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    <title><![CDATA[Americas |Commentary | CIP RSS Feeds]]></title>
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    <description>Articles, Letters, Op-eds, Policy Briefs, Testimony</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[50% of the 99%]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/50-of-the-99</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/50-of-the-99#When:10:13:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The movement of the 99 percent that began in the United States made visible the human beings who suffer the brutal inequality and injustice of an economic system that, in crisis, required them to sacrifice even more]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-05-17T10:13:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Biggest Climate Decision]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-biggest-climate-decision</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-biggest-climate-decision#When:16:43:33Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is poised to make one of the biggest climate policy decisions of its entire administration]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-05-16T16:43:33+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Posturing on Plutonium]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/posturing-on-plutonium</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/posturing-on-plutonium#When:14:49:10Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[There have been so many bad proposals on defense issues thrown around in the House of Representatives lately it's hard to know where to start]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Americas, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-05-15T14:49:10+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Missed Their Chance To Say No to Bribery]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/missed-chance-say-no-to-bribery</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/missed-chance-say-no-to-bribery#When:09:44:49Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Holman W. Jenkins Jr.'s ambivalent portrait of the Wal-Mart of Mexico bribery scandal in his April 25 Business World column]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Global Financial Integrity, Americas, Mexico, Transparency & Accountability, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-05-07T09:44:49+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The F-22: Final Delivery for a Flying Disaster]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-f-22-final-delivery-flying-disaster</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-f-22-final-delivery-flying-disaster#When:14:32:26Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin executives describe the plane as "the baddest bird on the planet" and "an icon of American power." The facts suggest otherwise]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Americas, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-05-03T14:32:26+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[More Chicanery in the Cases of the Cuban Five]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-chicanery-in-cases-of-cuban-five</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-chicanery-in-cases-of-cuban-five#When:09:20:16Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Many Americans seem to believe the now-famous Cuban Five were spies working for Havana against the United States and therefore deserve what they got – years in prison. But that is far from the truth]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Advocacy, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-29T09:20:16+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mexico&#8217;s False Dilemma]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mexicos-false-dilemma</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mexicos-false-dilemma#When:13:41:16Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Mexico is currently confronting a human rights crisis. Headlines document the overt violence that has claimed more than 50,000 lives since December 11, 2006 when President Felipe Calderón launched the war on drugs. Yet beneath the bloodshed]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-20T13:41:16+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tax Dodging Jeopardizes Society at Home and Abroad]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/tax-dodging-jeopardizes-society-home-abroad</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/tax-dodging-jeopardizes-society-home-abroad#When:13:11:39Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Highways, schools and law enforcement. Firefighters, courts and national security. These are just some of the many, essential public services that are funded by our tax dollars]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Global Financial Integrity, Americas, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-17T13:11:39+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drone Summit: Killing and Spying by Remote Control]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drone-summit-killing-spying-remote-control</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drone-summit-killing-spying-remote-control#When:11:11:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Congress seems more interested in promoting drone proliferation than in oversight. A Washington, D.C., summit seeks to educate the public on the use and abuse of drones]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, TransBorder Project, Americas, Middle East, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-12T11:11:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shut Out of US, Lawyer for Pakistani Drone Victims Speaks Out]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lawyer-for-pakistani-drone-victims-speaks-out</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lawyer-for-pakistani-drone-victims-speaks-out#When:14:43:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tom Barry interviews Pakistani lawyer, Shahzad Akbar, about the upcoming drone summit in Washington, D.C.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, TransBorder Project, Americas, Middle East, Pakistan, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-11T14:43:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drones Flying Under the Radar]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drones-flying-under-radar</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drones-flying-under-radar#When:10:24:54Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tom Barry discusses the expanding use of drones and the lack of control over their proliferation]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Middle East, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-05T10:24:54+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Sotol Story]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-sotol-story</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-sotol-story#When:00:14:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tom Barry explores the story of sotol, a classic Mexican liquor, on a trip to the U.S. - Mexican borderlands]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-02T00:14:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Republican Plan: Throw Money at the Pentagon]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/republican-plan-throw-money-at-the-pentagon</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/republican-plan-throw-money-at-the-pentagon#When:17:38:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the Washington debates about how to reduce the U.S. budget deficit, one agency is trying to get a free ride: the Pentagon. The arms lobby has been running a fear campaign designed to stave off cuts in military spending]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-03-21T17:38:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The G20 Under the Mexican Presidency]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-g20-under-the-mexican-presidency</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-g20-under-the-mexican-presidency#When:17:45:11Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Mexico took on the presidency of the G20 in December 2011 at a moment of multiple crises. The nation shares the presidency with a “three-member management Troika of past, present and future chairs”, this year, France and Russia.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-03-16T17:45:11+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras: When Engagement Becomes Complicity]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/honduras-when-engagement-becomes-complicity</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/honduras-when-engagement-becomes-complicity#When:21:29:50Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Honduras on March 6 with a double mission: to quell talk of drug legalization and reinforce the U.S.-sponsored drug war in Central America, and to bolster the presidency of Porfirio Lobo]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-03-15T21:29:50+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Who Is Securing the Texas Border? How Private Contractors Mislead the Public, Then Get Rich Off Taxp]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/who-is-securing-texas-border</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/who-is-securing-texas-border#When:16:24:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Roy “Mac” Sikes wasn’t wearing a white 10-gallon like the other top Texas Rangers attending the 2010 Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition meeting in El Paso. Mac, as the Texas Rangers and sheriffs call him, was going hatless. But that may have been because it’s not entirely clear which hat Mac should have been wearing – ranger, cop, or consultant? ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-03-12T16:24:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Doing Biden’s Bidding]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/doing-bidens-bidding</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/doing-bidens-bidding#When:14:27:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden landed in Mexico City last night and he’s left little doubt about his mission—to lock in the regional drug war]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-03-06T14:27:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Genocide on Trial in Guatemala]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/genocide-on-trial-in-guatemala</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/genocide-on-trial-in-guatemala#When:12:26:47Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Victims and human rights activists cheered when, on January 26, a Guatemalan court charged Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt with genocide and crimes against humanity. The decision to bring the 85-year-old former dictator to trial is the latest stage in a long odyssey, stretching back to the early 1980s, when Guatemala experienced the bloodiest repression of its thirty-six-year civil war.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-02-29T12:26:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Drug War’s Invisible Victims]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-drug-wars-invisible-victims</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-drug-wars-invisible-victims#When:15:07:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[There are many kinds of war. The classic image of a uniformed soldier kissing mom good-bye to risk his life on the battlefield has changed dramatically. In today’s wars, it’s more likely that mom will be the one killed]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-01-30T15:07:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[&#8220;Fantastic&#8221; Drone Technology Comes to Rescue on the Border]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/fantastic-drone-technology-comes-rescue-border</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/fantastic-drone-technology-comes-rescue-border#When:16:21:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Candice Miller, the Republican chair of the House Border and Marine Security Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee, is effusive in her praise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), referring to the drones at a March 15, 2011, hearing on Capitol Hill as "fantastic technology" that have proved "incredibly, incredibly successful in theater." As the new chair of the subcommittee that oversees the air operations of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Miller has become one of the leading Congressional advocates of increased domestic drone deployment]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-01-26T16:21:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drone Proliferation: Other Chapters and Other Challenges]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drone-proliferation-other-chapters-and-other-challenges</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drone-proliferation-other-chapters-and-other-challenges#When:15:47:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that the “accelerating use of drone weapons has opened a new chapter in the history of warfare,” as David Cortright contends in “License to Kill.”]