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Latin America shuts out desperate Venezuelans but Colombia’s border remains open – for now
By Cyril Bennouna, Brown University Economic collapse, government repression, violence and U.S. sanctions are making life unbearable for ever more…
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Colombia’s peace process under stress: 6 essential reads
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation Three years after negotiating a landmark peace agreement with the Colombian government, a top commander of…
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What drives Latin America’s lynch mobs
By Jamie Shenk The mob began to gather at the police station in Acatlán, a small town in Central Mexico, around…
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Brazilian Air Force mobilizes efforts to transfer victims of crash with Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense
The Brazilian Ministry of Defense made available four Air Force (FAB) airplanes to be used in the investigation in the…
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Colombia – Venezuela encirclement and unilateral border closure
By Jhon Freddy Muñoz Rubio Almost a year after Venezuelan president shut borders with Colombia, humanitarian crisis has become completely untenable.…
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Colombian government, FARC rebels sign historic ceasefire agreement
The Colombian government and FARC guerrilla group on Thursday signed a historic ceasefire deal, bringing the country’s half-century civil war…
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Venezuela ranked as world’s most miserable country
By Peter Tase In early January, 2016, Johns Hopkins University, under the leadership of Prof. Steve H. Hanke (an American…
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Michelle Bachelet: Cooperation of MERCOSUR – Pacific Alliance is priority
By Peter Tase On December 21st, 2015, the Republic of Paraguay hosted the 49th Summit of the Southern Common Market…
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Cristina Fernandez points her guns to the US and ‘vulture funds’, but no word on the Falklands
Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Cristina Fernandez accused the United States of ‘protecting’ a former Argentine intelligence agent, blasted…
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Guyana claims Venezuela is making “abnormal military deployments” near the border
Guyana President David Granger is claiming that Venezuela is making “abnormal and extraordinary military deployments” near the border between the…
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