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Latin America’s New Consensus

Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2008

Latin America’s New Consensus
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org
When the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so close to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship between the Colossus of the North and Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »

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Financial crisis hits world body: UN banks on empty pledges

Posted by smeddum on October 12, 2008

Columns – Inside the glass house
Financial crisis hits world body: UN banks on empty pledges Sunday Times

By Thalif Deen at the united nations
NEW YORK – The financial crisis, which has continued to destabilise stock markets and undermine the global banking system, is expected to have a negative impact on the perpetually cash-strapped United Nations and its development activities — sooner than later. Read the rest of this entry »

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