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-01-17T15:47:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Numbers Game: Government Agencies Falsely Report Meaningless Deportations and Drug Seizures]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/numbers-game-government-agencies-falsely-report-meaningless-deportation</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/numbers-game-government-agencies-falsely-report-meaningless-deportation#When:15:22:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security says it needs a fleet of two-dozen Predator and Guardian drones to protect the homeland adequately. Designed for military use, 10 of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are already patrolling U.S. borders in the hunt for unauthorized immigrants and illegal drugs]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-01-16T15:22:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Drug War Transformed]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-drug-war-transformed</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-drug-war-transformed#When:01:11:47Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[“This is a terrorist insurgency,” says Connie Mack, the Republican who chairs the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Mack, who introduced the Enhanced Border Security Act in mid-December, believes that the Merida Initiative has failed and that the administration needs to revamp the counterdrug assistance program to include a “counterinsurgency plan"]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-12-21T01:11:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Should We Care About Mexico?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/why-should-we-care-about-mexico</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/why-should-we-care-about-mexico#When:16:15:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The cold, hard numbers of the poor and the dead are familiar. Instead we are told that we should care—or rather, worry—about Mexico for a very different reason. The State Department, the Pentagon, the press and members of Congress tell us, with increasing shrillness]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-12-16T16:15:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico Face Threats, Violence]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/women-human-rights-defenders-in-mexico-face-threats-violence</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/women-human-rights-defenders-in-mexico-face-threats-violence#When:15:13:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Mexico is facing a major human rights and humanitarian crisis. Fifty thousand people have been murdered in the war on drugs just since 2007. Thousands more have been displaced, orphaned and forcibly disappeared]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-12-14T15:13:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ALERT: Spate of Attacks on Human Rights Defenders and Activists]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/alert-spate-of-attacks-on-human-rights-defenders-and-activists</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/alert-spate-of-attacks-on-human-rights-defenders-and-activists#When:15:54:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Mexican human rights defenders have been under attack over the past weeks. The murders of Nepomuceno Moreno of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD), whose son was forcibly disappeared apparently by government security forces in Sonora]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Asia Project, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-12-13T15:54:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drones are Coming to a Theater Near You]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drones-are-coming-to-a-theater-near-you</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drones-are-coming-to-a-theater-near-you#When:14:22:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[“The UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, are coming.”  So says Candice Miller, the Republican congresswoman from northern Michigan borderlands]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-12-08T14:22:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dispatches from Obama&#8217;s Other Wars - on Immigrants and Drugs]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-other-wars-immigrants-drugs</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-other-wars-immigrants-drugs#When:14:16:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Obama came to office promising immigration reform in his first term. As a candidate and as president, Obama also made it clear that he stood firmly in supporting the “rule of law,” even if the law was overdue for reform]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-12-06T14:16:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[America&#8217;s Nuclear Options]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/americas-nuclear-options</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/americas-nuclear-options#When:11:55:11Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Letter to the Editor: Michael O'Hanlon is right to target nuclear weapons projects for budget cuts. But there is more that can be done to save money in this area without compromising our security]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Americas, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-11-22T11:55:11+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Defense spending on the chopping block]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/defense-spending-on-the-chopping-block</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/defense-spending-on-the-chopping-block#When:09:29:44Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[William D. Hartung's letter to the editor: Automatic cuts to military spending are not an ideal approach because they interfere with rational planning]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Americas, Advocacy, Policy Research, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-11-12T09:29:44+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Return of States&#8217; Rights]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-return-of-states-rights</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-return-of-states-rights#When:14:19:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Rick Perry rose from dirt-poor origins on the desolate plains of northern West Texas to become the state’s longest-serving governor]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-11-07T14:19:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Border Warriors]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/border-warriors</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/border-warriors#When:11:08:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As a border state, New Mexico has been blessedly free of the anti-immigrant vigilantism and the ranting of border hawks that have agitated Texas and Arizona]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-11-01T11:08:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arms Industry Job Claims: Don&#8217;t Be Scared, Be Skeptical]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/arms-industry-job-claims-hartung</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/arms-industry-job-claims-hartung#When:15:41:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Military spending should not be seen as a jobs program. To paraphrase President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we should spend everything]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Americas, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-10-26T15:41:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[NAFTA Is Starving Mexico]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/nafta-starving-mexico</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/nafta-starving-mexico#When:12:29:32Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) became the law of the land, millions of Mexicans have joined the ranks of the hungry]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-10-21T12:29:32+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rick Perry Is Just Fine with &#8220;Big Government&#8221; When It Gives Him the Power to Crack Down on Immigrant]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/rick-perry-fine-with-big-government-when-gives-him-power-crack-down</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/rick-perry-fine-with-big-government-when-gives-him-power-crack-down#When:11:39:15Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[More than other border hawks, Rick Perry has infused border security with a populist rage]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-10-21T11:39:15+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Cockamamie Iran-Mexico Terrorist Plot]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-cockamamie-iran-mexico-terrorist-plot</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-cockamamie-iran-mexico-terrorist-plot#When:15:57:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Oct. 12 the New York Times, USA Today and other papers ran front-page stories about the discovery of a plot by Iranians allegedly associated with the Quds Revolutionary Forces of the government to murder the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C. by hiring the Mexican drug cartel, the Zetas, to do the job]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-10-14T15:57:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Big Government Breaks Bad in Drug War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/big-government-breaks-bad-in-drug-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/big-government-breaks-bad-in-drug-war#When:16:26:59Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Rick Perry and the other Republican presidential candidates are right. Americans are fed up, as Perry writes in his book Fed Up!]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-09-30T16:26:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Unaccountable Private Contractors Pocket Your Tax Dollars Militarizing the Texas Border]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/private-contractors-militarizing-border</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/private-contractors-militarizing-border#When:15:11:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Heavy on outsourcing and lacking documented success, the "Texas model"of border security's features are not original, but borrowed directly from the DHS or the military.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-09-27T15:11:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Border Security After 9/11: Ten Years of Waste, Immigrant Crackdowns, and New Drug Wars]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/border-security-after-911-ten-years</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/border-security-after-911-ten-years#When:10:02:35Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, the term "border security" was rarely used. Today, however, it is both a fundamental goal of US domestic security and the defining paradigm for border operations.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-09-11T10:02:35+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drug War Madness]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drug-war-madness</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drug-war-madness#When:16:15:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In 1936, a church group commissioned a film to strike fear in the hearts of young people tempted to smoke marijuana. The film portrayed the supposed dangers of marijuana in wildly exaggerated scenes]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-09-07T16:15:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Failure of Vision US Drug War Turns to International Combat]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/failure-of-vision-us-drug-war-turns-to-intl-combat</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/failure-of-vision-us-drug-war-turns-to-intl-combat#When:10:15:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, released in late July by the White House, offers the strategic context for the increasing rhetorical focus of the Obama administration on “transnational crime,” “transnational threats,” and “transnational criminal organizations.”]