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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
AP | Danica Coto
Canada: A Late but Eager Partner in Policing the Caribbean
February 2, 2012
Since 2006 Canadian Forces have participated in numerous counter-narcotics missions in the Caribbean basin called Operation Caribbe, as part of the wider U.S. Joint Interagency Task Force-South.
Discussing Domestic Violence in the Caribbean
January 26, 2012
When crime and the Caribbean is uttered in the same sentence, a reference to the drug trade is unfortunately not far behind.
Keane
Bhatt
December 13, 2012
[Renowned linguist, political analyst and activist Noam Chomsky offered his thoughts to me on Latin America and the role of the United States last month. Among his many observations, he considered Honduras as "a kind of a horror story," and Haiti "an NGO dependency." The following is an...
Emily
Achtenberg
December 13, 2012
December 7 marked the formal conclusion of the Bolivian government’s controversial consultation process with communities in the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), to determine the fate of a proposed highway that would bisect their ancestral lands.
Vice President...
Joseph
Nevins
December 05, 2012
Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those who smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is highlight how the ludicrous “war on drugs” produces casualties of many sorts.
Eugenio...
Emily
Achtenberg
November 30, 2012
The tradition of dual residency—between city and countryside, or across national borders—has been an important survival strategy, and a source of solidarity, for indigenous communities. But in places like Oaxaca, Mexico and the Bolivian highlands, the practice is now becoming a source of...
Nazih
Richani
November 26, 2012
This week a U.S. delegation—led by Denis McDonough, the National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama—is to meet with the Colombian Minister of Defense Juan Carlos Pinzón and the Minister of Foreign Affairs María Ángela Holguín. This is the most important U.S. delegation to visit...
Kevin
Edmonds
November 23, 2012
"Photo Credit: Tab Hauser"
“Make no mistake about it. Our region is in the throes of the greatest crisis since independence. The specter of evolving into failed societies is no longer a subject of imagination. How our societies crawl out of this vicious vortex of persistent low growth,...