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	<title>Latin American Thought &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>Mexico&#8217;s Drug War?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2009/01/11/mexicos-drug-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
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On 12 January, US President-Elect Barack Obama will meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderón to discuss the future of US-Mexican relations. The two have a lot to talk about. Mexico is limping out of one of its most violent years in history, in which 5,630 people were killed in drug and gang-related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pass FTA and amend Plan Colombia, from the Washington Times</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2008/12/02/pass-fta-and-amend-plan-colombia-from-the-washington-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Times published an op-ed yesterday that I co-authored with Shannon O&#8217;Neil. It originally appeared here and I am including the entire text below.
The Washington Times
Monday, December 1, 2008
O’NEIL/CHASKEL: Pass FTA and amend Plan Colombia
Shannon O’Neil and Sebastian Chaskel
Two years ago President Bush and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe negotiated a free trade agreement (FTA). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next President&#8217;s Policies Toward Latin America</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2008/10/20/the-next-presidents-policies-toward-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
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Back in 2000 then-candidate George W. Bush pledged to make this a &#8220;Century of the Americas.&#8221; &#8221;Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America,&#8221; then-candidate George W. Bush told a Miami audience in 2000. &#8221;Should I become the president, I will look south not as an afterthought, but as a fundamental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Para Votar Obama</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2008/03/10/para-votar-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an occasion not unfamiliar to your average twenty-something, I received an email the other day (prior, I should note, to the Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont Democratic primaries) with the following: a pithy subject line and a link to a YouTube video.  I clicked on the link and found this: a homegrown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack, Hillary, and the Latino Vote</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2008/02/06/barack-hillary-and-the-latino-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2008/02/06/barack-hillary-and-the-latino-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bustamante</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of a depature from the obstensible subject matter of this blog, but of interest I imagine to potential readers as well.
I&#8217;ve just turned off tonight&#8217;s primary coverage. If I have to hear Wolf Blitzer&#8217;s awkward rambling or trite references to &#8220;The Best Election Team on Television&#8221; one more time, I may turn off [...]]]></description>
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