Commenting on Arturo Valenzuela’s recent speech to the OAS (a link to the speech follows Mark’s comment), Mark Weisbrot writes: Yesterday, President Obama’s new top State Department official for Latin America, Arturo Valenzuela, delivered a speech about Honduras at the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States. The speech provides some…
Mark Weisbrot sent the following letter to José de Cordoba, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, in response to the article which is posted at the end. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:38:44 -0500To: jose.decordoba@wsj.comFrom: Mark Weisbrot <weisbrot@cepr.net> José, Thought I would offer a couple of translations: 1. "While the U.S. and some Latin American…
Senator Richard Lugar’s office has issued a statement supporting recognition of the Honduran elections on November 29. Just Foreign Policy President Mark Weisbrot comments: This is not surprising, Lugar has been with his party leadership on this all along, including his letter in July that got the State Department to write their response that appeared…