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Economy
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Ensuring Best Practices In Guatemalan Integration: Guatemalan Or Foreign Responsibility?

As a Canadian grad student interested in Central American integration, I moved to Guatemala for a few months to work on my Masters thesis. I had been studying Guatemalan policy, mining laws and economic issues in Guatemala for ...
by Esma Mneina
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Brazil
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A Beleaguered Beautiful Game

Football is turning increasingly ugly but its defects are merely symptomatic of the wider flaws of a modern capitalist society out of control. Football. A divisive topic at the best of times, an obsession for some and an irri...
by Kishan Koria
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Economy
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What Is Happening In Venezuela?

On February 12th 2014 (the Day of the Youth in Venezuela) students took to the streets of Venezuela to protest. This much we know. But unfortunately for Venezuelans, the crisis in Ukraine has captured the attention of the inter...
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Latin America

WATCH: How a skyscraper became the world’s tallest slum

Centro Financiero Confinanzas, widely know as Torre de David (Tower of David) is the worlds tallest slum. This unfinished skyscraper, in Venezuela’s capital city Caracas, has become a monument to the failed system when c...
by Nicky Armstrong
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Economy

Mashing Mexico’s Monopolies

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa described Mexico under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) as the ‘perfect dictatorship’; an exquisite balancing act of entrenched special interests. Much like Mexico under ...
by James Penn
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Human Rights
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Send Socks.

Mexico’s migration route, dubbed by some as ‘the most dangerous journey in the world’, holds that unique position as being both a utopian path to paradise, and a perilous obstacle course, littered with the dangers of rape...
by L.
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Brazil
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It Started With a Kiss: Footballer opens homophobia debate in Brazil

One week after Russian athletes Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova kissed in celebration at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow as well as three-time pole vaulting champion Yelena Isinbayeva spoke out in favour of an an...
by Fernanda Canofre
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Bolivia

You Better Work, Kids

If you asked anyone in the developed world about what they thought about child labour, the answer would be an almost universal condemnation. Yet, what if your country was so impoverished that parents sending their children to w...
by Naomi Hanna
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Africa

The 5 Most Dangerous Gangs In The World

At the moment it seems like a new incident of religiously-driven gang violence is appearing in the newspapers every day. What with the recent Kenyan mall massacre and the Nairobi school shooting, it seems like we have a chain r...
by Maddie Barber
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