| FOCALPoint:
Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
2007
ISSN 1703-7964
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 10, December 2007
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Note from the Editor - The Different Angles of Gender Analysis
Rachel Schmidt
Striking the Right Balance: The Recruitment of Female Migrant Workers to Canada
Monica Boyd and Joanne Nowak
No Girls Allowed? Recruitment and Gender in Colombian Armed Groups
Rachel Schmidt
Women’s Struggle for Truth, Justice and Reparation: Psycho-Social Approaches to Trauma in Guatemala
Colleen Duggan
Trafficking Women: Moving Beyond National Security
Barb Maclaren
Weavers of Life, Wisdom and Peace: Colombia’s Indigenous Women
Gloria Amparo Rodriguez
Tejedoras de Vida, de Sabres y de Paz: Las Mujeres Indígenas de Colombia
Gloria Amparo Rodriguez
News Briefs
Colombian Hostages: Proof of Life
Rift between Colombia and Venezuela
Brazil’s Eight Billion Barrels of New Oil
Ecuador: Congress v. Constituent Assembly
Chavez Loses Reform Vote
Facts and Figures
Rural to Urban Migration in Latin America
Indigent and Non-Indigent Poor Population in Latin America
Prevalence of Poverty in the Americas
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 9, November 2007
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Note from the Editor - Argentina's New Leader
Rachel Schmidt
Haiti: Putting Gender and Peacekeeping into Practice
Nadine Puechguirbal
Do Common Law Traditions Conflict with the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights?
Anthony Knox
The 2007 Leader’s Summit: Progress is Still too Slow
Perrin Beatty
Cuba’s Future: The Missing Variable
Racquel Smith
FOCAL Hosts Haitian Senators
Leslie Fillion-Wilkinson
News Briefs
Costa Rican Referendum
Cuba: Debating Socialism?
Round Two: Guatemala's Presidential Election
An Indigenous Diplomatic Mission
New U.S. Policies Towards Cuba
Active Democracy Network Moves Forward
Anti-Drug Plan for Mexico
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 8, October 2007
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Note from the Editor
Rachel Schmidt
How Competitive are Latin America’s Schools?
Tamara Ortega Goodspeed and Jeffrey Puryear
Public-Private Collboration in Education: A New Development Model for Haiti
Leslie Fillion-Wilkinson and Carlo Dade
Education as Protection in Contexts of Armed Conflict: The Case of Colombia
Eleanor Douglas
Informal Education and Peacebuilding by Colombian Youth
Linda Dale
Chávez and the Bolivarian Education System / Chávez y el sistema educativo bolivariano
Mariano Herrera
News Briefs
Pacific Arc
Jamaican Elections
UN Indigenous Rights Declaration
Facts and Figures
Canadian Perceptions of Latin America - Polling Data (August 2007)
Is Latin America a Priority for Canadians?
What Countries Share Canadian Values?
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 7, Sept. 2007
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Canadian Exports to South America are Booming
Stephen Poloz
Flow-through Shares and Incentives: Funding Patience in Consultations
Jean Pierre Chabot
Disposable Youth: The “Social Cleansing” of Children in Colombia
Rachel Schmidt
Haiti: Taking the Next Step
Caroline Lavoie (also published in French)
Striving for Equitable Development: Energy and Indigenous Governance in Bolivia
Omairia Mindiola (also published in Spanish)
The Face of Poverty and Natural Disasters: Peru
Racquel Smith
FOCAL POINT: Spotlight on the Americas
Special Issue: Montebello Leaders' Summit
Aug 2007
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Foreword: Common Sense and the SPP
Carlo Dade
North American Leaders Reinforce the Benefits of Cooperation,
David H. Wilkins
Achieving True Security and Prosperity for North Americans:
The Leaders’ Summit in Montebello
Emilio Goicoechea
The North American Summit: More or Less than It Seems?
Robert A. Pastor
NAFTA All Over Again?Promoting a Better Understanding of the SPP
Thomas d’Aquino
The 2007 Leaders’ Summit:
What’s in it for Us?
Perrin Beatty
Will North American Leaders Follow Through on Energy?
