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Home in Honduras: Snapshots of life after deportation
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 112–117.
Published: 01 June 2018
... about going to the police. This instinct is common in Honduras, where police are widely known to be among the most corrupt in the hemisphere. The national police have long been associated with crime, corruption, and violence, and high-level police officials have been accused of working directly...
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Investing in Murder: Honduran Farmers Sue World Bank’s Lending Arm for Fueling Land Conflict
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 24–30.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Lauren Carasik Lawyer Lauren Carasik argues that the World Bank’s private-lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, has stoked a bloody land dispute in Honduras by funding the oligarch-owned agribusiness behind the violence. Now, with Carasik’s help, the Honduran farmers are taking...
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Infographic: Maternal Mortality
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 126.
Published: 01 December 2017
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Central America’s Free Trade Gamble
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 19–28.
Published: 01 December 2005
... was
is the Central American Free Trade Agree “good news for Central America.”3
ment, known as CAFTA, which will bind O f course, Central America is already
the economies of Costa Rica, El Salvador, closely tied economically to the United
Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (as States, which is by far...
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Daddy Issues: “Responsible Paternity” as Public Policy in Latin America
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
... paternity” has since become a watchword across Latin America. The term describes a slew of policies to track down biological fathers and hold them responsible for their children born outside of marriage. Laws similar to Costa Rica’s have passed in Panama, Guatemala, and Honduras in recent years...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2018
... to Honduras, and how, in a country so riven by violence and corruption, simply leading a normal life is no easy task. One of the more provocative pieces in the issue is by Sophie Bader, whose reporting on open defecation shaming in India and Nepal calls into question a popular strategy for improving...
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Imagining Eden
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 10–13.
Published: 01 December 2015
... alone) or the gang violence escalating to the level of a civil war in El Salvador and Honduras. When analysts make the case for a unifying theme running across the region, they almost inevitably identify the lowest common denominator. In Latin America these days, one of the lowest common...
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The Next New Threat
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 2000
... guerrillas holding one-third
of El Salvador, with Washington fighting a “covert war” against the Nicaraguan Sandinistas
by arming the “contras,” and with Honduras as a U.S. “aircraft carrier” aiding and supply
ing the contra war. It was not until the Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, managed to ap...
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“We Want to Stay Alive”: Ending Feminicide in Juárez, Mexico
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 39–46.
Published: 01 December 2016
... related to the life and well-being of women. La K-NTONA recently organized a lecture to raise awareness about Berta Caceres, an indigenous environmental activist assassinated in Honduras in March 2016. The collective is currently teaching urban gardening and developing workshops on documentary filmmaking...
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Only a Shadow: On El Salvador’s tragic identity
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 30–34.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of murders per 100,000 people is shared with a perverse excitement, as if, deep down, we are proud to be the country with the highest murder rate in the world; as if we, Honduras, and other countries in which murder also prowls are all competing in an athletic tournament, and overtaking the others should...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 March 2017
... is a far better ideal. I’ve spent over a decade writing and reporting in countries like South Sudan, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Honduras, where conflicts never occur between equals. To speak truths about who causes carnage or corruption isn’t advocacy; it’s a moral imperative, and honest editors...
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Present at the Destruction: The Death of American Internationalism
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to expand across a continent. surely this is the authentic voice of Ameri
In the twentieth century, even putting aside can neo-imperialism. Under this reading,
the two world wars, we intervened mili America seeks satellites, not allies. We are
tarily in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua...
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The Sorrows of Peace in Guatemala
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 65–70.
Published: 01 June 2001
...— sprang up
quest— extended its deadline to 2004. first in Guatemala, and then spread to El
True, peace of sorts has come to Guate Salvador and Honduras. In Guatemala, the
mala. But appallingly, according to a recent sheer brutality of the violence against civil
U.N. report, violent assaults...
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Sex and the Barrio: A Clash of Faith in Latin America
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the pregnancies,” says Luque of cisas . The risk of complications during pregnancy and delivery for girls aged 15 to 19 is double the rate for women in their 20s, and five times as high for girls under 15, according to the UN Population Fund. In countries like Nicaragua, as well as Chile, Honduras, and El...
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Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: How the U.s. Legal and Business Communities Can Help
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 79–85.
Published: 01 June 2003
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approximately $20 million and $30 million, such as Guatemala, Honduras, Nepal, and
respectively, on rule of law initiatives. The Bolivia into this category. Others are charac
bulk of rule of law funding— approximately terized by “dominant-power politics,” in
$150 million in 2002— comes from the which...
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Who (Really) Owns the Past?
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 85–91.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the importation of smuggled or
stolen cultural artifacts, but they are encouraged to enact specific bans on objects looted
from specific areas— as the U.S. has creditably enacted, at the request of El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Mali, and Cambodia. And it is credibly asserted...
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A “Witch Hunt Against Poor Women”: Across the Americas, Abortion Laws are Harming Health and Security
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 December 2016
... even more worrisome when it comes to access to reproductive health services.” Seven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have complete bans on abortion, including the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, and Suriname. But nowhere in the region is the criminalization...
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Latin Justice: A New Look
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 57–64.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., Honduras, Mexico (in some states), Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. And what’s unusual about this dedication of effort and resources to criminal justice is that Latin Americans have never been particularly passionate about the topic. Historically, crime has been dealt with officially...
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Latin Women Take the Helm
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 39–47.
Published: 01 March 2014
... for office at national and local levels is becoming all but routine. Many attribute a record number of women running for mayor in Brazil in 2012 to “the Dilma effect.” Rousseff’s leadership is motivating other women to run for office. Meanwhile in Honduras, Xiomara Castro—wife of ousted President Manuel...
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Ending the Nuclear Nightmare: A Strategy for the Bush Administration
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 31–38.
Published: 01 March 2001
... defenses. Instead, they would permit Washington to dominate
abstained. Only Israel, Micronesia, Albania, space militarily. American claims that such
and Honduras joined the United States in a system is “defensive” would not persuade
opposing the resolution. To most of the other countries looking...
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