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Europe
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Will Uruguay help fix the Dutch drug policy?

In an attempt to overcome the so-called ‘war on drugs’, Uruguay has decided to legalize marijuana. This makes the liberal South-American country, the first nation in the world to legalize the production, sale and co...
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Latin America
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The Cult Of Saint Death: When Jesus Can’t Help.

The Vatican rarely acknowledges the various cults which spring up from time to time around the world, so when Cardinal Ravasi travelled to Mexico City to speak at several specially organised events in the Metropolis, it became ...
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Europe

6 Cities Designing Transport For Women

Women and men have different requirements in public space and transport. Which cities out there are acknowledging that? I love British headlines. More often than not, they scream blue murder about something which would seem qua...
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Football
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Remembering The Lima Football Tragedy, 50 Years On

Fifty years ago, Peru’s National Stadium in Lima became the site of what is today considered the worst tragedy to ever happen at a football stadium, during which 320 people were killed and 500 were wounded. On May 24, 196...
by Gabriela Garcia Calderon
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Colombia

Colombia’s military ceasefire: One step closer to peace?

In a fifteen-minute long speech delivered on Tuesday evening, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that Colombia’s Armed Forces shall stop their bombing operations against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) f...
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Cuba

The Changing Face of Cuba: Communism to Capitalism

For over half a century Cuba has been ruled by the Castro regime and has remained largely cut off from the rest of the world. The island’s economy is in a state of collapse and still inhabits the crippling stranglehold of the...
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Bolivia

Bolivia’s New Child Labor Law: A Violation of Human Rights

Child labor is a dangerous, exploitative practice constituting a violation of human rights, which many nations have tried to eradicate. Yet Bolivia—a country that has more than 500,000 children working to supplement the famil...
by Nora Turriago
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Latin America

Venezuela Decides

Venezuela’s elections are just a few days ahead and right now the two main contenders are competing in close race, according to the main polls in the country. As expected, both contenders Hugo Chavez, 53, going after a th...
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Green

San Juan Copala, Oaxaca: Rich in Natural Resources but Poor in Indigenous Rights

“Aquí nadie se rinde” This was the phrase of many pamphlets of the Triqui indigenous group in the center of Oaxaca, Mexico, who are living in tents next to the Oaxaca’s City Hall in protest at being violently displaced ...
by Danaé Espinoza
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