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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
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BBC | - Historic Genocide Trial Nears End; Rios Montt Addresses the Court, Declares Innocence
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Emily
Achtenberg
July 15, 2011
Argentinian singer-songwriter Facundo Cabral, gunned down en route to the Guatemala City airport on July 9, was beloved throughout Latin America for his lyrical popular protest songs. Exiled to Mexico during Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship, his music, poems, and 66 books inspired millions...
Suzanna
Reiss
July 14, 2011
Bolivia’s attempt to revise the primary treaty governing international drug control, the 1961 Single Convention, to protect traditional uses of the coca leaf by indigenous communities was defeated in January when the United States effectively mobilized opposition to the proposed amendment. However...
Joseph
Nevins
July 13, 2011
A lot fewer Mexican migrants are entering the United States outside the confines of U.S. government’s regulatory regime. As reported in a July 5, New York Times piece, analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of U.S. census figures show that the unauthorized Mexican migrant population “has shrunk” and...
Michael
Fox
July 12, 2011
By NACLA
Isaac Campos (University of Cincinnati)In his article in the most recent issue of NACLA, historian Isaac Campos explains, “The roots of the War on Drugs go deep in Mexico. In fact, in some ways, they are deeper there than in the United States.” This long history of drug prohibition...
Fred
Rosen
July 12, 2011
Javier Sicilia Credit: Agendamx“For some,” writes Javier Sicilia, responding to critics within his own fledgling movement, “to dialogue is to capitulate.” If you haven’t humiliated your adversary, you have failed. But to change the dynamic of the violence that has beset the country over,...
Nazih
Richani
July 11, 2011
Colombian Army (Credit: BBC)In Colombia the hyper security state is committed to continuing its war in spite of several recent good will gestures by the insurgency, including the unilateral release of a number of its detained prisoners of war and numerous calls by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...