Archive for the ‘Latin America’ Category
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Peru: Reading While Walking
02 Aug 2009If summer is a time to travel it is also a time to read. For me combining the two is…
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Peru and Climate Change: 1000 years ago
30 Jul 2009With my recent trip to Peru and on-going existence in the modern world, I found this to be an interesting…
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Peru: It’s A Jungle Out There
24 Jul 2009The sun rises at 6 a.m. in the jungles along the Tambopata River in eastern Peru. Faint whispers of light…
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Peru: Out of the World and In It
10 Jul 2009It’s always instructive to leave what is familiar and visit what is only partially so. The lens of vision shifts.…
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Poor Paraguay
11 Sep 2007The heat and drought and dried trees that have ravaged Montana, Idaho, California and Greece have combined to consume huge…
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Farmworker Organizer Beaten To Death
24 May 2007The backside of the US farm-labor market is hidden away in the mountains of Northern Mexico. Recruiters in the pay…
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Good One Gone
11 Mar 2007It’s hard to imagine, from our comfortable lives, what Rufina Amaya witnessed, what she experienced during the witnessing; it’s hard…
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Columbia: Para Military Politicos
16 Dec 2006$700 million US taxpayer dollars poured into Colombia in 2006 — most of it for the military, most of that…
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Argentine Arrest Warrants for Rafsanjani
09 Nov 2006An Argentine judge ordered international arrest warrants on Thursday for former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight others in…
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Mexico – How to Contest An Election
25 Jul 2006Just in case the Mexican election had slipped off your radar — and why wouldn’t it?– this is a reminder…
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Mexico – Presidential Election
28 Jun 2006Believe it or not there is a Presidential election campaign going on in Mexico. Sunday marks the day. The three…
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Venzuela — North Korea
25 Jun 2006This ought to get a few spitoons in the White House filled up. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic…
