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Lat-Am Watch: Am I my brother’s keeper?
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News and views on and from Latin America. Monday, November 17, 2008. Am I my brother’s keeper? In Colombia, soldiers kill the innocent to up the body count. Lat-Am Watch for the Buenos Aires Herald. The success of Alvaro Uribe. S government at fighting left-wing insurgency groups in Colombia has boosted the president’s popularity to dizzying heights, at home and abroad. Where so many had failed in the past, Uribe’s policy of ‘Democratic Security’ brought blow. To the rebel groups,. Miller, a former drug ...
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Lat-Am Watch: Lawyers on the Inca Trail
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News and views on and from Latin America. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Lawyers on the Inca Trail. Peru threatens to sue Yale over Machu Picchu artifacts. On July 24, 1911, an eight-year-old boy led a 35-year-old Yale University lecturer named Hiram Bingham up a steep path through the Peruvian jungle. Bingham was looking for the city of Vitcos, one of the last Inca strongholds to be sacked by Spanish invaders in 1572. This weekend Peru announced it would sue Yale University. In order to force the return.
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Lat-Am Watch: The man who would free us all
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News and views on and from Latin America. Tuesday, December 9, 2008. The man who would free us all. After a decade, Chávez is anything but a liberator. Published December 9, Buenos Aires Herald. I m very critical of the Chavez legacy so far," says Carlos Malamud, leading Latin America investigator for the Elcano Institute in Madrid. He believes that Chávez has done more to divide than to unite people in Latin America and cites as an example conflicts between Venezuela and Chile. Chávez once called the Ch...
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Lat-Am Watch: Correa cries wolf once too often
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News and views on and from Latin America. Tuesday, December 23, 2008. Correa cries wolf once too often. Ecuador’s voluntary default sees the wily gambler lose. If public opinion is anything to go by, Rafael Correa is either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Ecuador’s president recently announced his country would default on interest payments on its foreign debt. Not because Ecuador couldn’t afford the 30,6 million dollars due to holders of the Global 2012 bonds. Previous governments had begotten deb...
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Lat-Am Watch: Ecuador, your global utilities provider
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News and views on and from Latin America. Thursday, October 23, 2008. Ecuador, your global utilities provider. Paying for rainforest services is a logical step. The Yasuní rain forest reserve in Ecuador is one million hectares of the most biodiversity territory on the planet. There are less than three months left to keep it that way. That’s because underneath the Yasuní reserve lie nearly a billion barrels worth of oil. Photo: www.amazoniaporlavida.org. Last year, in a revolutionary approach. Don’t take ...
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Lat-Am Watch: Lat-Am Watch: Ghosts return to haunt Peru
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News and views on and from Latin America. Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Lat-Am Watch: Ghosts return to haunt Peru. García assailed by familiar troubles from the past. Peru’s image of recent years was one of relative stability and soaring economic growth. The painstaking reforms put in place by president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) placed the export economy in a slipstream culminating in some of the best macroeconomic figures for Latin America last year. A taped telephone conversation broadcast on October 5...
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Lat-Am Watch: New audio
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News and views on and from Latin America. Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Just posted the audio of my chat with New Zealand's Kiwi FM on the crisis in Bolivia in the bar over on the right. You can click on play to hear it. Posted by PIT @ 2:02 AM. Subscribe to Post Comments [ Atom. Links to this post:. The Hague, Netherlands. View my complete profile. My other blog: Estancia Von Zillenstein (in Dutch). The Latest Lat-Am Audio. The Bolivian Crisis on Kiwi FM. Lat-Am Watch: Brazil stepping up to the plate.
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Lat-Am Watch: Lat-Am Watch: Poll by proxy in Brazil
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News and views on and from Latin America. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Lat-Am Watch: Poll by proxy in Brazil. Serra trumps Lula in local election battle. Brazilians in 30 major cities went to the polls on Sunday to elect mayors in run-off elections, after the nationwide municipal vote on October 5. The outcome was a clear victory for one man and he didn’t even have to take part to win. Sao Paulo governor José Serra waves to supporters. Photo Reuters. Since then he has focused on Sao Paulo, winning the 20...
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Bridgepeople: Een goed besluit
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Een blog over ons in de VS. Hoe wij hier begonnen als bewoners van Brooklyn (bridgepeople) en nu nabij Washington DC wonen. Van: Pascal en Jacq. Voor: familie, vrienden en kennissen. Lees hier over onze USA Adventures en dagelijkse trivialiteiten. Verbaas je, haal je schouders op, erger je of geniet. Maar bovenal: blijf ons volgen en reageer! Friday, August 16, 2013. We hebben het hier enorm naar onze zin. Laten we eerst nog kijken naar de verhuizing:. We hebben nog lang tussen de dozen gezeten. Zo g...
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Bridgepeople: Kom d'r maar in, Margriet
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Een blog over ons in de VS. Hoe wij hier begonnen als bewoners van Brooklyn (bridgepeople) en nu nabij Washington DC wonen. Van: Pascal en Jacq. Voor: familie, vrienden en kennissen. Lees hier over onze USA Adventures en dagelijkse trivialiteiten. Verbaas je, haal je schouders op, erger je of geniet. Maar bovenal: blijf ons volgen en reageer! Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Kom d'r maar in, Margriet. Wat moesten wij doen? Misschien was dit het juiste moment. Maar ja, wilden we dan dít huis kopen? En bleek dat ...