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-09-07T10:15:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Aiding Insecurity: Four Years of Mexico&#8217;s Drug War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/aiding_insecurity_four_years_mexicos_drug_war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/aiding_insecurity_four_years_mexicos_drug_war#When:13:31:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Mexico's drug-trafficking organizations constitute a threat to regional security and to US national security, says the US government. Yet the region is becoming less secure and less safe as the result of the security emphasis of US counternarcotics initiatives.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-07-16T13:31:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Return of the Dinosaurs in Mexico]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/return_dinosaurs_mexico</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/return_dinosaurs_mexico#When:13:38:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The first question I get from the foreign press on these elections is: why would the Mexican people choose to return to a party known for authoritarian rule? It isn't a question I can answer completely, but here are a few considerations.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-07-15T13:38:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Audacity of Free Trade Agreements]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/audacity_of_free_trade_agreements</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/audacity_of_free_trade_agreements#When:13:52:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Congress could vote any day now to strike a new blow against already-battered U.S. workers and the unemployed.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-07-14T13:52:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Squeezing Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/squeezing-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/squeezing-cuba#When:11:44:36Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When it comes to encouraging more open societies in other countries, one can usually accomplish more by setting an example of adherence to democratic principles and of respect for human rights than by dictating rules for others to follow.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-07-07T11:44:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How America just lost 1 million green(ish) jobs to Europe]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how_america_just_lost_1_million_greenish_jobs_to_europe</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how_america_just_lost_1_million_greenish_jobs_to_europe#When:14:26:03Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Most underplayed economic story of the week: European aircraft manufacturer Airbus "trounced" the traditional U.S. behemoth Boeing at the Paris Air Show, booking a record $50 billion more in orders for new planes. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Europe & Russia, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-29T14:26:03+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Development and Migration]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/development_and_migration</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/development_and_migration#When:14:47:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Obama's speech in El Paso on May 10 put the immigration debate back on the table. In reaffirming his]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-27T14:47:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Has Obama Lost Environmental Voters?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/has_obama_lost_environmental_voters</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/has_obama_lost_environmental_voters#When:14:57:43Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Al Gore’s Rolling Stone critique of President Obama’s failure to act on the climate crisis is further evidence of ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-23T14:57:43+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush And The U.S. Descent Into Torture]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-us-descent-into-torture</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-us-descent-into-torture#When:11:50:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Not in memory has the image of the United States been so stained in the eyes of the world. Now, when most people think of our invasion of Iraq, they think not of happy liberated people, but of that hooded Iraqi prisoner with electrodes hooked to his fingers and penis.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-19T11:50:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Colombian HR Defenders Endure Threats, Attacks, Harassment and Illgeal Surveil]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/colombian_human_rights_defenders_endure_threats_attacks_harassment</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/colombian_human_rights_defenders_endure_threats_attacks_harassment#When:16:00:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Santos Administration must not only embrace the language of human rights, but also take effective action to guarantee the legitimate work of human rights defenders, essential for freedom of expression and a thriving democratic society]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Just the Facts, Americas, Colombia, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-23T16:00:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[In Texas, Obama Faces Test on Border-Wall Promise]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in_texas_obama_faces_test_on_border_wall_promise</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in_texas_obama_faces_test_on_border_wall_promise#When:16:44:33Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Obama speaks today about immigration in El Paso, Texas, along the U.S. border with Mexico. Although ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-10T16:44:33+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mexicans Reject US-Backed Drug Was]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mexicans_reject_us_backed_drug_was</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mexicans_reject_us_backed_drug_was#When:16:37:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Mexicans made history on May 8 in a march through the nation’s capital, protesting the war ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-10T16:37:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Operation Fast and Furious Threatens Scandal]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/operation_fast_and_furious_threatens_scandal</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/operation_fast_and_furious_threatens_scandal#When:16:51:47Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A secret operation to run guns across the border to Mexican drug cartels – overseen by US government agents – threatens ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-09T16:51:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building Strategic Alliances in Latin America]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/building_strategic_alliances_in_latin_america</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/building_strategic_alliances_in_latin_america#When:11:15:54Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The drug war has become the Pentagon's main way of occupying and controling Latin America, and to combat this ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Colombia, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-27T11:15:54+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beyond Solidarity]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/beyond_solidarity</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/beyond_solidarity#When:11:33:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In our work, our travels, our crossborder families and friendships, we learn to transit between languages, cultures and contexts to support something deeply human–the will to assert life in the face of violence and brutality.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-21T11:33:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Mexicogate?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas_mexicogate</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas_mexicogate#When:11:41:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A secret operation to run guns across the border to Mexican drug cartels — overseen by U.S. government agents ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-20T11:41:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Securing Arizona]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/securing_arizona</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/securing_arizona#When:16:26:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A sense of solidarity led the Tea Party Patriots to Phoenix for their American Policy Summit in February. It’s “our ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-21T16:26:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Policy Props Up Cuba&#8217;s Autocracy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-policy-props-up-cubas-autocracy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-policy-props-up-cubas-autocracy#When:10:07:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba's conviction of Alan Gross for subversive activities underscores the absurdity of U.S. policy toward the island.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-16T10:07:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Protecting Women Human Rights Defenders]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/protecting-women-human-rights-defenders</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/protecting-women-human-rights-defenders#When:08:19:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Josefina Reyes began her career as a human rights organizer the same way as thousands of women across the]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-09T08:19:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Putting US/Mexico Relations Back on Track&#8230; in Wrong Direction]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/putting-us-mexico-relations-back-on-track-in-wrong-direction</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/putting-us-mexico-relations-back-on-track-in-wrong-direction#When:08:30:32Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The presidential meeting this week between Mexico's Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama looked from the outside like a hastily arranged exercise in damage control. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-07T08:30:32+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Napolitano in Texas: Tough Talk, Little Coherence]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/napolitano-in-texas-tough-talk-little-coherence</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/napolitano-in-texas-tough-talk-little-coherence#When:08:48:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On Monday, Jan. 31, I crossed the border to hear Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speak at the ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-23T08:48:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Case Against Luis Posada Carriles Takes Welcome Turn]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/case-against-luis-posada-carriles-takes-welcome-turn</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/case-against-luis-posada-carriles-takes-welcome-turn#When:09:00:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Astonishing! And just when many of us were convinced that the trial of Luis Posada Carriles was simply a ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-22T09:00:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Women Lead Latin America&#8217;s Growing Anti-Militarization Movements]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/women-lead-latin-americas-growing-anti-militarization-movements</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/women-lead-latin-americas-growing-anti-militarization-movements#When:09:11:07Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[After hopes of a something closer to FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy of (relative) non-intervention, we find ourselves facing a new wave of militarization in Latin America–supported and promoted by the Obama administration.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Colombia, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-25T09:11:07+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Murdered Women of Juarez]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-murdered-women-of-juarez</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-murdered-women-of-juarez#When:10:12:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Marisela Escobedo’s life changed forever in August 2008 when her 16-year-old daughter Rubi failed to come home. What was left of Rubi’s body was found months later in a dump -- 39 pieces of charred bone.
