[A US military training center in the port city of Concón, in the central Chilean province of Valparaíso, will be used for exercises "clearly oriented toward the control and repression of the civilian population," according to an open letter that more than 20 human rights organizations sent Chile's Defense Minister Andrés Allamand on May 7.]

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['The Guardian's' South American correspondent Rory Carroll’s interpretation of the Cuban revolution and Latin America more generally cannot be viewed as anything other than overt complicity in confining the terrible fate of hundreds of thousands to the memory hole, thereby preserving the image of the United States as a benign force in the world, and denying justice to its many mutilated, murdered, and meticulously forgotten victims.]

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Alborada e-news: May 2012

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We hope you are all well. Welcome to the May 2012 Alborada e-news. Our e-news will inform you about our activities, as well as the latest information related to Latin America.

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[Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports.]

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[The Brazilian government of Dilma Rousseff is taking firm steps towards stronger relations with Africa, such as the creation of a special fund to finance development projects together with multilateral lenders like the World Bank.]

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[Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has made headlines around the world for his suggestion that the U.S. led “War on Drugs” has failed, and that other options should be explored. However, analyts say the decriminalisation plan is a smokescreen for increased militarisation, and the rearrangement of Guatemala’s drug trafficking elite.]

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[For too long the UK government hasmaligned individual Latin American nations. Collectively, their trading, economic and cultural communities are growing and joining up into internationally important unions. We can be partners in this historic reconfiguration, or we can bang the old Empire drum and be ignored.]

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[If multinationals will do anything to control the public debate, how can indigenous peoples in Peru ever assert their rights?]

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[In Venezuela and Latin America this is already happening and the Hip Hop Revolucion collective are on the frontline of that struggle.]

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