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Human Rights Official Decries Military Takeover, Abuses in Juarez
 Alejandra Gomez
Last year, 20 violations of human rights were reported to the Chihuahua State Commission of Human Rights. This year, since the arrival of the military to Juarez, more than 250 violations – including torture, robbery and kidnapping – have been reported.
 McCain Continues to Stumble
 Beth Fouhy
The misadventures of Joe the Plumber were just the latest stumble for Republican John McCain as he veers from one idea to another in a thus-far elusive quest to slow Barack Obama's momentum.
McColombia
 The Real Network
In the third and last presidential debate Senator John McCain defended a free trade agreement between Colombia and the US as a "no brainer" and once again derided Senator Obama for never having travelled south of the border. Obama, to McCain's amazement, actually showed he knew one or two things about the situation on the ground.
GOP Retreats into McCain 'Death Watch'
 Capitol Hill Blue
In the Washington offices of the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, anxious staff members spend more times polishing their resumes than working towards the November election.
Latin America Tempted to Decriminalize Drug Use
 Arnaud Aubron
Here's something that could give the next White House occupant cold sweats. In the last two weeks, no less than three Latin American leaders have declared themselves in favor of one or another form of drug use decriminalization. And not for cannabis only.
Obama on Latin America
 Larry Birns
America is not only a member of the hemispheric chorus, but a player as well. Barack Obama’s first serious effort at exhibiting a position on U.S. policy toward Latin America occurred in May 2008.
Mexico: Police Repress Teachers' Strike in Morelos
 WW4 Report
Several large operations by federal and local Mexican police from Oct. 7 to Oct. 9 broke up protests by striking teachers and their supporters in Morelos state, south of Mexico City, leaving dozens of people detained or injured.
The Monroe Doctrine Revisited: China’s Increased Role in Latin America
 Eliot Brockner
Although the United States will continue to play a vital role in the economic and political landscape of Latin America, there are a number of reasons to believe that the days of the United States’ ability to act with free reign are coming to an end.
World Food Day-LatAm: Learning Lessons
 Daniela Estrada
"We can’t wait for crises to happen to start guaranteeing the right to food. We have to act before a crisis hits," José Graziano da Silva, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) regional representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, told IPS.
Truth Loses Out in Final Debate
 Calvin Woodward & Jim Kuhnhenn
The final presidential debate was a last hurrah, of sorts, for tall tales told before a large national audience by Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.
Report: Bush Exceeded Power by Withholding Cheney Comments
 Jeff Bliss
President George W. Bush overstepped his authority by withholding an FBI interview of Vice President Dick Cheney from a congressional panel probing the leak of a CIA agent's identity, a draft bipartisan House report said.
Mexico Grapples with Drug Addiction
 Ken Ellingwood
Long a corridor for narcotics headed for the U.S., Mexico is now contending with its own addiction problem, as U.S. border controls push traffickers to look elsewhere.
Bush Approved CIA Torture Program
 Capitol Hill Blue
The Bush administration explicitly endorsed the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods against al Qaeda suspects in a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "Steal Back Your Vote!"
 Sari Gelzer
Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believe that the 2008 elections have already been stolen. What's an American to do given these circumstances? They suggest: "Steal it back".
Abused Woman Waits 12 Years for US Asylum
 William Fisher
In what some government critics are citing as an egregious example of public foot-dragging and bureaucratic inefficiency in immigration rule-making, the woman at the centre of one of the United States' longest-running asylum disputes may now be in further jeopardy.
Latin America: The War on Democracy - Documentary Online
 Upside Down World
The War on Democracy is John Pilger's first major film for the cinema. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
1990 Laureate Octavio Paz and the Politics of the Nobel Prize for Literature
 Ed Hutmacher
We're in the thick of the Nobel Prize season - the Oscars of the global intelligentsia. What's behind this year's political drama? Ed Hutmacher of MexicoBookClub.com looks at the motives behind the Swedish Academy's decisions.
