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		<title>Thousands Call for Peace in Colombia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Real News Network Thousands of victims of violence march in Bogota tell warlords they want an end to the conflict More at The Real News]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Drives Energy Integration in South America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 21:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava SÃO PAULO, May 18, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Energy integration in South America will be a reality &#34;in the medium to long term,&#34; driven by hydropower and drawing on Brazil’s experience, predicts Altino Ventura Filho, secretary of planning in this country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COLOMBIA-U.S.: Trade Deal &quot;Throws Country into Jaws of Multinationals,&quot; Critics Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Helda Martínez* BOGOTÁ, May 16, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The entry into force of Colombia’s free trade agreement with the United States was met by student protests and opposition from a segment of the business community, small farmers, and trade unionists. The trade deal, signed in 2006 after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Although Mexico has signed several multilateral anti-corruption agreements, so far these instruments have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement, according to experts. &#34;We have the necessary legal instruments, but they are rarely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazilian Favela Becomes a Living Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The history, daily life and folk artistry as well as spectacular views of this southeastern Brazilian city are all part of a living museum created by community leaders in a favela that is displaying its cultural heritage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argentina&#8217;s Critics Get it Wrong Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy Originally Published on The Guardian Unlimited, April 18, 2012 See the article on the original website. Mark Weisbrot The Argentine government’s decision to re-nationalize its formerly state-owned oil and gas company, YPF, has been greeted with howls of outrage, threats, forecasts of rage and ruin, and a rude bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Summit of the Americas Without Cuba</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Constanza Vieira CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, Colombia, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; &#34;What matters at this summit is not what is on the official agenda,&#34; said Uruguayan analyst Laura Gil, echoing the conventional wisdom in this Colombian port city, where the Sixth Summit of the Americas ended Sunday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LATIN AMERICA: Human Rights Agenda Has Expanded</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Although the public identifies human rights organisations in Latin America with resistance to the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s, for years now these groups have broadened their concerns to encompass environmental and other issues. Environmental conflicts over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Pushes for Sustainable Development Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; With seven months to go until the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, Brazil is uniting in support of proposals to be included in the summit&#8217;s draft final document, which aim to transfer its successful national social and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shale Gas May Be a Mexican Mirage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; In spite of mounting scientific evidence about its negative aspects, Mexico is getting ready to intensify exploration for shale gas, natural gas found trapped in shale, a sedimentary rock. The state oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), is planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEXICO: Deadly Cocktail of Sexual Violence and Impunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Nov 23, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Sexual violence against women in Mexico is on the rise, alongside the escalation of violence between police and soldiers and the drug cartels, women&#8217;s rights activists warn. &#34;We have seen an increase in sexual harassment, groping, gang rape, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EL SALVADOR: Giving Young Slum Dwellers a Chance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Edgardo Ayala SAN SALVADOR, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; In a country where hard-line policies have failed to make a dent in soaring levels of violent crime, Salesian priest José María Moratalla has produced good results by offering educational and vocational opportunities to juvenile offenders and young [...]]]></description>
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