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Will #plan_central_america be another Plan #Colombia ?
▻http://africasacountry.com/will-plan-central-america-be-another-plan-colombia

In an op-ed published by The New York Times, The United States vice-president Joe Biden announced the Government’s new plan to fight violence and poverty in Central America: “President Obama will.....

#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #adam_isacson #Barack_Obama #drug_trade #Greg_Grandin #jose_miguel_vivanco #joseph_biden #laura_carlsen #plan_colombia #plan_merida #plan_mexico #washington_office_for_latin_america
▻http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/ipod/dn2014-1113.mp4

#The_Economist magazine has had a “Slavery Problem” since 1843
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-economist-magazine-has-had-a-slavery-problem-since-1843

The Economist has a #slavery problem, as #Greg_Grandin has recently called it. Grandin’s wonderful article is a response to a series of lamentable book reviews published by The Economist that deal with the topic of slavery: Grandin’s own The Empire of Necessity, and more recently #Edward_Baptist’s The Half Has NeverBeen Told. The list goes on, as Grandin reports. But, […]

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