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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Rage in Brazil |
| Author/Source: | Mac Margolis The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | Bringing to mind the ongoing protests in Turkey, what began last week as an improvised demonstration against a small hike in bus and subway fares flared into an outright revolt. |
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Land Tenure, Politics And Security |
| Title: | The Queen of the Cowboys |
| Author/Source: | Mac Margolis Newsweek / The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | Abreu has stumped the nation to whip the scattered and often ill-mannered ruralistas into a disciplined, aggressive interest group, eager to shape the national agenda. |
Monday, April 22, 2013
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Brazilian Maids Get a Leg-Up |
| Author/Source: | Mac Margolis Newsweek / The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | The new law and the tumult it has created say a great deal about the impressive transformations, and growing pains, sweeping Latin America's emerging giant |
Friday, April 5, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | New Drone Report: Our Border Is Not as Secure as We Thought |
| Author/Source: | Andrew Becker The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | Thanks to a previously unreported drone flying over the U.S.-Mexico border, we now know that more people are crossing than previously thought -- and getting away with it. |
Friday, March 29, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Coming Clean on the Dirty War: Jose Efrain Rios Montt Goes to Trial |
| Author/Source: | Mac Margolis The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | The trial under Chief Justice Jazmin Barrios, which began March 19, is expected to drag on for weeks and maybe months, but already is stirring comment across the globe. |
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | At Mexican Border, Four in Five Drug Busts Involve American Citizens |
| Author/Source: | Andrew Becker, G. W. Schulz, Tia Ghose The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | While the Border Patrol highlights Mexican drug mules, three in four of those arrested by the agency for drug-related offenses are U.S. citizens. |
Monday, January 7, 2013
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | If Hugo Chavez Succumbs, a Dangerous Limbo for Venezuela |
| Author/Source: | Mac Margolis The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | What could ensue is precisely what Venezuela’s democratic opposition fears most—a state of political limbo that would conveniently bend the constitutional rules and keep the ruling claque in power indefinitely |
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Was Shooting of Border Patrol Agents in Arizona an Ambush? |
| Author/Source: | The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | Nicolas Ivie, 30, was fatally shot as he and two other agents were on horseback responding to a tripped motion sensor in a remote mountainous area about five miles from the Mexican border. |
Thursday, August 2, 2012
| Location: | Entire Region, Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Power Shift: Venezuela’s Chavez is Gaining Ground |
| Author/Source: | Marc Margolis The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | The new authoritarians catch on fast. Since coming to power in 1999, Chavez has become a master at gaming democracy. |
Monday, July 30, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Essays And Analyses |
| Title: | Hector Abad Reflects on Medellin, Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Hector Abad The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | On top of this mythic, ancestral, commercial, isolated city there is another city, cultured and part of the world. The two cities fight and disapprove of each other. |