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Mexico's Next War of Independence: Against the Narcos?
www.time.com-August 31, 2010
The Ecuadorean government couldn't get its citizen out of Mexico fast enough. The young man had been making his way to the U.S. last week when he and 72 fellow Latin American migrants, he told authorities, were abducted by one of Mexico's most vicious drug cartels, the Zetas, in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas. When the migrants refused to pay ransom, the narcos shot each of them in the head at a remote ranch house, leaving their corpses in heaps inside a grain barn. Only the Ecuadorean, who was shot in the neck but played dead, survived. He was put under Mexican military protection.
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Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq, Wonders Why
www.nytimes.com-August 23, 2010
Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers bear them out.
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Mexico hopes $270 million in social spending will help end Juarez drug violence
www.washingtonpost.com-August 12, 2010
At night in this border city, radio newscasts give a rundown of the day's homicides -- 15 one day, 12 the next -- a segment as regular as weather or sports. At least 291 people were killed last month, and more than 1,786 so far this year.
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Cooperative Mexican-U.S. Antinarcotics Efforts
www.csis.org-August 12, 2010
Because of high U.S. narcotics consumption and Mexico’s role as the main transit country for cocaine from Colombia, the dominant narcotics activity in the Western Hemisphere takes place between the United States and Mexico. Competition among the large Mexican drug-trafficking organizations to maximize their sales in the United States has led to terrible violence in Mexico, and that country’s “war” against those organizations has amplified that violence. Mexico was a small player in the movement of cocaine to the United States before the 1980s, when the main route was from Colombia through the Caribbean to Florida.
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Colombia opens door for talks with FARC rebels
www.washingtonpost.com-August 11, 2010
The arrival of a more moderate president in Colombia has opened the possibility, if ever so slight, of talks with Marxist rebels to end a cocaine-fueled conflict that dates to the 1960s.
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Colombia-Venezuela dispute unresolved in meeting of South American leaders
www.washingtonpost.com-July 31, 2010
After the posturing and hysterics, an emergency meeting and competing press briefings, South American leaders were unable to resolve a crisis that began when the Colombian government accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of aiding and abetting Colombian guerrillas.
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Judge blocks key parts of Arizona immigration law
www.washingtonpost.com-July 28, 2010
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown.
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Judge blocks controversial parts of Ariz. law
www.msnbc.com-July 28, 2010
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown.
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Judge Blocks Key Parts of Immigration Law in Arizona
www.nytimes.com-July 28, 2010
A federal judge, ruling on a clash between the federal government and a state over immigration policy, has blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law from going into effect.
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L.A. union members, activists to caravan to Arizona to protest immigration law
www.latimes.com-July 28, 2010
More than 550 people representing 32 unions plan to travel in 11 buses for a rally at the state Capitol and a vigil with local groups on the day the law is set to take effect.
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U.S. falls short in helping Mexico end its drug war
www.washingtonpost.com-July 26, 2010
Last month, 303 people were murdered in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, which lies alongside El Paso. This month, the dead include three men killed by a sophisticated, remote-controlled car bomb -- the first in Mexico's drug wars. In a city of 1.2 million, more than 2,600 died violently in 2009; some 200,000 more may have fled.
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Billions of dollars pledged for Haiti recovery; little trickles in
www.washingtonpost.com-July 18, 2010
Three months after donors at a U.S.-sponsored conference pledged more than $5.3 billion to rebuild Haiti, just a small fraction of the money has been disbursed and a special reconstruction commission has barely started to function, according to U.N. and aid officials.
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Mexican drug cartels' newest weapon: Cold War-era grenades made in U.S.
www.washingtonpost.com-July 17, 2010
Grenades made in the United States and sent to Central America during the Cold War have resurfaced as terrifying new weapons in almost weekly attacks by Mexican drug cartels.
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Venezuelan union clashes are on the rise as Chavez fosters new unions at odds with older ones
www.washingtonpost.com-July 15, 2010
Calling itself the most labor-friendly government in Latin America, President Hugo Chávez's socialist administration has repeatedly increased the minimum wage, turned over the management of some nationalized companies to workers and fostered the creation of new unions.
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Triborder Zone A Haven For Terror Funding
www.washingtontimes.com-July 14, 2010
The capture of a key member of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah in Paraguay last month and intensified leftist activity in the Triborder zone of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina highlight renewed threats in a region long considered a hub for terrorists.
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The sad math of U.S. aid in Haiti: 6 months, 2 percent
www.washingtonpost.com-July 13, 2010
We're two weeks into Defense Secretary Robert Gates's new campaign for more "coordination and discipline" in the military's public statements -- and everything seems to be going according to plan.
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Remembering Haiti at the Six-month Mark
www.csis.org-July 12, 2010
Have humanitarian conditions improved on the ground in Haiti since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck on January 12 of this year?
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In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge
www.nytimes.com-July 11, 2010
Six months after the earthquake that brought aid and attention here from around the world, the median-strip camp blends into the often numbing wretchedness of the post-disaster landscape. Only 28,000 of the 1.5 million Haitians displaced by the earthquake have moved into new homes, and the Port-au-Prince area remains a tableau of life in the ruins.
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Justice Dept. expected to sue Ariz. on immigration, citing 'preemption' grounds
www.washingtonpost.com-July 06, 2010
The Justice Department has decided to file suit against Arizona on the grounds that the state's new immigration law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, law enforcement sources said Monday.
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Northcom's New Leader Boosts Focus On Mexico
www.washingtontimes.com-July 06, 2010
The new commander of the U.S. military's homeland security forces is stepping up cooperation with Mexico in an effort to stem drug trafficking and related violence.
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Elections highlight challenges facing drug-scarred Mexico
www.washingtonpost.com-July 04, 2010
To meet with Héctor "Teto" Murguía, the leading candidate for mayor of the city dubbed the deadliest in the world, a visitor parks at Murguía's paint factory, watched over by bodyguards with automatic rifles, then passes through three sets of steel vault doors into a windowless office.
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Obama's Unclear Path to Immigration Reform
www.cfr.org-July 01, 2010
The Obama administration has two choices on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform. It can try to find a legislative path for pushing a bill through with little or no Republican support, as it did on healthcare and, to a lesser extent, on the pending financial reform legislation. Or it can try to change the terms of the debate in a way that makes bipartisan legislation more plausible--if not in an election year then at least early in 2011.
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Calling Immigration System ‘Broken,’ Obama Pushes Bill
www.nytimes.com-July 01, 2010
President Obama pressed Congress on Thursday to pass comprehensive immigration legislation to fix a “fundamentally broken” system by toughening enforcement of existing laws while creating a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million people in the United States illegally.
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Obama to call for comprehensive immigration bill at American University
www.washingtonpost.com-July 01, 2010
With immigration stories dominating headlines nearly every week, President Obama is delivering a speech Thursday morning that will frame the issue on his own terms -- calling for comprehensive legislation and the importance of keeping the border secure.
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Immigrants, Immigration, and the Reform Moment
www.brookings.edu-June 30, 2010
Immigration reform has been at an impasse since 2007, when Congress debated but failed to pass legislation. This week, President Obama met with immigration advocates, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and he’s planning a major speech on the issue Thursday. Mounting pressure from a new state law in Arizona, including an anticipated legal challenge from the administration, has moved the issue up on the president’s agenda, despite a lack of support from Republicans and conservative Democrats in a mid-term election year.
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G8, G20: A View of Canada's Summits
www.cfr.org-June 21, 2010
On June 25, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomes the Group of Eight (G8) to Muskoka, Ontario. Two days later, the action shifts to Toronto, where he convenes the Group of Twenty (G20). Together, the two events symbolize an epochal shift--from an era of Western dominance to a new, multipolar age.
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Venezuela’s Military Ties With Cuba Stir Concerns
www.nytimes.com-June 15, 2010
The ties between President Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Communist leaders are plain enough: Cuba has thousands of doctors here, not to mention a smaller number of advisers who help on a breadth of issues, like agricultural engineering and even training Olympic athletes.
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West Lobbies Brazil Not To Oppose Iran Sanctions At U.N.
www.latimes.com-June 09, 2010
The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution to impose additional sanctions over Iran's nuclear program. Meanwhile, Tehran makes diplomatic efforts to head off new penalties.
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Clinton Seeks To Reassure Ecuador On Bases
http://news.yahoo.com-June 08, 2010
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought Tuesday to reassure Ecuador that the US military's use of bases in neighboring Colombia was designed only to help that country.
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ACLU And Civil Rights Groups Ask Court To Block Implementation Of Arizona's Racial Profiling Law During Legal Battle
www.aclu.org-June 05, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of civil rights groups asked a federal court late Friday to block Arizona from implementing its controversial new law, known as SB 1070, pending a final court ruling on its constitutionality. The law requires police to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are "unlawfully present" in the U.S. According to the coalition, the law would subject massive numbers of people – both citizens and non-citizens – to racial profiling, improper investigations and detention.
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Mexican pirates attack Texas fishermen on Falcon Lake, which straddles border
www.washingtonpost.com-May 30, 2010
Falcon Lake is famous for its monster bass and for the maniacal obsession of the fishermen who come from all over Texas -- and the world -- to stalk them. Now this remote reservoir that straddles the international boundary is known for something else: pirates.
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Immigration Overhaul Advocates Question Troops
www.nytimes.com-May 27, 2010
In deciding to deploy up to 1,200 National Guard troops to bolster security at the Mexican border, President Obama has stepped into one of the thorniest issues facing American presidents — illegal immigration — and has confounded allies who say he is squandering his chance to address it in a comprehensive way.
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Arizona immigration law will boost crime in U.S. cities, police chiefs say
www.washingtonpost.com-May 26, 2010
Arizona's new crackdown on illegal immigration will increase crime in U.S. cities, not reduce it, by driving a wedge between police and immigrant communities, police chiefs from several of the state's and the nation's largest cities said Tuesday.
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President Obama to send more National Guard troops to U.S.-Mexico border
www.washingtonpost.com-May 26, 2010
President Obama will deploy 1,200 National Guard troops and request an extra $500 million to secure the Mexican border, his administration said Tuesday, a move dismissed by Republicans as insufficient to win their cooperation on an overhaul of the nation's immigration system.
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Obama's border plan looks similar to Bush's
www.houstonchronicle.com-May 26, 2010
President Barack Obama's plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border appears to be a scaled-down version of the border security approach championed by his predecessor.
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Obama to send up to 1,200 troops to border
www.msnbc.com-May 25, 2010
President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on such a deployment.
