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March 10, 2008

Brazil: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and the besieged Latin America

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

There was a lot of talk about the ‘Border Crisis in Latin America' on the Brazilian blogosphere in the last few days. Brazilian people suffer from an endemic form of ‘know-it-all syndrom' and, thus, many of us were talking — a lot — and taking sides about the impendin...

March 7, 2008

The U.S. view of the standoff

Aggregated from: Plan Columbia and Beyond

It is not news that Latin American sensitivities are high about issues of sovereignty and territorial integrity. Regional condemnation of Colombia’s incursion into Ecuador Saturday, which killed FARC leader “Raúl Reyes,” has been nearly unanimous. The move has been criticized by Brazil, Chile...

February 7, 2008

Colombia: March in Washington, DC

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Plan Colombia and Beyond provides some thoughts from the Center for International Policy Associate Paola Castro, who writes, “As a Colombian-American citizen I feel really glad that the pro-peace and anti-FARC rally went well today in Washington D.C. Around eight hundred people came together i...