The Americas: On the Brink
The Canadians who best knew Latin America at the beginning of this century were a small band of dedicated missionaries and a handful of intrepid entrepreneurs. Otherwise, Canadians at large ignored the exotic and oh-so-foreign land of Carmen Miranda. There was a…
The Road to Santiago
From an Address to the CIIA, Ottawa Branch March 16, 1998, by Peter M. Boehm, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the OAS
The Old Street Singer
In the heart of the stinking slum there is a small oasis of hope. Behind the mottled stucco and ragged geraniums, on a small crowded veranda, a group of society’s rejects sit happily in the tropical winter. The sunshine filters through the…
Beyond the Walls: Architectural Rambles Abroad
Cast your mind back to your first foreign posting. Sifting through the memories, extract that single feature which most forcefully and subtly shaped your perception of that society.
The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution: An Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation
Fidel Castro’s social revolution struggles to survive, no longer able to rely on the unstinting support it has depended on for thirty years from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. There, socialism has vanished in the twinkling of an historical eye. How…
Le Canada à l’Organisation des États américains (OEA)
Le 27 octobre 1989, le Premier ministre Mulroney annonçait à San José, Costa Rica, que le Canada n’entendait plus « rester à l’écart » de l’Hémisphère : nous allions donc adhérer à l’OEA et « devenir des citoyens à part entière qui…
Le Canada et l’Organisation des États Américains
La signature récente de la Charte de l’OEA par le Canada, marquant ainsi son adhésion à l’organisme hémisphérique et régional, atteste d’une nouvelle maturité de la politique étrangère canadienne. Cela ouvre aussi la porte à de nouvelles initiatives susceptibles de rehausser l’influence…
Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family
See replan on Pental Americ Her book on Nicaragua provides a largely 1981 for her reporting on Central America. Eye-witness account of events there since July 1979 and before; the result is to set the record straight on most of the major…
Brasilsat
En 1985, une fusée Ariane lance depais le centre spatial de Kourou en Guyane française mit sur orbite le premier de deux satellites brésiliens destinés à répondre aux besoins en télécommunications de ce pays.
