According to John M. Ackerman, if Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is able to rescue the state-owned petroleum distributor Pemex, achieve self-sustaining energy production in Mexico, and successfully execute his vision of the nation’s “Cuarta Transformación” (“fourth transformation”), his deeds will place him among the ranks of Mexican revolutionaries Emiliano Zapata and Lázaro Cárdenas.
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Rather than generating peace, the military in El Salvador has often been the catalyst of violence.
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People are recognizing the presence of corruption and the damage it causes, leaving the corrupt to stand alone.
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The Ortega-Murillo regime has successfully crushed Nicaragua’s civilian unrest and demobilized organized movements.
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Now, more than ever, it is necessary to speak about the state of educational systems throughout Latin America.
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A recent meeting took place in Mexico with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, in which peoples and organizations assembled to find solutions to the challenges facing the 21st century today.
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As we round the corner into a new year, the state of journalism is under threat more than ever.
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December 10, 2018, marked 35 years since the initiation of the democratic transition in Argentina.
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Although Brazil signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the country has since failed to make its principles a reality.
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The American Newspaper Group, or GDA, which includes El Universal, has released its eighth edition of a report that has named the 3 million fleeing Venezuelans as “The Latin Americans of 2018.”
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