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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Peru</title>
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		<title>Peacekeeping and Military Operations by Latin American Militaries: Between Being a Good Samaritan and Servicing the National Interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A December 14, 2009 report by the Spanish security-news agency Infodefensa.com states that Colombia is now prepared to dispatch a battalion of its Special Forces and air force personnel to Afghanistan. The Colombian involvement is being sponsored by Spain in order to aid Coalition forces now engaged in combat there as well as training local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirty Little Secret: Nuclear Security Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globally, nuclear power has become an increasingly important source of energy, accounting for about 15% of the world’s electricity supply. When it comes to Latin America, 3.1% of electricity comes from this source. However, the nettlesome security issues resulting from utilizing nuclear energy sources largely have been ignored. On March 2008, Colombian authorities discovered that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El VRAE: Alan García’s Failed Domestic Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since early 2006, almost fifty members of the Peruvian armed forces and the national police have died in the region of el VRAE (a Spanish acronym for the valley of the rivers Apurimac and Ene). For approximately two decades, this region has been the setting of an ongoing series of lethal encounters between government and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interconnect: García&#8217;s Decline in Peru</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interconnect Newsletter
September 2009, Vol. 16, No. 3
By COHA Research Associate Steve Schaffer
When Alan García first came to power in Peru in 1985 under the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) party, he was wildly hailed as Latin America&#8217;s JFK. Unfortunately, his reign was, instead, marked by corruption, economic disaster, violence and human rights violations by leftist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>García’s Decline in Peru</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-Plummeting poll ratings register a remarkable shift of status
When Alan García first came to power in Peru in 1985 under the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) party, he was hailed as “Latin America’s Kennedy.” Unfortunately, his reign was instead marked by corruption, economic disaster, violence from leftist guerilla groups and the military as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIGHTS-PERU: Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 16, 2009
By Haider Rizvi
Inter Press Service News Agency 
NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) &#8211; The United States government is coming under intense pressure from rights organisations and environmental groups to redefine its trade pact with Peru, a tool that they charge the government in Lima is using to justify oppression against the indigenous population.
&#8220;Whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We are fighting for our lives and our dignity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 13, 2009
By John Vidal
The Guardian, UK
Across the globe, as mining and oil firms race for dwindling resources, indigenous peoples are battling to defend their lands – often paying the ultimate price
It has been called the world&#8217;s second &#8220;oil war&#8221;, but the only similarity between Iraq and events in the jungles of northern Peru over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murder in Peru: Indigenous Rights and Corporate Interests</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Garcia is no friend of the indigenous, thus his close relationship with the former Bush Administration should come as no surprise. Garcia’s sponsorship of regularizing the opening up of the Amazon to exploitation for oil exploration and logging was no accident, and the mess into which he has plunged his government could be viewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Significance of the Amazon Protest</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/the-global-significance-of-the-amazon-protest/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-global-significance-of-the-amazon-protest</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 11, 2009
By Sam Urquhart
Countercurrents.org
Peru&#8217;s Amazon region has been locked down, after the death of perhaps 40 indigenous protesters and 20 police during an attempt to break up a blockade last Friday. Some reports put the death toll as high as 84, in the worst violence that the Amazon region has seen since the height [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Debate a Change in Washington’s Failed Latin American Drug Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Unrelenting forces prove their strength in the war on drugs, but not their wisdom
- American prohibition on drugs compounds the problem it was meant to cure
- It is time to reexamine failed drug policies and learn new vocabulary words: decriminalization and legalization
It is time for policymakers to acknowledge that drug prohibition is inadequate and [...]]]></description>
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