2011 News Stories

	Guatemala, Drug Trafficking and Violence: The bloody eruption of the Mexican Zetas cartel into its territory is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of repeated government failures, massive corruption and criminal violence that threatens the frail democracy of Guatemala, the gateway for most of the drugs reaching the U.S. from Mexico. International Crisis Group, October 11, 2011. Read More >
	Seminars and Symposia The Changing Andes: Peru and Venezuela in Perspective CUNY, September 23, 2011. Read More >
	Regarding the recent open letters by Noam Chomsky to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Carr Center Fellow Leonardo Vivas notes the transition from "quiet diplomacy," in which Vivas and others at the Center have for some time been engaged, to a more public lobbying. The Guardian (UK), July 3, 2011. Read More >
	Noted Leftist Urges Chavez to Release Ailing Judge: Even as President Hugo Chavez slowly recovers in Cuba from cancer surgery, one of his most prominent sources of intellectual inspiration, the American linguist Noam Chomsky, is asking Mr. Chavez to show compassion for another Venezuelan facing a health battle of her own. New York Times, July 3, 2011. Read More >
	Chomsky pede a Chavez clemencia para juiza Folha do Sao Paulo, July 3, 2011. Read More >
	Publication of Chomsky letters reveals Carr Center's involvement in efforts urging Venezuela's President Chavez to release Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, detained in Venezuela since December 2009. The New York Times, July 2, 2011. Read More > More background on this case >
	Procuraduria de Brasil alerta ante caso de jueza Afiuni: Juristas de Brasil aseguran que el TSJ venezolano perdio su objetivo El Universal, April 20, 2011. Read More >
	Quien perdio a Mexico?: Antes: Mexico era percibido como el pais latinoamericano con mas probabilidades de llegar a ser un pais desarrollado. Ahora: es percibido, si no como un Estado fallido, si ciertamente como una nacion en la que vastas regiones e importantes instituciones estn controladas por algunos de los criminales mas poderosos y crueles del planeta. El Universal, April 17, 2011. Read More >
	The tormented isthmus: Big-time drug trafficking has arrived in Central America. Its poor, politically polarized countries must now try to cope The Economist, April 14, 2011. Read More >
	Blogger based in Mexico's deadly Ciudad Juarez wins Knight fellowship, press freedom award: Spanish journalist Judith Torrea, author of the blog Ciudad Juarez, en la Sombra del Narcotrafico (Ciudad Juarez, in the Shadow of Drug Trafficking), won the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom award and was selected to be one of the 2011-12 International Knight Fellows. Knight Center, April 13, 2011. Read More >
	Panama Expels Journalists for Exercising Freedom of the Press; HRF: President Martinelli Must Allow Spanish Journalists Back Into the Country Human Rights Foundation, April 5, 2011. Read More >
	Panama: La HRF pide a Martinelli permitir retorno de periodistas y defensores de derechos humanos espaoles The Human Rights Foundation, April 5, 2011. Read More >
	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carlos Slim Health Institute, Spain, and the IDB collaborate to improve health of the poor in Mesoamerica: $150 million in contributions will launch Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative Inter-American Development Bank, March 14, 2011. Read More >
	Venezuelan students end hunger strike: A 23-day hunger strike by Venezuelan students demanding the release of people they identified as political prisoners came to an end Tuesday, the strike's leader said. CNN, February 22, 2011. Read More >
	Even by Juarez standards, a deadly 72 hours: Fifty-three people were killed in a 72-hour span in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, making it one of the deadliest three-day periods in recent memory, state attorney general's office spokesman Arturo Sandoval told CNN Sunday. CNN, February 21, 2011. Read More >
	Mexico region sets a policing trend: Villagers in a remote southwestern state of Guerrero establish effective local unit to combat endemic crime. AlJazeera, February 20, 2011. Read More >
	Ortega Díaz sugiere que le den casa por cárcel a Afiuni: El Universal, February 1, 2011. Read More >
	Moreno Valley man suspected of belonging to deadly Guatemalan military brigade faces federal charges L.A Now, January 24, 2011. Read More >
	Mexico police arrest Acapulco 'cartel leader' Lozano BBC News, January 23, 2011. Read More >
	Haiti: 2 former leaders; 1 troubled land CNN News, January 22, 2011. Read More >
	As floodwaters ebb in Brazil, death toll keeps rising CNN News, January 19, 2011. Read More >
	Identifying skeletal remains: Mercedes Doretti, co-founder of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, on investigating human-rights violations The Economist, January 14, 2011. Read More >

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