OAS: Almagro’s Challenges
By Fulton Armstrong and Eric Hershberg Photo Credit: OEA – OAS / Flickr / Creative Commons The OAS’s new Secretary General, Luis Almagro Lemes, appears to be steering his organization toward a...
View ArticlePreparing the West Indies for the Demise of PetroCaribe
By Thomas Andrew O’Keefe* ariwriter / Flickr / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The English-speaking Caribbean nations – whose heavy dependence on...
View ArticleCaribbean Integration: Necessary but Elusive
By Victor Bulmer-Thomas* #83951044 / gettyimages.com The dream of Caribbean solidarity has never been in greater peril. Norman Girvan, who died on April 9, was committed to the cause of Caribbean...
View ArticleDominicans of Haitian Origin: Foreigners in their native land
By Maribel Vásquez Haitian sugar cane workers in the Dominican Republic / Photo credit: ElMarto / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND Nearly three months after the Dominican Republic stripped residents born to...
View ArticleRevitalization of the OAS: More than an act of Congress
By Carlos Portales* U.S. Congressional passage in late September of the “Organization of American States Revitalization and Reform Act of 2013” could either help revitalize the troubled body or...
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