Loading ...So today, my blog is exactly one year old. In February 2012, I started this blog as a part-time venture and, nearly 17,000 hits and over 550 posts later, I’m still going strong. As usual, thanks to my readers and guest contributors — and of course, please do share any thoughts to make Suffragio better: more [...]
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Central America was a rough neighborhood during the Cold War. And Guatemala, with a civil war that essentially began with the overthrow of elected president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (with U.S. support) in 1954, and ended only with a peace treaty in 1996, was particularly rough. Even in that context, however, the reign of Efraín Ríos Montt in [...]
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East and South Asia ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is not popular in Pakistan. North America Former U.S. senator and nominee for U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel has a tough day of hearings. Latin America / Caribbean Argentina’s government turns down a Falklands summit. An explosion at México’s state-owned oil company, Pemex. FARC clashes with the Colombian [...]
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