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International Women's day: 3 challenges women face around the world
Issues such as violence, inequality at work, and traditional expectations confront women on every continent around the world. Here is a sampling of challenges women faced this year:
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2012's 'good news' stories
2012 saw jobs returning to the US, health concerns improve in historic numbers, and more.
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Cuban Missile Crisis: 5 ways leftist ideology lives on in Latin America
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the US and the Soviet Union were on the brink of nuclear war over the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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Colombia - FARC peace talks: 4 things you need to know
Colombia has ample experience holding peace talks – though over the past 50 years, it’s seen little peace. But in early September, President Juan Manuel Santos announced peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Here are four things you need to know about the landmark peace process.
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Gay rights in America: How states stand on 7 hot-button issues
The tapestry of federal and state laws surrounding gay rights is enormously complex. Here is a look at each state's laws regarding issues ranging from gay marriage to hate crimes to hospital visitation.
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We Women Warriors: movie review
While director Nicole Karsin doesn't adequately detail the politics behind Colombian warfare, the documentary is still powerful.
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Colombia's Santos sees popularity dip as public worries about security
President Juan Manuel Santos is halfway through his four-year term, but with a rise of guerrilla attacks on his watch his approval ratings have fallen.
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Latin America Monitor Guatemalan police graduates ready to protect and serve ... without guns.
Guatemala does not have enough guns to arm the latest crop of police graduates, pointing to the financial factors holding back the reform and expansion of the force.
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Global News Blog Olympics 2012: Among the top gold winners in London ... Kazakhstan?
One of the world's least populated countries at around 15 million, Kazakhstan is No. 8 in gold medals at the London Olympic Games.
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Latin America Monitor In historic achievement, Colombian cocaine production plunges...or does it?
Colombian cocaine production fell by 25 percent from 2010, according to US data. But a UN report says otherwise. Why the discrepancy?
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Latin America Monitor 5 things to watch for in Venezuelan kingpin Walid Makled's trial
Venezuelan drug lord Walid Makled claims he has evidence of military and government links to the drug trade. Three months into his trial, there are several ticking time bombs to watch out for.
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Cover Story How Latin America is reinventing the war on drugs
Frustrated with US dictates, countries across the region are floating new ideas to curb drug trafficking, from 'soft' enforcement to legalization.
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Will the UN reverse its ivory ban?
Delegates overseeing a worldwide endangered species treaty have adopted a plan to allow ivory to be legally traded on the global market.
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Caught in FARC-government crossfire, Colombia's Nasa say 'get out'
The Nasa indigenous community in southwest Colombia is asserting control over its ancestral land, which has become a battleground for government troops and FARC guerrillas.
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Difference Maker After surviving Colombia's mean streets, he helps others do the same
Hip-hop, graffiti, break dancing, and journalism programs give teens in Colombia a safe way to express themselves – and avoid violence.
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North Korea flag mix-up to go down in Olympic history as major insult
A video before the North Korea-Colombia Olympic women's soccer game Wednesday showed the South Korean flag. In the history of Olympic host nation embarrassments, it's a whopper.
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Flag faux pas at the Olympics angers North Koreans
Organizers at the London Olympics mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag before a women's soccer game between North Korea and Colombia.
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Latin America Monitor Why is Google picking a fight with the mafia?
Last week's Google gathering on how to combat organized crime garnered headlines, but many questions remain unanswered.
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Latin America Monitor Armed with sticks, Colombia's Nasa tribe attacks a military base
The Nasa tribe has long been caught in the crossfire between the Colombian government and the FARC. As fighting has increased in recent months, the tribe has asked both sides to leave its area.
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Pentagon warns that US faces IED threat at home
The roadside bombs (improvised explosive devices) so deadly to US troops in Afghanistan are also being deployed against Americans at home, as the Pentagon adapts wartime strategies to help counter the threat.
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Stephen Covey, '7 Habits' author, dies at 79
Stephen Covey, author of the massive self-help bestseller, 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,' died Monday in Idaho. Stephen Covey's landmark book sold in excess of 20 million copies in 40 languages and spawned a multimillion-dollar business empire.
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Latin America Monitor Is Hugo Chavez a US security threat?
The biggest problem in Venezuela is not ties to Iran or the degradation of democracy, it's the lack of citizen security, writes a guest blogger.
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Latin America Monitor Can Colombian expert reform Mexico's troubled police force?
Retired Colombian police chief Oscar Naranjo was appointed Mexico's new security adviser. But the bureaucratic and political challenges he will face in Mexico may surprise him.
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Bizarre prehistoric giant turtle was almost perfectly round
A huge turtle that lived some 60 million years ago in what is now South America had a circular shell, say paleontologists.
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Native Americans arrived in at least three waves, finds DNA study
A genetic study of Native Americans from Greenland to Peru has found that the Western Hemisphere was populated by at least three distinct migrations from Asia.
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Shakira, Obama help some Afro-Colombian communities threatened with displacement
Two Afro-Colombian communities received titles this Spring, but most are still at risk, lacking titles to their land despite decades of living in one place and a legal right, writes a guest blogger.
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Chapter & Verse Gabriel García Márquez may never write again
The Nobel Prize-winning author's brother says the effects of dementia mean Márquez may be unable to write.
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Culture Cafe Sofia Vergara: Is she engaged to boyfriend Nick Loeb? (+video)
Sofia Vergara's rep won't comment. But media reports say Nick Loeb proposed the Modern Family star, Sofia Vergara, during a trip to Mexico.
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George Zimmerman, the Constitution, and the shifting politics of self-defense
George Zimmerman’s lawyer says at the heart of the Trayvon Martin murder case lies a constitutional prerogative: The right of Americans to carry guns and use them in self-defense. Is he right?
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The Monitor's View: 'Stand your ground' loses ground
As defendant George Zimmerman tries to raise a $1 million bond in the case of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a new study suggests that ‘stand your ground’ laws aren’t a deterrent to crime and increase homicides.
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