Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
Unique chance to change the conversation between U.S. and Latin America
August 24, 2010In South America, progressive advances continue, despite the coup in Honduras and electoral defeats in Panama, Costa Rica and Chile.
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Opinion
Is the U.S. moving toward a rational Cuba policy?
August 18, 2010Will efforts to ease travel restrictions with Cuba bear fruit?
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Opinion
Immigration: How not to make legislative concessions
August 13, 2010The Senate yesterday to throw $600 more into the useless and hopeless project of "sealing" the U.S.-Mexican border. What a waste!
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World
UN water vote seen as triumph for Bolivia’s Morales
August 12, 2010Bolivia's president won praise July 28 when the UN General Assembly approved a groundbreaking Bolivian resolution on the right of all human beings to water and sanitation.
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Opinion
How establishment media fans anti-immigrant flames
August 10, 2010The anti-immigrant stridency of people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck sometimes leads us to ignore the somewhat more subtle bigotry from more "respectable" media, like the Washington Post.
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Changeover in Colombia brings hope for peace
August 10, 2010Statements by Colombia's new president, Juan Manuel Santos, open a slender possibility for peace in a country which has been racked by civil war for over 50 years.
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Opinion
GOP goes after kids and Constitution
August 4, 2010A key amendment to the U.S. Constitution is in the cross hairs of a frightening Republican campaign.
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Opinion
Undocumented immigration: paying the price of NAFTA
August 2, 2010It is unconscionable to blame and persecute Mexican and other immigrants who are forced to migrate because of trade policies that our own government has so forcefully promoted.
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