Thirty-five years of Senator Kennedy being the Senate’s hub, when it came to U.S.-Latin America Relations
From its founding in 1975, COHA worked closely with Senator Kennedy, often on an urgent basis, when the lives of various Latin Americans were at stake as a result of the multiple dirty wars being waged by military and other authoritarian regimes around the hemisphere against their own citizens.
We at COHA were always very grateful for Senator Kennedy’s kind words about COHA, which he inserted in the Congressional Record, referring to the organization as “one of our nation’s most respected bodies of scholars and policy makers.”
COHA’s tribute next Monday to the memory of Senator Kennedy will describe his work with the organization, particularly during the 1980s dirty wars throughout Latin America. Along with a handful of other senators like Tom Harkin of Iowa and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, Kenne dy was one of the best informed and most caring U.S. legislators when it came to responding to Latin American humanitarian issues, particularly when dealing with such pathological military and other authoritarian regimes then to be found in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, Colombia and El Salvador, among others.
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