By Tom Barry
Dee Torres sees history in the making in the West Texas borderlands. The elementary school teacher wants to be part of the history of the borderlands, and wants her grandchildren to remember these times. Torres, a resident since a child of the border town of Ft. Hancock, is taking photos of the construction of the [...]
Read more →The election of Barack Obama has changed the playing field for U.S.-Mexico relations, and especially when it comes to immigration. Immigration didn’t turn out to be the hot topic in the presidential campaigns some people predicted it would be. The right had hoped to use it as a wedge issue to promote its agenda and [...]
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Important victories for leftist FMLN, combined with the loss of San Salvador and dramatic irregularities, set the stage for the March 15 vote for president. Photo: http://i4.photobucket.com. On January 18, voters in El Salvador went to the polls to elect the mayors of the nation’s 262 municipalities and 84 deputies to the National Legislative Assembly. At [...]
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NAFTA’s Dangerous Security Agenda By Laura Carlsen When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was negotiated in the early 90s, few people considered its security implications. It wasn’t until after the Bush administration came into power, and the attacks of 9/11 led to the Bush National Security Doctrine, that security issues took center stage [...]
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The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have announced dramatic increases in lending to Latin America in the wake of the global credit squeeze triggered by the U.S. financial collapse. Crowded to the margin in recent years by demands for financial independence backed by high commodity prices and steadily growing reserves, the World Bank, [...]
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"Nashville listened to its leaders—the governor, the mayor, and a vast coalition of churches, businesses, and universities—and defeated an English-only measure by nearly 10,000 votes in Thursday’s special election." That’s the report from the Tennesseanthe day after the city referendum on an amendment that would have made Nashville the largest city in the nation with [...]
Read more →When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was negotiated and signed in the early 90s, few people were thinking about its security implications. Environmentalists objected, fearing a corporate race to exploit natural resources and produce industrial wastes where environmental regulation and enforcement was weakest. Labor objected, arguing that companies would move jobs to where [...]
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