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      <title>Ganging up on violence in Honduras</title>
      <description>Although a recent truce between rival gangs in Honduras won't provide a panacea to the violence, it's a good first step.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:44:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guatemala: Rios Montt genocide trial ends with historic verdict</title>
      <description>Efrain Rios Montt becomes the first head of state tried and convicted of genocide in a domestic court.</description>
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      <title>US President Obama returns to Latin America</title>
      <description>The US is in no place to lecture the people of Mexico and Central America on democracy and human rights, writes author.</description>
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      <title>Could the next pope come from Latin America?</title>
      <description>The selection of a Latin American Pope would be symbolically important and would help rejuvenate a crippled Church.</description>
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      <title>The battle to define Hugo Chavez's legacy</title>
      <description>The death of Chavez may have immediate regional implications, but his legacy will live on.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Predicting the results of El Salvador's next election</title>
      <description>How the United States, Colombia and Venezuela might help the FMLN win El Salvador's 2014 presidential election.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:51:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Meet the first head of state to head to trial in the Americas for genocide</title>
      <description>Rios Montt will be the first former head of state in the Americas to stand trial for genocide.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:20:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina's first year in office</title>
      <description>An analysis of Otto Perez Molina, Guatemala's former army chief and president, during his first year in office.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:03:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The United States should grant TPS for Guatemala</title>
      <description>The US and Latin America should work to design a more humane migratory system for the 21st century. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:58:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Chipping away at democracy in Nicaragua and Panama</title>
      <description>Nicaragua and Panama have sustained economic growth and poverty reduction - but both have suffered from corruption.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:37:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mitt Romney, the Republican Party and Latin America </title>
      <description>Republican Party takes "a more confrontational approach" to Latin America than to any other region of the world.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:45:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Peace in Northern Ireland: A model of success?</title>
      <description>'Peace walls' and the Belfast agreement have brought temporary calm, but are not a solution for the long term.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:33:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A second chance for President Funes in El Salvador</title>
      <description>The government deserves credit for supporting the gang truce, but must reform its own approach to the 'problem'.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:19:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Vice President Marco Rubio?</title>
      <description>Will Rubio's Cuban background be enough to tip the balance of Latino votes in Romney's favour?</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:49:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>El Salvador gears up for 2014 presidential elections</title>
      <description>The country's economic growth and crime rates may affect the election more than the parties' choice of candidates.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 17:31:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>El Salvador's gang truce</title>
      <description>A promising truce brokered by the Church that has reduced homicides by an average of 10 people per day should be upheld.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:52:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>El Salvador's FMLN wobbles, but doesn't fall down</title>
      <description>Despite ARENA's advance in the Legislative Assembly, no party has a simple majority. </description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:54:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Decriminalising drugs in the Western hemisphere</title>
      <description>In a break with his past positions, Guatemala's president recently suggested decriminalising illegal drugs.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:35:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>El Salvador's brutal civil war: What we still don't know</title>
      <description>Twenty years after peace accords were signed, many aspects of El Salvador's long civil war remain murky.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:39:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How will Montt defend himself in Guatemala?</title>
      <description>The former dictator will have to answer for the armed forces' actions, which claimed several lives, during the hearing. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:49:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Republicans derail US ambassador to El Salvador</title>
      <description>Despite her commendable performance, Mari Carmen Aponte will not be returning to El Salvador as ambassador. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:40:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Defending human rights in Latin America</title>
      <description>It was a watershed year for bringing human rights abusers to justice in Latin America.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:37:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A forgotten invasion, a forgotten dictator</title>
      <description>Former president Manuel Noriega, toppled when the US invaded Panama in 1989, recently returned to his home country.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:12:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Corruption back on the rise in Guatemala</title>
      <description>The Colom administration did not deal with embezzlement, resulting in a damning assessment in a recent report.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:12:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A changing of the guard in El Salvador</title>
      <description>The appointment of a retired general as Minister of Justice is part of a trend of militarising state institutions.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:04:40 GMT</pubDate>
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