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		<title>Colombia on the International Stage</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/03/07/colombia-on-the-international-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos travels to Havana to meet with Cuban officials and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, currently convalescing in a Havana hospital. This hastily planned visit will last just a few hours,but the main item on the agenda holds broader regional significance. Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have pledged to boycott the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing the Revolution from the Revolutionaries? Henrique Capriles Radonski’s Challenge to Chávez in Venezuela</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/13/stealing-the-revolution-from-the-revolutionaries-henrique-capriles-radonski%e2%80%99s-challenge-to-chavez-in-venezuela/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/13/stealing-the-revolution-from-the-revolutionaries-henrique-capriles-radonski%e2%80%99s-challenge-to-chavez-in-venezuela/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McCarthy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capriles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mirroring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To win an election against an incumbent who plays fast and loose with the rules but who also commands significant popular support, is it better to campaign through confrontation or mirroring?
In Venezuela, this is a key dilemma facing the opposition to President Chávez. The victory of Henrique Capriles Radonski, the 39 year-old governor of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New oil discovery reignites dispute over Falkland Islands, reins in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/01/25/new-oil-discovery-reignites-dispute-over-falkland-islands-reins-in-u-s/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/01/25/new-oil-discovery-reignites-dispute-over-falkland-islands-reins-in-u-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleszu Bajak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falkland Islands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recently-discovered offshore oil deposit that could contain more than 500 million barrels has reignited the dispute over the Falkland Islands’ sovereignty. Las Malvinas, as they are known in Argentina, lie 300 miles off the Argentine coast and were the scene of the Argentina-Britain Falklands War in early 1982.
With the approach of the 30th anniversary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Guatemala&#8217;s Ex-President Worried about his Genocide Trial? Ríos Montt&#8217;s Visit to the Attorney General&#8217;s Office</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/12/20/why-is-guatemalas-ex-president-worried-about-his-genocide-trial-rios-montts-visit-to-the-attorney-generals-office/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/12/20/why-is-guatemalas-ex-president-worried-about-his-genocide-trial-rios-montts-visit-to-the-attorney-generals-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie Kitroeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=432</guid>
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Note: This post originally appeared on The Council on Foreign Relations Latin America&#8217;s Moment blog. Read the original here.
Last Thursday, former de facto President of Guatemala during military rule, General (ret) Efraín Ríos Montt walked into the Attorney General’s office to ask whether they planned on trying him on ten-year-old war crime charges anytime soon. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlos the Jackal: Thoughts on the Original Terrorist</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/11/21/carlos-the-jackal-thoughts-on-the-original-terrorist/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/11/21/carlos-the-jackal-thoughts-on-the-original-terrorist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. Alejandro &#34;Alex&#34; Sánchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the jackal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mentioning Ilich Ramirez Sanchez’ famous nickname brings up memories of the original terrorist&#8217;s most impressive feats, like the 1975 raid of an OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria. After the takeover of the  meeting, in which three people died, he and his commandos flew their hostages to Algiers, and, eventually, an ex-Royal Navy pilot called Neville [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US households becoming more Latin American?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/11/21/us-households-becoming-more-latin-american/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A major narrative in the US media (CNN, NYT, MSNBC, WaPo, just to name a few) these days is that of the &#8216;Lost Generation&#8217;, i.e. those recent college graduates who, unable to find jobs and saddled with debt, are returning to live at home after graduating college. A whole slew of articles has been written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideas, not money, will make Central America safer</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/06/24/ideas-not-money-will-make-central-america-safer/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/06/24/ideas-not-money-will-make-central-america-safer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicaragua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Santos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Boz has a great point about the fresh funding headed to Central America:
I think a lesson is that there is no amount of money that the US could put on the table and no amount of attention the US could give that would guarantee Central America&#8217;s success in fighting organized crime. 
The US is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patagonian hydroelectric dams approved</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/06/17/patagonian-hydroelectric-dams-approved/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/06/17/patagonian-hydroelectric-dams-approved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleszu Bajak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydroelectricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patagonia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The multibillion-dollar HidroAysén project has been given the final green light to build five hydroelectric dams in an untouched area of Chilean Patagonia. HidroAysén proposes to dam up two rivers at five locations, inundating 14,000 acres of wilderness to produce 2,750 megawatts of energy by 2020. The argument is a familiar one coming from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US-LatAm Relations</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/05/21/us-latam-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/05/21/us-latam-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 23:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My apologies in advance: the last thing the world needs is another blog post on US-Latin American relations. With that out of the way, there really are some interesting developments going on that warrant mention.
The NYTimes reports on a recent private dinner between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and six former Latin American presidents. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central America, crime, and what the Americas are doing about it</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/01/28/central-america-crime-and-what-the-americas-are-doing-about-it/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/01/28/central-america-crime-and-what-the-americas-are-doing-about-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicaragua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organized crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 3 March 2009, The Wall Street Journal published an Op-Ed titled “In Praise of Mexico’s War on Drugs”. Although it was written nearly two years ago, it is still a highly relevant and recommended read.
A day later, LatAmThought wrote the following in response to the article
Bret Stephens&#8217; commentary &#8220;In Priase of Mexico&#8217;s War on [...]]]></description>
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