Paraguay – Paraguay Paying Lip Service to Press Freedoms – By Liam Timmons Country Brief: Chile – Anti-immigration Rhetoric in the Chilean 2017 Presidential Campaign – By Tobias Fontecilla Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Double Issue 10 & 11 Dominica: A Bureaucratic Predicament – By Sheldon Birkett The Trump Administration Will End Temporary Protected Status for 59,000 Haitian Immigrants – By Sharri K Hall The Impact of Remittances and Increasing Trade with Cuba – By Alexia Rauen Country Brief: Chile – Customs Strike Disrupts Chilean Shipping Industry – By Liam Timmons Country Brief: Puerto Rico – Statehood and Bankruptcy: The Puerto Rican Conundrum – By Tobias Fontecilla Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Dominican Republic – By Myra Miranda Country Brief: Peru – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to Face Trial for Forgotten Massacre – By Erika Quinteros Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Migration in Central America – By Laura Schroeder Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 9 Guyana, Caution Oil – By Kayla Whitlock Combatting Coca Cultivation in Colombia – By Emma Pachon The Damaging Effects of Costa Rican False Rising Crime Narrative on Nicaraguan Immigrants – By Alexander Rawley Country Brief: Jamaica – Flooding Disrupts Life for Jamaicans – By Sharri K Hall Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Double Issue 7 & 8 Soliloquy on Political and Human Rights – By Igor Drumond The Argentinean Neoliberal Specter: A Brief Analysis of President Macri’s Unsettling Economic Policies – By Tobias Fontecilla The Current State of U.S.-Cuba Relations – By Haley Wiebel Country Brief: Guatemala – Operation: Checkmate Leads to Arrest of Key leader of MS-13 – By Kate Terán Country Brief: Mexico – Journalism in Mexico: A Fight for Survival – By Mariana Sanchez Ramirez Country Brief: French Guiana – Turmoil in French Guiana – By Alex Rawley Country Brief: Guatemala – Former Dictator Rios Montt will Face Second Trial – By Erika Quinteros Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 6 Is Statehood the Saving Grace Puerto Rico Needs? – By Kayla Whitlock Puerto Rico’s Ongoing Battle Against Zika: A Plea for Washington’s Attention – By Taylor Lewis and Walter Shaw Indigenous Nicaragua’s Fight for Survival – By Kate Terán Country Brief: Peru– Peru Floods Bring Misfortune and Calls for Reform – By Taylor Lewis Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Double Issue 4 & 5 “Catch and Release” in a Troubled System – By Mitch Rogers Trump Administration Short on Interest in Latin America – By Jim Baer Macri in Contrast with Argentina’s Long Pro-Immigration History – By Brandon Capece United States Places Sanctions on Venezuelan Vice-President Tareck El Aissami, Controversy Follows – By Taylor Lewis Country Brief: Bolivia – Más MAS for Bolivia? – By Kate Terán Country Brief: Paraguay – Paraguayan Classrooms Continue to Crumble Amidst Education Reform – By Mariana Sanchez Ramirez Country Brief: Peru – PPK Visits Washington: Peruvian President Becomes Latin America’s First Leader to Sit Down with Donald Trump – By Jordan Bazak Country Brief: Colombia – Colombian Refugees and the FARC Peace Process – By Alex Rawley Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Double Issue 2 & 3 Cooperation: Colombia’s Solution to the Pitfalls of Contract Farming – By Joseph Green Mexico’s Role & the Re-imagining of NAFTA: A Tricky Window of Opportunity – By Mariana Sánchez Ramírez Country Brief: Peru – WANTED: Embroiled in Corruption and Other Scandals, Former Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo, Denies Accusations of Wrongdoing – By Erika Quinteros Country Brief: Haiti – Jovenel Moïse Set to be Haiti’s New President – By Kayla Whitlock Country Brief: Brazil – Chaos in Espírito Santo as Cities Are Left Without Police – By Mitch Rogers Country Brief: Colombia – Murders of Community Leaders Jeopardize Peace Agreements – By Erika Quinteros Country Brief: Mexico – U.S.-Mexican Relations in President Trump’s First Weeks – By Taylor Lewis Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 37 Issue 1 Personalist Populist and the Anti-establishment – By Kate Terán Country Brief: Brazil – New Year’s Prison Massacre Initiates Pattern of Violence” – By Mitch Rogers Country Brief: Cuba – Castro and Obama: One Last Dance – By Kate Terán Country Brief: Mexico – ¡Gasolinazo! Mexicans Struck by Higher Gasoline Prices to Start the New Year – By Jordan Bazak Country Brief: El Salvador – An Important Day in El Salvador’s Fight Against Crime – By Erika Quinteros Country Brief: Brazil – After Plea Bargain, Brazil’s Odebrecht Giant Pays Up – By Mitch Rogers Volume 36 – 2016 Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Double Issue 20 & 21 The Passing of an Icon: Fidel Castro and the Latin American Left – By Erika Quinteros The ‘Australian Solution’: The United States and Australia agree to swap refugees – By Sarah Faithful Guyana’s Housing Crisis – By Peter Miraglia Uruguay’s Wage War: Supermarket sector deadlocked over minimum pay – By Jordan Bazak 71 Dead in Plane Crash: Brazil mourns the loss of soccer club – By Malone Gabor Haitian Elections: Despite international recognition, legitimacy concerns not yet put to rest – By Alejandra Castillo NotMyPrince: Prince Harry receives lukewarm welcome in Antigua and Barbuda – By Natalie Piri Mr. Birns goes to Cuba: The COHA Director offers insights and observations upon returning from Havana – By Jordan Bazak Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 19 Stuck in the Mud: Nicaragua’s Canal Project – By Sarah Faithful Saving Argentina’s Glaciers: Macri folds in the face of big mining – By Jordan Bazak Country Brief: Argentina – U.N. Investigates Femicide in Argentina – By Brandon Capece Country Brief: Cuba – Facing Trump, Immigration from Cuba Surges – By Malone Gabor Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 18 Brazilian Judge’s Ruling Breaks-up Student Protest – By Jordy Garcia Uribe’s No Campaign Misrepresents Conflicts History – By Natalie Piri A BRIC House: Brazil and India’s Solid Relationship – By Vincent Lofaso Country Brief: Balize – Belize Doubles Down on Tourism – By Alejandra Castillo Country Brief: Costa Rica – Costa Rica, Mente Pobre – By Austin Downs Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 17 ‘¡Qué Pena!’ Enrique Peña Nieto’s terrible approval ratings – By Jordan Bazak Macri, Free Markets, and the Fight Against Economic Inequality – By Philippe de Bonneval “Latin American Education Inequality – By Austin Downs Country Brief: Panama – Persistent Crime in Panama – By Melanie Landa Country Brief: Canada – Canada’s Mohawk Justice – By Debora Iozzi Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 16 Argentina and Great Britain Reach Joint Statements on the South Atlantic – By Vincent Lofaso TPP Outside of the U.S.: Ratification likely despite grassroots resistance – By Jordan Bazak Brazil’s Pivot to the North: Foreign Policy under the Temer Administration – By Laura Sholtz Country Brief: Paraguay – Paraguay & Israel: The Odd Couple – By Peter Miraglia Country Brief: Guyana – Oil Raises the Stakes – By Laura Sholtz Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 15 After Deputy Minister Killed Bolivia Reins in Mining Cooperatives – By John Gates Sharpe Breaking the Ice: The Disputed Sovereignty over the Northwest Passage – By Sarah Faithful Country Brief: Colombia– Colombia’s Peace Plebiscite – By Natalie Piri Country Brief: Chile – Chilean Domestic Policy – By Malone Gabor Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 14 Despite Economic Despair, New IBM Technology Brings a Success Story to the North of Mexico – By Fabrizio Chollet The TPP: Proposals and Doubts of a Trade Agreement on the Environment of the Western Hemisphere – By Rafael Perez and Pedro Izquierdo Ongoing Deportation Raids Result in Resolutions for U.S. Schools, Guide for Instructors – By Laura Iesue Country Brief: Trinidad and Tobago – Trouble in Trinidad and Tobago: Combatting Human Trafficking – By Sophie-Anne Baril Country Brief: Brazil – Zika Scaring Away Top Talent – By Jonas Schlotterbeck Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 13 The Ongoing Human Trafficking and Farm Labor Crisis – By Laura Iesue Brexit and the Malvinas – By Evan Fagan The Entangling and Thickening Plot: U.S. Involvment in Honduras – By Alejandro Antonio Oliva Country Brief: The Bahamas – Bahamas: A Word of Warning – By Zachary Cohen Country Brief: Ecuador – Blessing or Curse? More Oil Discovered in the Yasuní-ITT Region in Ecuador – By Jennalee Beazley Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 12 Brazil’s Lowered Standards in Internet Freedom – By Desirée Mota and Raphael Mariani Cuban “Refugees” vs. Central American “Immigrants”: Who Decides? – By Liliana Muscarella While Internationally Praised, Mexican Reform Leaves Much to be Desired –By Fabrizio Chollet Country Brief: Bolivia – Climate Change in Bolivia and the Uru-Murato at the Danger of Extinction – By Jion Yi Country Brief: El Salvador – The Two Faces of El Salvador’s Recent Homocide Decrease – By Pedro Izquierdo Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 11 Regularization of Migration in Panama: a Good Idea with Questionable Intentions –By Zachary Cohen GIEI’s Contribution to the Ayotzinapa Case – By Pedro Izquierdo Hezbollah in Latin America: Should we Worried? – By Julian Palmer Country Brief: Honduras – “Justice for Berta Cáceres”: Yet Another Murder Proves that Death and Impunity Prevail – By Emma Tyrou Country Brief: Mexico – A New Chapter in Judicial Proceedings – By Maria Fabrizio Washington Report on the Hemisphere Volume 36 Issue 10
