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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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Murphy
Woodhouse
November 06, 2012
On November 2, high above Nogales, Sonora at the Colinas del Buen Pastor cemetery, Taide Elena placed two lit candles on the grave of her grandson, 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodríguez.
Taide Elena, Jose Antonio's grandmother, paying her respects at her grandson's grave. Credit:...
Keane
Bhatt
November 05, 2012
Over the past 30 years, the top 1% of the United States has experienced a 240% increase in its real annual income, while that of the median household has barely budged. Imagine if this explosive, decades-long growth of inequality were somehow reversed—and reversed at an even faster rate...
Nazih
Richani
November 03, 2012
On November 15, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and the delegates of the Colombian state will begin to tackle the first issue on their agenda: the agrarian question. My previous blog addressed the diametrically opposed narratives and positions on the...
Kevin
Edmonds
November 03, 2012
With Hurricane Sandy still vividly imprinted on everyone’s mind, it is important to remember that the storm’s destruction did not begin once the storm came ashore off the coast of New Jersey. Before the storm made landfall, it took the lives of 70 people, the majority occurring in Haiti (54...
Todd
Miller
November 02, 2012
It is 5:30 am and we are traveling down highway 86 in southern Arizona on the Tohono O’odham Nation. It is so dark and quiet that even the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint outside of Three Points, approximately 20 miles to the west of Tucson, seems to be sleeping, despite the glaring stadium...
Emily
Achtenberg
November 02, 2012
Bolivia returned to the international credit markets last month after an absence of nearly a century, selling $500 million in 10-year bonds at an interest rate of 4.875%. The country’s last global bond sale was in the 1920s, to finance expansion of the national railway network.
The event...