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Revealed: McCain's Private Visit With Chilean Dictator Pinochet Revealed
by John Dinges
 John McCain, who has harshly criticized the idea of sitting down with "dictators" without pre-conditions, appears to have done just that. In 1985, McCain traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with Chile's military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, one of the world's most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others.
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U'wa Fight New Oil Exploration
by Bart Beeson
The indigenous U'wa of northeast Colombia are battle-hardened experts at fending off greedy oil companies' attempts to drill on their lands. Up until now, these corporations have been foreign, but the latest threat comes from the homegrown Ecopetrol, Colombia's partly state-owned energy company. As government and corporate officials recently announced new plans for expanded oil explorations, the U'wa have once again started to hunker down, preparing for the long battle ahead.
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Toward a New US-Latin America Foreign Policy
by Latin America Solidarity Coalition
The Latin America Solidarity Coalition Coordinating Committee has adopted the following talking points for use by local activists to educate their communities and influence opinion makers and elected officials. With a new administration soon to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C., it is time for progressive activists to demand a new foreign policy toward Latin American and the Caribbean.
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Loosening Guantánamo's Grip: The Story of Matthew Diaz
by Jessica Weisberg
At the end of his six-month tour at the U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Matthew Diaz made a decision that would change his life- and possibly that of hundreds of prisoners held in the Pentagon's legal vacuum. In return, Diaz was fired, jailed, and had his legal license suspended. Since blowing the whistle on the illegal detainment of so-called "enemy combatants," Diaz's life has been a daily struggle.
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