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		<title>How To Vote in Colombia</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/10/how-to-vote-in-colombia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voting in Colombia can be confusing, so I have created a 5-minute video that explains in Spanish in simple terms how to vote this March. Please share with Colombians  you may know.

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		<title>Why Not Being Disliked is as Powerful as Being Liked</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/06/why-not-being-disliked-is-as-powerful-as-being-liked/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/06/why-not-being-disliked-is-as-powerful-as-being-liked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americas Quarterly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andres Felipe Arias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gustavo Petro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Santos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noemi Sanin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Pardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergio Fajardo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote an article for the Americas Quarterly blog in which I argued that in Colombia&#8217;s second round of elections for the presidency not being disliked may be even more of a deciding factor than being liked by voters. 
Campaign Season in Colombia
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and his allies were already taking candidate-like precautions before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disheartening Aspects of Colombia&#8217;s Congressional Elections</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/02/disheartening-aspects-of-colombias-congressional-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/02/disheartening-aspects-of-colombias-congressional-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aura Cristina Geithner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Fernanda Valencia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santiago Morales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some things may be comical when you see them in movies, yet somewhat worrying when they are part of the democracy you count on.
Such is the case with María Fernanda Valencia, Candidate for the Partido de la U, who made it to the front cover of the Colombian magazine Soho (a classier version of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Playa del Carmen: Tourism and Diplomacy in Ecuador and Colombia</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/02/seeing-beyond-playa-del-carmen-tourism-and-diplomacy-in-ecuador-and-colombia/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/03/02/seeing-beyond-playa-del-carmen-tourism-and-diplomacy-in-ecuador-and-colombia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nation Branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Correa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s Rio Summit between high ranking dignitaries of the Americas &#8211; The United States and Canada conspicuously excluded &#8211; produced a number of notable events:

The      announcement of the creation of a Brazil-led regional bloc to convene in      July 2011
Universal      [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Season in Colombia</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/02/27/election-season-in-colombia/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/02/27/election-season-in-colombia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andres Felipe Arias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German Vargas Lleras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gustavo Petro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Santos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noemi Sanin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Pardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergio Fajardo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Constitutional Court&#8217;s ruling last night blocking the possibility of President Uribe&#8217;s reelection lifted a weight off the country&#8217;s shoulders. Even Uribe, who found out about the Court&#8217;s decision through his Blackberry at a a press conference about health reform in Barranquilla, reacted with a nervous smile.
Many Colombians, who heard the news over television and radio waves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigative Journalism in Colombia</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/02/13/investigative-journalism-in-colombia/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/02/13/investigative-journalism-in-colombia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[press]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of our readers are likely already aware of last week&#8217;s announcement of the end of Cambio, perhaps Colombia&#8217;s most important source for investigative journalism. While the Casa Editorial El Tiempo, which owns Cambio, claims that the decision to turn this weekly investigative magazine into a monthly magazine on tourism and travel reflects market trends, the magazine&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>33 in Haiti are tip of insidious iceberg</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/02/05/33-in-haiti-are-tip-of-insidious-iceberg/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/02/05/33-in-haiti-are-tip-of-insidious-iceberg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Adoption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most horrific stories from the Haiti earthquake that has captured the public’s attention was the arrest of 10 American nationals for attempting to smuggle 33 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation, presumably for adoption abroad. The Christian Science Monitor has good coverage on one of the underreported parts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuelan Influence in Nicaraguan Media</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/01/29/venezuelan-influence-in-nicaraguan-media/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/01/29/venezuelan-influence-in-nicaraguan-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicaragua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another opposition media outlet has fallen. And it’s not in Venezuela.
Albanisa, a Venezuelan-owned conglomerate that controls below market-value Venezuelan oil imports in Nicaragua and has business ties to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, recently announced the formal purchase of Canal 8, a leading anti-Ortega media outlet, for US$10 million. The deal, which went through in December [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Creative Nexus of Beer Branding and Nationalism: Quilmes’ Places Campaign</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/01/27/the-creative-nexus-of-beer-branding-and-nationalism-quilmes%e2%80%99-places-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/01/27/the-creative-nexus-of-beer-branding-and-nationalism-quilmes%e2%80%99-places-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nation Branding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently drew my attention to a new advertising campaign from Quilmes, one of Argentina’s leading beer brands. The beer derives its name from the town where the beer was founded back in the 19th century by a German immigrant named Otto Bemberg. As a result of this fortuitous decision, today the name Quilmes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-drug bases in Panama and the Drug War in 2010</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2009/12/30/anti-drug-bases-in-panama-and-the-drug-war-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2009/12/30/anti-drug-bases-in-panama-and-the-drug-war-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest stories emerging from the Americas in 2009 was Colombia&#8217;s decision to let the United States access military installations throughout Colombia in efforts to combat narcotrafficking. The move exacerbated already tenuous relations between Colombia and Venezuela, with the latter claiming that US presence in Colombia was a direct threat to sovereignty, another [...]]]></description>
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