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Obama to send more National Guard troops to U.S.-Mexico border
www.washingtonpost.com-May 25, 2010
President Obama will deploy an additional 1,200 National Guard troops to the southern border and request $500 million in extra money for border security, according to an administration official. The decision comes as the White House is seeking Republican support for broad immigration reform this year.
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Obama to Send 1,200 Guard Troops to Mexico Border
www.nytimes.com-May 25, 2010
President Obama will send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the Southwest border and increase spending on law enforcement, yielding to demands from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers there that border security be tightened, administration officials said.
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Senators Press For National Guard Troops On Border
http://news.yahoo.com-May 20, 2010
Homeland Security and Pentagon officials are at loggerheads over a plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Barack Obama is pledging to bolster security there.
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Will Arizona’s Tough Immigration Law Fuel Hispanic Turnout for Democrats?
www.newsweek.com-May 20, 2010
For a Latino surge in November, Democrats would need to ratchet up their outreach and make a serious effort to pass immigration reform.
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A Healing Visit For U.S., Mexico
www.washingtonpost.com-May 19, 2010
When Mexican President Felipe Calderón pays his respects at Arlington National Cemetery this week, it will be more than a rote diplomatic gesture. He will be signaling the closure of a wound that dates from a 1914 U.S. military occupation -- and the vast improvement in U.S.-Mexico relations in recent years.
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Obama's Remarks with President Calderon of Mexico
www.realclearpolitics.com-May 19, 2010
President Obama and Mexican President Calderon remarks at the White House.
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The Realities Behind the Immigration Debate
www.cato.org-May 18, 2010
Arizona's new immigration policy, which requires aliens to carry immigration papers and directs the police to detain "suspected aliens," has re-ignited debates over how to reduce illegal immigration. Most of this debate involves wishful thinking: the claim that stricter border controls or Arizona-like measures can make a real difference. The reality is that only four policies can significantly reduce illegal immigration.
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In Risky Deal, Ankara Seeks Security, Trade
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 18, 2010
Pact brokered with Brazil is part of policy of reaching out to neighbors, but tests relations with the U.S.
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State Department Spokesman Critical of Arizona Law Admits He Too Hasn’t Read It
www.breitbart.com-May 18, 2010
State Department Spokesman being interviewed and stated he hasn't read Arizona
immigration law.
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Text of Arizona Immigration Law
www.azleg.gov-May 18, 2010
The full text of Arizona controversial immigration reform measure.
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The Message from Calderón in the U.S.
www.cfr.org-May 18, 2010
On his state visit to Washington May 19-20, Mexican President Felipe Calderón will call attention to his country's new hard line against escalating drug-gang violence that has triggered cross-border concerns. But the issue of immigration could generate heat because of the new Arizona law on illegal immigrants and the controversy it has aroused within both Mexico and the United States, says CFR Fellow Shannon O'Neil.
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Visit of President Felipe Calderón of Mexico
www.csis.org-May 17, 2010
Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico, will travel to Washington, D.C., May 19–20 on a state visit. What is the purpose of the visit? How important is it?
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Mexico Shaken by Top Politician's Feared Murder
www.time.com-May 17, 2010
The white SUV was found on an unpaved country road with bloodstains on the seats. Within hours, hundreds of soldiers and police poured across ranches and fields looking for possible clues to the whereabouts of former Mexican presidential candidate Diego Fernández de Cevallos, who disappeared last Friday. As the search got under way, frantic politicians and media reported that the victim's body had been found, then said that he was in hospital with a bullet wound and then that he was still missing.
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Napolitano Admits She Hasn't Read Arizona Law But Says She Wouldn't Sign It
www.realclearpolitics.com-May 17, 2010
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano admits she hasn't read the Arizona immigration law, but passed judgment on it anyway. "That's not the kind of law I would have signed," she declared. "I believe it's a bad law enforcement law. I believe it mandates and requires local enforcement and puts them in a position many do not want to be placed in," Napolitano said. "When I was dealing with laws of that ilk, most of the law enforcement agencies in Arizona at that time were opposed to such legislation," she claimed.
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A Good Election Would Help
www.nytimes.com-May 09, 2010
With all that Haiti lost on Jan. 12 — and all that it has to do to rebuild — it needs a strong and legitimate government. That means it needs national elections.
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Politically astute outsider Mockus making ground in campaign for president of Colombia
www.washingtonpost.com-May 07, 2010
Colombians have long known Antanas Mockus for his antics, such as the time he mooned an auditorium full of rowdy students during his stint as a university president. And how he got married atop an elephant.
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Call Them What They Are: Illegal Aliens
www.realclearpolitics.com-May 05, 2010
The push is on for providing amnesty to the estimated 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country. The supporters of this effort include President Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, Majority Leader Harry Reid and New York Senator Chuck Schumer. Senator Schumer is now chairman of the immigration subcommittee previously chaired by the late Senator Ted Kennedy, a major amnesty proponent.
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Obama's fatal flinch on immigration reform
www.washingtonpost.com-May 02, 2010
Air Force One was about seven miles over Appalachia this week when President Obama dropped a bomb on his party.
Senate Democrats had that very day circulated an immigration reform proposal, and the Associated Press, receiving a leaked copy, reported on the "draft legislation."
But as Obama returned to Washington from Illinois Wednesday night, he walked back to the press cabin on the presidential aircraft and, in an impromptu Q&A, essentially declared immigration reform dead. He said "there may not be an appetite" for it.
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L.A.'s May Day immigration rally is nation's largest
www.latimes.com-May 02, 2010
As many as 60,000 immigrants and their supporters join a peaceful but boisterous march through downtown to City Hall, waving flags and holding signs blasting the harsh new immigration law in Arizona.
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The Borders We Deserve
www.nytimes.com-May 02, 2010
Critics of Arizona’s new immigration law have not been shy about impugning the motives of its supporters. The measure, which requires police to check the immigration status of people they question or detain, has been denounced as a “Nazi” or “near-fascist” law, a “police state” intervention, an imitation of “apartheid,” a “Juan Crow” regime that only a bigot could possibly support.
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Ariz. gov signs bill revising new immigration law
www.washingtonpost.com-May 01, 2010
Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed a follow-on bill approved by Arizona legislators that make revisions to the state's sweeping law against illegal immigration - changes she says should quell concerns that the measure will lead to racial profiling
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Immigration enforcement is working. Now we need to look at what isn't.
www.washingtonpost.com-April 30, 2010
Forget the hyperventilated furor over the new Arizona immigration law and consider this overlooked fact: The number of illegal immigrants getting into the country has slowed to a relative trickle.
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Arizona Law Enforcement Split on Immigration Crackdown
www.time.com-April 30, 2010
Just moments before I was gently removed from the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police meeting on Wednesday in Phoenix — it was, apparently, a closed meeting — the Hispanic, Harvard-educated U.S. marshal for Arizona stood up to brief the group, as had representatives from several federal agencies before him. "My name is David Gonzales, and I was born in Flagstaff," he said, smiling as he pretended to pull something out of his jacket pocket. "I've got my papers right here." The room broke out in laughter.
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Senate Democrats to push new immigration reform plan
www.cnn.com-April 30, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other leading Democratic senators will formally unveil the outlines of legislation for comprehensive immigration reform late Thursday, CNN has learned.
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Senate Democrats: Tighten border security
www.msnbc.com-April 29, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and fellow Democrats on Thursday unveiled a "framework" for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. immigration laws.
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To Control the Border,'First Reform Immigration Law
www.cato.org-April 29, 2010
The latest catch phrase in the immigration debate is that we must “get control of our borders” before we consider actually changing the current immigration law that has made enforcement so difficult in the first place.
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Obama: 'There may not be an appetite' to tackle immigration this year
www.washingtonpost.com-April 29, 2010
President Obama said late Wednesday that "there may not be an appetite" to overhaul the nation's immigration laws this year, even though he believes there is a pressing need to do so.
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Oil-rich Venezuela gripped by economic crisis
www.washingtonpost.com-April 29, 2010
Every day for the past three months, government-programmed blackouts have meant the lights flicker and go dark in a city that once bustled with commerce. And Fifth Street, with its auto parts stores and car repair shops, has ground to a halt.
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Our view on border control: Arizona's ugly immigration law reflects price of inaction
www.usatoday.com-April 29, 2010
Rarely does ignoring a pressing problem — be it medical, financial or that ka-thunk in your car — make it go away. And so it is with illegal immigration.
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We're protecting our citizens
www.usatoday.com-April 29, 2010
Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law is an effort to "crack down" on illegal immigration and the harm it causes Arizona, including crime and back-breaking public expenses to incarcerate, educate, medically treat and provide other services to illegal immigrants and their children. Arizona has been forced to assume responsibility for immigration enforcement because of the federal government's refusal to secure the border and conduct adequate internal enforcement.
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Obama: Congress Won't Talk Immigration Soon
www.time.com-April 29, 2010
President Barack Obama says there "may not be an appetite" in Congress to deal with immigration immediately after going through a tough legislative year.
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How Congress botched immigration reform
www.washingtonpost.com-April 29, 2010
Many in the media, including my Post colleagues Eugene Robinson, Richard Cohen and Michael Gerson have written powerful and appropriate columns decrying the action of the Arizona legislature and Gov. Jan Brewer in passing and signing a punitive law aimed at illegal immigrants.
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Stopping Arizona
www.nytimes.com-April 29, 2010
A fight is brewing over Arizona’s new law that turns all of the state’s Latinos, even legal immigrants and citizens, into criminal suspects. And this is not a local fight. The poison is spreading; there is talk in Texas of passing a version of the Arizona statute.
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Immigration Issue Poses a Complex Test for 2 Parties
www.nytimes.com-April 28, 2010
Senator John McCain of Arizona took to the Senate floor the other day to embrace a tough new Arizona law giving the police the authority to detain people they suspect are illegal immigrants. Mr. McCain, long an outspoken champion of giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, is facing a primary challenge this summer from a conservative who backs tough immigration measures.
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Calls to boycott Arizona grow over new immigration law
www.latimes.com-April 28, 2010
Pressure continued to mount Tuesday against Arizona's tough new immigration law, with the Obama administration considering a legal challenge and political leaders calling for economic boycotts.
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Arizona Immigration Law
www.azleg.gov-April 28, 2010
The text of the language of Arizona's immigration law.
