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A Latin response to Latin America : Latin America is not only home to the largest bloc of Roman Catholics, but has also seen the rise of a radical New Left. The old Left has been in retreat since the collapse of the Soviet Union. China has preserved some important elements of traditional ... Saudi Gazette

Targeting “Hot Spots” Could Drastically Reduce Latin America's Murder Rate - Perhaps more than any other part of the world, homicide in Latin America is concentrated by time and place - for policymakers hoping to reduce the region’s staggering levels of violent crime, this represents a major opportunity. Home to just 8 percent of the world’s population, Latin America experiences 33 percent of the world’s homicides, and is disproportionately affected by other forms of victimization, including assault, robbery and property crime. Most of this occurs in just a handful of urban settings. In response, crime prevention measures that explicitly target places, people and times where criminal activity recur have generated remarkable successes in the region.

Film depicts fight against neoliberalism in Latin America : Davila told the audience: "For Venezuela, February 27 is a very important day. The following two-three days represented the first big popular response to neoliberal policies in Latin America . "They involved several days of street battles, and many deaths. Green Left Weekly

Five Measures Latin America Must Take To Get Up To Snuff On Cybersecurity - But, according to the IDB, four out of five Latin American countries lack such a strategy, while around half are without a coordinated response protocol.

Transphobia in Latin America Is Preventing an Effective HIV Response : Entitled 'The Night Is Another Country: Impunity and violence against transgender women human rights defenders in Latin America ' the report indicates that transphobia in the region is leading to a terrible climate of impunity with executions, torture ...

Mexico swoons and Brazil rallies in response to US shutdown  - The US government shutdown is rippling across Latin America, seesawing ... A case in point: Tourism to some Latin American countries may actually get a boost  ...

South America needs co-ordinated response to combat scourge of ...  - With an estimated 900,000 users (out of a total population of nearly 200 million), Latin America's largest country has become the second-largest  ...

Why Does Latin America's Left Care About Syria? The potential for a U.S. military response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons against the opposition is the type of  ...

Spread as they are across the leftist spectrum, Latin American governments have failed to come up with a cohesive response to Nicaraguan President ... View article...

The calls were taken but the global response was a clear split and countries, specially from Africa, Asia and even Latin America , employed hedging ... View article...

In Latin America , the response risks igniting a tinderbox. From Mexico to Brazil, persistent high inflation is widening the gap between rich and poor ... View article...