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Blog Entries by Laura Carlsen from 10/2009

Mexico's Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA

| Posted 10.26.2009 | World
Read More: Mexico, Nafta, Mexican Strikes, Felipe Calderon, Unions, World News

"From one day to the next, they left us with no job," said an out-of-work electrician, as he marched alongside some 200,000 fellow workers and their supporters in downtown Mexico City this month.

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The Little Coup that Couldn't

| Posted 10.30.2009 | World
Read More: Democracy, Honduras, Human Rights, Latin America, Coup, State Department, Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Hillary Clinton, Tom Shannon, World News

If the agreement brokered this week holds, Honduran society will have turned the ugly precedent of a modern-day military coup d'etat into an example of the strength of nonviolent grassroots resistance.

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