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Both sides in immigration debate blame congressional inaction for Arizona law
www.washingtonpost.com-April 27, 2010
On the grounds of the Capitol, in a state that only days earlier had adopted the nation's strictest anti-immigration law, the two sides of an angry debate are united on one thing: They blame Washington.
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Mexican officials condemn Arizona's tough new immigration law
www.washingtonpost.com-April 27, 2010
President Felipe Calderón on Monday vigorously condemned a tough new immigration law in Arizona that requires police to question anyone who appears to be in the country illegally -- a measure Calderón said "opens the door to intolerance and hatred."
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Arizona's new immigration law is an act of vengeance
www.washingtonpost.com-April 27, 2010
Arizona's draconian new immigration law is an abomination -- racist, arbitrary, oppressive, mean-spirited, unjust. About the only hopeful thing that can be said is that the legislation, which Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed Friday, goes so outrageously far that it may well be unconstitutional.
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Breathing While Undocumented
www.nytimes.com-April 26, 2010
I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon.
Because I’m not going back to Arizona as long as it remains a police state, which is what the appalling anti-immigrant bill that Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law last week has turned it into.
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Courtesy of Arizona, immigration moves higher on Obama's agenda
www.washingtonpost.com-April 26, 2010
Has Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) suddenly revived a major item on President Obama's agenda and moved it to the top of his to-do list?
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Exclusive: Behind-the-Scenes with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
www.abc.com-April 26, 2010
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in an exclusive interview she agreed with President Obama's assessment that Arizona's recent rigid immigration law is "misguided" and said that the time for immigration reform -- including fines and a form of biometric registration for illegal aliens as well as mandatory English -- has come.
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Illegal Immigrant Law Opponents Rally in Arizona
www.myfoxphoenix.com-April 26, 2010
Opponents who fear that Arizona's tough new immigration law will lead to police harassment of legal immigrants and U.S. citizens who look Hispanic rallied against the measure at the state Capitol Sunday afternoon.
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Immigration Reform Is Good Politics
www.brookings.edu-April 26, 2010
Recent statements by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the importance of enacting immigration reform this year has led some observers to conclude immigration reform should not be attempted during an election season and that legislation on this subject represents bad politics. They say it is a divisive and emotional issue, and one that will badly polarize the electorate. One leading news outlet even called it a "no-win" issue.
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Arizona's Alarm Bell for Immigration Reform
www.cfr.org-April 26, 2010
The only good thing about SB 1070, signed Saturday night by Republican Governor Jan Brewer, is that it may finally wake up the whole country to the consequences of the current approach to illegal immigration, in which ever tougher border enforcement is seen as the only solution to the problem.
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Sharpton vows to protest Arizona immigration bill
www.washingtonpost.com-April 25, 2010
The Rev. Al Sharpton says he's ready to travel to Arizona and march in the streets to protest the state's new immigration law.
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Arizona immigration law protesters urge action
www.reuters.com-April 25, 2010
Arizona's tough new immigration law has renewed calls for Washington to reform federal immigration laws, and protesters decried the state's action as a violation of civil rights at a rally on Sunday in the state's capital.
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Arizona governor signs immigration bill, reopening national debate
www.washingtonpost.com-April 24, 2010
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law Friday the most restrictive immigration bill in the country, setting the stage for a showdown with the Obama administration and reigniting a divisive national debate less than seven months before congressional midterm elections.
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Arizona Immigration Law Threatens Civil Rights And Public Safety, Says ACLU
www.aclu.org-April 23, 2010
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer today signed into law Arizona's discriminatory immigration enforcement bill which requires law enforcement to question individuals about their immigration status during everyday police encounters.
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U.S.’s Toughest Immigration Law Is Signed in Arizona
www.nytimes.com-April 23, 2010
Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country on Friday, aimed at identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants. The governor’s move unleashed immediate protests and reignited the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally.
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Ariz. governor signs immigration bill that Obama called 'misguided'
www.washingtonpost.com-April 23, 2010
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed an immigration bill Friday that had been criticized hours earlier by President Obama as "misguided."
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Arizona's Gov. Brewer Signs Controversial Immigration Bill
www.abc.com-April 23, 2010
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a controversial immigration bill into law today which will give local law enforcement greater authority to ferret out and arrest illegal immigrants.
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Obama Vows Immigration Overhaul, Slams Arizona Law
www.bloomberg.com-April 23, 2010
President Barack Obama called anew for overhauling the nation’s immigration laws, saying a failure to do so will lead to “misguided” efforts such as legislation passed in Arizona.
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Obama warns of 'misguided' immigration efforts
www.reuters.com-April 23, 2010
President Barack Obama on Friday warned that without federal immigration reform the door would be open to "misguided efforts" such as a new Arizona law that has raised questions of civil rights.
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Obama's Remarks on Immigration
www.realclearpolitics.com-April 23, 2010
Text of the president's speech on immigration.
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McCain, Kyl Back Bill, Call For Guard On Border
www.arizonarepublic.com-April 20, 2010
Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl on Monday called for the immediate deployment of 3,000 National Guard troops to the Arizona-Mexico border.
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Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico
www.csis.org-April 20, 2010
The book on the United States and Mexico with the title listed above was launched on April 12 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. I trace how each country’s policy was made toward the other -- one country dominant economically, and the other dependent on the other for its market and as a destination to which its nationals flee to seek greater opportunity.
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Caribbean Leaders Seek Anti-Drug Aid
www.latimes.com-April 17, 2010
Leaders of countries in the eastern Caribbean told Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Friday that the international anti-drug crackdown in Mexico has forced traffickers into the waters around their islands, adding to the region's crime and security woes.
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Mexico Drug Cartels Migrate To Caribbean: Leaders
www.reuters.com-April 16, 2010
Caribbean leaders told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday that Mexico's U.S.-backed crackdown on drugs was pushing cartels to step up smuggling through their island nations.
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Gates Calls For Ratification Of Colombia Free Trade Agreement
www.latimes.com-April 16, 2010
The stalled pact has long been supported by U.S. businesses but opposed by labor and human rights groups because of Bogota's intolerance of labor activists.
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Building a BRIC Foundation
www.cfr.org-April 15, 2010
The April 15 and 16 meeting (MercoPress) of leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, and China aims to deepen ties between the emerging-market powers leading the global economic recovery. Collectively known as the BRICs, these countries--which represent 40 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the global economy--command a growing slice of the global economic pie.
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Chile Gives Weapons-Grade Uranium To US; Other Countries Urged To Follow
www.bostonglobe.com-April 09, 2010
With President Obama shifting his nuclear nonproliferation strategy to rogue states and terrorists, Chile has become an example of how small countries can play a big part in making the world safer.
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U.S., Brazil To Sign Defense Cooperation Accord
www.rueters.com-April 07, 2010
The United States and Brazil are preparing to sign a new agreement to bolster defense cooperation, the first accord of its kind between the hemisphere's two top economies in more than 30 years, officials said on Wednesday.
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Gang Formed In Texas Prison Tied To Contract Killings
www.washingtonpost.com-April 04, 2010
A cross-border drug gang born in the prison cells of Texas has evolved into a sophisticated paramilitary killing machine that U.S. and Mexican officials suspect is responsible for thousands of assassinations here, including the recent ambush and slaying of three people linked to the U.S. consulate.
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Haiti's rainy reason could mean suffering in forecast
www.washingtonpost.com-April 03, 2010
Here in Port-au-Prince's largest encampment, a cruelly canted hillside inhabited by as many 70,000 people, Pierre-Louis lives on the edge as the ferocity of Haiti's April-May rainy season approaches.
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Putin Visits Venezuela To Discuss Oil And Arms
www.nytimes.com-April 03, 2010
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia visited Venezuela on Friday to sign a series of military and oil agreements with President Hugo Chávez, who is seeking to expand ties with Russia as a way of countering the influence of the United States in Latin America.
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Promises for and From Haiti
www.nytimes.com-April 03, 2010
This week’s donors conference for Haiti at the United Nations was strikingly hopeful, in good part because of what participants pledged not to do.
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At international conference, U.S. pledges $1.15B aid for Haiti
www.washingtonpost.com-March 31, 2010
The U.S. government pledged $1.15 billion Wednesday at an international conference on rebuilding earthquake-shattered Haiti, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warning that "what happens there has repercussions far beyond its borders."
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White House seeks $2.8 billion from Congress for aid package to Haiti
www.washingtonpost.com-March 25, 2010
The White House asked Congress on Wednesday for a $2.8 billion emergency aid package to assist Haiti in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people.
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U.S. and Mexico Revise Joint Antidrug Strategy
www.nytimes.com-March 24, 2010
Responding to a growing sense that Mexico’s military-led fight against drug traffickers is not gaining ground, the United States and Mexico set their counternarcotics strategy on a new course on Tuesday by refocusing their efforts on strengthening civilian law enforcement institutions and rebuilding communities crippled by poverty and crime.
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More Nonmilitary Aid Sought For Drug War
www.washingtonpost.com-March 24, 2010
Faced with soaring drug violence that Mexico's military has failed to stem, U.S. and Mexican officials said Tuesday that they will seek to bolster nonmilitary spending on police and courts and look for ways to help ravaged communities, but they offered few concrete proposals for fighting the powerful drug cartels.
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Welcome Move on Mexico's Drug Wars
www.cfr.org-March 24, 2010
On their high octane visit to Mexico City yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and senior administration officials formally announced changes in U.S.-Mexico security cooperation that had been in the works for months.
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U. S., Mexican Officials To Meet Over Drug Violence
www.washingtonpost.com-March 23, 2010
A high-level delegation of U.S. officials, including three Cabinet secretaries, will meet with Mexican officials in Mexico City on Tuesday to discuss efforts to disrupt drug cartels as violence increasingly strikes Americans on the border.
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Proud to help -- and to fly our flag
www.washingtontimes.com-March 21, 2010
The United States has brought millions of dollars and many tons of aid to Haiti, but one thing we brought is not welcome: the American flag. For awhile, it flew over the compound where the Joint Task Force Haiti was operating, but no more. Apparently, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive thought it implied a U.S. occupation, and so, in a pitiful example of political correctness, it was lowered. This is even more ironic given that the French contingent proudly flies its flag and France held Haiti as a colony until a bloody revolution.
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Ex-Guatemala President to Be Tried in U.S.
www.time.com-March 18, 2010
When he was President of Guatemala, from 2000 to 2004, Alfonso Portillo promised a crusade against one of the Central American country's biggest scourges: corruption. "Corruption and impunity are part of the perverse way our political, economic and social systems function," Portillo said in 2002. A year later, he even proposed letting the U.N. establish a commission in Guatemala to help the country’s fledgling judicial institutions root out the sleaze.
