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Latin America News Round-up: a daily email digest. This free compilation of articles features the latest English language news on economic and political developments in Latin America. Click here to subscribe.

Reports

Still Waiting for Justice: An Assessment of the Honduran Public Ministry’s Investigation of the May 11, 2012 Killings in Ahuas, Honduras

April 2013, Alexander Main and Annie Bird

Breaking Open the Black Box: Increasing Aid Transparency and Accountability in Haiti

April 2013, Jake Johnston and Alexander Main

Ecuador’s New Deal: Reforming and Regulating the Financial Sector

February 2013, Mark Weisbrot, Jake Johnston and Stephan Lefebvre

Adjusting for Polling Biases in Venezuela’s 2012 Presidential Election

October 2012, David Rosnick

Venezuela's Economic Recovery: Is It Sustainable?

September 2012, Mark Weisbrot and Jake Johnston

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Op-Eds & Columns

Will Obama’s Legacy Be a Death Squad Government in Honduras?

Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, March 30, 2013
En Español

Chávez's Death, Like His Life, Shows the World's Divisions

Mark Weisbrot
Al Jazeera English, March 17, 2013
En Español | Em Português

Chávez's Legacy

Mark Weisbrot
Al Jazeera English, March 5, 2013
En Español | Em Português

Sky Not Falling After Venezuela Devalues Its Currency

Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, March 3, 2013

The U.N.’s Crimes Have Killed Thousands in Haiti – When Will They Pay?

Jake Johnston
Caribbean Journal, March 1, 2013

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Events

Haiti in 2012: Updates on the Recovery

Assange's Asylum in Correa's Ecuador

Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America: A New Vision for Development

Congressional Briefing on Cholera in Haiti, Co-sponsored by the O'Neill Institute and CEPR

Debts and Deficits: Combating Recession in the U.S., Latin America, and Eurozone

Haiti Briefing: Haitian American Students Brief on IDP Camps

The Latin American Spring

The D-Word: Can Default Save Greece? Or Is Austerity the Answer?

Latin America Unites and the Challenge to U.S. Hegemony

Accountability in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Reconstruction Failures and the U.N.'s Cholera Problem

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Press Releases

New Report on Deadly Honduras Counterdrugs Operation Raises New Questions Regarding U.S. Role

April 9, 2013

New Report on U.S. Aid to Haiti Finds “Troubling” Lack of Transparency, Effectiveness

April 3, 2013

UN Response to Haiti Cholera Complaint “Represents a Failure of the UN System,” CEPR Co-Director Says

February 21, 2013

Ecuador's Election a "Referendum on Economic Policies," CEPR Co-Director Says

February 18, 2013

New Paper Finds that Ecuadorean Financial Reforms Under Correa Have Been Successful

February 14, 2013

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Testimony

Testimony Before the United States Congress Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Honduras
July 25, 2012, Testimony of Alexander Main before Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, U.S. Congress

OAS: Economics, Democracy, Haiti
June 6, 2005, Remarks by Mark Weisbrot before the Organization of American States General Assembly, Meeting Between Civil Society Organizations, the Secretary General, and Heads of Delegations En español

On the State of Democracy in Venezuela
June 24, 2004, Testimony of Mark Weisbrot before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate)

Argentina’s Economic Meltdown: Causes and Remedies
March 5, 2002, Testimony of Mark Weisbrot before the Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade of the Committee on Budget and Financial Services (House of Representatives)

Other Resources

Returning Honduras to Democratic and Constitutional Order with President Manuel Zelaya
Discussion with H.E. José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, President of the Republic of Honduras, with an introduction by Mark Weisbrot and moderation by
George Washington University's Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program 's Cynthia McClintock, September 2, 2009. (Video and Audio)

Ecuador`s Debt Audit: Implications in the Global Economic Crisis
Minister of Finance of Ecuador, María Elsa Viteri, discussed the implications of the Ecuadorian debt situation in the context of the global economic crisis, including the negative impacts of deregulation of the financial markets and the lack of appropriate established international mechanisms for auditing developing country debt. December 11, 2008.

Media Briefing: Ecuador`s Debt

Discussion with Neil Watkins, Executive Director of Jubilee USA, and CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot on prospects for Ecuador`s debt default, December 10, 2008. (Audio)

Bolivia’s Democratic and Economic Changes

Discussion with Luis Arce, Bolivian Finance Minister, Carlos Villegas, Bolivian Minister of Planning and Development, and CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot, October 10, 2008. (Video)

Latin America in the Post-Bush Era: What Can We Expect in the Next Phase of U.S.-Latin American Relations?
Discussion with Mark Weisbrot of CEPR and Álvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute, May 29, 2008.
(Audio and Video)

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Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities:
Consequences for Health and Quality of Life

with a chapter by Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and David Rosnick
Baywood Publishing Co. (2007)

Flat World, Big Gaps

Flat World, Big Gaps:
Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty And Inequality
with a chapter by Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick, and a chapter co-authored by Heather Boushey
(forthcoming in May 2007)

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