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On February 4th and 5th, leaders of the G-7 nations convened in London to discuss options for ending the grievous cycle of debt that has plagued the world’s most impoverished nations for
Born and raised in the slums of Medell
“Half of the country is in the hands of the paras,” Paula says by the candlelight in a bar in La Candelaria, the historic old town of Bogotá that has been declared
It’s not Paris or Tokyo, Beijing or New York. Nor is it São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. Enthusiastic residents of Porto Alegre, Brazil will tell you that their modest city of
El firme ascenso de Roger Noriega en las filas de la diplomacia estadunidense se ha cimentado no en sus habilidades como estadista o diplomático, sino en una disposición a hacer lo que
The privatization of pensions in Chile enacted by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1981 has been hailed worldwide as a success story, and U.S. President George W. Bush recently said that
In June 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada responded positively to Mexican civil society and impressed the international community when he signed the nation’s first freedom of information act. Atypically crafted with
The 16.6 billion dollar figure that Mexicans in the United States remitted home during 2004 is equivalent to US$45.5 million per day entering Mexico, overtaking the amount invested by foreign corporations, or
Support on Capitol Hill for a new companion bill to a proposed U.S.-Mexico Trans-Boundary Aquifer Assessment Act (S. 1957) raises hopes of providing some $50 million over the next decade for the