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Nazih
Richani
May 21, 2013
There are signs that the Santos government and the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) are coming to an agreement regarding the agrarian question in Colombia. Based on the information known about the present agreement, if implemented, this would realize the century-long goal of...
Kevin
Edmonds
May 16, 2013
It has been 40 years since Assata Shakur was convicted of gunning down New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. During the trial, Shakur was found guilty and sentenced to 26-33 years in prison. However, in November 1979, she escaped from the Clinton County Correctional Facility,...
Todd
Miller
May 15, 2013
On April 28, several women returned to their pod, or unit, in the immigration detention center in Eloy, Arizona after dinner. There they found the body of Elsa Guadalupe-Gonzalez, a fellow detainee who had taken her life. Elsa was 24 years old and from Guatemala.
In March, Elsa had crossed...
Keane
Bhatt
May 14, 2013
The following petition, signed by over a dozen experts on Latin America and the media, was sent today to Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of The New York Times:
May 14, 2013
Dear Margaret Sullivan,
In a recent column (4/12/13), you observed:
Although individual words and phrases may not...
Emily
Achtenberg
May 11, 2013
On May 1, President Evo Morales expelled USAID from Bolivia for allegedly fomenting divisions within the country’s social movements in order to destabilize his government. The announcement came just days after Bolivia’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled that Morales can run for a third...
Nazih
Richani
May 10, 2013
While negotiations continue between the Santos government and the FARC, potato farmers in the countryside went on strike. This comes in the wake of the widespread protest movement staged by the small coffee growers some weeks ago. The underlying cause for the 120,000 potato-growers’ protests...