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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Belize</title>
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		<title>Belize Continues to Deny Fundamental Human Rights of Sexual Minorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of Latin American countries have long struggled to administer justice fairly and efficiently; increasingly, in recent years this has been in regard to gay rights. Even though most of the region’s constitutions guarantee an array of personal rights, large gaps have existed between what is promised and the actual redress delivered by a given nation’s judicial system. Indeed, the region’s constitutions chronically have proven to be insufficient to protect the rights of socially and politically disadvantaged groups. However, in the case of Belize, and in light of the blatant legal discrimination sanctioned by the notorious Section 53 of the Belize Criminal Code, this enshrined bigotry recently has come under intense scrutiny as the result of a pending court case. However, the outlook for its elimination appears bleak in a country that constitutionally labels itself as a “Christian” state and one that continues to identify both socially and politically with the Church. The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) filed the high-profile court case against the Attorney General and the Government of Belize aimed at overturning the provisions of Section 53 that outlaw “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any person or animal.” Their argument is that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pluralism Bursts into the Western Hemisphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   *	<strong>While</strong> <strong>Russia</strong>&#44; <strong>Europe</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>China</strong> <strong>are</strong> <strong>wooing</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>America</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Caribbean</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Monroe</strong> <strong>Doctrine</strong> <strong>now</strong> <strong>becomes</strong> <strong>the</strong> &#34;<strong>Putin</strong>&#44; <strong>Zapatero</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Chinese</strong>-<strong>Corollary</strong>&#34;


    *<strong>Iran&#39;s</strong> <strong>increased</strong> <strong>presence</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>region</strong> <strong>may</strong> <strong>lead</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>bad</strong> <strong>press</strong>&#44; <strong>but</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>now</strong> <strong>only</strong> <strong>shows</strong> <strong>increased</strong> <strong>investments</strong>


    * <strong>The</strong> &#34;<strong>Great</strong> <strong>Game</strong>&#34; <strong>of</strong> <strong>political</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>economic</strong> <strong>influence</strong> <strong>is</strong> <strong>set</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>be</strong> <strong>played</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>southern</strong> <strong>hemisphere</strong>



No one is arguing that Latin America and the Caribbean have become a priority matter for international diplomacy&#44; save for the U.S.&#44; which has witnessed a massive retreat of Washington&#39;s vigilance for what it once insisted were its longtime national interests and influence in the hemisphere. Concentrating on its &#34;War on Terror&#34; has resulted in a detour of the U.S. military and diplomatic corps to a series of sorties&#44; like Afghanistan&#44; Iraq&#44; and now&#44; likely enough&#44; to Iran. The 1823 Monroe Doctrine is no longer relevant as nations like Russia&#44; the People&#39;s Republic of China as well as the European Union (and its individual members) increase their influence in the Western Hemisphere. This penetration is due to the fact that numerous hemispheric countries are themselves looking to diversify their pool of allies and trading partners by contracting ties to other nations besides the U.S.&#44; with Venezuela being at the core of this movement.]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation on Conservation: Contemplating the Impact of Climate Change in the Latin America-Caribbean Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[illustration by Margaret Scott The Latin American and Caribbean regions contain nearly half of the world’s diversity of plant and animal species and half of the world’s tropical forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The persistence of global warming and prevalence of greenhouse gases and other environmental toxins is contributing toward a rise in the rate of destruction of freshwater, marine and especially forest habitat—a result expected to profoundly impact biodiversity in the region. Amazon deforestation, El Niño weather patterns, and rising sea levels contribute to and are affected by climate change in Latin America, leading to erosion and deterioration in such vital sectors as water resources, ecosystems, agriculture, and human health. Although many Latin American countries have had a history of environmental concern when it comes to protecting their valuable natural resources, some of the greatest threats to environmental degradation and destruction in the region come from a lack of systemization of policy concepts aimed at supporting sustainable development and natural resource preservation. Another longstanding problem has been an inability of many governments to institute and implement environmental legislation that works and is not easy prey to corruption or narrow interests. Nevertheless, specific examples of environmentally conscious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Callousness Redefined: How EU and U.S. Economic Policies Spell a Bitter End for the Caribbean&#8217;s Sugar Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The frustration of Caribbean nations over the European Commission’s (EC) preliminary decision last year to cut the preferential price it pays for the region’s sugar was hardened by yesterday’s elaboration of the proposal. The European Union’s (EU) decision, prompted by the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) recent rulings, will severely weaken the Caribbean sugar industry, which is certain to contribute to a series of social disasters including the already dramatically rising level of crime in the region. Encouraging Caribbean countries to join the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) without ensuring that their economies are based on prosperous domestic sectors, will be detrimental to these countries’ economic and political stability. The EU and the U.S. should review their economic policies toward the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) with more consideration being allocated to the immediate economic requirements of the Caribbean nations. Yesterday, the European Union’s (EU) agriculture commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, revealed the specific provisions of the plan originally proposed last July to cut the preferential price the EU pays for sugar imported from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries under the 1975 ACP-EU Sugar Protocol. The changes, which are scheduled for immediate debate by EU ministers and slated to take effect [...]]]></description>
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