Hemisphere articles from September 2004

Hemisphere archives from September 2004

From the editor.
September 22, 2004... This issue of Hemisphere went to press just weeks before the US presidential elections. As the campaign reached its high point and the candidates debated their positions on foreign policy and domestic issues, we heard very little about Latin...

The Caribbean, 15 years later.(Reports: the Caribbean)
September 22, 2004... In the inaugural issue of Hemisphere (fall 1988), I described the Caribbean as a region of "sovereign but balkanized and fragile states." I argued that the region might be reaching the limit of its privileged economic arrangements with both...

Venezuela after the referendum: US policy toward Chavez is unlikely to change.(Reports: Venezuela)
September 22, 2004... Observers are debating the course US foreign policy will take toward Venezuela after the August 15 referendum, which reaffirmed the mandate of President Hugo Chávez. Teams from the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Carter Center...

A victory for democracy.(Reports: Bolivia)
September 22, 2004... On Sunday, July 18, 2004, the people of Bolivia sent an important message to the nation and the world when approximately 60 percent of eligible voters went to the polls in the country's first democratic referendum. They were asked to answer yes...

Politics, access and history: the Chile Declassification Project of 1998-2000.(Features: the historical record)
September 22, 2004... As a college professor, I once wrapped up a class on modern Latin American history by putting General Agusto Pinochet Ugarte of Chile on trial for human rights abuses. That is, one group of students was assigned to prosecute, and another to...

Gangsters and prostitutes: asymmetrical inter-American relations.(Features: spheres of influence)
September 22, 2004... Great nations indeed may have always acted like gangsters and small nations like prostitutes, but the United States also has some loyal friends. Great Britain (at least, Prime Minister Tony Blair), for example, unwaveringly backed the US-led...

Widening the war on terror: US security policy toward Latin America since 9/11.(Features: security)
September 22, 2004... Relations between the United States and Latin America changed substantially after September 11, 2001. During the first months of his administration, George W. Bush announced that Latin America would become a central priority of US foreign...

The remittance lifeline: money sent from abroad helps Salvadoran families survive but hasn't changed the roots of poverty.(Features: remittances)
September 22, 2004... Alberto Rodríguez, 29, arrived in the United States four years ago with one goal: to get a job that would allow him to support his family. He could not achieve this goal in his own country, El Salvador, where unemployment rates are high due to...

Binational cooperation: homeland security and the politics of transportation and commerce.(Features: the US-Mexican border)
September 22, 2004... The political and business leaders of transnational communities on international borders have learned to examine the dictates of their political centers through a prism that gauges the impact on their regions of national and global interests....

Dream or deja vu? The debate surrounding George W. Bush's proposed immigration reform.(Photo essay: immigrant workers)
September 22, 2004... When President George W. Bush announced his plans for immigration reform on January 7, 2004, he immediately ran into opposition. The president called for a vast guest worker program that would legalize hundreds of thousands of immigrants,...

Is Mexico too difficult to bear?
September 22, 2004... The U.S. and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine By Jeffrey Davidow Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2003, 254 pages. $69.95 hardcover; $24.95 paperback. Easy to read and packed with delightful anecdotes, The Bear and the...

US-Latin American relations.(Publications Update)
September 22, 2004... The United States has a long history of involvement in and with Latin America. The relationship has varied from intense adulation to benign neglect--as dictated by US interests. Although at present the US has its attention focused elsewhere in...