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Resisting the Silence: Voices of Survival in Mexico 26 Jul 2012 | 04:55 am
Author: Anila Churi Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Teaser: John Gibler's 2011 book, "To Die in Mexico," does not pretend to offer an easy solution to Mexico’s drug war, but the voices of survi...
International Hearing Highlights Abuses in Honduras While Government Signs Loan to Buy Part of Contested Territory 16 Jun 2012 | 02:25 am
Author: Danielle Mackey Date: Friday, June 15, 2012 Teaser: In the violent agrarian conflict in the Bajo Aguan region of Honduras, a new financial deal and continued eviction threats are...
Peru: Humala Takes Off His Gloves 17 May 2012 | 11:50 pm
Author: Deborah Poole and Gerardo Rénique Date: Thursday, May 17, 2012 Teaser: Peruvian president Ollanta Humala was elected in 2011 as a left-wing “candidate of change,” promising to end corr...
Child Migrant Farmers in the United States: A Quest for a Better Life 15 May 2012 | 02:18 am
Author: Arturo Conde Date: Monday, May 14, 2012 Teaser: U. Roberto Romano’s 2011 documentary The Harvest (La Cosecha) reminds us of the human cost of what we eat. “In some countries, children ...
Che: Behind the CIA’s Killing of a Revolutionary 9 May 2012 | 09:51 am
Author: Hobart Spalding Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Teaser: In Who Killed Che?, radical attorneys Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith lay out a forceful case indicting the U.S. government o...
Zapatismo in Chiapas and Beyond 24 Apr 2012 | 09:24 am
Author: Alicia Swords Date: Monday, April 23, 2012 Teaser: In Zapatista Spring, author Ramor Ryan reveals the ambivalent, contradictory, and neocolonial nature of “solidarity work” in one of t...
Latin America Unravels the Populist Putdown 21 Apr 2012 | 05:09 am
Author: Keane Bhatt Date: Friday, April 20, 2012 Teaser: Writing for The New York Times’ Economix blog on March 15, Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund ...
Contradictions in Power: Reflections on the Plurinational March for Water and Extractivism in Ecuador 20 Apr 2012 | 09:03 am
Author: Valerie Carmel Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012 Teaser: On March 22, the global day of water, thousands participated in the Plurinational March for Water, Life, and Dignity to protest th...
Drugs and Business: Central America Faces Another Round of Violence 18 Apr 2012 | 06:42 am
Author: Annie Bird Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Teaser: Communities that suffered through the civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s are once again faced with violence as they defend their land ag...
U.S. Narcotics Chief Defends Drug War During Central American Tour 5 Apr 2012 | 03:09 am
Author: Allen Hines Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 Teaser: William Brownfield, U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), to...
