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Trump policies split Latin American leaders into two camps

March 7, 2017 By Patrick Foley

While the U.S. president’s threats and insults may have been aimed mostly at bordering Mexico, they are eliciting a region-wide response.

Colombian coal mine expansion imposes suffering on rural indigenous

March 6, 2017 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The peace agreement signed between the Colombian government and FARC rebels does nothing to stop the invasion of the Wayúu indigenous people’s land by international coal companies.

Socialist International, facing uncertain future, meets in Colombia

March 3, 2017 By C.J. Atkins

If the venerated Socialist International is sliding further down the road of irrelevance, can its main rival, the Progressive Alliance, pick up the slack?

Turkish Government’s new plan to purge opponents

March 2, 2017 By soL internationaL

With the recent state of emergency decree, thousands of public employees were sacked and 330 academics were dismissed.

Taiwan government pressured to reveal truth about massacre

March 1, 2017 By Combined Sources

More than 70 years after Chiang Kai-shek's government massacred up to 28,000 people, Taiwan's president pledges to reveal the truth about the “White Terror.”