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Mexico-U.S. Non-Discussion of Migration
www.csis.org-March 17, 2010
n a world of sovereign states, nations are free to determine which foreigners, and how many, they will allow to enter their country and how long they will be permitted to stay.
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Mexico: Countering Drug Violence
www.cfr.org-March 16, 2010
Three weeks ago, Reynosa, Mexico--just across the Rio Grande from McAllen, Texas--exploded in violence. The Zetas and the Gulf cartels, once allies, began what may become a fight to the death. The turf war over a lucrative passageway to the United States reportedly claimed over one hundred lives, though no official headcount is available, as observers bemoan the lack of official presence--the local government as well as the army.
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Obama Pledges Renewed Backing to Haiti
www.time.com-March 10, 2010
President Barack Obama on Wednesday renewed America's commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he knows the crisis has not passed.
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Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia
www.csis.org-March 08, 2010
March 1 the State Department released the annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), whose country report on Colombia estimated a large decline in coca cultivation and cocaine production potential in 2008. How significant is this?
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What Next for Haiti’s Reconstruction?
www.csis.org-March 04, 2010
What is next for Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake?
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How to Read Brazil's Stance on Iran
www.cfr.org-March 04, 2010
The obstacles to U.S. efforts to tighten UN sanctions against Iran were apparent in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's March 3 meetings in Brasilia. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said, "It is not prudent to push Iran against the wall," and Foreign Minister Celso Amorim called sanctions potentially "counterproductive."
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An American in Brazil
www.nytimes.com-March 02, 2010
In her campaign for the presidency, Hilary Rodham Clinton barely uttered the word Brazil. But as secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton has recognized Brazil as the most powerful country in South America and a rising global power. Her current visit may reflect a political will to make the relationship with Brazil a strategic priority for American foreign policy.
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Aftershocks Jolt Chile as Troops Seek to Keep Order
www.nytimes.com-March 01, 2010
As Chile grappled with a rising death toll and more reports of looting, three aftershocks struck Monday morning, complicating rescue efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated much of the country on Saturday.
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Clinton's Challenge in Brazil
www.cfr.org-March 01, 2010
A key goal for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first visit to South America on March 1-5 is to gain Brazil's support for tougher UN sanctions against Iran to curb its nuclear program. But Brazil, which holds a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, is unlikely to participate in any new push to toughen sanctions on Iran, says Julia E. Sweig, CFR's director for Latin America Studies.
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Quake Overshadows Clinton Tour of Region
www.nytimes.com-February 28, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s five-nation Latin American tour, which begins Monday and is meant in part to address regional tensions, is instead likely to be overshadowed by the response to Chile’s earthquake and efforts to line up support for the American campaign to isolate Iran.
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1.5 Million Displaced After Chile Quake
www.nytimes.com-February 28, 2010
A strong aftershock struck Chile on Sunday, a day after a destructive 8.8-magnitude earthquake left hundreds of people dead and a long swath of the country in smoky rubble.
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Major earthquake strikes Chile; Hawaii, Japan escape without tsunami damage
www.washingtonpost.com-February 28, 2010
One of the most powerful earthquakes on record jolted central Chile on Saturday, smashing homes and bridges and unleashing tsunami waves that coursed across the Pacific, prompting alerts in Hawaii and dozens of countries. More than 300 people have died in the coastal South American nation.
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Chile reels from 8.8 earthquake
www.latimes.com-February 28, 2010
The massive quake tears down buildings and bridges and rips open highways in Santiago and Concepcion. The death toll of 300 is expected to rise.
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8.8-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Chile
www.nytimes.com-February 27, 2010
A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, shaking the capital of Santiago for 90 seconds and sending tsunami warnings along much of the Pacific basin.
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Imprisoned for 'dangerousness' in Cuba
www.washingtonpost.com-February 27, 2010
Click. And then silence.
It was the sound I dreaded in my calls to Cuba. As I gathered testimony from relatives of political prisoners, I never knew what an abrupt end to the call meant.
Had the Cuban intelligence services cut the line, or was it just the shoddy phone system? I would call back immediately, often getting a busy signal or a recorded message that the number was not in service. If I found out what had happened, it was usually days or weeks later.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Visit Latin America
www.csis.org-February 26, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit five Latin American countries next week. What explains the timing of the visit? What are the U.S. objectives?
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The Unending Campaign against NAFTA
www.csis.org-February 17, 2010
Many Mexicans and Americans display vague misgivings about the North American Free Trade Agreement; their comments indicate that this is largely because the agreement did not turn out to be a development panacea.
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Venezuela: Opponents Hope to Strike Out Chávez
www.time.com-February 08, 2010
No event on the sporting calendar gets Venezuelans more animated than the rivalry between the country's two largest baseball teams, the Lions of Caracas and the Navigators of Magallanes, based in Valencia. But this season's championship series had an extra — and unexpected — ingredient thrown into the mix: politics. During the seven-game play-off, fans displayed banners bearing the slogan: "One, two, three. Electricity, water, crime. President — you've struck out!"
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Rebuilding Effort in Haiti Turns Away From Tents
www.nytimes.com-February 04, 2010
Shifting tactics in the race to shelter an estimated one million Haitians displaced by the earthquake, aid groups on Wednesday began to de-emphasize tents in favor of do-it-yourself housing with tarpaulins at first, followed by lumber.
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As food distribution improves, Haitians want U.S to 'take over'
www.washingtonpost.com-February 01, 2010
nternational relief organizations backed by American soldiers delivered hundreds of tons of rice to homeless residents of the Haitian capital Sunday, laboring to ease a food shortage that has left countless thousands struggling to find enough to eat.
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For U.S. soldiers in Haiti, helping becomes the hardest part
www.washingtonpost.com-January 29, 2010
Capt. Edward Kim and his 100 troops camp out on what was the tennis court of the National Palace, destroyed in the earthquake two weeks ago. When out on the streets of this devastated city, they wear their rifles slung behind their backs to show they're here not to guard but to help.
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As Aftershocks Continue, Haiti Ponders Rebuilding
www.nytimes.com-January 28, 2010
More than two weeks after the earthquake that devastated much of this country’s southern half, the capital remains a city of teetering walls, dangling electrical wires and precariously balanced heaps of jagged cinder block and wrought iron, all rattled daily by aftershocks.
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Girl's rescue 15 days after quake offers a rare moment of joy in devastated Haiti
www.washingtonpost.com-January 28, 2010
Fifteen days after an earthquake devastated this nation, a teenage girl was rescued from the rubble of her house -- weak and thirsty -- on a hillside in the capital.
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On Street Tracing Haiti’s Pain, Survival Goes On
www.nytimes.com-January 25, 2010
Avenue Poupelard in the center of this devastated city pulses with life and reeks of death almost two weeks after the earthquake.
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For U.S. Soldiers, Shantytown Survivors' Needs Surpass The Mission
www.washingtonpost.com-January 25, 2010
The Haitian men stood outside the razor wire, lined up on both sides of the dirt road, waiting. When Army Capt. Andrew Salmo stepped out from the makeshift military quarters in a former school, he and about 20 of his men were swarmed by the Haitians.
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U.S. Soldiers Embrace A New Role
www.latimes.com-January 25, 2010
The aid effort is insufficient for the vast need in the quake-devastated nation, but soldiers are able to provide some food and water to the people, who gratefully accept it.
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How Hugo Chavez's revolution crumbled
www.washingtonpost.com-January 25, 2010
While the world has been preoccupied with the crisis in Haiti, Latin America has quietly passed through a tipping point in the ideological conflict that has polarized the region -- and paralyzed U.S. diplomacy -- for most of the past decade.
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More Than 150,000 Have Been Buried, Haiti Says
www.nytimes.com-January 24, 2010
Haiti’s government provided a preliminary assessment of the earthquake’s body count on Saturday, putting it at more than 150,000, and declared that the search for survivors trapped in the rubble would soon be coming to an end.
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Death toll growing at Port-au-Prince's Hotel Montana, once a symbol of stability
www.washingtonpost.com-January 24, 2010
Before the earthquake, the Hotel Montana was the place to be in Haiti. During coups and crises, it provided air-conditioned shelter from the political storms for the diplomats, spies and aid workers -- and a few heavy-duty criminals -- who gathered nightly at the News Bar under a towering mahogany tree to sip rum sours concocted by Monsieur Lauren, known as the best barman in the country.
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Sending money home to Haiti from the U.S. proves difficult
www.washingtonpost.com-January 24, 2010
Even in normal times, the dingy money transfer storefronts in this city's Little Haiti provide a critical lifeline for the island nation. Here, and in other immigrant hubs in the United States, money passed to tellers behind plastic glass and then relayed back home is part of a flow that amounts to as much as a quarter of Haiti's economy.
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Obstacles to Recovery in Haiti May Prove Daunting Beyond Other Disasters
www.nytimes.com-January 23, 2010
The relief effort in Haiti could end up being the most difficult, faith-testing recovery from a modern disaster, perhaps even exceeding that from the 2004 Asian tsunami, according to United Nation officials and aid groups with experience in large-scale catastrophes.
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As search for survivors slows in Haiti, humanitarian efforts intensify
www.washingtonpost.com-January 22, 2010
The hunt for survivors of Haiti's earthquake slowed Thursday, but a humanitarian operation intensified, with relief workers sending food to imperiled orphans and truckloads of water and generators snarling traffic in the capital.
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As search for survivors slows in Haiti, humanitarian efforts intensify
www.washingtonpost.com-January 22, 2010
The hunt for survivors of Haiti's earthquake slowed Thursday, but a humanitarian operation intensified, with relief workers sending food to imperiled orphans and truckloads of water and generators snarling traffic in the capital.
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U.S. given authority over Haiti ports and roadways in earthquake relief effort
www.washingtonpost.com-January 22, 2010
The United States on Friday secured formal approval for the U.S. military to help oversee all Haitian air and sea ports, and to help secure Haitian roads in support of international relief efforts, according to an agreement signed in Haiti by the United States and the United Nations.
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Haiti wants to move 400,000 out of capital
www.msnbc.com-January 21, 2010
Haiti's government on Thursday unveiled plans to move 400,000 earthquake victims to new settlements outside the destroyed capital.
