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Inter Press Service | Fabiola Ortiz - Former Argentine dictator Videla Dies in Prison at Age 87
Reuters | Hugh Bronstein - Venezuelan Soldiers to Patrol alongside Police to Fight Crime
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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
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Faith and Works on the Border
September 30, 2012
It is not hard these days to find a humanitarian crisis or to find humanitarians.
Fred
Rosen
June 14, 2011
Last weekend, while in California, Mexico’s free-trading, conservative president, Felipe Calderón identified some of his principal political enemies: U.S. Arms Dealers, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Mexican pacifists. He named no names, but the identities were clear.
He...
Nazih
Richani
June 13, 2011
State-sponsored crime is neither unique nor exceptional. In fact, as the prominent sociologist Charles Tilly pointed out, the history of the nation state has been violent. This violence has been harnessed over time to serve the interests of capital—as was the case of Europe.
Colombia is no...
Todd
Miller
June 12, 2011
On June 10, a new movement was born in Mexico. A peace caravan of hundreds of people from all over the country arrived to the border city of Ciudad Juárez to sign a national social pact with the goal of ending the militarized drug war in Mexico. This drug war has killed approximately 40,000 people...
Emily
Achtenberg
June 09, 2011
Last week Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched an ambitious program to eradicate extreme poverty by 2014. Under the “Brazil Without Poverty” initiative, the government will spend $12.5 billion a year to expand cash transfers and health, education, and job training services for some 16...
Suzanna
Reiss
June 08, 2011
“Break the taboo on debate and reform. The time for action is now.” These words embody the call to action put forward this month by the Global Commission on Drug Policy in a report arguing that “the global war on drugs has failed.” The Commission advocates for decriminalizing the drug market. The “...
Todd
Miller
June 08, 2011
From May 30 to June 5, I participated in the Migrant Trail Walk, a 75 mile walk from the U.S.-Mexico border to Tucson, Arizona, traversing the Altar Valley, one of the hottest stretches in the Sonoran desert during the summer months. This eighth annual walk was, as always, done in solidarity with...