Border Fence, Tlatelolco, Brazilian elections, Solar Energy, Argentina

This Week in the Americas

Fear and Loathing in the North
By Tom Barry

President Bush signed a bill this week authorizing the construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Immigration experts and counterterrorism experts say that this new plan to barricade the southern border will have little impact on immigration flows and terrorist networks.

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The World in Focus | Analysis column Thirty-five years after the US authorities officially launched the ten liberal principles that were to