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Colombia Reports | Olle Ohlsen Pettersson - Venezuelan President Meets with Private Television Stations
Venezuelanalysis.com | Tamara Pearson - Guatemala overturns former dictator's genocide conviction
Guardian | - Bolivia law lets Morales run for third term
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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
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The People vs. The Pirates: Controversy Abounds in Haitian Reconstruction Investigations
April 5, 2012
With the release of two separate investigations this week, it is becoming increasingly clear why the reconstruction has failed the Haitian people on such a massive scale
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.
U.S. Drug War Policy: Eroding Good Governance
December 5, 2011
During the last 20 years, about 850,000 people in Colombia lost their lives, largely as a result of organized
John Lindsay-Poland
Friday August 26 2011
For the last two decades, the dominant narrative justifying the U.S. military’s activities in Latin America has been the war on drugs and the fight against “narco-terrorists.” In the last ten years, however, the U.S. military has undertaken several unrelated activities including low-profile tests of military equipment; humanitarian assistance that the military itself acknowledges has intelligence-gathering purposes; and training to suppress social protest. This article was originally published in the May/June 2011 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas.