By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cartel violence in Mexico has continued to increase since the beginning of the drug war in 2006, and despite government efforts to put an end to it, continues to add victims to its list of causalities on a daily basis. The number of homicides in Mexico went from 9,921 deaths in 2005 to 35,679
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Wednesday, Feb. 26, will mark the 28th anniversary of one of the most gruesome and tragic acts of genocide in recent history. And, for the most part, it is a massacre disremembered, given only a passing mention – if any – in modern-day history texts. But for the people of Azerbaijan, the haunting anamnesis of the ruthless
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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Two former U.S. ambassadors speak out
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By DANIEL F. RUNDE and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following is an abbreviated version of a brief written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. It is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) THE ISSUE A precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would endanger many of the social, political, economic and health gains that
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