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      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-19T10:12:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bolivia, the Saudi Arabia of Obstruction]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bolivia-the-saudi-arabia-of-obstruction</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bolivia-the-saudi-arabia-of-obstruction#When:21:15:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The delegates at Cancun have approved a deal that makes important progress on forest protection, clean technology, adapting to global warming, measurement ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation Partners, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-10T21:15:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arizona&#8217;s Immigration Debate Gets Dirtier]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/arizonas-immigration-debate-gets-dirtier</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/arizonas-immigration-debate-gets-dirtier#When:13:09:22Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Arizona backlash story needs to be told.  Arizona is a social and economic cauldron. The state’s unusual demographics, boom-bust conditions, and home-grown 
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-10T13:09:22+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anti-Climactic in Cancun]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/anti-climactic-in-cancun</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/anti-climactic-in-cancun#When:11:32:09Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The UN Climate Conference (COP16) in Cancun is turning out to be both anti-climactic and anti-climatic. There will be no major agreement to stop global warming this week
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      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-09T11:32:09+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce Attempt to Weaken the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chamber-of-commerce-attempt-to-weaken-the-foreign-corrupt-practices-act</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chamber-of-commerce-attempt-to-weaken-the-foreign-corrupt-practices-act#When:10:07:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Passed in 1977, the FCPA was a response to eroded public trust in government following the Watergate scandal and the admission by Lockheed and some 400 other American companies that bribery to foreign officials was a commonplace practice in international commerce.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Global Financial Integrity, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-09T10:07:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[In Mexico City, a Message for Cancun]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in-mexico-city-a-message-for-cancun</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in-mexico-city-a-message-for-cancun#When:12:50:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, as U.N. negotiations on climate change geared up in the Caribbean beach resort of Cancún, thousands of people marched through the streets of Mexico City]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-07T12:50:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Forests Poised for Major Progress in Cancun—if Hugo Chavez and U.S. don’t get in the way]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/forests-poised-for-major-progress-in-cancun-hugo-chavez</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/forests-poised-for-major-progress-in-cancun-hugo-chavez#When:14:11:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[If successful, the Cancun negotiations could mark a giant step towards fixing that calamitous error -- and drastically reducing deforestation on the ground]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation Partners, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-06T14:11:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[CIA Dodges Guilt for Peru Tragedy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cia-dodges-guilt-for-peru-tragedy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cia-dodges-guilt-for-peru-tragedy#When:12:05:26Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In this guest essay, former CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman recounts another example of how senior CIA officials dodged accountability for a trigger-happy program]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-04T12:05:26+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Richard Goldman, Founder of the Goldman Prize, Dies at age 90]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/richard-goldman-dies-at-age-90</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/richard-goldman-dies-at-age-90#When:13:00:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The planet lost a great and generous hero on Monday when philanthropist Richard N. Goldman died at the age of 90 Goldman is most famous for cofounding the Goldman Prize]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation Partners, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-01T13:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Legalizing Marijuana Would Weaken Mexican Drug Cartels]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-legalizing-marijuana-would-weaken-mexican-drug-cartels</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-legalizing-marijuana-would-weaken-mexican-drug-cartels#When:15:55:43Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the months leading up to today's vote on California's Proposition 19 to legalize recreational use of marijuana, opponents of legalization have issued a barrage ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-02T15:55:43+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Worlds Collide at Cancun Climate Talks]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/worlds-collide-at-cancun-climate-talks</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/worlds-collide-at-cancun-climate-talks#When:16:18:35Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The debate over climate change generally transpires within the cloistered confines of expensive hotels, executive boardrooms, and diplomatic halls. As seen in the ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-10-27T16:18:35+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Our Rinky Dink Scandal Culture]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/our-rinky-dink-scandal-culture</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/our-rinky-dink-scandal-culture#When:17:55:47Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal front page today featured a breathless report that 72 senior staffers for members of Congress had traded stocks in companies over which their ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation Partners, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-10-11T17:55:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama: We May Need to Solve Climate Change in &#8216;Chunks&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obama-we-may-need-to-solve-climate-change-in-chunks</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obama-we-may-need-to-solve-climate-change-in-chunks#When:15:59:06Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In a newly released interview, President Obama told Rolling Stone magazine that he wants to make energy and climate "one of my top priorities next year," but that "we may]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation Partners, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-09-29T15:59:06+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[At War in Texas]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/at-war-in-texas</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/at-war-in-texas#When:17:40:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Heads bowed in prayer, we stand at a bucolic spot on the banks of the Rio Grande known by locals as Neely’s Crossing. Like most of West Texas, there is nothing here.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-09-01T17:40:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The U.S. Needs to Take Steps for Change Alongside Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-change-alongside-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-change-alongside-cuba#When:11:02:07Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In his Aug. 9 op-ed column on his conversation with Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Jackson Diehl said that while he doesn't doubt the cardinal's sincerity in thinking that Cuban President Raúl Castro will bring about change in Cuba, as Mikhail Gorbachev did in the Soviet Union]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-08-11T11:02:07+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s Most Inexplicable Failure]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/president-obamas-most-inexplicable-failure</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/president-obamas-most-inexplicable-failure#When:16:36:45Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has been a major disappointment to a liberal community that rallied to his call for genuine change. His administration has made no attempt to]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-07-15T16:36:45+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lifting the Restrictions on U.S. Travel to Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lifting-restrictions-us-travel-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lifting-restrictions-us-travel-cuba#When:14:55:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In his July 9 letter, James C. Cason, a former chief of the United States Interests Section in Havana, insists that allowing Americans to travel freely to Cuba will not in any way encourage greater openness on the island]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-07-12T14:55:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Free the Cuban Five!]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/free-the-cuban-five</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/free-the-cuban-five#When:16:47:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Quite apart from Fidel Castro’s rare TV interview on Tuesday, there have recently been a number of encouraging developments in Cuba. A leading dissident, Elizardo Sanchez]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-07-07T16:47:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lethal Force on the Border]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lethal-force-on-the-border</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lethal-force-on-the-border#When:09:16:15Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Sergio Hernandez Guereca's short life revolved around the U.S.-Mexico border that ultimately led to his death. On June 7, at approximately 6:30 p.m., a U.S. Border ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-06-18T09:16:15+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S.-Cuba Cooperation on Gulf is in Our Interest]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-cuba-cooperation-on-gulf-is-in-our-interest</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-cuba-cooperation-on-gulf-is-in-our-interest#When:11:00:50Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba, like the U.S. Gulf Coast, is now threatened — though to be sure not to the same extent. It stands ready to share pertinent information and to cooperate against the danger]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-06-14T11:00:50+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mexico&#8217;s State of Impunity]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mexicos-state-of-impunity</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mexicos-state-of-impunity#When:11:36:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When international human rights observers rounded a curve on a remote road in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, they found the way blocked by boulders. They decided ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-05-11T11:36:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[President Obama’s Nuclear Policy:&nbsp; No Sign of Audacity; Some Sign of Hope]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-nuclear-policy-no-sign-of-audacity-some-sign-of-hope</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-nuclear-policy-no-sign-of-audacity-some-sign-of-hope#When:13:39:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The good news is that President Barack Obama has ended the Bush administration's campaign against disarmament and has returned to traditional approaches toward arms control.