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After Berta Cáceres, another Honduran Indigenous environmental activist murdered
July 11, 2016Lesbia Yaneth Urquía protested against mining companies building dams to provide water for their destructive activities.
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Europe on the edge after Brexit vote and Spanish elections
July 8, 2016The next few years will be filled with opportunity, as well as danger. Anti-austerity forces are beginning to resist the "troika." But so, too, are parties on the right.
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This week in history: Argentina independence bicentennial
July 5, 2016July 9, 1816 marks the declaration of Argentine independence by the Congress of San Miguel de Tucumán, a city in the northwest of the country.
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Cuba, the unifier, promotes peace in Colombia
June 30, 2016When FARC and the Colombian government began negotiations in 2012 to end 52 years of war, the two sides looked to Cuba.
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New, but partial, peace agreement signals war’s end in Colombia
June 27, 2016Questions remain about whether the state will follow through on its commitments.
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