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NAFTA: 20 Years of Regret for Mexico
Mexico's growth has been weak since the ‘free trade’ deal was signed, and it missed out on the region's poverty reduction.
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Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: US Must Ensure Safety Upon Release for Guantánamo Prisoners
For many prisoners, release does not equate with freedom and can be the beginning of new misadventure, further persecution and incarceration.
2014: The Year Everything Changed
The foundation of the current phase is massive public education and building support in all segments of the population for the values of the movement.
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Outrage Following Honduran Colonel’s Attack Against US Human Rights Defender
Human Rights Watch issued a statement condemning Alfaro's anti-American accusations.
On Heels of Brazil-Wide Protests, Aerospace Strikers Win Pay Raise
Brazil's labor laws are better than ours. Unions are allowed everywhere and workers vote by region and sector on which union will represent them.
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Drone Use Soars in Latin America, Remains Widely Unregulated
Human rights groups have been raising concerns over these fast-evolving technologies, citing the potential for abuse by various state agencies.
Youth Can Handle the Truth
This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.
In Post-Election Honduras, Challenges and Opportunities for the Resistance
With a coordinated oppositional strategy both in the “halls of power” and in the streets, the anti-coup resistance in Honduras may have an opportunity to curtail the most egregious …
The War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor in America
Strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate about cutting food stamps and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”
Fifteen Things That We Relearned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2013
The engine of the prison industrial complex unfortunately kept on chugging in 2013.