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-04-19T13:39:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Phase 2 of the Drug War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/phase-2-of-the-drug-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/phase-2-of-the-drug-war#When:11:46:23Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When the top brass of US and Mexican security met in Mexico City March 24, they took historic steps to ratchet up US involvement in Mexico's failed drug war. At the same time, ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-04-10T11:46:23+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Next Colombia]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-next-colombia</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-next-colombia#When:11:57:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The approach to Colombia’s presidential election on 30 May 2010 is gathering pace. The shape of the unfolding campaign became a little clearer on 14 March. That day,]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Colombia, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-03-31T11:57:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Colombia&#8217;s Elections: Under the Gun]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/colombias-elections-under-the-gun</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/colombias-elections-under-the-gun#When:12:07:28Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Colombia's congressional elections on March 14 were hailed by the United Nations as the most peaceful in years. The victory of the coalition led by President Alvaro ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Colombia, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-03-23T12:07:28+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Too Much Bang, Bang: The Need to Demilitarize US National Security]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/need-to-demilitarize-us-national-security</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/need-to-demilitarize-us-national-security#When:15:32:36Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a provocative and even dangerous speech at the National Defense University (NDU) last week]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Americas, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-03-17T15:32:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lessons from America&#8217;s Other Counterinsurgency]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lessons-from-americas-other-counterinsurgency</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lessons-from-americas-other-counterinsurgency#When:14:02:01Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is expanding more than just the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. He is expanding the mission]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Just the Facts, Americas, Colombia, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-12-16T14:02:01+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras&#8217; Coup Must Not Stand]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/honduras-coup-must-not-stand</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/honduras-coup-must-not-stand#When:16:43:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When Honduran soldiers entered democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya's bedroom and packed him off in his pajamas at gunpoint to exile this summer, the ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-08-31T16:43:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Lack of Resolve]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-lack-of-resolve</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-lack-of-resolve#When:16:06:36Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Mel Zelaya is right to refuse to be delivered back to his presidential chair, trussed and bound like a capon, an impotent symbol of a democratic façade. If Secretary of State Clinton permits the coup regime to impose conditions on the return of the constitutional president]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-07-31T16:06:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reopening]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/reopening</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/reopening#When:15:13:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA['U.S. Plans Informal Meetings With Cuban Diplomats to Improve Communications'' (news article, April 27) reported government officials as indicating the Obama administration to be quietly pushing to reopen channels of communication with Cuba. This simply makes sense.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-05-09T15:13:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S-Cuba Policy: Time to end deceitful travel controls]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-cuba-policy-time-to-end-deceitful-travel-controls</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-cuba-policy-time-to-end-deceitful-travel-controls#When:11:28:22Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Carter lifted all Cuba travel controls in 1977. From then until 1982, Americans were free to travel to Cuba and to spend money in the process.  That should have been the end of it.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-03-29T11:28:22+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Time to Re-Engage Cuba, at Last]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/time-to-re-engage-cuba-at-last</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/time-to-re-engage-cuba-at-last#When:10:21:04Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[U.S. policy toward Cuba long ago ceased to make any sense. We have normal diplomatic and trade relations with China, the largest communist country in the world, and equally normal relations with Vietnam, a communist country with which we once fought a bloody and divisive war. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-01-31T10:21:04+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Good Neighbor]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/good-neighbor</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/good-neighbor#When:16:36:35Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The standing of the United States in Latin America has not been so low in at least three quarters of a century – perhaps ever. And this tarnished image is not restricted to Latin America. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-08-14T16:36:35+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Russia Cuba Military]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/russia-cuba-military</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/russia-cuba-military#When:16:40:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Russians clearly are unhappy about Washington’s intentions to build a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland and are hinting that they can retaliate in unpleasant ways.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-08-13T16:40:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cuba North Korea Contradictions]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cuba-north-korea-contradictions</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cuba-north-korea-contradictions#When:16:56:13Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush has lifted various sanctions against North Korea and removed it from the list of countries said to be state sponsors of terrorism. North Korea, nuclear weapons and all, has been removed from the list. Cuba, which has no nuclear program, remains on it.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-07-07T16:56:13+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush Handling of Cuba, North Korea]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-handling-of-cuba-north-korea</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-handling-of-cuba-north-korea#When:11:18:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[North Korea, nuclear weapons and all, has been removed from the state sponsor of terrorists list. Cuba, which has no nuclear program, remains on it.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-07-02T11:18:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S.-Cuban Relations: A New Beginning?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-cuban-relations-a-new-beginning</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-cuban-relations-a-new-beginning#When:11:29:44Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[My last conversation with Raul Castro came some 26 years ago, as I was bowing out as Chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana. But U.S.-Cuban relations are so frozen in time that he might have uttered the words yesterday.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-06-20T11:29:44+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[No Evidence to Place Cuba on the States Sponsors of Terrorism List]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/no-evidence-to-place-cuba-on-states-sponsors-of-terrorism-list</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/no-evidence-to-place-cuba-on-states-sponsors-of-terrorism-list#When:11:35:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Florida State Legislature has just passed a bill that would effectively shut down travel between Florida and Cuba, thus making it extremely difficult for Cuban-Americans to visit their families on the island. This was done, according to the legislators, to prevent companies in Florida from dealing with any entities in so-called “state sponsors of terrorism.”]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T11:35:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Congresswoman&#8217;s Allegiance in Question]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/congresswomans-allegiance-in-question</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/congresswomans-allegiance-in-question#When:16:51:46Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Democratic congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the co-chair of Red to Blue, a ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Advocacy, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-03-19T16:51:46+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Time to Talk to Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/its-time-to-talk-to-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/its-time-to-talk-to-cuba#When:16:04:09Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[It had been apparent for some time that Fidel Castro's failing health would not permit him to ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-02-24T16:04:09+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush&#8217;s Speech Only Reiterates Past Ones]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-speech-only-reiterates-past-ones</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-speech-only-reiterates-past-ones#When:10:35:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Just when one thinks President Bush could not possibly say anything more inane about Cuba and our policy toward it, he does. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-10-31T10:35:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Close Guantanamo Bay]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/close-guantanamo-bay</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/close-guantanamo-bay#When:10:41:45Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[It was not long ago that the issue of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay was a hot topic. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Colin Powell called for the closing of the prison. Even President Bush supported the idea, and rightfully so.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-10-09T10:41:45+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Race Sparks New Cuba Thinking]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/race-sparks-new-cuba-thinking</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/race-sparks-new-cuba-thinking#When:11:07:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton has called Barak Obama "naive and irresponsible" for urging a change in our ongoing policy toward Cuba, a policy which Clinton, according to one of her campaign spokeswomen, "supports."]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-09-10T11:07:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Guest Comment: Wayne Smith]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/guest-comment-wayne-smith</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/guest-comment-wayne-smith#When:11:32:35Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA["Barak Obama's call for the unrestricted travel of Cuban-Americans to visit families on the island was a very smart move. There are a few hard-line Cuban-Americans who will protest, but the great majority of Cuban-Americans are totally in favor of family travel and will applaud Obama.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-08-28T11:32:35+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[House Democrats Follow Republican Lead on Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/house-democrats-follow-republican-lead-on-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/house-democrats-follow-republican-lead-on-cuba#When:14:41:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel presented an amendment on August 3 to simplify the method of payment for U.S. agricultural sales to Cuba, it was expected to pass easily. But to the surprise of many, the amendment was defeated.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-08-27T14:41:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Take Cuba Off the Terrorist List]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/take-cube-off-the-terrorist-list</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/take-cube-off-the-terrorist-list#When:14:48:32Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Cuba was placed on the list of terrorist nations in March of 1982 with little in the way of explanation. Twenty-five years later, the State Department’s reasons for keeping it there are totally unconvincing.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-08-06T14:48:32+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush&#8217;s Action Plan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-action-plan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-action-plan#When:14:57:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration's policy statements regarding Cuba sound like a broken record — a sound track leading nowhere.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-07-22T14:57:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Barriers to Change]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/barriers-to-change</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/barriers-to-change#When:11:42:50Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Writing in the Guardian last year, I described the utterly counterproductive nature of US policy toward Cuba and expressed the hope that "the British prime minister would not support Bush's gravely mistaken policies in Cuba as he did those in Iraq."]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-07-18T11:42:50+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cuba, the Square Peg]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cuba-the-square-peg</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cuba-the-square-peg#When:15:05:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite its best efforts, the US cannot make Cuba fit its round-hole definition of a terrorist state.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-07-06T15:05:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Bending Backwards Not to Extradite]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-bending-backwards-not-to-extradite</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-bending-backwards-not-to-extradite#When:15:12:35Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush has often taken the position that "if you harbor a terrorist, you're equally as guilty as the terrorist." Where, then, would our harboring of Posada leave George W. Bush?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-05-22T15:12:35+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[False Targets Don&#8217;t Help War on Terror]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/false-targets-dont-help-war-on-terror</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/false-targets-dont-help-war-on-terror#When:11:59:09Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Terrorist acts are a serious and growing problem in much of the world, especially in the Middle East and Africa. It is a problem that must be addressed. One does not contribute to that effort, however, by putting forward false targets, as the just-released State Department Report on Terrorism does by including Cuba on the list as a state sponsor of terrorism.