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Entries by Laura Carlsen from 07/2008

The Cost of Latin America's New Dams

| Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Read More: Megaprojects, Infrastructure, Dams, Latin America, La Parota, World Bank, Mexico, Indigenous, Cecop, Temacapulin, Politics News

In Latin America, economic planners have intensified strategies to assure that the energy system that caused the energy crisis in the first place can continue to function.

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Mexican Torture Training Raises Questions About U.S. Military/Police Aid

| Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Read More: Merida Initiative, Drug War, Human Rights, Plan Mexico, Mexico Torture, Mexico, Torture, Politics News

The war on drugs launched by Calderon -- and explicitly endorsed by the U.S. government through aid to the Mexican police and military -- sends a message to Mexican security forces that "anything goes."

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