Manuel Pérez Rocha
Foreign Policy In Focus contributor Manuel Pérez Rocha is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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Views Friday, March 25, 2011 Obama in Latin America: Another Missed Opportunity U.S. President Barack Obama’s most audacious phrase during his trip to Latin America that ended this week was "We are all Americans. Todos somos Americanos ." The phrase seemed designed to provoke rants from the right wing in the United States. But in fact, the right wing and the mainstream media largely overlooked Obama's tour. Read more |
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Views Friday, February 04, 2011 We Need to Rethink, Not Rearm NAFTA U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet in Washington today amid calls in the United States for tougher security on the northern border. Suggestions in the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the 49 th parallel is an unruly ‘no man's land' threatening the American people, and that Canadians should need visas to enter the United States prompted the meeting. Read more |
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Views Monday, November 08, 2010 How about Saving all the Miners? Remember the joy shared by millions around the world as we watched as the Chilean miners were rescued one by one? Celebrating their survival made me wish that the global mining industry could find itself in the spotlight too, with lights glaring at each aspect of its destructiveness and criminality. Read more |
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Views Monday, July 19, 2010 Misguided US Economic Policies Drive Many Mexicans to Cross Border President Barack Obama did the right thing by supporting comprehensive immigration reform that would place millions of undocumented workers on the path to citizenship. Obama even went a step further, suing the state of Arizona for its unconstitutional and racially profiling immigration law. That law would punish and divide families, many of whose members have worked years for this country. Read more |
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Views Friday, October 30, 2009 More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA A bizarre meeting on the "Future of North America" was scheduled to take place on November 2 and 3. Members of the newly created, self-appointed " Commission on North American Prosperity " would have gathered in Toronto. Amazingly, the meeting was considered a "summit," even though none of the presidents slated to lead it are sitting presidents. There was George H.W. Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 20, 2008 A Violent Mexican “Independence” Day Throughout Mexican modern history, millions have gathered in the country's central squares every year on the eve of our Independence Day, September 16, to give out the traditional "shout" of independence. This year, the celebration turned into tragedy in the city of Morelia, when two hand grenades thrown into the crowed killed seven civilians and wounded dozens, adding to the rampant violence that increasingly permeates Mexican society. Read more |