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-05-02T11:59:09+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keeping academics out of Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/keeping-academics-out-of-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/keeping-academics-out-of-cuba#When:12:02:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration's restrictions on academic travel to Cuba are so harsh that they have brought such travel virtually to a halt. Now, about 450 professors and academics from colleges and universities across the nation have banded together to take the federal government to court and challenge their legality.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-04-30T12:02:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Symbol of Injustice]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/symbol-of-injustice</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/symbol-of-injustice#When:12:13:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The confessions of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, given on Feb. 10 at Guantanamo and released on Feb. 14, grabbed headlines all over the U.S. And no wonder. Mohammed, a right-hand man of Osama bin Laden, virtually boasted of being the mastermind behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks and many other acts of violence. He himself, he said, had personally beheaded the American journalist Daniel Pearl.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-03-27T12:13:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush&#8217;s Delusional Cuba Policy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-delusional-cuba-policy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-delusional-cuba-policy#When:15:27:13Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Since becoming Acting President of Cuba last July, Raul Castro has on several occasions offered to begin a dialogue with the United States. Each time, the offer has been rejected.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-03-05T15:27:13+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Worst of the Presidents?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/worst-of-the-presidents</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/worst-of-the-presidents#When:15:51:34Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The majority of Americans, clearly, have lost confidence in President Bush and his policies.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-03-01T15:51:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remove Sanctions on Cuba?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remove-sanctions-on-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remove-sanctions-on-cuba#When:12:19:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Our countries current Cuba policy is both illogical and counterproductive. Cuba poses no threat whatever to the security of the United States. In security terms, we can easily coexist with Cuba. It is a communist country, to be sure, but so are China and Vietnam. Yet we have cordial diplomatic and trade relations with them.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-03-01T12:19:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shelter Terrorists and We Damage Credibility]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/shelter-terrorists-and-we-damage-credibility</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/shelter-terrorists-and-we-damage-credibility#When:15:57:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration says it is leading an all-out struggle against terrorism. But in fact, the administration itself and influential members of the Florida congressional delegation have consistently taken positions which, in one way or another, support terrorism.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-02-10T15:57:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Castro&#8217;s Legacy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/castros-legacy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/castros-legacy#When:16:00:22Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[At this point, it is not clear whether Fidel Castro will recover and resume the presidency. One way or the other, his almost half-century rule in Cuba is nearing an end. What will be his legacy?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-02-02T16:00:22+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Letter to OAS Secretary-General José Miguel Insulza]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/letter-oas-secretary-general-jose-miguel-insulza</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/letter-oas-secretary-general-jose-miguel-insulza#When:11:27:45Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Government of Ecuador has presented to you a formal protest against the aerial herbicide fumigations that Colombia is carrying out]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Colombia, Advocacy, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-01-09T11:27:45+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Danger of Doing as Bush Does]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/danger-of-doing-as-bush-does</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/danger-of-doing-as-bush-does#When:15:52:47Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tony Blair certainly thought he was doing the right thing when he endorsed his friend George Bush's invasion of Iraq and sent in British troops to support that invasion. After all]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-12-03T15:52:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nicaraguans Will Decide]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/nicaraguans-will-decide</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/nicaraguans-will-decide#When:15:57:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Robert Novak's "Losing Nicaragua, Again" [op-ed, Oct. 30] correctly criticized the U.S. policy toward Nicaragua, but it did so for all the wrong reasons. Mr. Novak failed to mention]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-11-04T15:57:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[After 46 Years of Failure, We Must Change Course on Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/after-46-years-of-failure-we-must-change-course-on-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/after-46-years-of-failure-we-must-change-course-on-cuba#When:16:02:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The annual vote in the UN general assembly on the US embargo against Cuba is back this month. Last year's result saw 182 member states oppose]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-31T16:02:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sign Off Expensive and Unseen Broadcasts]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/sign-off-expensive-and-unseen-broadcasts</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/sign-off-expensive-and-unseen-broadcasts#When:16:13:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Of all the resources spent on U.S. policy toward Cuba, Radio and TV Marti are probably two of the most egregious examples of wasted taxpayer money -- nearly]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-28T16:13:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Another Injustice]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/another-injustice</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/another-injustice#When:16:21:53Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On Sept. 23, some 700 people marched on the White House, demanding freedom for the so-called "Cuban Five," and over the past few weeks, meetings have been]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-13T16:21:53+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Bankrupt Cuba Policy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-bankrupt-cuba-policy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-bankrupt-cuba-policy#When:16:13:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Administration will not deal with the existing government, whether led by Fidel or Raúl. It calls for a democratic transitional government but has no means of bringing one into being. Rather, it is left to issue calls in the night wind.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-08-28T16:13:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Let the Cubans Make Plans for Cuba&#8217;s Future]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/let-the-cubans-make-plans-for-cubas-future</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/let-the-cubans-make-plans-for-cubas-future#When:16:07:33Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[An Aug. 19 article by Manuel Roig-Franzia quotes Raúl Castro as saying that Cuba "has always been open to normalizing relations [with the United States] on an equal plane" but adding, "What we can't accept is the policy of arrogance and meddling. . . ."]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-08-27T16:07:33+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Change Must Come From Internal Process]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/change-must-come-from-internal-process</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/change-must-come-from-internal-process#When:13:15:53Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The "Compact with the Cuban People," issued on July 10 by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, as the two]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-08-02T13:15:53+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Colombia&#8217;s Drug Problems]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/colombias-drug-problems</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/colombias-drug-problems#When:13:23:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In "More Help for Colombia" [op-ed, June 26], Robert D. Novak employs a tired tactic: slapping the "soft on drugs" label on any who oppose the current U.S. policy toward Colombia.  Critics, Mr. Novak implies, are betraying brave Colombian anti-drug police officers who risk their lives every day.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-07-03T13:23:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush&#8217;s Knee-Jerk Rejection of Negotiations]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-knee-jerk-rejection-of-negotiations</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-knee-jerk-rejection-of-negotiations#When:16:42:16Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration has a well-established tendency to spurn negotiations in favor of confrontation, even in cases where the former hold out the promise of]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-06-24T16:42:16+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[In Harmony, for the Moment]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in-harmony-for-the-moment</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in-harmony-for-the-moment#When:16:57:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[It shouldn’t surprise us that the Bush administration and the Republican majority in the U.S. Congress were very pleased with Ãlvaro Uribe’s reelection.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Colombia, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-06-11T16:57:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Profit At Others&#8217; Expense At Heart Of Issue]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/profit-at-others-expense-at-heart-of-issue</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/profit-at-others-expense-at-heart-of-issue#When:11:43:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Immigration has become a loaded word, arousing an emotional response. In particular, it disregards the historical, political and economic]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Mexico, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-06-02T11:43:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Close Guantanamo]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/close-guantanamo</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/close-guantanamo#When:10:42:09Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, there has been a veritable avalanche of international demands that the Guantanamo prison be closed because of the mistreatment of prisoners there.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-05-25T10:42:09+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Florida Bill Wrong On Several Fronts]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/florida-bill-wrong-on-several-fronts</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/florida-bill-wrong-on-several-fronts#When:11:52:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In early May, a bill to prohibit universities in the state of Florida from funding any trips to Cuba or to other countries on the State Department's list of "terrorist states"]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-05-13T11:52:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[No Evidence That Cuba is a Terrorist State]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/no-evidence-that-cuba-is-a-terrorist-state</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/no-evidence-that-cuba-is-a-terrorist-state#When:11:14:49Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the case of Cuba, the State Department’s annual report on “State Sponsors of Terrorism,” issued on April 28 of 2006, is a complete dud.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-05-09T11:14:49+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keeping Gross Violators Off New Council]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/keeping-gross-violators-off-new-council1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/keeping-gross-violators-off-new-council1#When:12:34:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On March 15, the United Nations General Assembly, by an overwhelming vote of 170-4, approved the creation of a new Human Rights Council, to replace the old, discredited]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-03-31T12:34:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Impact on Latin America of the Servicemember&#8217;s Protection Act]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/impact-on-latin-america-of-servicemembers-protection-act</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/impact-on-latin-america-of-servicemembers-protection-act#When:08:42:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Senator Coleman, Senator Dodd, members of the subcommittee, I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and for inviting me to participate]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Testimony,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-03-08T08:42:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Giving Mexico the Business]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/giving-mexico-the-business</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/giving-mexico-the-business#When:11:31:01Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury Department had ordered the Maria Isabel Sheraton Hotel to expel the members of a Cuban delegation there to attend an international conference. