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Znet Article Carlsen: The Great Swine Flu Cover-Up

Znet Article, September, 12 2009 Laura Carlsen
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Mexico has been considered the laboratory of globalization since it initiated the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. In April of 2009 a deadly virus germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions to move quickly into a global pa...

Znet Article Carlsen: A Pressing Case for NAFTA Review and Renegotiation

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Laura Carlsen
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At President Obama's first North American Summit in August, the leaders of the three nations avoided any mention of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or its offshoot, the Security and Prosperity Partnership, in their joint statement....

Znet Article Carlsen: Coup Catalyzes Honduran Women's Movement

Znet Article, August, 26 2009 Laura Carlsen
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On the morning of June 28, women's organizations throughout Honduras were preparing to promote a yes vote on the national survey to hold a Constitutional Assembly. Then the phone lines started buzzing.

Znet Article Carlsen: Honduran Coup Turns Violent, Sanctions Imposed

Znet Article, June, 30 2009 Laura Carlsen
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Thousands of Hondurans are now in the streets to protest the coup d'etat in their country. They have been met with tear gas, anti-riot rubber bullets, tanks firing water mixed with chemicals, and clubs. Police have moved in to break down barricade...

Znet Article Carlsen: Military Coup in Honduras, President Zelaya in Costa Rica, Minister and Ambassadors Reported Kidnapped

Znet Article, June, 28 2009 Laura Carlsen
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The president of Honduras was surrounded by military units and forcibly deposed. He is now in Costa Rica. The people are in the streets and the government has been taken over. In the middle of Sec. General Jose Insulza's statement, word arrived th...

Znet Article Carlsen: The United States Abandons the "War on Drugs" Model at Home, Exports It to Mexico

Znet Article, May, 18 2009 Laura Carlsen
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Poor Mexico has suffered a series of hard blows lately. From elections that left a bitterly divided populace, to a blood-soaked drug war, to the economic crisis, to the swine flu epidemic, nothing seems to be going right.

Znet Article Carlsen: Mexico’s Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease

Znet Article, April, 29 2009 Laura Carlsen
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Mexico has long been considered the laboratory of globalization. Now a potentially deadly virus has germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions to move quickly along a path toward global pandemic.

Znet Article Carlsen: Obama Pledges to Seek "Equal Partnership" At Americas Summit

Znet Article, April, 23 2009 Laura Carlsen
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The stage was set for a showdown. Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama exchanged another round of insults before getting on their planes to head to Trinidad and Tobago. Many countries came prepared for an all-court press to admit Cuba to the Organization ...

Znet Article Carlsen: Medellin: Model City for IDB; Paramilitary Repression for the Poor

Znet Article, March, 31 2009 Laura Carlsen
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I arrived in Medellin to participate in a series of events called "IDB: 50 years of Financing Inequality" held parallel to the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). It was late and the airport was filled with escorts who she...

Znet Article Carlsen: A New Attitude in the White House?

Znet Article, February, 22 2009 Laura Carlsen
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There are early signs of change in the Obama State Department. In response to significant political victories by former Bush nemeses Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia, State Department spokespersons praised the democratic process...

Znet Article Carlsen: Report Calls for End to Drug War, As Obama Moves Toward Reform

Znet Article, February, 15 2009 Laura Carlsen
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The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy issued a report that marks a turning point in drug policy in the hemisphere. Following a year’s work, the report concludes that the “war on drugs” is a failed war and recommends a “para...

Znet Article Carlsen: Obama Reaffirms Promise to Renegotiate NAFTA

Znet Article, January, 15 2009 Laura Carlsen
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The courtesy call between President-elect Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon turned out to be a little more revealing than anticipated. The statement from incoming White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gave a pretty clear, if va...

Znet Article Carlsen: Mexico's Immigration Problem Also a "Red Flag" at Home

Znet Article, December, 16 2008 Laura Carlsen
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In the first two years of the Felipe Calderon administration, Mexico has become a focal point in the violation of the human rights of immigrants even as it criticizes the treatment of Mexican migrants in the United States. The UN Special Rapporteu...

Znet Article Carlsen: Obama and the Minority Majority

Znet Article, November, 30 2008 Laura Carlsen
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The election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African American president has been heralded as proof that the United States has finally broken through the racial barrier. The image springs to mind of recalcitrant whites at last convinced to se...

Znet Article Carlsen: Latin America Sends Obama Congratulations—and a Piece of its Mind

Znet Article, November, 08 2008 Laura Carlsen
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Pundits have said that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States will not change the nation’s world image overnight. But in Latin America, it already has.

Znet Article Carlsen: Bush Foreign Policy: From Dynasty to Legacy

Znet Article, October, 10 2008 Laura Carlsen
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One day not long ago—hypothetically—the head honchos of the Bush administration sat down in the Oval Office. Long faces prevailed around the room. The agenda: "Transitioning from Plan A to Plan B."

Znet Article Carlsen: Would There Be Change in Obama's Americas Policy?

Znet Article, August, 20 2008 Laura Carlsen
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The great debate on how much—or how little—Barack Obama would change our disastrous U.S. foreign policy usually focuses on the Middle East. That makes sense. Nowhere has the price of the Bush national security strategy been higher, as the violent ...

Znet Article Carlsen: NAFTA and the Elephant in the Room

Znet Article, June, 28 2008 Laura Carlsen
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The University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico hosted a conference recently on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) from the Canadian and Mexican perspective. Although most of the presentations were from academics, businessmen or govern...

Znet Article Carlsen: Mexico's Battle Over Oil

Znet Article, May, 22 2008 Laura Carlsen
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In the reform proposal, Calderon and his National Action Party (PAN) took care to avoid calling for modifying the Mexican Constitution. National ownership of petroleum is a touchstone of nationalist pride in Mexico since President Lazaro Cardenas ...

Znet Article Carlsen: The Bush Administration Has Put Its Proposal to Militarize Mexico into the Upcoming Iraq Supplemental Bill

Znet Article, May, 07 2008 Laura Carlsen
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On Oct. 22, 2007 President Bush announced the $1.4 billion dollar "Merida Initiative," security aid package to Mexico and Central America. The initiative has fatal flaws in its strategy; instead of leading to a stable binational relationship and p...

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