Joseph M. Dukert
Obstacles to North American Integration: The Rhetoric and Reality in Mexican Foreign Policy
Athanasios Hristoulas
The Potential for Canada-Mexico-U.S. Cooperation
José Luis Valdés Ugalde
A North American Approach to Energy Security: The Case of Two G8 Countries and an Emerging Economy
Lourdes Melgar
FOCALPoint: Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 6, July-August 2007
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Canada, the Americas and the Caribbean
Carlo Dade
Op-Ed: For a Bolstering of Canada’s Leadership in the Americas
Rt. Hon. Joe Clark
Canada and the Colombian Conflict: Opportunities and Perspectives,
Sandra Borda and Maria Paz Berger
Brazil and Canada: Convergent Interests
José Botafogo Gonçalves
Chile-Canada Relations: Forging a Common Experience
Carlos Huneeus
Canada’s Developmental Role in the Caribbean
John Rapley
Haiti-Canada: Quel futur?
Jacky Lumarque
FOCALPoint: Spotlight on the Americas
Special Edition on Labour Migration and Development
May-June 2007
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Latin America and the Caribbean: Skilled Migration, Alternatives, and Old and New Questions
Jorge Martínez Pizarro and Corina Courtis
Temporary Migration as a Way of Life
Laura Dawson
International Migration and Human Development in El Salvador
William Pleitez
Ecuador-Spain Co-Development: Illusion or Reality?
Richard Salazar
Foreign Workers in Canadian Agriculture: Not an All-Male Cast
Kerry Preibisch
Beyond Remittances and Migration Reform,
Katharine Andrade-Eekhoff
The 3x1 Program in Mexico: Achievements and Challenges
Rodolfo García Zamora
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 5, June 2007
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Mexico-Brazil Relations: Status and Prospects
Gerónimo Gutiérrez
The US Demographic Shift
Carlo Dade
The Mother of All Reforms
Juan Antonio Blanco
Ethanol and Latin America: Economic Opportunity or Impediment to Growth?
Matthew Fuller
The Guatemalan Electoral Roll Key to Citizen Participation
María Alejandra Erazo
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 4, May 2007
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Chávez Between Romanticism and Pragmatism
Miguel Ángel Santos
Constituent Assembly and Turmoil in Ecuador
Andrés Mejía Acosta
Mexico and Brazil: Myths and Reality, Toward a New Vision for Cooperation
Federico Vázquez
The Paradox of Cuban American Identity
Guillermo Grenier
Chávez entre el romanticismo y el pragmatismo
Miguel Ángel Santos
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 3, Apr 2007
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Bank of the South: Politically Driven Agenda Duplicates Existing Institutions
Vladimir Torres
A Revitalized Policy for the Americas
John W. Graham
Cuba’s Energy Future
Jorge Piñon
Brazil and Mexico Edging Towards a Strategic Relationship?
Alberto Pfeifer
Troubles Mounting in Guatemala
Carlos A. Rosales
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 2,
March 2007
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A Word from the Executive Director
Carlo Dade
Finish the Canada–Central America Four Trade Negotiations
Donald R. Mackay
New Data Sheds Light on Remittance Sending Patterns of Immigrants in Canada
Per Unheim
Governance and the Extractive Industries on Indigenous Territories
Jean-Pierre Chabot
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Special Edition on Cuba
February 2007
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Foreword: Debates on Cuba’s Present and Future
Ana Faya
Canada’s “New” Conservative Government’s
Foreign Policy: Implications for Canada’s Policy of Constructive Engagement with Cuba?
Cristina Warren
US-Cuba Relations: The Limits of Wishful Thinking
Dan Erikson
The Cuban Economy After Fidel
Archibald R. M. Ritter
A New Mexican Government Faces Cuba
Ana Covarrubias
European Union Policy Towards a New Government in Cuba
Susanne Gratius
Canada, Cuba, Race and Engagement
Carlo Dade
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 6, No. 1, January/February 2007
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Haiti: Economic Growth and Violence
Carlo Dade
The Indigenous Peoples’ Difficult Road to the Millennium Goals
Omaira Mindiola
Talking Integration in Latin America
Vladimir Torres
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