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-24T11:31:01+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Waning U.S. Position in Latin America]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/waning-us-position-in-latin-america</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/waning-us-position-in-latin-america#When:11:37:36Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration has managed to reduce U.S. credibility and prestige in Latin America to its lowest point in memory.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-23T11:37:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cuba, Bush, and the Mexico &#8216;No-no&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cuba-bush-and-mexico-no-no</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cuba-bush-and-mexico-no-no#When:15:01:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[America may be addicted to Middle Eastern oil, as President Bush argued in his State of the Union speech last month, but his addiction to the hard line]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-10T15:01:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S.-Venezuelan Relations]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-venezuelan-relations</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-venezuelan-relations#When:11:41:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In her February 10 article on increasingly tense relations between the United States and Venezuela, Pamela Constable quotes Otto Reich as saying that: “We didn’t start this,“ and that Chavez was responsible for provoking U.S. hostility.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-10T11:41:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Policy&#8217;s Effect the Opposite of Goal]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-policys-effect-opposite-of-goal</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-policys-effect-opposite-of-goal#When:11:54:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This past Dec. 19, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reconvened the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, originally called into being by President Bush in 2003 to explore ways "to hasten and ease a democratic transition in Cuba." ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-02T11:54:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wrong Approach on the Baseball Game]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/wrong-approach-on-the-baseball-game</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/wrong-approach-on-the-baseball-game#When:12:02:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Wayne Smith's response to: "Castro at the Bat," by Roberto Gonzalez, New York Times, (1/11/06)]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-01-17T12:02:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Let &#8216;Em Play Ball]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/let-em-play-ball</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/let-em-play-ball#When:12:07:13Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Just when you think U.S. policy toward Cuba couldn't be any more inane, counterproductive and downright dumb, it becomes so.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-01-10T12:07:13+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bullying Cuba Out of Ballpark]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bullying-cuba-out-of-ballpark</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bullying-cuba-out-of-ballpark#When:13:06:23Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department's recent announcement that it would not grant a license for a Cuban baseball team to participate in the World Baseball Classic planned for March was deeply disappointing but hardly a surprise.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-12-27T13:06:23+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Swing and a Miss]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-swing-and-a-miss</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-swing-and-a-miss#When:13:11:23Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[It’s hard to know what was on Major League baseball’s mind when it sought to include Cuba and its baseball players in the World Baseball Classic that will take place next March in venues including Puerto Rico.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-12-17T13:11:23+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S.: Sheltering Terrorists]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-sheltering-terrorists</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-sheltering-terrorists#When:13:43:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The United States is supposed to be in an all-out struggle against terrorism]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-10-27T13:43:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bolton&#8217;s Disruptive Agenda All Too Obvious]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/boltons-disruptive-agenda-all-too-obvious</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/boltons-disruptive-agenda-all-too-obvious#When:15:58:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Since his recess appointment by President Bush to represent the United States at the United Nations, John Bolton has proceeded to live up to the hubris of his previous comments:]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-09-15T15:58:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush Held Up Cuba Help Over Politics]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-held-up-cuba-help-over-politics</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-held-up-cuba-help-over-politics#When:16:22:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[What a shame. Not even in the face of the massive human suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina could the Bush administration put aside its knee-jerk rejection of anything coming out of Cuba. Only two days after the storm hit the Gulf Coast, the Cubans quietly offered humanitarian assistance. No response.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-09-13T16:22:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Failing Grades: Evaluating the Results of Plan Colombia]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/failing-grades-evaluating-the-results-of-plan-colombia</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/failing-grades-evaluating-the-results-of-plan-colombia#When:16:32:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On July 13, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law an emergency bill giving Colombia $860 million “to seek peace, fight drugs, build the economy, and deepen democracy.”
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-09-01T16:32:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Violent `Solutions&#8217; Create New Problems]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/violent-solutions-create-new-problems</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/violent-solutions-create-new-problems#When:16:19:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As anti-Americanism has become a vital issue, various committees, delegations and retired diplomatic, military and intelligence officials have charged that our lack of an evenhanded approach to foreign relations and the worldwide perception of unfair policies are the main contributors to the problem.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-08-12T16:19:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[&#8216;Last Throes&#8217; Only in Eye of Delusional Bush]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/last-throes-only-in-eye-of-delusional-bush</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/last-throes-only-in-eye-of-delusional-bush#When:16:23:11Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration assures us that the insurgency in Iraq is in its last throes, even as the attacks increase and casualties climb. It also assures us that the Castro regime is in its last throes, thanks to the new measures against it put forward by the President's Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba in May of 2004.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-08-06T16:23:11+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Grappling with Gitmo]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/grappling-with-gitmo</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/grappling-with-gitmo#When:16:42:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Many prominent Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, are urging that the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo be closed. Their argument is that given the many reports of detainees being abused there, Guantanamo has come to be seen internationally as a symbol of U.S. disregard for human rights and for the Geneva Conventions. And so, to get rid of the harmful symbol, we should close it.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-06-26T16:42:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Investigation Needed]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/investigation-needed</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/investigation-needed#When:16:44:45Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Responding to Amnesty International's allegations on May 25 of "atrocious human rights violations " at Guantanamo and various other U.S.-controlled detention centers, and especially to the term "gulag," President Bush on May 31 described the charges as "absurd" and based on the stories of "people who hate America," i.e., the detainees.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-06-11T16:44:45+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[If the intelligence doesn`t fit, bend it]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/if-the-intelligence-doesnt-fit-bend-it</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/if-the-intelligence-doesnt-fit-bend-it#When:11:45:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The function of intelligence should be to provide as accurate an assessment as possible of a given situation to guide the formulation of policy.  But the Bush administration doesn`t see it that way;]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-06-04T11:45:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security: An electoral liability for Uribe?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/security-an-electoral-liability-for-uribe</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/security-an-electoral-liability-for-uribe#When:11:10:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A bit more than a year before the Colombian presidential elections, President Uribe is doing so well in the polls that his likely opponents are either hoping that the Constitutional Court blocks his re-election, or they simply have their gaze truly fixed on 2010.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-03-27T11:10:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[To Advance Rights, Lead by Example]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/to-advance-rights-lead-by-example</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/to-advance-rights-lead-by-example#When:11:27:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Your Feb. 15 editorial ''Self-Inflicted Wounds,'' about the torture of prisoners, is right on target. For the United States to torture prisoners, or outsource torture, is not only ineffectual, ''it debases this nation at home and abroad.'' ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-02-16T11:27:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Not What U.S. Is Supposed To Be About]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/not-what-us-is-supposed-to-be-about</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/not-what-us-is-supposed-to-be-about#When:11:30:11Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Writing on these pages on Jan. 12, I discussed the reports coming out of the Guantanamo Naval Base concerning the abuse, even torture, of prisoners. Some observers, I pointed out, were beginning to call it "our own Devil's Island."]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-02-04T11:30:11+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Our Cuba Policy Will Get U.S. Nada]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/our-cuba-policy-will-get-us-nada</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/our-cuba-policy-will-get-us-nada#When:11:37:01Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The outcome of the election in Iraq is encouraging, to be sure. Elections for a national assembly, however, are only a beginning. And if the United States is to point Iraq and various other societies toward democracy, it must go back to the adage that "one leads best by setting an example."]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-02-02T11:37:01+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where America Stands, What America Does]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/where-america-stands-what-america-does</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/where-america-stands-what-america-does#When:11:40:10Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Exit polls taken during the Nov. 2 presidential election indicated that most Bush voters quoted "moral values" as the prime motivation for their vote. This is difficult to understand in view of the wide publicity given to rampant torture at Iraq's Abu Graib prison, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-02-01T11:40:10+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[To Tailor the Truth]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/to-tailor-the-truth</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/to-tailor-the-truth#When:14:14:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The function of intelligence should be to provide as accurate an assessment as possible of a given situation to guide the formulation of policy.

