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		<title>Mexico Dodges a Bullet</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/03/20/mexico-dodges-a-bullet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The news could have been a lot worse. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake (downgraded from a 7.9 from earlier today) struck a rural part of Mexico near the border between Oaxaca and Guerrero at around noon local time earlier today. The effects of the quake, one of the largest of 2012, were felt all the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>misLEDEing</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/03/18/misledeing/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/03/18/misledeing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border issues]]></category>

		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Santos]]></category>

		<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>The FARC&#8217;s announcement to halt kidnapping: why?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/27/the-farcs-announcement-to-halt-kidnapping-why/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/27/the-farcs-announcement-to-halt-kidnapping-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FARC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Santos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FARC&#8217;s announcement  last Sunday that the organization will no longer kidnap civilians was a surprise to most observes and experts of the region. The mainstream media has reported on the event, but has been unsuccessful at explaining why the FARC would do this. In the past 48 hours, online media and blogs have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Guatemala&#8217;s Pérez Molina Is Considering Legalizing Drugs</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/15/why-guatemalas-perez-molina-is-considering-legalizing-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/15/why-guatemalas-perez-molina-is-considering-legalizing-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie Kitroeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mauricio Funes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Otto Perez Molina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has been acting strange lately. Just one month after his inauguration, he is already ruffling U.S. feathers, and making waves in the politics of the region in unexpected ways.
Pérez Molina’s military past and hard-line “mano dura” security policy made many worry that he would backtrack on justice reforms led by [...]]]></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>Concerns with the Brazil Narrative</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/02/concerns-with-the-brazil-narrative/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/02/concerns-with-the-brazil-narrative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nation Branding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Rio Gringa and Andrew Downie for calling out international coverage of the recent collapse of several buildings in Rio de Janeiro. Numerous English-language media outlets have used the tragic collapses, which left 17 dead and dozens injured, as a platform to talk about infrastructure in Brazil and the country&#8217;s preparedness for 2014 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ríos Montt&#8217;s Incriminating Self-Defense</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/01/rios-montts-incriminating-self-defense/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/02/01/rios-montts-incriminating-self-defense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie Kitroeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Otto Perez Molina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rios Montt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Barring any last minute appeals, General (ret) Efraín Ríos Montt will be prosecuted for crimes against humanity during his tenure as de facto President of Guatemala in the early 1980s, the most violent years of the country’s civil war. At a preliminary hearing last Thursday, Judge Patricia Flores declared the 85 year old Ríos Montt fit to [...]]]></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>On Extraditions and Colombian-Panamanian Ties</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2012/01/04/on-extraditions-and-colombian-panamanian-ties/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2012/01/04/on-extraditions-and-colombian-panamanian-ties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuzadas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Santos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latamthought.org/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been made about Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos&#8217; success at mending relations with his neighbors to the east and south. Rightly so. Given the difficult situation he inherited from his predecessor, this is no small feat.
But Santos&#8217; newest diplomatic test may now come from the north.
On Jan. 3, Panamanian Foreign Minister Roberto Henriquez [...]]]></description>
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