In the past, the COHA has expressed criticism of US policy towards Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela and neo-liberal social reforms in Latin America. It also criticized that the US entered into the NAFTA with (Canada and) Mexico while Mexico was still a country rife with endemic corruption, true democracy still desiring in its institutions and its trade unions still deprived of equality rights. Their credo was that it should have never been entered into until Mexican institutions were truly democratic, its trade unions could freely negotiate as equals, and the government had been cleansed of endemic corruption. COHA also continues to bring to light the random application of structural adjustments which badly affect the poorest of the poor of the Latin America population.