But the Bush administration doesn't see it that way.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Asia, North Korea, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-12-28T14:14:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush and Uribe Make Their Shopping List]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-and-uribe-make-their-shopping-list</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-and-uribe-make-their-shopping-list#When:14:40:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Colombia – and not Mexico, as was the case four years ago – will be the first Latin American country to get a bilateral visit from George Bush after his reelection.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Colombia, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-11-14T14:40:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Average Cubans See Our Election]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-average-cubans-see-our-election</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-average-cubans-see-our-election#When:14:50:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[There is a visible chasm in Cuba between its leaders and its people over the importance of our presidential election this Tuesday.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-11-01T14:50:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush Knows Why `Relatives&#8217; Are So Important]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-knows-why-relatives-are-so-important</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-knows-why-relatives-are-so-important#When:11:19:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On July 15, addressing the Justice Department's conference in Tampa on trafficking in forced labor, President Bush said the U.S. has a major problem just 90 miles off its shores]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-07-31T11:19:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Testimony of Adam Isacson &#8220;The War Against Drugs and Thugs: A Status Report on Plan Colombia&#8221;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/war-against-drugs-and-thugs-status-report</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/war-against-drugs-and-thugs-status-report#When:15:04:45Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Let me begin by thanking the Committee for holding a hearing on the status of Plan Colombia.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Testimony,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-06-17T15:04:45+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cuba shaping up as Iraq II]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cuba-shaping-up-as-iraq-ii</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cuba-shaping-up-as-iraq-ii#When:11:37:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The path by which the Bush administration led us into the nightmarish Iraqi quagmire is strewn with arrogance, flawed assumptions, faulty intelligence and]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-05-26T11:37:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Track Bin Laden or Seize Cigars and Rum?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/track-bin-laden-or-seize-cigars-and-rum</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/track-bin-laden-or-seize-cigars-and-rum#When:13:31:34Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Treasury department agency charged with stopping the transit of illegal funds to]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-04-29T13:31:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Playing To The Exiles Hurts Dissidents&#8217; Cause]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/playing-to-the-exiles-hurts-dissidents-cause</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/playing-to-the-exiles-hurts-dissidents-cause#When:14:03:50Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the past two and a half years, the Bush administration has adopted an increasingly hostile, threatening attitude toward Cuba, even as]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-14T14:03:50+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Optimism, Pessimism, and Terrorism: The United States and Colombia in 2003]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/isacson-US-colombia-2003</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/isacson-US-colombia-2003#When:16:12:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In August 2003 Colombia again became the center of lavish attention from Washington, DC government officials. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-01T16:12:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Power Without Statesmanship]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/power-without-statesmanship</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/power-without-statesmanship#When:13:29:53Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Immediately after the 9-11 terrorist attacks there was an outpouring of support for and solidarity with the United States. The world faced a new threat, and, it was believed, the United States would now, as it had during the Cold War, lead the way in confronting it, consulting with its allies and working carefully within the United Nations system as it did so.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-11-23T13:29:53+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crackdown in Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/crackdown-in-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/crackdown-in-cuba#When:13:49:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The arrest and long-term imprisonment of dozens of dissidents in Cuba and the rapid execution of three men who had attempted to hijack a boat were deplorable. Over the past few years, there had been an encouraging trend toward greater tolerance of dissent in Cuba.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-05-12T13:49:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Not To Encourage Liberalization In Cuba]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-not-to-encourage-liberalization-in-cuba</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-not-to-encourage-liberalization-in-cuba#When:13:54:14Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The arrest and long-term imprisonment of dozens of dissidents in Cuba and the execution of three men who attempted to hijack a boat represent so glaring an overreaction on the part of the Cuban government as to suggest a certain degree of irrationality, for they harm the Cuban government more than anyone else.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-04-16T13:54:14+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Provocation, war spawned Cuba crackdown]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/provocation-war-spawned-cuba-crackdown</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/provocation-war-spawned-cuba-crackdown#When:14:01:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[BEFORE LAST month's deplorable crackdown on dissidents in Cuba, the situation there had seemed to be inching toward somewhat greater tolerance.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-04-15T14:01:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dismal Diplomacy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/dismal-diplomacy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/dismal-diplomacy#When:14:07:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[It is true that even had we given the U.N. inspectors more time, in the end we still might have had to use force to disarm Saddam Hussein. But it is also true that with competent diplomacy and a little more patience, we could have gone to war with the full support of the U.N. and of the overwhelming majority of other nations.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-03-27T14:07:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Testimony of Adam Isacson on &#8220;U.S. Policy Toward Colombia&#8221;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/testimony-us-policy-toward-colombia</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/testimony-us-policy-toward-colombia#When:16:12:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Chairman Ballenger, Ranking Member Menendez, I thank you for the opportunity to testify before your subcommittee today on U.S. policy toward Colombia]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Testimony,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-04-08T16:12:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ponencia Sobre Plan Colombia]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/ponencia-sobre-plan-colombia</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/ponencia-sobre-plan-colombia#When:12:03:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Buenos días, debo empezar por agradecer profundamente a la ESAP y a los organizadores de este excelente evento. Yo trabajo en una ONG en Washington que se llama el Centro para las Políticas Internacionales]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2001-09-16T12:03:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Testimony on &#8220;US Air Interdiction Efforts in South America After the Peru Incident]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/testimony-on-us-air-interdiction-efforts</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/testimony-on-us-air-interdiction-efforts#When:14:21:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Chairman Souder and members of the subcommittee, it is a pleasure to appear before you today to testify about this important issue. Thank you for inviting me to participate]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Colombia, Policy Research, Testimony,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2001-05-01T14:21:29+00:00</dc:date>
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