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Diplomacy & International Relations Economics Latin America Uncategorized

The U.S. Needs to Restructure Its Foreign Aid Strategy in the Northern Triangle

The U.S. needs to alter its association of vast amounts of money to commitment and success. Poverty eradication and robust economic partnerships with Latin America will not be achieved through money alone. 

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Diplomacy & International Relations Human Rights Latin America Policy Politics & Government Social Issues Uncategorized

Chilean Year de la Gente

Known as the most violent dictator in South American history, Pinochet’s military orders were responsible for the deaths of more than three thousand Chileans (many of whom were college students), the disappearance of eleven hundred people, and sending over two hundred thousand Chileans into exile (2% of the Chilean population at the time).

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Asia Genocide Uncategorized

The Story of Hope, Youth, and Genocide in East Timor

This article was originally published on our friend, the Generation. “…We had no sense that they were in imminent danger. After all, we reasoned, what place could be safer than a bishop’s house in a predominantly Catholic country?”1 These were the thoughts of UCLA’s own Geoffrey Robinson on September 5, 1999 when he served for the […]