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Monday, November 5, 2012
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | What U.S. Voters Can Learn from Venezuela's Election |
| Author/Source: | Keane Bhatt North American Congress On Latin America |
| Brief: | While experts in the United States warn that banks have engaged in widespread illegal foreclosures, exacerbating housing insecurity, the U.S. media have disparaged Venezuela's public housing initiatives as an unsavory political scheme. |
Thursday, October 4, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | FARC Talks, Peace Prospects |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks, Peace Prospects |
| Title: | Talks in Colombia: The FARC Negotiating Team and the Critical Role of Venezuela |
| Author/Source: | Nazih Richani North American Congress On Latin America |
| Brief: | I believe that the economic and military costs of this conflict have reached the point of diminishing political-military returns. Both parties (state and guerrillas) are realizing the exorbitant costs and wondering whether this war system can be sustained |
Friday, June 15, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Land Tenure, Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Land Tenure, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Land Restitution in Colombia: Failure, Rising Expectations, and Armed Opposition |
| Author/Source: | Nazih Richani North American Congress On Latin America |
| Brief: | In the latest body-count: 66 peasant leaders and land activists have been killed between 2005 and 2012, and more than half of them in the last two years. |