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Reuters | Hugh Bronstein - Venezuelan Soldiers to Patrol alongside Police to Fight Crime
Venezuelanalysis.com | Tamara Pearson - Detention of Undocumented Immigrants, a Multimillion Dollar Business
Latin American Herald Tribune | - Brazil judicial decision paves way for gay marriage
BBC | - Julian Assange Claims US Cyber Spying Threatens Latin America
Silicon Angle | Mike Wheatley - Guatemala's Rios Montt found guilty of genocide
BBC | - Historic Genocide Trial Nears End; Rios Montt Addresses the Court, Declares Innocence
| Jo Marie-Burt - In Venezuela, Still No Justice in Indigenous Leader's Murder
Global Voices | Rachael Petersen - Colombia's Uribe Slams Venezuelan "Dictator" Maduro
Reuters | Eduardo Garcia - More Haitians Using Puerto Rico as Migrant Route
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Driving in the "Constitution-Free Zone"
September 21, 2012
On September 12, I am driving on my way home from work. It is an approximately two and a half hour drive to Tucson from the border town of Douglas, Arizona.
Nazih
Richani
April 03, 2013
On March 19, General John Kelly made a statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee in which he outlined the posture of the US military toward Latin America. General Kelly is the Commander of the U.S. Marine Corps' U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) that seeks to coordinate U.S....
Jeremy Slack
and Daniel Eduardo Martínez
April 03, 2013
Javier, 30, is from Estado de Mexico. After his most recent apprehension while trying to enter the United States extralegally, he was sent to Operation Streamline, a mass trial program that criminally prosecutes migrants arrested by the Border Patrol. The judge ordered that Javier be...
Emily
Achtenberg
April 01, 2013
Land reform in Bolivia, and the promise of land redistribution from wealthy latifundistas and agrobusiness elites to poor farmers and indigenous communities, has been a hallmark of President Evo Morales’s administration. Recent data from the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) provide...
Kevin
Edmonds
March 28, 2013
In the most recent Canadian budget, it was announced that the Canadian International Development Agency was being “modernized.” Going forward, CIDA will no longer function as a separate governmental agency, but instead it will be folded into the Department of Foreign Affairs and...
César Cuauhtémoc
García Hernández
March 27, 2013
Last month’s sequester-related release of immigrants from immigration detention centers brought praise from immigrants' rights advocates and impassioned criticism from conservative politicians. House Speaker John Boehner decried the decision to “let criminals go free,” and chairman of the...
Nazih
Richani
March 27, 2013
The three thousand peasants that participated in the third encounter of the National Association of Peasant Reserve Zones, which took place in San Vicente del Caguán in the department of Caquetá last Friday, were an important impetus to the FARC’s proposal of expanding these reserved zones...