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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>
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		<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>
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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>The Skeletons in Brazil’s Closet</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2010/07/10/the-skeletons-in-brazil%e2%80%99s-closet/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2010/07/10/the-skeletons-in-brazil%e2%80%99s-closet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Sweren-Becker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Impunity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last year, you’d be hard-pressed to have heard or read anything negative about Brazil (with the exception of President Lula’s pesky affinity for Iran). The South American giant emerged virtually unscathed from the financial crisis and is now the media darling of the Financial Times and the Economist. Democracy has generally been very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia&#8217;s Internally Displaced: Out of Tercer Milenio Park, Problems Remain</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2009/10/11/colombias-internally-displaced-out-of-tercer-milenio-park-problems-remain/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2009/10/11/colombias-internally-displaced-out-of-tercer-milenio-park-problems-remain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Brockner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internally Displaced Persons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I wrote a commentary for the Americas Quartetly Blog about a recent settlement between the Colombian government and leaders of a group of Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) who had been squatting for over four months in a park in Bogota.
1) Indigenous groups,  2) IDPs, and 3) human rights organizations have accused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Colombians Care About Democratic Values and Human Rights?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2009/05/14/do-colombians-care-about-democratic-values-and-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2009/05/14/do-colombians-care-about-democratic-values-and-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Chaskel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operation Jaque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uribe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently released Gallup opinion data on Colombia received media attention because it is the first to show that if President Uribe were not to run again for the presidency and the elections were to take place tomorrow, Sergio Fajardo and Juan Manuel Santos would be toe to toe for the presidency. However, the data has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War on Drugs: Eradication of Colombia’s Indigenous People</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2009/02/26/the-war-on-drugs-eradication-of-colombia%e2%80%99s-indigenous-people/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2009/02/26/the-war-on-drugs-eradication-of-colombia%e2%80%99s-indigenous-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Samuelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FARC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous groups]]></category>

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The deadline for the FARC to return the slain bodies of the 27 Awa indigenous community members killed earlier this month expired at 6:00 PM on February 23, 2009.  The killings, carried out on two separate occasions in the Nariño area of southwestern Colombia, have brought terror to the region and left more than 400 [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></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>Developments in Cuba</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2008/02/25/developments-in-cuba/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2008/02/25/developments-in-cuba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bustamante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This sure has been one hell of a week for Cuba news.  A good friend of mine, Jamie Weinstein, interviewed me about the latest developments for his blog. Be sure to check it out. I&#8217;m pasting the post below.
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From blog.jamieweinstein.com
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JW: Fidel Castro is stepping aside. What does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuban Students Speak Out?</title>
		<link>http://latamthought.org/2008/02/14/cuban-students-speak-out/</link>
		<comments>http://latamthought.org/2008/02/14/cuban-students-speak-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bustamante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Bustamante and Elizabeth Jordan
 
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Since assuming the interim presidency of Cuba in July 2006, Raul Castro has drawn much attention for encouraging Cuban citizens to voice their opinions and even criticize government officials.  In a critical speech on July 26, 2007 – a national holiday commemorating the launching of the Cuban Revolution [...]]]></description>
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