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Rousseff and V.P. Biden meet to discuss Cuba
President Dilma Rousseff and the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, discussed Thursday in Brasília ways for Brazil to help the United States' process of rapprochement with…
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Brazil’s torture report brings a president to tears (Video)
As the United States deals with the backlash from a Senate report on CIA interrogation methods, half a continent away, another country was dealing with its own troubled history. And for…
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Victims of Colombia’s civil conflict exceeds 7 million: media yawns
For a country of under 50 million citizens, these numbers are staggering, and certainly newsworthy, but apparently not for our mainstream media.
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Chileans want to ban Pinochet’s name from public places
A project has been started in Chile to prohibit the naming of streets or public places after the late President Augusto Pinochet or any of his aides.
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Fixing the exchange rate system in Venezuela
When it comes to economic policy, the ideas of the public can matter a lot. Elected governments have to worry about being re-elected, and this is certainly the case in Venezuela, where…
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For the record
The project "Marks of memory," by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, has arrived in Havana. The initiative reviews what happened in that country beginning with the military coup that in…
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Guatemalan women: Heights to depths
Andrea Cardona is the pride of this country, of Central America and, by extension, of our Latin America. She is the first Central American woman to climb the Everest, the world's…
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Mujica: ‘Those who love money too much should be run out of politics’
Uruguay's departing president defines himself as 'the world's poorest president' and recommends that politicians must 'live like the majority of the people.' He says the search for…
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Dilma victorious, again, in Brazil
Dilma Rousseff has won the Brazilian presidential elections receiving 51.45 percent of the vote. Aecio Neves, her rival, garnered 48.55 percent, a difference of two million votes.
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What the recent elections in Latin America teach us
Latin America's political future is decided in the advancement of popular culture, both to win elections and to identify its true interests and back the governments whose policies…
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