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Garifuna Resistance Against Mega-Tourism in Tela Bay
by James Rodriguez
The Caribbean coast of Honduras has been home to Afro-indigenous Garifuna communities for over 200 years. But a government-sponsored plan to build a tourist mega-resort on Garifuna lands in Tela Bay threatens not only their communally owned territories, but also an entire way of life for one of the planet's most unique cultures.
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McCain's Immigration Waffle
by Matthew Nerzig
Talk about pandering to your wanna-be, gotta-have conservative base. Senator John McCain, the maverick, who just last year led a major bipartisan campaign with liberal icon Ted Kennedy to pass sweeping immigration reform, is humming a different tune these days.
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Wayward Allies: President Rafael Correa and the Ecuadorian Left
by Daniel Denvir
Outside of Ecuador, most progressives consider President Rafael Correa to be a Leftist champion of social and economic justice. Inside the country, however, conflicts between Correa and the social movement Left-the indigenous movement, environmentalists and unions, among others-have become increasingly heated.
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Current Report: July/August 2008
A Cautious Hope: HIV/AIDS in Latin America
 As the HIV/AIDS pandemic enters its third decade in Latin America, not all the news is bad. Large public investments in the treatment and prevention of the disease offer some cautious hope that the pandemic can be slowed, contained, and made more bearable for those who suffer its effects. Even more important, as Shawn Smallman suggests herein, 'the political victory that Brazil and other developing nations won, by asserting their right to produce generic drugs against HIV,' has improved the life chances of the region's AIDS patients.
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