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My new article “Uribe Gains Access, Loses Credibilty” was just posted at the World Politics Review: BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president last November signaled a defeat not only for his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, but also for the outgoing Bush administration’s strongest hemispheric ally, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe. When George W. Bush [...] Brazilian Minister of Foreign Relations Celso Amorim gave an interview of interest to those following Cuba’s foreign relations to Colombian daily El Tiempo this week. The whole interview is available (in Spanish) here, but I’ve translated below the section that deals with Cuba’s entrance into the OAS (which I blogged about earlier this month). We couldn’t [...] The Colombian Senate passed an anti-tobacco law Tuesday, June 16, that will impose a number of restrictions above and beyond the increasingly common ban on smoking in restaurants, offices, and other public places. No more loosies or ten-packs: cigarettes will now only come in boxes of twenty. Cigarette advertisers will have to steer clear of [...] The Organization of American States voted by consensus at a gathering in San Pedro Sula this week to allow Cuba to reapply for membership. The event marked the third straight meeting of hemispheric heads of state in which Cuba dominated the agenda. Since Obama was elected, governments across the hemisphere have called upon him to rescind [...] |
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