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May 21, 2008

Is the U.S. Trying to Provoke War In Latin America?

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Apparently learning nothing from Colombia entering Ecuador's territory to go after the FARC, or maybe taking a page from that incident and the diplomatic crisis it sparked, there are allegations that the U.S. violated Venezuela's airspace. US officials admitted a naval plane on a counter-narcotics m...

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...