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		<title>New Nicaraguan Gold Rush Sparks Local Opposition, State Repression</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent police crackdown on protesting “guiriseros” (artisan miners) in the central Nicaraguan town of Santo Domingo has raised new questions about the government’s ‘come-on-down’ approach to foreign gold mining firms, which have been raking in riches of late thanks to increased production and soaring prices. Early on the morning of Feb. 9, several hundred [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=706&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former Salvadoran President Tony Saca Hoping To Wedge His Way Back Into Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-President Antonio Saca (2004-2009) has maneuvered his way back into political relevancy as head of a new “movement” bent on breaking the duopoly of El Salvador’s primary parties. During a rally held Feb. 25 in San Salvador, Saca announced plans to represent the nascent Movimiento Unidad in next February’s presidential election, when he will test [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=711&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calls For “Re-Nationalization” Of Chile’s Privately-Controlled Water Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of residents in Santiago were left high and quite literally dry in recent weeks by a series of water service cuts that some Chilean citizens groups and politicians are calling a wakeup call to the perils of privatization. The first of the disruptions hit the Chilean capital between Jan. 21-22 after flooding from a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=708&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Breakthrough In Decades-Old Víctor Jara Murder Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protected for nearly four decades by a thick wall of military secrecy, a handful of former Chilean soldiers – including a retired army lieutenant currently living in the US – are finally being called to answer for the 1973 torture and murder of famed folk singer Víctor Jara. The musician, who was also an accomplished [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=702&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nicaragua’s ‘Femicide Law’ Slow To Produce Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gruesome murder case in Nicaragua’s Matagalpa department has brought new attention to what – despite the implementation last year of a much-heralded “femicide law” – remains a serious problem for the Central America nation: violence against women and girls. Earlier this month guards on a coffee plantation in Santa María de Ostuma, Matagalpa came across [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=700&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>El Salvador Continues To Sound The Alarm Over Guatemalan Gold Mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desperate to ward off what they claim is a “slow and sure danger” to residents in El Salvador, frustrated opponents of “Cerro Blanco” – a Canadian-owned gold and silver mine under preparation just over the border in Guatemala – are now hoping for help from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). El Salvador’s top [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=698&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inter-American Human Rights Court Takes El Salvador To Task Over El Mozote Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An international court ruling on the infamous “El Mozote massacre” of 1981 has put new pressure on Salvadoran authorities to stop turning a blind eye to widespread human rights violations committed during the country’s dozen-year civil war (1980-1992). The ruling, published early last month by the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), ruled [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=696&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Marks For Nicaragua’s Public Education System</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Nicaragua’s public schools open their doors next month for the new academic year, 2,500 students and an equal number of teachers will show up for their first day of class on shiny new mountain bikes. The “lucky” recipients can thank the government of President Daniel Ortega, which is distributing the bikes free of charge [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=693&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Piñera, Chile’s First Conservative Leader In Two Decades, Also Its Most Gay-Friendly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 07:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Sebastián Piñera has proven to be an unlikely ally for Chile’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community, most notably by overseeing passage last year of the “Ley Zamudio,” an equal rights law that had been promised – but never delivered – by his more left-wing predecessors. The conservative leader could cement his legacy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=690&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chile Divided Over Corporate-Friendly Fisheries Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Against the objections of artisan fishers, environmental groups and some opposition lawmakers, Chile’s Congress is inching closer toward approving a controversial government-backed overhaul of the country’s fisheries regulations. Following its approval late last month in the Senate, the new Ley de Pesca now heads back to the Camara de Diputados, the lower house, which approved [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benwitte.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11768700&#038;post=688&#038;subd=benwitte&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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