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Nightmare in Haiti: Untreated Illness and Injury
www.nytimes.com-January 21, 2010
A strong aftershock rattled Haiti once again on Wednesday, causing even more physical damage and further traumatizing the jittery population. But the authorities said the biggest dangers now facing survivors of last week’s major earthquake were untreated wounds and rising disease, not falling debris.
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Tensions run high as Haitians try to rebuild lives
www.washingtonpost.com-January 21, 2010
Nerves frayed Thursday morning as Haitians tried to rebuild their earthquake-shattered lives, setting up crude food stands, hawking clothes and other supplies and offering taxi transport at significantly inflated prices.
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Photo's of the Devestation in Haiti
www.washingtonpost.com-January 21, 2010
Photo's of the suffering of the Haitian people.
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Dominican Offer Of Troops Sparks Confusion
http://online.wsj.com-January 21, 2010
An offer of troops from the Dominican Republic to help peacekeeping operations in Haiti was thrown into confusion Wednesday, as senior Western diplomats initially said Haiti rejected the overture.
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US Defense Chief Says More Ships On Way To Haiti
www.washingtonpost.com-January 20, 2010
The U.S. military is sending additional ships to help with earthquake recovery in Haiti, including one that could remove debris blocking the main port, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
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Aftershock hits Haiti; U.S. troops guard convoys in Port-au-Prince
www.washingtonpost.com-January 20, 2010
A massive aftershock jolted awake thousands of earthquake victims and relief workers in this ravaged capital early Wednesday, sparking new cries of fear and sorrow even as an enormous international aid effort continued to build.
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U.S. Troops Go To Work In Heart Of Haitian Capital
www.washingtonpost.com-January 20, 2010
Hundreds of U.S. troops surged into the epicenter of Haiti's earthquake-ravaged capital Tuesday to guard convoys and food distribution sites, while thousands more stationed themselves on ships and helicopters offshore to bolster relief and recovery efforts.
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U.S. Marines Land in Villages on the Edge
wwww.nytimes.com-January 20, 2010
The Marine helicopters began landing just before noon on Tuesday in a cow pasture here in this heavily damaged farming town about nine miles south of Port-au-Prince, kicking up strong winds and drawing crowds of the curious and hopeful.
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Another quake hits as more 'points of entry' open to Haiti
www.usatoday.com-January 20, 2010
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake that lasted about five to seven seconds awoke Haitians, aid workers and journalists in Port-au-Prince at 6:03 a.m. ET Wednesday.
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U.S. hospital ship arrives off Haiti
www.msnbc.com-January 20, 2010
A strong aftershock rattled nerves but didn't stop a struggling relief effort that saw some positive signs Wednesday — among them the arrival of a U.S. hospital ship, the restoration of running water at Haiti's largest hospital and news that 2,000 more U.S. Marines were being sent to the quake zone.
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To Help Haiti, End Foreign Aid
http://online.wsj.com-January 19, 2010
For Haitians, just about every conceivable aid scheme beyond immediate humanitarian relief will lead to more poverty, more corruption and less institutional capacity.
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Haiti's Chaos: Running with the Looters in Port-au-Prince
www.time.com-January 19, 2010
One of the worst-ever natural disasters in the western hemisphere leaves the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince in ruins
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A week after Haiti quake, aid for all is elusive
http://news.yahoo.com-January 19, 2010
The world still can't get enough food and water to the hungry and thirsty one week after an earthquake shattered Haiti's capital. The airport remains a bottleneck, the port is a shambles. The Haitian government is invisible, nobody has taken firm charge, and the police have largely given up.
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U.S. Military Begins Air Drops in Haitian Capital
www.nytimes.com-January 19, 2010
United States military helicopters carrying dozens of American troops landed on the lawn of Haiti’s destroyed presidential palace on Tuesday morning, a potent symbol of the escalating United States military presence in Haiti since the earthquake that struck a week ago.
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Rich Nations Call for Haiti Debt Relief
www.nytimes.com-January 19, 2010
Broadening the relief effort, the Paris Club of international creditors issued an appeal Tuesday for nations owed money by Haiti to cancel the debts to help reconstruction after the devastating earthquake a week ago.
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In Leogane, Haiti, rebuilding starts with scavenging
www.washingtonpost.com-January 19, 2010
Townspeople say as many as 500 nuns, priests and students were crushed to death when the cream-colored walls of the Sainte Rose de Lima School collapsed in last Tuesday's earthquake, a disaster that destroyed the emotional and physical centerpiece of this city.
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Rebuilding Haiti: The Work of Decades
www.cfr.org-January 19, 2010
The January 12 earthquake in Haiti was "the worst national disaster in the history of the Western Hemisphere," says Mark L. Schneider, former Peace Corps director in the Clinton administration. "Long-term reconstruction" will last more than a decade, he says, and involve billions of dollars in aid. The objective is not just to put Haiti back together, he says, but to create "a New Haiti" with a new education system and other changes throughout the society.
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U.S. Mulls Role in Haiti After the Crisis
www.nytimes.com-January 18, 2010
President Obama’s aggressive response to the deadly earthquake in Haiti has led to criticism from the far right that the United States is taking on too much, at a time when its foreign-policy plate is already full.
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Refugees try to flee Port-au-Prince as security situation in Haiti deteriorates
www.washingtonpost.com-January 18, 2010
The number of refugees fleeing the Haitian capital surged Monday, as thousands fought to get on buses leaving for the countryside. Prices for tickets doubled as the buses jostled in long lines at gas stations.
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Haitian President Préval largely absent in quake's aftermath
www.washingtonpost.com-January 18, 2010
As foreign aid and troops flow into this ruined capital, a Haitian government led by a diffident president has been overwhelmed, making it largely invisible since the earthquake throttled the country six days ago.
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Haiti's elite spared from much of the devastation
www.washingtonpost.com-January 18, 2010
Through decades of coups, hurricanes, embargoes and economic collapse, members of the wily and powerful business elite of Haiti have learned the art of survival in one of the most chaotic countries on Earth -- and they might come out on top again.
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Thousands more U.S. troops to arrive in Haiti today
www.latimes.com-January 18, 2010
Thousands more U.S. Marines and soldiers were expected today in and around earthquake-battered Haiti, joining a global relief effort that appeared to be getting food and water to growing numbers of desperate survivors in the capital.
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Aid Pours Into Haiti Airport As Relief Workers Struggle To Distribute It
www.latimes-January 17, 2010
Desperate Haitians face a fifth day with little food, water or medical care as rubble and a ruined infrastructure prove a barrier to troops and rescue teams. Clinton arrives, meets with Preval.
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Patients overwhelm medical teams at Haiti clinics
www.washingtonpsot.com-January 17, 2010
Medical teams struggled to cope with an overwhelming crush of injured patients in this earthquake-ravaged city Sunday, while an international armada of would-be helpers vied in frustration for access to the disaster zone.
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For Fort Bragg unit heading to Haiti, it's hurry up and wait
www.washingtonpost.com-January 17, 2010
It is the phrase the military is known for: Hurry up and wait.
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Haitians Seek Solace Amid the Ruins
www.nytimes.com-January 17, 2010
With their churches flattened, their priests killed and their Bibles lost amid the rubble of their homes, desperate Haitians prayed in the streets on Sunday, raising their arms in the air and asking God to ease their grief.
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Clinton-Bush fundraising team says donations safe with them
www.latimes.com-January 17, 2010
The bipartisan team of former Presidents Clinton and Bush, recruited by President Obama to spearhead private fundraising for the relief of Haitian earthquake victims, promised today to ensure that the money they were raising would be well-spent in a nation now reeling in chaos.
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U.S. Is Coming To Haiti's Aid As Fast As It Can, Pentagon Officials Say
www.latimes.com-January 16, 2010
Top Pentagon officials said the U.S. responded to the Haiti earthquake as quickly as it could, and promised that as many as 10,000 American troops would be in-country and off-shore by the weekend.
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Officials Strain to Distribute Aid to Haiti as Violence Rises
www.nytimes.com-January 16, 2010
As the focus on Saturday turned away from Haitians lost to those trying to survive, a sprawling assembly of international officials and aid workers struggled to fix a troubled relief effort after Tuesday’s devastating earthquake.
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In Show of Support, Clinton Goes to Haiti
www.nytimes.com-January 16, 2010
Bearing toilet paper, soap, bottled water, and other supplies, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew into this ruined capital on Saturday and told the Haitian people that the United States “will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead.”
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From Haiti's ruins, a chance to rebuild a nation
www.washingtonpost.com-January 16, 2010
Even as rescuers are digging victims out of the rubble in Haiti, policymakers in Washington and around the world are grappling with how a destitute, corrupt and now ruined country might be transformed into a self-sustaining nation.
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Aid pours into Haiti, but delivery is difficult
www.washingtonpsot.com-January 16, 2010
The search for water and food grew increasingly desperate Saturday for millions of Haitians, with some of the most battered neighborhoods still awaiting even the most basic goods from the international aid effort.
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U.S. Seen Returning to Big Haiti Role
http://online.wsj.com-January 16, 2010
As U.S. Military Seeks to Restore Order and Bring Aid, Prospect Grows of Costly Extended Mission That Will Tax Troops
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A Helping Hand for Haiti
www.nytimes.com-January 16, 2010
This weekend, President Obama asked us to spearhead private-sector fund-raising efforts in the aftermath of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that ravaged Haiti. We are pleased to answer his call.
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Put The Pentagon In Charge
www.newsweek.com-January 15, 2010
Why the U.S. military is the only organization that can effectively manage the chaos in Haiti. And other hard truths about the disaster.
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Why Haiti Matters
www.newsweek.com-January 15, 2010
In the tragic aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, images of the disaster break our hearts and remind us of the fragility of life. What America must do now—and why.
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Rescuers Race to Find Survivors in Haiti as Troops Arrive to Speed Flow of Aid
www.nytimes.com-January 15, 2010
Conditions in this earthquake-ravaged nation grew more dire on Friday morning as rescuers raced against time to find anyone still alive beneath mountains of rubble while aid workers struggled to deliver relief supplies to survivors increasingly desperate for food and clean water.
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U.S. Names General To Lead Aid Mission
http://online.wsj.com-January 15, 2010
The Pentagon appointed a three-star general to head the rapidly expanding U.S. military relief effort in Haiti, which is shaping up to be one of the biggest—and most challenging—American humanitarian missions in years.
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Cuba opens airspace to U.S. evacuation flights
www.washingtonpost.com-January 15, 2010
Efforts to rescue, feed and treat tens of thousands of Haitians trapped or injured in a devastating earthquake continued Friday morning, and the U.S. government said it had received permission from Cuba to fly through restricted air space on medical evacuation flights.
