Close But No Cigar . . . Yet Additionally, the Bridges legislation has these components Mavis Andersoncoordinates the Cuba program of the latin America Working Group (LAWG), http://www.resistinc.org/newsletter/issues/2001/07/anderson.html
Extractions: by Mavis Anderson The majority of US citizens want a new US policy toward Cuba. Many want to end the embargo and reestablish normal relations with our neighbor Cuba. An encouraging small step was taken last year with the passage of the FY2001 agriculture appropriations bill. Language in this bill attempted to update US/Cuba policy to make it appropriate to a post-Cold War reality; yet the United States is long past due in crafting a new comprehensive, humanitarian, and effective policy toward Cuba. We are still waiting for the Bush Administration to issue regulations that would put the new policy into effect. It may be a long wait. Votes earlier in the year 2000 in both the House of Representatives and the Senate on sanctions imposed on Cuba were overwhelming victories in favor of a positive change in US policy toward Cuba. However, those victories were stolen in backroom deals among Republican leaders and in conference committee maneuvering. The will of a few members of Congress with special interests and with power subverted and overturned the will of the majority in Congressand the will of the US people, the majority of whom have repeatedly expressed their desire in a variety of national polls for relaxing sanctions toward Cuba. Now supporters are faced with the task of correcting the financing shortcomings of last year's legislation, as well as moving both the debate and the actuality concerning US/Cuba policy beyond surface actions to a comprehensive and deep change in policy. This task is made more challenging in the context of a Bush Administration that owes a great deal to the Cuban Americans of South Florida for the role they played in the presidential election results.
Background Notes Archive - Western Hemisphere Local Government, and latin American AffairsFlorencio Marin Minister of Human To curb land speculation, the government enacted legislation in 1973 http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/wha/belize9903.html
Extractions: Compiled by: E. Keating Date completed: April 2004 EAD encoding: Martin Heggestad, May 2004 DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Title: Committee on United States/Latin American Relations printed material, c. 1975-1990. Collection Number: Creator: Committee on United States/Latin American Relations. Quantity: 19 cubic ft. Forms of Material: Magazines, periodicals, newsletters, articles, reports, and other materials. Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Abstract: Printed resource materials relating to Latin America collected by CUSLAR, including magazines, periodicals, newsletters, articles, and reports. COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Printed resource materials relating to Latin America collected by CUSLAR, including magazines, periodicals, newsletters, articles, and reports.
Project MUSE In effect, he calls on latin americans to go one step beyond the neoliberal agenda legislationall of which has failed to produce the intended effects. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_politics_and_society/v046/46.1lovema
Extractions: If the title of this book is too subtle for any would-be readers, the author's straightforward, no-nonsense writing makes clear, repeatedly, that the U.S. war on drugs in Latin America has failed miserably since the 1970s. Indeed, prohibition has failed since the United States adhered to the Hague Convention for the control of opium sales in 1912 and passed the Harrison Narcotic Act in 1914. The prohibitionist strategy, based on interdiction, crop eradication, crop substitution programs, "carrot and stick" certification-decertification programs, and, more recently, increased militarization of the "drug war," has not decreased supply, overall acreage of drug crops in production, or drug consumption in the United States, Europe, or elsewhere. Moreover, Carpenter affirms, "the bottom line is that, no matter what the specific configuration of tactics, the supply-side campaign against illicit drugs is doomed to fail. As long as there is a substantial global demand for those drugs, the supply will continue to flow" (pp. 120-21). Judged by its consequences, not its intentions, the war on drugs over the past three decades has been a colossal failure (p. 229).
Extractions: Latin America has made real progress toward democratic consolidation in recent decades, but violence, corruption and weak institutions in the region could undermine these democratic gains, according to Adolfo Franco, assistant administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In May 25 testimony before the House International Relations Committee's Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Franco said that although democracy has taken hold in most of Latin America, democracy and good governance are not one and the same. He added that trends linked to poor governance could unravel past democratic progress. Franco pointed out that violence and high crime rates in Latin America are creating instability and impeding economic development. He said that corruption is also undermining development efforts, and weak institutions are compromising governments' abilities to provide services to their constituents. The struggle of Latin American governments with these governance challenges has eroded perceptions of government legitimacy and undermined public support for democracy, Franco said.
Multinational Collections Database Search ARGENTINA, PETROLEUM LAW / CONTRACTS, GOVERNMENT MINING PETROLEUM LEGISLATIONIN latin AMERICA latin AMERICA 4 MINING LLWEST http://www.loc.gov/mulp/searchresult.jsp?cat=SUBJECT&str=PETROLEUM LAW / CONTRAC
Aranda, Thomas - Files groups and government on legislation related to equalizing latin American withEuropean immigration LAMA latin American Manufacturer s Association http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/guides/Finding Aids/Aranda, Thomas - Files.ht
Extractions: Office of Public Liaison THOMAS ARANDA, JR. Special Assistant to the President for Hispanic Affairs: Files, 1976-77 SUMMARY DESCRIPTION Material related to White House liaison with Hispanic groups and individuals and their issues during the last six months of the Ford administration. QUANTITY 5.5 linear feet (ca. 11,000 pages) DONOR Gerald R. Ford (accession number 77-64) ACCESS Open. Some items are temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256). Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Prepared by Nancy Mirshah , November 1989
Extractions: Investigating the Boom On the business side, Latin America's Internet boom is likely to continue for some time, but the real market for e-commerce is considerably smaller than many imagine: major expansion will focus on only a few countries, and there will be far greater growth in the business-to-business (B2B) bracket than in the business-to-consumer (B2C) one. Market forces alone will not do much to breach the `digital divide' in the region, which is a mirror-reflection of income-distribution patterns. However, the expansion of the Internet will not only take place in the area of e-commerce: existing initiatives are showing its potential as a tool of governance, education and coordination of development efforts. Development of these areas relies heavily on government action, alone or in combination with the private and non-governmental sectors. These were some of the main conclusions drawn from the conference on The Internet in Latin America: Investigating the Boom , organised by Latin American Newsletters with the co-sponsorship of Unido and held in London on 11-12 October The real market.
Researching Foreign And Comparative Law Researching latin American Legal Systems. Introduction. This guide will focus onlatin American legal sources generally with a special focus on Mexico, http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/latamerica.htm
Extractions: Law Center Researching Latin American Legal Systems Introduction This guide will focus on Latin American legal sources generally with a special focus on Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. What is foreign law? It is the national (also referred to as domestic or internal) law of any country other than the United States. Comparative law is "the study of the similarities and differences between the laws of two or more countries, or between two more more legal systems. Comparative law is not itself a system of law or a body of rules, but rather a method or approach to legal inquiry." (Berring, How to Find the Law, 9th ed., p 565). Research methods will vary depending on the country you are researching. When beginning to research a legal system, you should do the following: Understand the structure of the foreign legal system. For a quick way to find out the type of legal system, see the World Legal System Determine if there is a country research guide or bibliography.
