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Guatemalan War Widows Keep Weaving and Their Community Alive
Source: Cultural Survival In the 1980s the women of Guatemala’s department of Sololá, in the Canton Pujujil region on the edge of Lake Atitlán, watched as their community slowly disintegrated under the pressures of the […]
Mexico’s Critical Moment
Source: IRC Americas Since the start of Mexico’s presidential campaigns, the race has opened up latent but profound fissures in Mexican society. The present post-electoral conflict not only hinges on legal issues of how the […]
What the World Bank and IDB Owe Haiti
Source: Global Policy Forum For several years Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been left out of the World Bank’s "Heavily Indebted Poor Country" (HIPC) debt relief initiative. At last, Haiti may […]