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		<title>Overstating Cartels&#8217; Relevance to the American Electorate</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/11/02/overstating-cartels-relevance-to-the-american-electorate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lead article in last week&#8217;s Proceso talks about the political importance of capturing El Chapo for both the Calderon and Obama administrations. The article is worth a read in its entirety, but the focus of this post is on a quote from the informed and esteemed analyst/lawyer/economist Edgardo Buscaglia:
&#8220;For Obama, El Chapo is Osama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Ciudad Mier, deploying troops is not enough</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/09/05/in-ciudad-mier-deploying-troops-is-not-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/09/05/in-ciudad-mier-deploying-troops-is-not-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartels]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in November 2010, a small town on the US-Mexico border, Ciudad Mier, made headlines when most of the town&#8217;s residents left because of intense fighting between the Zetas and Gulf cartels. Both groups wanted the plaza, which is a strategic smuggling corridor for weapons, cash, and money between the United States and Mexico, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different Means, Same Ends</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/08/05/different-means-same-ends/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/08/05/different-means-same-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FARC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operational Risk]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oil production in Colombia is a popular topic these days. Domestic production levels are at an all time high, and Colombian state-owned oil behemoth Ecopetrol is considering selling 10 percent of its stake in the firm to the public. Dow Jones reports the deal will likely go down in 2012. Silla Vacia has an excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming Brand Mexico</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/06/13/re-claiming-brand-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/06/13/re-claiming-brand-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nation Branding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Roberto Newell Garcia of the Woodrow Wilson Center has published a great report titled &#8220;Restoring Mexico&#8217;s Reputation.&#8221;
The basic premise of Newell&#8217;s argument is that Mexico is facing a number of problems, but that the one that gets far and away the most coverage &#8211; organized crime/drug-related violence &#8211; is not necessarily the most important. Citing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Far-Reaching Demonstrations Against AZ Law</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/05/14/far-reaching-demonstrations-against-az-law/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/05/14/far-reaching-demonstrations-against-az-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Calle 13]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB 1070]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How divisive is Senate Bill 1070?
There was a universal rejection of the law by the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), as well as protests on both sides of the border:

But the protests have spread to countries where a large diaspora stands to be impacted by the law. On 14 May, hundreds of Ecuadorians  in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selective Impunity</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/29/selective-impunity/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/29/selective-impunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[El Chiguire Bipolar has a good take on the concept of selective impunity.
In the Onion-like fashion for which the blog is known, it tells the story of Maria Angelica Guerrero, a two-time victim of lightning kidnappings and exasperation at the police&#8217;s ineffectiveness. Thinking creatively, she attempts to get her kidnapper to speak negatively about Hugo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merida 2.0: A New Phase in U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/26/merida-2-0-a-new-phase-in-u-s-mexico-security-cooperation/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/26/merida-2-0-a-new-phase-in-u-s-mexico-security-cooperation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dora Beszterczey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Responding to a growing sense that an exclusive focus on a military-led fight against drug trafficking organizations is failing to curb violence on the other side of our southern border, the United States and Mexico formally announced a shift in their counternarcotics strategy that had been in the works since the fall of 2009. The “new stage” in bilateral cooperation will aim to strengthen civilian law enforcement institutions and rebuild communities crippled by poverty and crime.]]></description>
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		<title>The International Reach of Organized Crime</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2009/11/27/the-international-reach-of-organized-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2009/11/27/the-international-reach-of-organized-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartels]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, LatAmThought wrote a commentary about the international reach or criminal organizations in the Americas. Last week, we published an article on the International Relations and Security Network about the indirect presence of Mexican Cartels in the Andes.
The amount of drug seizures in Bolivia have increased in 2009. Additionally, raids on drug-processing labs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative thinking on the drug war?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2009/02/25/creative-thinking-on-the-drug-war/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2009/02/25/creative-thinking-on-the-drug-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/2009/02/25/creative-thinking-on-the-drug-war/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The taboo that kept some from outright admitting that current antinarcotics policies have failed has all but disappeared.  A recent report by former Brazilian President Crdoso, former Colombian President Gaviria, and former Mexican President Zedillo made precisely this point and an op-ed by the three this week in the WSJ with the headline &#8220;The War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latin America as a Role Model for Drug Policy</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2009/02/11/latin-america-as-a-role-model-for-drug-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2009/02/11/latin-america-as-a-role-model-for-drug-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/2009/02/11/latin-america-as-a-role-model-for-drug-policy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cardoso, Gaviria, Zedillo Urge Obama to Decriminalize Marijuana&#8221;  read the Bloomberg News headline today on a new report released by The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, a group led by former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, and former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, on the future of counternarcotics strategies. [...]]]></description>
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