Women Raise Banner of Women’s Rights in Honduran Popular Movement

CIP Americas, Mar-21-2013 | Article

On International Women's Day, women from all over Honduras joined the movement for peace and democracy, bringing recognition to the national feminist movement and joining their case with the popular demands of all Hondurans... Read More »

Nicaragua: A Dangerous Place for Women

by Laura Carlsen

CIP Americas, Mar-14-2013 | Article

It is the "climate of protection" surrounding perpetrators of violence against Nicarauguan girls and women that allows the numbers of rapes and deaths to increase... Read More »

Chavez: Washington Nemesis, Latin American Hero

by Laura Carlsen

CIP Americas, Mar-12-2013 | Article

Washington hopes Chavez's death means change in Venezuela, but social indicators measuring human suffering showed steady improvement over his fifteen-year tenure... Read More »

After Chávez, a Chance to Rethink Relations With Cuba

by Robert White

NY Times, Mar-07-2013 | Article

The death of Hugo Chávez presents an opportunity to rekindle the U.S. relationship with Latin American countries. Cuba can then become a "multilateral challenge" if both Americas can work together to instigate Cuban democratic reform... Read More »

With Immigration Reform Looming, Private Prisons Lobby to Keep Migrants Behind Bars

by Laura Carlsen

Huffington Post, Mar-05-2013 | Article

The proposed immigration reform bill could hurt the multibillion-dollar private prison industry and consequently save the government billions of dollars... Read More »

9 Ways To Reduce Defense Spending

by Melvin A. Goodman

Huffington Post, Mar-05-2013 | Article

9 ways to reduce a defense budget that costs its taxpayers twice as much "as each British citizen; five times as much as each German; and six times as much as each Japanese."... Read More »

The Nuke Plan to Nowhere

by William D. Hartung

Huffington Post, Mar-04-2013 | Article

The House Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to shield nuclear program spending from budget cuts, approving a nuclear program budget of $640 billion in taxpayers' dollars over the next decade... Read More »

Time is Ripe For a New Approach to Cuba

by Michael Barnes

Baltimore Sun, Mar-04-2013 | Article

Collaborating with Cuba to form agreements on energy production that will benefit both countries' interests may yield patched relations in the long-run... Read More »

Obama Getting Ready to Reduce Nukes: A Step in the Right Direction

by Charles Knight

Huffington Post, Feb-28-2013 | Article

The Obama administration is scaling down deployed nuclear warheads even further than the provisions set by the New START Treaty, which called for a reduction to 1,550 by 2018. Along with Russia, the administration believes a number closer to 1,000 is sufficient.... Read More »