Word: inter-american
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...hemisphere in measures of poverty, HIV/AIDS prevalence, and malnourishment. Tragically, the Bush Administration’s policies toward Haiti have only exacerbated these problems. In 2001, in a thinly veiled attempt to undermine the Aristide government, Bush cut off all U.S. foreign aid to Haiti and prevailed upon the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the IMF to freeze loans to the Aristide government...
Coral Fernandez-Illescas will step down at the end of January to work for the Inter-American Development Bank, which funds development in Latin America and the Caribbean...
While their peers flock to more popular south American spots like Cancun, the 25 members of The Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy (HACIA) will spend this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Guatemala City running a mock Organization of the American States (OAS) conference...
...never been involved with the small Latino organization, preferring the Tibetan organization and Student Council. As she puts it, “My identity as an ethnic person happened here.” Last year, Hernandez served as president of RAZA, and remains active in the Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy (HACIA Democracy), a model government program for Latin American High School students. She tutors writing and Spanish at the Bureau of Study Counsel, is a Mexican-American representative for the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, and is a member of the Race, Culture and Diversity Council for Winthrop House...
...Still, Lula's election, should it happen, would be no small matter. Brazil has the largest economy in Latin America; some of the trends that seem likely to propel Lula to power are visible elsewhere on the continent as well. Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think tank, says that Lula's success reflects widespread "unhappiness with the results of economic reform and the quality of leadership." Lula will be nobody's stooge, least of all Washington's. "The U.S. thinks first and foremost of the U.S.," he told Time recently...