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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Guatemala</title>
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		<title>From the Army Base to the Presidential Palace: What to Expect of Guatemala&#8217;s Otto Pérez Molina</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The turn-over in Guatemala’s leadership from Álvaro Colom to former army general Otto Pérez Molina demonstrates a dramatic shift in the population’s perceived priorities. In addition to tackling the nation’s notorious security problem, one of the worst in Latin America, among President-elect Pérez Molina’s most difficult challenges will be to foster foreign investment while respecting the territorial rights of the rural indigenous population. Skeptical human rights defenders around the globe will be watching Pérez Molina to see how serious he is about moving forward with investigations of civil war-era crimes and whether he will allow impunity to end for the suspected perpetrators of human rights violations and genocide. In a rare push to promote indigenous rights in his country, outgoing Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom promised during his campaign to create a government that would seek to unite the ethnically and culturally diverse nation. Following his 2007 electoral victory, he announced, “My objective is to convert Guatemala into a social-democratic country with a Mayan face, with a corn tamale scent, and with the natural beauty that God gave us. It will be a pure Guatemalan social democracy that strengthens the nation’s unity and identity.”[1] But the level of violence in Guatemala [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Corps Safety Measures: Making up for Past Mistakes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 21 2011, the U.S. Peace Corps released a statement declaring that it would be pulling out 158 active volunteers from Honduras in January 2012 as a result of the ongoing violence there perpetrated by organized criminal gangs. Furthermore, the Peace Corps intends to reevaluate the safety situation for volunteers serving in other Central American countries – Guatemala and El Salvador, and have canceled the upcoming 2012 training sessions that were to be held in the aforementioned countries. This security measure was not unprecedented in the past, since, according to the New York Times article, according to a Peace Corps spokesperson, Kristina Edmunson, speaking from her Washington D.C. office, said that “from time to time, the corps withdraws or restricts work in the 75 countries in which it has volunteers.” It has been reported that dozens of current Peace Corps volunteers have been injured after being caught in the line of fire amidst the violence that has plagued the Central American nations with the rise of illicit drug trafficking. The situations in Honduras and in El Salvador have struck a particularly ominous chord with the Peace Corps as they have been deemed the most violent countries in the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of Femicide and Women in Drug Trafficking</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/the-rise-of-femicide-and-women-in-drug-trafficking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, men have dominated drug trafficking. Government crackdowns on drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) have noticeably increased women’s involvement in drug trafficking. Drug trafficking affects women directly via their participation, as well as indirectly via sex trafficking, prostitution, and associations with DTO members. Drug trafficking has increased the crime rate in Latin America, creating problems for the prison systems and unleashing a phenomenon known as “femicide.” While men have predominantly run drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), women have participated in them since the 1920s. Their role may have appeared miniscule compared to that of their male counterparts, but they have played key roles such as drug mules and bosses. According to an interview with Howard Campbell, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas-El Paso, conducted by the Latin American Advisor, women, such as Ignacia Jasso de González (alias ‘La Nacha’) and María Dolores Estévez Zuleta (aka ‘Lola La Chata’) were prominent figures in drug dealing and trafficking in the 1920s and 1950s. [1]. Although women have been active in DTOs for many years, even at times taking on dominant roles, only in the past ten years have they become increasingly visible in the media. The notion that women do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific Progress at an Inhuman Cost</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/scientific-progress-at-an-inhuman-cost-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: National Library of Medicine From 1946 to 1948, the United States conducted medical research in Guatemala to determine the effectiveness of penicillin in preventing and treating sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid. To carry out their study, U.S. researchers knowingly infected Guatemalan prisoners, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and soldiers with multiple illnesses by means of experimental inoculations and direct contact with infected participants. More than 1,500 subjects were exposed to a variety of diseases and were given little to no information about the study. Of those infected, about 700 were treated with what was considered the modern wonder-drug, penicillin. Following the historic Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946, a consensus on international ethics was achieved, but at the time of the Guatemalan experiments, these agreed-upon standards were not in effect. In June 2010, Professor Susan M. Reverby of Wellesley College exposed the unethical experiments in Guatemala, relating it to the Tuskegee experiments in Alabama (1932-1972), in which African-Americans were secretly injected with syphilis-causing bacteria without informed consent. Moreover, the subjects were not effectively treated despite the existence of a penicillin treatment. The studies in both Guatemala and Tuskegee were supported by the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) and were overseen by the same man, Dr. John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central American Migrants in Mexico: Lost in a Black Hole of Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/central-american-migrants-in-mexico-lost-in-a-black-hole-of-violence-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/central-american-migrants-in-mexico-lost-in-a-black-hole-of-violence-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, 500,000 Central Americans pass through Mexico on an invariably dangerous journey to the United States in search of better opportunities, but it is unknown how many reach their intended destination.[1] Migrants are regularly treated as second-class citizens during their journey; many fall victim to the violence of criminal gangs, resulting in assaults, sexual slavery, kidnapping, or murder. Civil society organizations often advocate the protection of migrant rights; however, in response to a wave of migrant-associated murders, the Mexican government chosen to take action. In light of the recent explosion of migrant killings, on May 25, 2011, a reform of Mexico’s Immigration Law was forced upon the government. Nevertheless, it is debatable whether or not this law reform will be enough to protect migrants. Criminal gangs taking advantage of migrants’ vulnerability Local authorities have not only proven unable to adequately treat migrants with respect, but have themselves, on some occasions, also been linked to criminal activities that have added to the woes of those who are desperate to enter the U.S. The Mexican weekly Proceso reported that members of the National Immigration Institute (INM) kidnapped over 120 migrants on a bus in Tamaulipas going to the U.S. Migrants of [...]]]></description>
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