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Satellite image of Port-au-Prince earthquake damage
www.washingtonpost.com-January 15, 2010
Explore this GeoEye satellite image, taken Wednesday at 10:27 a.m., a day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti's captial and surrounding area.
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On streets of Haiti's capital two days after quake, growing despair
www.washingtonpost.com-January 15, 2010
The news on the radio delivered the latest shock to Ives Sima: The eight-story technical college run by his cousin in the Haitian capital had collapsed in Tuesday's massive earthquake.
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Haitian Rescue Stymied Amid Chaos
http://online.wsj.com-January 15, 2010
A massive but frenzied international relief effort struggled to reach Haiti's desperate residents Thursday, as survivors of the ferocious quake pleaded for medical care and raced against time to dig people from the rubble.
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Tragedy May Give 'Uneasy Neighbors' Chance For Fresh Start
www.washingtonpost.com-January 15, 2010
For nearly two decades, Democrats and Republicans have tussled over U.S. policy in Haiti, resulting in an inconsistent and troubled relationship despite the delivery of about $3 billion in aid.
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Averting Disaster
www.carnegieendowment.org-January 15, 2010
The most shocking thing about the disaster in Haiti was not that it was so sudden, violent, and horrific in its human toll. It's that the damage was so predictable. Seismologists warned that the country was at risk as recently as two years ago. Haiti is also the latest in a string of nearly annual megadisasters extending back through the past decade, calamities claiming tens of thousands of lives more because poverty and the forces of nature met with foreseeably tragic consequences.
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Obama pledges $100 million to support Haiti earthquake relief effort
www.washingtonpost.com-January 14, 2010
A Haitian Red Cross official on Thursday estimated that between 45,000 and 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's devastating earthquake in this impoverished capital, and President Obama pledged $100 million in funds to support what he called one of the largest international relief efforts in history.
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Obama orders rapid mobilization of U.S. rescue, relief efforts for Haiti
www.washingtonpost.com-January 14, 2010
President Obama mobilized the U.S. government Wednesday for a massive rescue and relief operation in the devastated capital of Haiti, ordering swift military and diplomatic assistance and pledging an aggressive effort to save the lives of those caught in Tuesday's earthquake.
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Amid Untold Dead, Haiti’s Devastation Hobbles Efforts to Reach Survivors
www.nytimes.com-January 14, 2010
President Obama promised $100 million for the relief effort in Haiti on Thursday morning, vowing that the United States would stand with the impoverished nation as it counted what could be tens of thousands of dead and grappled with the devastation of the Tuesday earthquake.
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Haiti Relief Effort Faces ‘Major Challenge’
www.nytimes.com-January 14, 2010
As the United States prepared a huge relief effort for earthquake-stricken Haiti and President Obama pledged $100 million in aid, relief agencies scrambled to transport rescuers, food and medical supplies into the country and worried that aid could be slowed by damage to the country’s main airport and seaport, its roads and its power supplies.
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Tragedy and Opportunity for Haiti
www.cfr.org-January 14, 2010
The January 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, is the first test of the Obama administration's ability to mount a full-scale international disaster response, and it is no ordinary test. Haiti is the poorest nation in the hemisphere, with abysmal infrastructure, struggling to stabilize even before it was struck by four hurricanes eighteen months ago. Intractable political instability surges at regular intervals into wide-scale violence, and the UN force there, MINUSTAH, had just begun to see progress in stemming corruption and lawlessness.
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What we can do to help Haiti, now and beyond
www.washingtonpost.com-January 14, 2010
As I write, we don't know the extent of the damage wrought by the earthquake that rocked the coast of Haiti on Tuesday. But a tragic number of people have been killed or injured, and early estimates indicate that nearly 3 million people -- almost a third of Haiti's population-- may need aid, making this one of the great humanitarian emergencies in the history of the Americas.
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Haiti aid begins to arrive in quake zone
www.msnbc.com-January 14, 2010
Red Cross officials say death toll could hit 50,000.
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U.S. military mobilizes thousands for Haiti relief
www.alertnet.com-January 14, 2010
The U.S. military is mobilizing thousands of soldiers, sailors and Marines for relief efforts in Haiti. Here are the main military components announced so far:
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Who's running Haiti? No one, say the people
www.alertnet.com-January 14, 2010
* Earthquake disaster overwhelms Haiti's weak government
* International aid effort has yet to kick in
* No one in charge, U.S. seen filling the vacuum
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The Haiti Earthquake
www.time.com-January 14, 2010
What makes the apocalyptic earthquake that ravaged Haiti on Jan. 12 especially "cruel and incomprehensible," as U.S. President Barack Obama put it, is that it struck at a rare moment of optimism. After decades of natural and political catastrophes — including the violent 2004 overthrow of then President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and four deadly hurricanes in 2008 — a U.N. peacekeeping force and an international investment campaign headed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton had recently begun to calm and rebuild the Caribbean nation, the western hemisphere's poorest. "We were hearing more positive things from Haiti for once," says Danielle Romer, a Miami social worker with family in Haiti. "Things were coming around."
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President Obama's remarks on Haiti
www.realclearpolitics.com-January 14, 2010
Text of President Obama's remarks on Haiti.
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Devestation in Haiti
www.newsweek.com-January 14, 2010
No one could have stopped the Haitian earthquake. But much could have been done to lessen its impact.
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Haiti Chief Says Thousands May Be Dead
www.nytimes.com-January 13, 2010
Untold numbers of people in Haiti — including the head of the United Nations mission — remained missing in the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday morning, a day after an earthquake ravaged this impoverished nation.
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U.N.: Thousands feared dead in Haiti quake; global relief effort underway
www.washingtonpost.com-January 13, 2010
Foreign governments and international aid organizations are mobilizing to send assistance to Haiti, after the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the impoverished island nation devastated much of the capital.
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After massive earthquake in Haiti, rescuers search rubble and officials call for help
www.latimes.com-January 13, 2010
Haitian authorities ask for international aid as thousands are feared dead in the 7.0 quake that leveled an unknown number of buildings.
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Haiti, Hopeful Yesterday, Suddenly Plunged Back Into Chaos
www.newsweek.com-January 13, 2010
Haiti was already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake blanketed the island nation in devastation yesterday.
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Obama's Disappointing Year in Latin America
www.cfr.org-January 12, 2010
The Obama administration has so far missed out on opportunities to place U.S. relations with Latin America on sounder footing, says Julia E. Sweig, CFR's director for Latin American studies.
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Outlook for Indigenous Politics in the Andean Region
www.csis.org-January 12, 2010
As a means of better understanding the outlook for indigenous politics in the Andes, the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held a conference on December 1, 2009, bringing together leading experts to discuss the cases of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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‘Substantial’ casualties feared after Haiti quake
www.msnbc.com-January 12, 2010
A powerful earthquake hit the impoverished country of Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital and other buildings and raising fears of substantial casualties in what the country’s U.S. ambassador called “a major disaster.”
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Chavez: US spy plane violated Venezuela's airspace
www.breitart.com-December 20, 2009
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the U.S. of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane, and ordered his military to be on alert and shoot down any such aircraft in the future.
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Mexico's drug cartels siphon liquid gold
www.washingtonpost.com-December 13, 2009
Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico's pipelines over the past two years, in a vast and audacious conspiracy that is bleeding the national treasury, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials and the state-run oil company.
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Hemisphere Highlights
www.csis.org-December 04, 2009
Concerns over drug violence in Ciudad Jaúarez led businessmen from Mexico to appeal to the United Nations. Officials in Mexico are concerned about a possible outbreak of dengue fever. Haiti picks its sixth prime minister since 2004. Overcrowded shelters for flood victims in El Salvador have officials fretting an epidemic. A controversial ruling by the Supreme Court will permit Daniel Ortega to run for another term as president in Nicaragua. Peru has accused Chile of espionage after its arrest of an alleged spy. A drought in Venezuela has exposed deficiencies in its infrastructure leading to shortages of water and electricity. Chile has authorized the duty-free sale of liquid natural gas to Argentina and other Latin American countries. Mapuche leaders in the south of Chile have proposed a plan to increase socioeconomic development in Araucanía.
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Trafficking in the Mesoamerican Corridor
www.csis.org-November 30, 2009
To facilitate discussion among the diverse law enforcement, advocacy and research sectors that play roles in surveillance, prevention, and control of trafficking involving Mexico, Central America, and the United States, the CSIS Americas Program convened a one-day meeting on September 24, 2009, at CSIS in Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Afghanistan Debate Curbs Gates On Canada Visit
www.latimes.com-November 21, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a conference but, with the Obama administration wrestling over its Afghan strategy, isn't in a position to push Canada to reconsider a troop withdrawal plan
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Resolution of Political Impasse in Honduras
www.csis.org-October 30, 2009
An agreement has been reached between representatives of deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and the de-facto government headed by Roberto Micheletti that appears to have paved the way for a resolution of the political impasse.
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US Defends Cuba Policy Amid UN Condemnation
www.voanews.com-October 28, 2009
The Obama administration on Wednesday defended the long-running U.S. economic embargo against Cuba in the face of another overwhelming U.N. General Assembly vote condemning American policy toward the island nation. But administration officials also stressed efforts to reach out to the Cuba's communist government.
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How Poor and Unequal is
www.thedialogue.org-October 28, 2009
Poverty and inequality have decreased recently in much of Latin America—the result of strong growth and innovative social programs. The United Nations estimates that the number of poor dropped by nearly 17 percent between 2002 and 2007—a significant achievement for the region’s governments.1 Inequality has also declined a bit, particularly in the region’s largest countries. Clearly, good policy can pay off.
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Honduras and Multilateralism: Lessons for the Obama Administration
www.thedialogue.org-October 23, 2009
Honduras is a critical test for President Obama’s Latin America policy. Unfortunately, he may end up with a failing grade. The Administration’s approach—emphasizing multilateral cooperation and seeking to align U.S. and Latin American agendas—has been welcomed by most Latin Americans, and could lead to a more productive long-term relationship with the region. But the policy needs to be more effectively managed than it has been Honduras.
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Cuba Outlook
www.csis.org-September 21, 2009
Nearly two decades after the end of the Cold War, Cuba remains a policy dilemma for the United States. The transition from Fidel Castro to his brother Raúl, which began when Raúl assumed the responsibilities of the presidency of the Council of State on July 31, 2006, as a result of Fidel’s illness, is still ongoing after three years.
