Twitter: latamthought- MT @FrancMex: Mexico's competition watchdog has upheld a fine of almost $1 billion against Telcel, Carlos Slim's mobile phone company.
- Relatively detailed account of money laundering from Guatemala to Panama http://t.co/Whkxu19p
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- Blog: Mexico dodges a bullet http://t.co/mbgZOYcA
Author Archives: Andrea Samuelson
The War on Drugs: Eradication of Colombia’s Indigenous People
The deadline for the FARC to return the slain bodies of the 27 Awa indigenous community members killed earlier this month expired at 6:00 PM on February 23, 2009. The killings, carried out on two separate occasions in the Nariño area of southwestern Colombia, have brought terror to the region and left more than 400 [...]
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Medellin: From Fear to Hope to Fear Again