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Migrant children: A huge humanitarian tragedy
The Central American children who flee from their countries has transformed the U.S.'s southern border into a window that displays the reality of human rights in that country -…
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Deporter-in-Chief II?
We should ask Clinton and Obama if they understand that the problem is not one of domestic policy but of foreign policy, and that there is no possible solution unless they begin to…
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The second act of an unprecedented tragedy
Nobody can predict the outcome -- if there is one -- to the humanitarian crisis created by the exodus of innocents who, against all obstacles, cross the border by themselves, coming…
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Hillary ‘the Habanera’
It was a warm night in the sensual city of Cartagena, Colombia, and the then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, after the closing of the Sixth Summit of the Americas, drank a couple…
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What justifies Oscar López Rivera’s 33 years in prison?
Few know this, but one of the oldest political prisoners in the world is not in China, Russia, Syria, Iran, Venezuela or Cuba but in a prison in Indiana, here in the United States, an…
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The Dreamers and the elections
The Dreamers, those undocumented youths intent on pursuing their dreams, continue to give us much to talk about. Surveys also tell us that if politicians want to know how to attract the…
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The monster needs more than makeup
Urgent message to President Obama: When it comes to deportation, making up the monster is not enough. This we say with total emphasis, at a moment when immigrant families are waiting…
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‘I vote for no one; it’s not worth the trouble’
"Here, those who have papers and those who don't do the same: we work to make our families succeed," says Elena Guzmán, a Salvadoran woman from New York. She voted for Obama in two…
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From ‘Dreamers’ to lawyers
The stories of three undocumented young men, three "Dreamers" who overcame enormous obstacles to fulfill their dreams, are worthy of celebration. One of them, José Godínez Samperio, a…
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May First
May First, International Labor Day, is the most important date for workers in the entire world, or, more precisely, in almost the entire world, because, as we know, it is not officially…
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