New Discoveries Reveal US Intervention in Bolivia
 Jeremy Bigwood
The information below reveals a clear policy of US intervention and meddling in Bolivia´s internal affairs. Almost all the time, this has been done without the knowledge and at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Obama Details Plan to Aid Victims of Fiscal Crisis
 Jackie Calmes & Jeff Zeleny
Senator Barack Obama proposed new steps on Monday to address the economic crisis, calling for temporary but costly new programs to help employers, automakers, homeowners, the unemployed, and state and local governments.
Debunking the Rumor Mill
 Dale McFeatters
Smears spread as rumors are an unfortunate but seemingly inevitable fact of life in political campaigns. And in the 21st century it's also a fact of life that the Internet is the best way of knocking down those rumors and also the most effective way of spreading them.
Mexico's Teachers Protest Federal Education Reform
 Marion Lloyd
Tens of thousands of teachers are blocking highways and seizing government buildings across Mexico to protest a federal education reform ending their longtime practice of selling their jobs or giving them to their children.
Mexico Blames Peso Turbulence on Speculation
 Associated Press
Mexico's treasury secretary on Sunday blamed his country's volatile currency fluctuations on speculation, while predicting a calmer week ahead for the peso and Mexico's stock market.
Journalists Targeted in Latest Mexico Drug Violence
 David Montero
A newspaper editor, a columnist, police officers, and bar patrons are among those killed in separate acts of violence this past week.
Witness: Life in Mexico's Deadliest Drug War City
 Reuters
Reuters' Ignacio Alvarado, describes life in an increasingly lawless city where it's becoming almost commonplace to see daylight drug gang shootings and walk past dumped bodies.
1968 Mexico City Olympic Games Heralded Change
 Linda Robertson
Forty years ago, the Mexico City Olympics reflected the turbulent era in which they took place - and helped to bring about an awakening.
US War Resister Faces Deportation from Canada
 The Real Network
Iraq War Resister Sergeant Patrick Hart and his family were informed this week that they must voluntarily leave Canada or face deportation to the United States on October 30th.
Calderón Vows Economy will not be Paralyzed, nor Jobs Lost
 Presidencia de la República
In a message on national television, President Felipe Calderón declared this week that Federal Government has significant scope for maneuver to cope with the international economic crisis and prevent it from paralyzing the Mexican economy or causing massive layoffs.
The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty
 Alexandra Cawthorne
Women in America are more likely to be poor than men. Over half of the 37 million Americans living in poverty today are women. And women in America are further behind than women in other countries - the gap in poverty rates between men and women is wider in America than anywhere else in the Western world.
Rights-Chile: Ten Years of the ‘Pinochet Effect’
 Daniela Estrada
The arrest of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) a decade ago in London set the justice system in motion in Chile and in other countries in the world, stimulated the attempt to get at the truth about atrocities, and sent out a strong message to a number of notorious human rights violators.
Alaska Inquiry Concludes Palin Abused Powers
 Serge F. Kovaleski
Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to try to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation by the Alaska Legislature has concluded.
Forty Years After the Tlatelolco Massacre, the Mexican Army Attacks Civilians in the Indigenous Town of Xoxocotla
 Gregory Berger
Declassified documents from the U.S.' National Security Archive have established evidence of Washington's participation in the Tlatelolco massacre. In 2008, once more, the U.S. is helping to arm the Mexican military to attack its own citizens.
Mexico Burns a 10th of Its Reserves Defending Peso
 Robert Campbell & Michael O'Boyle
Mexico made its most aggressive attempt yet to save the peso on Friday, selling $6.4 billion to prop up the currency, which suffered its worst weekly decline since the 1995 Tequila Crisis.
Did US Government Snoop on Americans' Phone Calls?
 Jonathan S. Landay
The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely eavesdropped on the private telephone calls of American military officers, journalists and aid workers.
The Mystery of the Missing Opium
 Mark Easton
It's a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads. Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world's demand for years has simply disappeared.
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