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Venezuela Says It Will Buy Russian Missiles
www.nytimes.com-September 13, 2009
President Hugo Chávez said Friday night that Venezuela had reached an agreement to buy short-range missiles from Russia, part of a deepening security relationship with Russia as Mr. Chávez chafes at a plan by the United States to increase its military presence in neighboring Colombia.
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Venezuela to Develop Nuclear Energy With Russian Help
www.bloomberg.com-September 13, 2009
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said the South American country plans to develop a nuclear energy program with Russia and doesn’t want to build an atomic bomb.
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The Emerging Axis of Iran and Venezuela
http://online.wsj.com-September 09, 2009
The diplomatic ties between Iran and Venezuela go back almost 50 years and until recently amounted to little more than the routine exchange of diplomats. With the election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, the relationship dramatically changed.
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U.S.-Colombia Deal Prompts Questions
www.washingtonpost.com-August 27, 2009
U.S. and Colombian officials say a new agreement to deploy U.S. aircraft and service members to this base is little more than the formalization of a string of loose military accords that go as far back as 1952. But the deal, which would allow American forces access to as many as seven bases, has prompted concern among South American presidents and an outcry from neighboring Venezuela, where President Hugo Chávez warns of an impending U.S. invasion.
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Lula and his squabbling friends
www.economist.com-August 13, 2009
A bold Brazilian attempt to integrate South America has run into difficulty. Critics at home say Brazil should put national interest over leftist ideology
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The dragon in the backyard
www.economist.com-August 13, 2009
Latin America is tilting towards China, Iran and the global “south”—and away from the United States
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Envoy Says US Military Plan May Embolden Colombian Forces
www.thedialogue.org-August 12, 2009
A greater US military presence in Colombia would likely increase chances the South American nation would launch a "pre-emptive" attack on a neighboring country, creating a "rupture of the whole inter-American system," Ecuador's ambassador said in an interview with the Advisor.
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Obama, Mexican Leader Discuss Drug Cartels
www.washingtonpost.com-August 10, 2009
President Obama arrived Sunday in Mexico's second-largest city for a two-day summit to discuss that country's ongoing drug wars and whether its strategy to eliminate trafficking and the violence associated with it is working.
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Colombia President, On South America Tour, Defends U.S. Military Role
www.nytimes.com-August 08, 2009
President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia wrapped up a seven-country tour of South America this week seeking to calm skeptical neighbors about a proposal to allow an increased American military presence in Colombian territory.
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Mirror Image Latin America isn't tilting left, it's tilting right.
www.newsweek.com-August 07, 2009
In the new Latin America, party affiliation and ideological inheritance may be heartfelt, but they are lousy compasses to the political future. And while neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus may be still be maldiciones below the Rio Grande, they are hardly dead or even out of fashion. In fact, with the exception of Mexico—whose fortunes are tethered to the faltering U.S. market—the nations faring best in the global financial downturn are those that have hewed closest to the free-market reforms that have proved so politically provocative. If onetime left-wingers are in charge in a dozen Central and South American states, most remain leftists in name only.
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The North American Leaders Summit
www.csis.org-August 07, 2009
On August 9–10, U.S. president Barack Obama, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican president Felipe Calderón will meet in Guadalajara, Mexico, under the rubric of the North American Leaders Summit.
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Rebels Obtained Arms Sold To Venezuela, Colombia Says
www.nytimes.com-July 28, 2009
Sweden demanded an explanation on Monday of how Colombia’s largest rebel group managed to obtain Swedish-made antitank rocket launchers that had been sold to Venezuela years ago
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Behind the Honduran Mutiny
http://online.wsj.com-July 25, 2009
During Honduras' Independence Day celebrations last September 15, then-President Manuel Zelaya turned up for a time-honored ritual meant to promote national unity. But rather than merely making the traditional presidential cry "Long Live the Republic!" Mr. Zelaya treated political, civic and business leaders to a 15-minute diatribe against capitalism.
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Opposition to or Engagement with Latin American Leftists?
www.aei.org-July 13, 2009
The rush to judgment in the case of the recent removal of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has brought to light the challenge of dealing with the emergence of 21st-century "caudillismo"--the new brand of strongmen running roughshod over democracy with the backing of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Indeed, Hondurans are moving on, and the conflict is not about Zelaya at all.
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Mexico Accused of Torture in Drug War
www.washingtonpost.com-July 09, 2009
The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors.
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The Careful U.S. Diplomacy on Honduras
www.cfr.org-July 09, 2009
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by the army in late June 2009 after a months-long power struggle over his plans to seek a referendum to lift presidential term limits. Brookings Fellow Kevin Casas-Zamora, former vice president under Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, says that by putting its diplomatic weight behind a mediation effort by Arias to settle the Honduran crisis, the Obama administration has demonstrated sensitivity to Latin sensibilities.
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Honduras Is Rattled As Leader's Return Is Blocked
www.nytimes.com-July 06, 2009
An airborne drama that held Honduras in suspense for most of the day ended Sunday evening with the ousted president’s plane circling over the airport here in the capital, where soldiers and riot police officers blocked the runway and used tear gas and bullets to disperse supporters who had awaited what was supposed to have been his triumphal return.
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Developments since the Military Coup in Honduras
www.csis.org-July 06, 2009
What has been happening since the military coup in Honduras.
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In A Coup In Honduras, Ghosts Of Past U.S. Policies
www.nytimes.com-June 30, 2009
President Obama on Monday strongly condemned the ouster of Honduras’s president as an illegal coup that set a “terrible precedent” for the region, as the country’s new government defied international calls to return the toppled president to power and clashed with thousands of protesters.
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Military Coup in Honduras: Under What Circumstances Did President Manuel Zelaya Leave Honduras?
www.csis.org-June 29, 2009
On Sunday, June 28, members of the Honduran military stormed the presidential palace, arrested President Manuel Zelaya, and placed him on a plane to San José, Costa Rica, in the first Central American coup since the end of the Cold War.
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Crisis in Honduras
www.brookings.edu-June 29, 2009
The ousting of Honduras’s President, Manuel Zelaya, by the military is as unfortunate as it is revealing. The coup caps weeks of tension brought about by the president’s ill-conceived attempt to amend the constitution to enable his own reelection.
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Honduran President Is Ousted In Coup
www.nytimes.com-June 29, 2009
President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits.
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The Seven Deadly Questions How to Think about Mexico and Beyond
http://smallwarsjournal.com-June 15, 2009
Since the Spanish-American War, the grand strategy of the United States has been to rely on stability in the Western Hemisphere in order to pursue its interests in Europe and Asia. If Mexico is not already our most vital strategic relationship, it will become so over the next generation: as a trade partner, as a source of demographic and cultural renewal, and as a pillar of our strategic worldview so taken-for-granted that it is difficult to imagine how things could be otherwise.
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The Essentials of U.S. Policy towards Latin America
www.csis.org-June 15, 2009
President Barack Obama has not yet defined the essentials of U.S. policy toward Latin America despite the painful economic situation in the region brought on by the U.S. financial collapse.
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Missile Buildup Has U.S. On Edge
www.miamihearld.com-May 31, 2009
Venezuela's recent purchase of the most lethal shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles in the Russian arsenal is sharpening U.S. concerns that parts of President Hugo Chávez's massive weapons buildup could wind up in the hands of terrorists or guerrillas in neighboring Colombia.
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Chavez Seeks Tighter Grip On Military
www.nytimes.com-May 30, 2009
Since February, Mr. Chávez has moved against a wide range of domestic critics, and his efforts in recent weeks to strengthen his grip on the armed forces have led to high-profile arrests and a wave of reassignments.
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An Opportune Moment for a Shared Euro-Atlantic Security Strategy
www.csis.org-May 18, 2009
September 11 came late in Europe, but nearly eight years after 2001, it is there. In each of Europe’s main countries, as well as between them and the United States, the analysis of the changing security environment is converging.
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Napolitano focuses on
www.krqe.com-May 15, 2009
Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano has had a rough start in her new white house position. Her new gig puts her right in the middle of the Mexican cartel’s turf war.
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A Backyard Challenge
http://smallwarsjournal.com-May 04, 2009
While President Barak Obama’s meetings in Mexico in mid-April resulted in several promising agreements, the challenges presented by the increasing violence and instability in Mexico are serious and will take years to resolve. Despite the Administration’s recent efforts to backtrack from statements that Mexico is on the verge of a collapse, many experts believe that the country is, at the very least, in a serious struggle to preserve the rule of law.
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Clinton Sees China, Iran Inroads In Latin America.
www.latimes.com-May 02, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton charged Friday that China and Iran have made "quite disturbing" gains in Latin America.
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Plan Would Deploy Guard Near Mexico
www.washingtonpost.com-April 25, 2009
The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the U.S. military's role in the drug war, according to Obama administration officials.
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Hugo Chavez's gift to Obama is a Latin leftist's bible
www.latimes.com-April 21, 2009
The book that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, has long been regarded as a bible for the Latin American left, found on the bookshelves and university reading lists of a generation of students in the region.
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Obama Closes Summit, Vows Broader Engagement With Latin America
www.washingtonpost.com-April 20, 2009
President Obama concluded a summit of the hemisphere's leaders Sunday by articulating a broad new agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean, having gained momentum in his bid to repair relations with some of the region's shrillest critics of the United States.
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Americas Summit: Missed Opportunity
http://online.wsj.com-April 20, 2009
If President Barack Obama's goal at the fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago this weekend was to be better liked by the region's dictators and left-wing populists than his predecessor George W. Bush, the White House can chalk up a win.
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Signs of Spring: U.S.-Latin America Relations Thaw
www.time.com-April 19, 2009
Read the subtitle of Galeano's 1971 work — Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent — and you know why the left-wing, anti-U.S. Chavez would present it to a U.S. President. The book's thesis is that Spain, then Britain, the U.S. and Latin oligarchs ransacked Latin American resources, from copper to crude, bleeding the region of its natural wealth and its sovereign dignity.
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Obama Urges 'Equal' Ties in Hemisphere Latin American Resentment of U.S. Policy on Cuba Overshadows Speech
www.washingtonpost.com-April 18, 2009
President Obama was forced to confront long-standing resentment of U.S. dominance of Latin America as he told regional leaders here Friday evening that his administration seeks an "equal partnership" with the rest of the hemisphere.
