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		<title>Brazil in Latin America: Emerging political risks?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2011/11/06/brazil-in-latin-america-emerging-political-risks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Romero has written a solid article on the front page of yesterday&#8217;s NYT about how Brazil&#8217;s rise and activity in Latin America is creating diplomatic problems with some its regional neighbors. The article itself is worth reading in its entirety, as it points to an interesting trend in regional politics, but for brevity&#8217;s sake, [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
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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>Bolivia and Colombia now have something in common: frustration with U.S. trade policy</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2008/11/02/bolivia-and-colombia-now-have-something-in-common-frustration-with-us-trade-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting this weekend, and for the first time since 1991, Bolivia&#8217;s products no longer enjoy preferential access when entering the United States, unlike those from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. All four countries had received tariff-free access for certain products under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), a program designed during the George [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2008/10/20/the-next-presidents-policies-toward-latin-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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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>Should Politicians Boast About Supporting the Peru FTA?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2008/01/31/should-politicians-boast-about-supporting-the-peru-fta/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2008/01/31/should-politicians-boast-about-supporting-the-peru-fta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the South Carolina Democratic primary debate held in late January, former Senator John Edwards tried to take his competitor, Senator Barack Obama, to task for voting in favor of a recently-approved free trade agreement with Peru; Edwards condemned the Peru FTA as part of his condemnation of free trade agreements in general, dismissing both [...]]]></description>
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