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▶ 2/12/2014 #Aztlan-Network-News ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan
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14 Must-Read Works Of Chicano Literature ~By Rigoberto González
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Veracruz State Turning Into Zone Of Death For Journalists Covering Mexico's Drug War
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Above: A relative of journalist Gregorio Jimenez holds a photo of him in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. (AP)
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San Diego's David Alvarez Fails In His Bid To Become City's First Latino Mayor
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Above: San Diego mayoral candidate David Alvarez in the Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. (ap)
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Castaway Fisherman Makes It Home To El Salvador After 13-Month Long Odyssey
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Prosecutors Drop Fraud Case Against Former Leader Of Border Agents' Union
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Nebraska Town Votes To Keep Law Requiring Renters To Swear They're Legal Residents
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State Sen. Charlie Jansssen of Fremont, second left, Jeremy Jensen, third left, and John Wiegert, center, celebrate with other activists in Fremont, Neb., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, after city voters have decided by voting no, to uphold the law designed to bar immigrants from renting homes if they dont have legal permission to be in the U.S. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Chico warned us about the fate of the #Amazon 25 years later, we promote the worldwide mvmt that follows his example
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Chico Vive Conference Rainforest Foundation US Friday, April 4, 2014 at 3:00 PM - Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 6:00 PM (EDT) Washington, DC
Chico Vive Conference April 4-6, 2014: Tickets, Washington, D.C.
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Peace & Lab: Margarita Quihuis Is A Restless Agent For Change And Innovation
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From Cuba With Love: Ernest Hemingway Artifacts Wash Up At Boston's JFK Museum
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Above: This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, shows a photograph from Ernest Hemingways passport, one of many new items from Hemingway's former estate in Cuba being made available at the museum. To date, the Kennedy Library has the worlds largest collection of Hemingways life and work, containing most of his manuscript material.
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Above: This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, shows a ticket stub from a bullfighting match attended by Ernest Hemingway, one of many new items from Hemingway's former estate in Cuba being made available at the museum. To date, the Kennedy Library has the worlds largest collection of Hemingways life and work, containing most of his manuscript material.
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’s Morales: The US abolished Costa Rica’s army via
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Bolivian President Evo Morales thinks Costa Rica is a U.S. colony. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Free trade and genocide: Colombian activists want Canada to act via
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23rd Annual Women's Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women to be held in cities across Canada on Feb. 14 via
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2/11/2014 New York to begin public hearings on IDs for undocumented immigrants
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2/11/2014 Honduran cop killed in shootout with criminal gang
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2/10/2014 Latin America has , but lacks democrats
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Mapping Conflicts Between Indigenous Peoples and Corporations in Latin America via
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Presidents of Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru Sign Regional Accord via
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Chicano Activist With Checkered Past Aims For California's Highest Office
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Brazilian TV Cameraman Injured in Protests Dies via
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2/8/2014 Mexico's lost daughters: how young women are sold into the sex trade by drug gangs via
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Making a stand: a mother protests in front of a picture of her daughter, murdered by gangsters in Veracruz. Photograph: Sergio Hernandez Vega/La Jornada
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Overview via ~ Latin American Herald Tribune
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2/10/2014 Cuban Film Director Jose Massip Dies at 88 years via
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2/9/2014 Gunmen Kill 4 at Bar in Central via
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2/9/2014 Man Arrested for Attacking Cameraman During Protests in via
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2/9/2014 Drug Traffickers Behind Killings of 8 in , Officials Say via
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2/8/2014 Costa Rica elections demonstrate country’s democratic stability
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2/7/2014 Argentines drain banks of dollars for safekeeping in mattresses
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12/30/2011 Who is Yvette Prieto? More about Michael Jordan's Main Squeeze
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▶ 2/8/2014 #Aztlan-Network-News ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan
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Raúl Zibechi: Democratic Militarization | Compañero Manuel
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2013 Brazilian protests over increased cost of public transportation. Photo: Reuters.
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Poet Eduardo Lizalde Receives Spain's Garcia Lorca Prize From Prince Felipe (VIDEO) via
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During the ceremony at this southern city's Manuel de Falla Auditorium, the prince compared Lizalde's cultural and linguistic background to Lorca's and praised his "profound musical knowledge, which is crucial in lending a rhythm, a cadence and a sonic beauty that corresponds exclusively to the great figures of poetry."
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2/7/2014 » UN Hosts First Meeting on Indigenous Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights
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The new 'police recruits' in Latin America: soldiers via
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’s Santos Says Spying Was “Totally Legal” via
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Oil Price Drops via
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After A Third Worker's Death, World Cup Laborers In Threaten To Strike
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Arena da Amazonia stadium in Manaus, Brazil. A worker was injured in an accident outside this World Cup stadium, local organizers said Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. Organizers in charge of the stadium's construction said the worker was hurt while dismantling a crane that was used to install the roof. (AP)
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2/8/2014 13 Arrested in federal crackdown in western Mexico via
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Costa Rica’s poet, Luis Chaves via
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‘Black Heart’ in heat drives coffee turnaround
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Argentines drain banks of dollars for safekeeping in mattresses
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Considers Toy Gun Legislation [Video]
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Argentinian woman confirmed as 110th victim of regime baby kidnap @LatinoTimes http://latinotimes.com/latinos/1161362-argentinian-woman-confirmed-as-110th-victim-of-regime-baby-kidnap.html
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2/7/2014 leaders dissatisfied after jail cleared in inmate's death: via
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Fernando “Fred” Carmona, who was found dead May 26, 2013, in the Lancaster County jail.
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2/7/2014 Argentinian woman confirmed as 110th victim of regime baby kidnap
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In Taking Back Urban Areas, Latinos Are Causing A 'Gente-fication' Across The U.S.
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Above: Children use a fire hydrant to cool off while washing cars in Washington Heights, New York City. (Getty)
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2/7/2014 ’s president tells U.S.: We’re rebuilding trust via
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President Michel Martelly of Haiti is shown during an interview in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)
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Blog del Narco: Group of Farmers Have Cartels on Run in Michoacan
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Above: Blog del Narco: Group of Farmers Have Cartels on the Run in Michoacan
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2/6/2014 police find mass grave and severed heads in Michoacan
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The vigilantes agreed to register their weapons and join the official security forces
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2/8/2014 to integrate vigilantes into security forces via
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The vigilantes launched their main operation in the beginning of January
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New Templar / Beltran Leyva Alliance Could Shake the Fragile Peace in Michoacan
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The rise of the "autodefensas" in Michoacan as well as renewed pressure from the Mexican government may have been a catalyst for an alliance between the Knights Templar cartel and the remnants of the Beltran Leyva Organization. (Photo : Esther Vargas / Flickr)
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2/7/2014 Celebrating Los Beatles [VIDEO] via
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CVS wins praise for decision to stop selling tobacco via
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2/6/2014 Mexican drug lord: Inside his abandoned mansion [VIDEO]
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2/4/2014 Teaching Just Wasn't Right for Him, Head of Mexican Drug Cartel Says [VIDEO]
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1/28/2014 On the trail of a Mexican drug lord:
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Published on Jan 28, 2014 You might pass Servando "La Tuta" Gomez on the street and not look twice. But with a $2.5m bounty on his head, the charismatic leader of Mexico's Knights Templar drug cartel commands respect and fear.
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