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Clinton said foreign investors, specifically from South Korea and Brazil, have already shown interest in establishing garment factories in Haiti if there are changes made to the HOPE (Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement) Act, which allows Haiti to export textiles tariff-free to the U.S. "I think it will create more than 100,000 jobs in Haiti in short order," said Clinton...
CELAC does reflect the U.S.'s declining hegemony in the western hemisphere. (For its part, the Obama Administration says it wants more of a "partnership" with Latin America instead of the traditional U.S. dominance.) But if history is any guide, it's doubtful that the situation will lead to anything like a Latin version of the European Union (E.U.). The Latin American landscape is littered with the acronyms of failed attempts to realize Simón Bolívar's dream of regional unity, and CELAC may well turn out to be little more than Calderón's attempt...
...been a key Democratic constituency, issued such scathing assessments of Obama's education-reform blueprint that even some fellow party members were mystified. "It's like they didn't read the document," says Charles Barone, director of federal policy at Democrats for Education Reform. "Apparently their definition of a partnership is that they're the bully and you're the weakling on the playground...
...peace. And the E.U. could work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest - ensuring that Bosnia does not slip back into conflict, working closely with Turkey to ensure its enormous potential for encouraging a new prosperity to Europe's East is realized, reaching out in a true partnership to the nations of North Africa - another good Sarkozy idea - to see if they can be brought within the European zone of prosperity. Doing nothing, giving in to inertia, will win the E.U. few friends. "An unsentimental President Obama has already lost patience with a Europe lacking coherence and purpose...
...just didn’t make sense to have two,” Li said. “The bottom line is to serve the student body and this partnership will be the best...