Showing posts with label mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mexico. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Latin American Democracy in Retreat

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Authoritarian Venezuelan Pres. Nicolas Maduro. In the mid-2000s, Colombia's popular and hard-right Pres. Alvaro Uribe wanted t...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Cultural Cacophony in the Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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On the main patio of the Gabriel Garcia Marquéz Cultural Center you'll find something startling - unless you consider big time wr...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

43 Crosses for 43 Martyrs

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Students of the Universidad Nacional planted 43 crosses today to memorialize the 43 protesting Mexican university students who w...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Coca Leaf Escapes North

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A soldier chops down coca bushes in Colombia? Peru? Bolivia? Actually, it's southern Mexico. ( Revista Punto de Vista ) Soldi...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

A Legalization Whammy for Mexican Drug Cartels?

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Marijuana: Better legal? While the world's attention was on Barack Obama's reelection victory, individual states continue...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Fast and Furiously to Colombia II

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Made in the USA? Weapons confisticated from the murderous Oficina de Envigado. (Foto: El Espectador ) A cache of weapons sold to c...
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Shifts in the War on Drugs?

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Peña Nieto: Reconsidering the drug war. When, a few months ago, Colombia and other countries put the War on Drugs up for discussio...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Searching for Gabo

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The Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cultural Center, on the right on 11th St, was built by the Mexican government.  Novelist Gabriel Garcia M...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Homicides: Declining, But Still Way Too High!

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Murder numbers drop (Graph from El Tiempo) Colombian authorities congratulated themselves recently that a historic drop in homicides  - a...