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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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Fidel and Gabo
Two academics examine the decades-long relationship between Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez.
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Colombia's rebels step up a brutal tactic
FARC fighters seed country with mines made from common materials that are hard to police.
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No More Chávez? Global marchers hope so.
Foes of the Venezuelan president, who is on a world tour, are expected to congregate today around the world to protest his policies.
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Why Chavez is wooing autocrats abroad
Less popular among Latin leaders, the Venezuelan president is on an 11-day trip to visit allies including Libya's Qaddafi and Iran's Ahmadinejad.
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Is Colombia's Uribe pulling a Chávez on term limits?
Colombian lawmakers voted Tuesday to call a referendum on whether the conservative US ally should be allowed to seek a third straight term.
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Report: Big drop in Afghan opium production
But the Taliban, who use the drug trade to fund their insurgency, may have two years’ worth of opium stockpiled.
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US applies Colombia antidrug lessons to Afghanistan
A new strategy in Afghanistan to combat the opium trade draws on US experience curbing cocaine shipments in Latin America.
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Venezuela: The true cost of cheap gas
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Public service is cool again
Peace Corps and others see ’60s-style interest from recent grads.
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The Monitor's View: Obama's shout-out for Mexico's drug war
A US report cites Calderón's progress on human rights. As more legal reforms kick in, Mexicans should not let up on their support.
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Bill Clinton's latest tough sell: Haiti
The former president, who was recently named UN Special Envoy to Haiti, plans to go there in October on a 'major trade mission.'
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Opinion: The war on drugs needs a timeout
Before Washington ramps up yet another losing war on drugs, why not let a commission construct a better policy?
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Chávez stirs anxiety over US military deal in Colombia
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez sought a region-wide censure of the pending agreement at a summit Monday in Quito, Ecuador. But other leaders were declined to condemn it outright.
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Chávez: We're buying Russian tanks
Venezuela's president announced he would seek dozens of the vehicles in response to the 'threat' posed by a pending US-Colombia military deal.
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Chávez rages at US plan to boost antidrug ops in Colombia
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has agreed to host the Pentagon's narcotics-interdiction flight operations, which were recently kicked out of Ecuador.
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Possible US-Colombia military deal raises regional tensions
Venezuela and Ecuador have strongly condemned the pending agreement, which would allow the US to use three bases for counternarcotics and counterinsurgency surveillance.
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Museums' new mantra: Connect with community
Relevance, responsiveness, interactivity is the new road map to success.
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China's big move into Latin America
Brazil's largest trading partner is no longer the US – it's China. Beijing is investing billions of dollars and filling a vacuum left by the United States.
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Opinion: Sustainable population, minus the control
Empowering women will naturally restore balance.
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Clinton's high-wire act on Honduras
US backs Costa Rica's Arias to mediate the crisis, wary of being seen as interfering in the region – as it has in the past.
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The United States and Venezuela begin to make nice
An exchange of ambassadors is part of Obama's policy of engagement over confrontation.
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Teenage sensation emerges on the race track
At 15, Gabby Chaves isn't old enough to have a driver's license. But he routinely wins formula race car events, reaching speeds of 150 m.p.h. Is he the next Mario Andretti?
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In Colombia, drug war targets 'narcosubs'
Traffickers have long run semi-submersibles up the Pacific coast to Mexico. New laws aim to crack down on the vessels' manufacture.
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Speed-walking school helps Colombian refugee children fit in with their Ecuadorian peers
The children train at Ecuador's famous Escuela de Marcha, a race-walking school that produced the country's only Olympic medalist, Jefferson Perez.
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Obama's new tune on trade
Candidate Obama opposed new free-trade agreements and wanted to renegotiate NAFTA. A global slump has changed his mind.
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