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		<title>misLEDEing</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/03/18/misledeing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully  The Daily Show or Colbert Report will pick up on this one. I took a picture of this headline during Sunday afternoon cable news network programming:

The price of gas is a major story here in the US, and drug related violence is a major story in Mexico, particularly among US media. My skepticism about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia on the International Stage</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/03/07/colombia-on-the-international-stage/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/03/07/colombia-on-the-international-stage/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=489</guid>
		<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>US households becoming more Latin American?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/11/21/us-households-becoming-more-latin-american/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/11/21/us-households-becoming-more-latin-american/#comments</comments>
		<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>The United States and the Wealth Gap</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/07/26/the-united-states-and-the-wealth-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/07/26/the-united-states-and-the-wealth-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Reuters analysis, &#8220;In debt row, hints of emerging-economy crisis&#8221;, highlights the point that the United States&#8217; current debt ceiling stalemate, brought on by highly factionalized political camps, is akin to crises faced by emerging economies. The analysis itself is worth a read, although one quote, from Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, stands out:
&#8220;When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Peso Paradox</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/07/23/the-peso-paradox/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2011/07/23/the-peso-paradox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more troubling signs of financial difficulties in Argentina has been the recent news that the government has fined economists for publishing inflation rates that do not reflect those of the national statistics agency, INDEC.
There is another indicator, the value of the peso against the decreasing value of the dollar, that is also [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<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>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>

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		<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>Scare Tactics in Colombian Presidential Elections</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/04/16/scare-tactics-in-colombian-presidential-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/04/16/scare-tactics-in-colombian-presidential-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andres Felipe Arias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antanas Mockus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign Tactics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FARC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Santos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Soft on Terrorism.
The well-worn phrase is one that the US public has grown accustomed to. Like nationalism, it is a tactic that political campaigners use in attempts to disparage one candidate while strengthening the other.
During the 2008 presidential campaign in the United States, Republican candidate John McCain accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama of being soft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Partner by Default to Partner of Choice: Shifting US Policy in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/04/13/from-partner-by-default-to-partner-of-choice-shifting-us-policy-in-latin-america/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/04/13/from-partner-by-default-to-partner-of-choice-shifting-us-policy-in-latin-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Latin America relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 26, US Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield said the US is close to signing bi-lateral military accords with two unspecified countries in Latin America.
In October 2009, following a failed attempt to keep the details secret, the US and Colombia hastily announced a deal allowing US troops and advisors to use seven military bases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interpol, the US, and Brazil</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/25/253/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/25/253/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Glickhouse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sao Paulo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brazil and the United States have had a troubled relationship in the past year, between a bitter trade feud, a high profile child abduction case, and currently, disagreements on Iran. But the latest international debacle between the two countries involves a powerful Brazilian politician and a New York lawyer.
It began in 2007, when the Manhattan [...]]]></description>
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