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Obama, Chavez share book, pleasantries
www.washigntontimes.com-April 18, 2009
Continuing an interesting back-and-forth in U.S.-Latin American relations, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought out President Obama at a joint meeting Saturday morning to give him a book attacking capitalism and American intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
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U.S., Cuba continue new dialogue
www.washingtontimes.com-April 17, 2009
Talks toward a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations seemed to be a real possibility after the new presidents of both countries reached out to each other with surprisingly straightforward language about their desire to revive a relationship frozen by 50 years of cold war.
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Obama Prepares For Mexico Talks On Drug Trade One-Day Trip Meant to Show Solidarity
www.washingtonpost.com-April 15, 2009
President Obama will travel to Mexico on Thursday in a show of solidarity with his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderón, who has asked the new U.S. administration to do more against a thriving drug trade that threatens the integrity of his government and country.
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Obama to Discuss U.S. Plan For Engagement With Cuba
http://online.wsj.com-April 13, 2009
President Barack Obama plans to tell Latin American leaders later this week that the U.S. is willing to discuss how to improve relations with Havana, but wants Cuba to take steps toward democracy before it is reintegrated into the Western hemisphere's economic and political institutions.
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Critical Questions: Prospects for the Summit of the Americas
www.csis.org-April 13, 2009
The Summit of the Americas (SOA) process brings together the heads of state/government of the 34 Organization of American States (OAS) member countries for consultation on issues of common concern and to develop strategies for meeting goals developed from these meetings.
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Meeting the neighbors At the Summit of the Americas, Obama has the chance to offer leadership without unilateralism.
www.latimes.com-April 12, 2009
When President Obama attends the Summit of the Americas next week, he will encounter a wellspring of goodwill in Latin America toward the young leader who reminds so many there of their favorite American president, John F. Kennedy. And yet he will confront a region still angry at being cast aside for the United States' war on terror, then made to pay the price of our financial and economic irresponsibility. Latin America is clamoring for U.S. leadership without big-stick unilateralism. Obama should heed that call and forge a new partnership with our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.
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Taking The Fight To The Cartels
www.washingtonpost.com-April 04, 2009
The Mexican government is in a fight to the death with powerful drug cartels, and the Obama administration's main focus appears to be preventing the violence from crossing our border. Yet allowing the cartels to win would be disastrous for the Mexican people and dangerous for the United States. U.S. strategy should be not just to bolster our borders but to help Mexico establish the rule of law and score a decisive victory against the cartels that both menace that country and threaten our own security and prosperity.
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Senators take their concerns to the border
www.nytimes.com-March 31, 2009
The United States does not need to send troops to the border in response to Mexico's drug war, nor is Mexico in danger of becoming a failed state, law enforcement officials told a congressional panel Monday.
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Clinton Offers Mexico Help in Drug War
http://online.wsj.com-March 26, 2009
Mexican officials announced the capture of an alleged drug lord Wednesday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived, carrying a conciliatory message: U.S. demand is a principal reason for spiraling drug-related violence in Mexico.
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Order to the U.S.-Mexico border
www.latimes.com-March 26, 2009
The Obama administration outlined several Southwest border initiatives Tuesday with two clear goals: to prevent the violence of Mexico's drug war from spilling over into the United States, and to help President Felipe Calderon crack down on the drug cartels threatening the stability of his country.
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U.S. Plans 1-2 Punch On Drug Cartels
www.chron.com-March 25, 2009
The Obama administration promised Tuesday to spend $700 million to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels as it released details of a new offensive that would deploy hundreds of agents and intelligence operatives to fight narco-driven violence along the borders of Texas, Arizona and California.
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As Clinton Visits Mexico, Strains Show in Relations
www.nytimes.com-March 25, 2009
Mexico’s economy is being dragged down by the recession to the north. American addicts have turned Mexico into a drug superhighway, and its police and soldiers are under assault from American guns. Nafta promised 15 years ago that Mexican trucks would be allowed on American roads, but Congress said they were unsafe.
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White House Unveils Anti-Cartel Effort for Border
www.washingtonpost.com-March 24, 2009
President Obama will send at least 450 more federal agents, drug-sniffing dogs, x-ray scanners, intelligence analysts and other law enforcement resources to the U.S.-Mexico border in what administration officials called a "comprehensive response" to increased violence from Mexico's fight against transnational drug cartels, U.S. officials said
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Market Capitalism Beats Bolivarian Socialism
www.cato.org-March 22, 2009
The G-20 is meeting to try and fix the allegedly floundering capitalist system. The media are part of the chorus; the Financial Times, for example, has a new series, "Future of Capitalism," with contributions like "Let fairness triumph over corporate profit."
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U.S. eyes closer military ties with Mexico
www.miamihearld.com-March 21, 2009
As the Pentagon eyes a bigger role in Mexico's drug war, the military's efforts to open the door to a new relationship with its southern neighbor risks alienating the Mexican military, which has long had a strained relationship with its counterpart, experts said.
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Transatlantic Cooperation for Sustainable Energy Security A Report of the Global Dialogue between the European Union and the United States
www.csis.org-March 19, 2009
We are in a decisive interval for the institutions of the Euro-Atlantic community and the 32 member states that belong to either the European Union and/or NATO. Traditional concerns—security, economic, political, and societal—have become increasingly bundled into circumstances that cannot be addressed by any nation alone, however powerful, or any single institution, however influential.
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U.S. Efforts Against Mexican Cartels Called Lacking
www.washingtonpost.com-March 18, 2009
U.S. efforts to help the Mexican government battle powerful organized crime networks are falling short, and a recent sharp spike in violence south of the border poses a growing threat to U.S. citizens, senators and independent experts told officials from three federal agencies yesterday on Capitol Hill.
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Salvadoran leftist leader promises moderation
www.bostonglobe-March 17, 2009
charismatic former television journalist promised to build strong ties with President Obama and promote investor confidence yesterday as he took El Salvador into uncharted territory after being elected its first leftist president.
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US preparing integrated plan on Mexico drug war
www.reuters.com-March 17, 2009
The U.S. government is working on an integrated plan to address Mexico's escalating war with drug traffickers and could complete work on the initiative as early as this week, a top U.S. military official said on Tuesday.
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Issues in International Political Economy - The Leader of the Free World - March 2009, Number 111
www.csis.org-March 16, 2009
The United States often describes itself as the “leader of the free world.” We certainly are right now—leading the world economy down. Because it is hard to grasp the enormity of the global damage, I will focus on Mexico, a country important to the United States. Mexico is fortunate that it entered 2008 in good financial shape because the fallout from what happened in the U.S. economy might otherwise have been worse. Given that the economic and financial problems Mexico faces this time are not of its own making, it is proper to ask what the United States is doing to help its neighbor.
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In El Salvador election, old battle lines have been erased
www.latimes.com-March 14, 2009
Reporting from San Salvador -- For nearly three decades, Nestor Bonilla was a loyal soldier in the Salvadoran army. Trained by U.S. military advisors, he rose to the rank of colonel. He fought in the civil war as a commander of El Salvador's elite and feared special forces.
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Report: Cuba, Venezuela could host Russian bombers
www.latimes.com-March 14, 2009
A Russian Air Force chief said today that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered an island as a temporary base for strategic Russian bombers, the Interfax news agency reported.
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U.S. Still Evaluating Mexican-Border Issue
http://online.wsj.com-March 13, 2009
The Obama administration said it is reviewing state requests for deployment of National Guard troops on the U.S. border with Mexico, but that it doesn't have immediate plans to press the military into border patrols.
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El Salvador's Choice
www.cato.org-March 13, 2009
On March 15th, Salvadorans will head to the polls in a presidential vote that could result in a drastic departure from the movement towards free markets and democracy that has characterized the country since the end of the civil war in 1992. Such a retrograde move would be a travesty.
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A big opportunity for Obama and Lula
www.csmonitor.com-March 13, 2009
On Saturday, President Obama will meet with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a steel worker and union leader elected in 2002 on a platform of fighting poverty and inequality in one of the world's largest developing economies.
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Wariness in Cuba toward the Obama Administration
www.cfr.org-March 09, 2009
The recent demotion of two members of Cuba's cabinet has been puzzled over by Cuba analysts. Julia E. Sweig, CFR's director for Latin American studies, says the individuals that were replaced were those "that the outside world knows best as Cuba's international face." She says the changes are mainly about "Cuba's internal picture" and cautions against interpreting the shift as related to the United States. Sweig has advocated a normalization of relations by the United States toward Cuba.
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Military may help Mexico fight drugs
www.washingtontimes.com-March 08, 2009
President Barack Obama was briefed Saturday by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen about the drug wars in Mexico and wanted to know how the United States can help.
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Forget About Fidel
www.newsweek.com-March 07, 2009
There are signs that change may finally be coming to Cuba, 50 years after the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power. In a major shakeup, Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother, fired several high-level officials last week. While Raúl did more to raise expectations than living standards in his first year as president, he may now be positioning the government to go beyond the tentative reforms so far introduced. Then again, he might merely be installing loyalists who share his view that the regime should keep a tight grip on society.
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U.S. military chief lauds Mexico’s crime crackdown
www.chron.com-March 07, 2009
The senior U.S commander met with his military counterparts Friday and said afterward that he was trying “to see the security challenges we both face through the eyes of Mexican leaders.”
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Hemisphere Highlights, Volume VIII, Issue 2 - February 2009
www.csis.org-March 05, 2009
Latin America draws attention in the U.S. Congress, and an independent commission of former Latin American heads of state criticizes U.S.-led international counternarcotics policies. A wave in gang-related violence in Canada is tied to the drug wars in Mexico and the U.S. crackdown on Mexican drug cartel activity. Human rights groups in Mexico clash with the Secretariat of Health over legislation determining the rights of rape victims, and the country’s central bank undertakes massive monetary intervention to stabilize the peso. Underdevelopment in the highway system of Honduras begins to threaten the economy and public safety of the country. The President of Haiti is the first head of state to meet with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, amid controversy over the country’s exclusion of certain candidates from the upcoming Senate elections. Speculation continues over the political future of the president of Colombia. The government of Bolivia spars with investors over rights to the country’s lithium reserves. Several senators and deputies in Argentina announce their departure from the government coalition, weakening the Kirchner government’s chances in the upcoming October elections.
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Obama's overtures seek to help a spiraling Mexico
www.csmonitor.com-March 05, 2009
The Obama administration is extending sympathy and a helping hand to Mexico – something originally expected of the Bush administration but never fully delivered – as concerns mount about the spillover of violence into the United States from its neighbor's brutal drug wars.
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