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Landmark Developments in Guatemalan Human Rights
by Lisa Skeen
Human rights activists in Guatemala continually come up against the country's stubborn structures of impunity, but recent events have renewed their hopes that the tide is finally beginning to turn toward truth and justice. And behind them is a mounting body of newly released documentary evidence. These emerging victories, however, continue to come at a price: Brutal reprisals and violence against human rights activists in Guatemala are still rampant.
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Obama and the Future of Cuban-U.S. Relations
by Sujatha Fernandes
How can we understand the prospects for U.S.-Cuba relations with the election of a Democratic president to the White House and a change in leadership in Cuba? What domestic constraints and opportunities does Barack Obama encounter as he seeks to open new channels of dialogue with Cuba? The domestic political ground is shifting and relations between Latin American nations are also in flux. Both factors will play a role in shaping U.S. relations with Cuba and with Latin America more broadly.
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Beyond the Media Hysteria on Hugo Chávez
by Daniel Denvir
The book Hugo! The Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution offers a remarkably sober portrait of the Venezuelan leader. Part personal history, political drama, media critique, and an analysis of misguided U.S. foreign policy, the book is a badly needed, reality-based antidote to media hysteria and its cartoonish portrayals of the Venezuelan leader.
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Soy: A Hunger for Land
by Evan Abramson
In this photo essay, small-scale farmers in the Paraguayan departments of Alto Paraná and San Pedro face off over land with industrial soy. Large-scale Paraguayan landowners have, with government collusion, displaced thousands of families in the last decade for their sprawling soy plantations.
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