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Friday, June 24, 2011 - 00:00
The massacres have rapidly given the Knights Templar a brutal reputation in an already barbaric conflict, in which drug cartels compete to prove who should be most feared.
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 00:00
Like many prisons in Venezuela, and across Latin America, El Rodeo is run by the prisoners themselves while guards simply keep the perimeter secure.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 00:00
It's no coincidence that 70% of Hondurans live in poverty or that the richest tenth of its population owns almost half its wealth.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 00:00
The Knights are a breakaway group from the "narco-evangelical" cartel known as La Familia.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 00:00
I'm not a knee-jerk booster of free trade agreements, especially after watching what NAFTA did to Mexican farmers. But in this case, at this point, congressional inaction would be a shame.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 00:00
Night after night, relatives of victims stood up on stages, many for the first time, to tell their stories of pain and suffering. To tearful crowds, they spoke of getting little assistance from officials and repeatedly asked questions which few can answer
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 00:00
If anything it continues the region's welcome race to the middle, away from the leftism Chavez revived in the 2000s but also from the conservative neoliberalism of the 1990s that Chavismo was reacting against.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 00:00
Lost in the sell-off was Humala's apparently successful attempt to sell himself to the electorate as a much more moderate candidate than his reputation presupposed.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 00:00
Mark Villanella, born in New Jersey, cannot run for President in his adopted home of Peru, but he just might be the hottest property in the final weeks of Peru's hard-fought presidential campaign.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 00:00
He is at once an important reason for the viability of her candidacy as well as a cautionary tale, the lessons of which she must insist she has learned.