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Jan/Feb 2009 - Not Just Change, But Justice: Taking on Policy in the Obama Era
 This issue of NACLA Report coincides with the inauguration of a new President in the White House, and we seized this opportunity to challenge the incoming administration by asking our contributors to present and discuss new proposals for a progressive U.S.- Latin America policy. Coverage includes a roundtable discussion on what a progressive U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America would look like; resistance to the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement; a new economic agenda for Latin America; a grassroots vision for U.S. immigration policy; new labor policies based on international solidarity; the upcoming elections in El Salvador and much much more.
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Did Venezuela's Opposition Meet with US Officials in Puerto Rico?
by Miguel Tinker Salas
Revelations made by a determined community media reporter in Venezuela indicate that four leading figures of the opposition against President Hugo Chávez may have met with a U.S. official in Puerto Rico. The details of the meeting remain sketchy, but the brewing scandal is already stoking the flames of what promises to be one of the most heated electoral battles in Venezuelan history: the constitutional referendum on whether to allow elected officials, including Chávez, to seek multiple reelection.
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Critics Respond to Human Rights Watch's Defense of Venezuela Report
by Various Authors
This is the third installment of an ongoing debate between Human Rights Watch (HRW) and a group of academics over the organization's recent report, "A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela." The academics respond that HRW's defense of its report stonewalls and ignores their original criticisms.
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Plan Mexico and Central American Migration
by Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens
Crossing the Guatemala-Mexico border region is perhaps the most dangerous leg of undocumented Central Americans' long journey to the United States. This border region also demonstrates in microcosm everything that's wrong with U.S. policy toward Mexico and Central America, where free trade, the drug war, US-backed militarization, and repressive immigration policies converge-making a bad situation worse for Central American migrants.
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