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Mexico has a long history of community policing, but in more recent years a movement has emerged that focuses less on administering local justice than on protecting communities from outside forces. In 2011, the citizens of the town of Cheran, Michoacán rose up against criminals they claimed were illegally logging their forest. In addition to stopping…
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Colombia has been at war for over 50 years. The internal armed conflict between the government and the Marxist guerrilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC after their Spanish acronym, originated in the aftermath of a bloody period of political violence during the 1950s known as “La Violencia,” or “The…
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Despite repeated denials by the government that Argentina has a problem with drugs, including President Cristina Kirchner’s assertion this week that her country is neither a producer nor a consumer of illicit substances, there is some evidence the country may finally be coming to terms with the issue… Read this piece in its entirety at Southern Pulse.
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Read this piece in its entirety at the South Florida Arts Review. At 8 p.m. Monday night, Chris Hayes, formerly of MSNBC’s “Up” – scheduled unfortunately early on Saturday mornings – debuted his new prime-time weeknight show (the unfortunately named) “All In.” Somebody should have checked with Paula Broadwell about the rights to that… http://students.com.miami.edu/~reviewing/?page_id=871
Mike LaSusa 