Peru and Chile: The Mournful Fate of Peru’s 19th Century Doughty Naval...
Current dispute doesn’t risk the explosive potential of the still moldering 19th century Huascar dispute, which dates back to the War of the Pacific, which calls for a cordial and rapid resolution of...
View ArticleThe Andean Glaciers: From 12,000 Years Ago to Today
Geological History Although it may sound odd, the Earth is currently in an ice age, and has been for the last 2.58 million years. When we think of an ice age, we typically picture the entire planet...
View ArticleThe Free Market Experiment in Latin America: Assessing Past Policies and the...
Note: Part I of this three part series set the background regarding neoliberalism in the region. It explored the shortcomings of the free market strategy with respect to economic growth and...
View ArticleResearch: On Separatism in Latin America
In mid January 2013, the inhabitants of Chile’s Easter Island carried out major protests, declaring that the central government in Santiago had largely forgotten them and had failed to contribute to...
View ArticleOn Water Scarcity and the Right to Life: Bolivia
Water is arguably the substance most important to maintaining life on earth. At the mountainous center of South America, Bolivia’s complex struggles with the scarcity and commodification of water...
View ArticleCOHA Report: Drones in Latin America
For a PDF version of this report click here. Over the past several years, drone usage has become increasingly widespread, not solely among global military...
View ArticleEarth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals
Waskar Ari, Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals, Narrating native histories (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014). Review by: Marc Becker marc@yachana.org...
View ArticleEarth Politics Book Review: Waskar Ari responds to Marc Becker
Dear Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Thanks so much for sending out Marc Becker’s book review regarding Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous intellectuals. Here...
View ArticleSeminar on Bolivia: Wednesday April 23, 2014
COHA is pleased to invite you to: Continuity and Change in Bolivia: Neocolonialism, Societal Transformation and Food Sovereignty Professor John Brohman, COHA Guest Scholar, will...
View ArticleSimon Fraser University’s Professor John Brohman Discusses Neo-colonialism,...
Washington DC, April 30, 2014 (COHA) – On April 23, 2014 at the Washington Lecture Hall of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Professor John...
View ArticleRE: “Ex Presidents to Bachelet: Challenge ICJ jurisdiction in Bolivia case.”
Dear Editor, Please allow me to submit the following letter in response to the May 15 article and ongoing story, “Ex Presidents to Bachelet: Challenge...
View ArticleAdvancing Backwards: Bolivia’s Child Labor Law
By: Malavika Krishnan, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs In the midst of a global fight against child labor and poverty, Bolivia stands...
View ArticleFall Delegation to Bolivia: Presidential Election October 12, 2014. Food...
Bolivia is the first country in the hemisphere governed by a progressive indigenous. Learn about indigenous struggles for sovereignty over food, land, water, and the...
View ArticleCOHA Research: Food Wars in Latin America
By: W. Alejandro Sanchez, COHA Senior Research Fellow Bolivia has accomplished a major victory in its quest to consolidate itself as the world’s most-renowned producer...
View ArticleFrom Running Joke to Role Model: Progress in Evo Morales’ Bolivia
By Ronn Pineo, Senior Analyst with the Council Of Hemispheric Affairs and Chair of the Department of History, Townson University. “I’m convinced that capitalism is...
View ArticleBook Review: Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions – The Future of...
By: Stansfield Smith, Guest Scholar for the Council On Hemispheric Affairs. Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions – The Future of Twenty-First-Century Socialism (2013) 208pp $29.95 Roger Burbach,...
View ArticleBolivia: Complexity and Inspiration at the Roof of the World
By: Chuck Kaufman, guest scholar at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. I returned in mid-October from an eleven day delegation to Bolivia, led by Senior COHA Analyst...
View ArticleCOHA ANNOUNCEMENT: “REVISITING CONSENSUAL HEGEMONY: BRAZILIAN REGIONAL...
Sean Burges, Ph.D, a Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) in Washington DC, has published a paper entitled “Revisiting Consensual Hegemony: Brazilian Regional...
View ArticleInsufficient Media Reforms in Latin America: Urgency to Go Further
By: Clément Doleac, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Dating from the 1980s until the 2000s, the private sector in Latin America has...
View ArticleMore Pragmatic, Less Ideological: Bringing the U.S. and Bolivia Together?
By: W. Alejandro Sanchez, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Relations between the U.S. and Bolivia have been more or less tense...
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