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    May 22, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. In Honduras, U.S. should tread lightly

    As the war on drugs has spread from Mexico to Central America, so has the U.S. role in Honduras. Pentagon contracts are helping to fund new military bases in remote regions of that country, and U.S. troops and special Drug Enforcement Administration agents have been deployed to train local security forces and assist in counter-narcotics operations.
    As the war on drugs has spread from Mexico to Central America, so has the U.S. role in Honduras. Pentagon contracts are helping to fund new military bases in remote regions of that country, and U.S. troops and special Drug Enforcement Administration...

    Tags: Lobbying, Politics, The Pentagon, Wars and Interventions, Human Rights

    2. Jan 20, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Pico-Union intersection to be named for Salvadoran archbishop

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    Central Americans who have pushed for years to call the Pico-Union area “Historic Central America Town” have yet to earn the title, but they will soon gain recognition along one intersection of the neighborhood....
    3. Feb 3, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Website helps immigrants compare fees to send money home

    World Now
    Remittances, Central America, Dominican Republic, World Bank: Immigrants from Central America and the Dominican Republic can go online to compare the cost of sending money from the United States to relatives back home....
    4. Feb 13, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Guatemalan leader says he'd consider decriminalizing drugs

    World Now
    Guatemalan President Otto Perez said he'd consider drug legalization as an answer to his country's violence....
    5. Oct 16, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. MS-13 gangs linked with L.A., Salvador in National Geographic documentary

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    The new documentary "Gang Warfare USA" shows how U.S. deportation policies may be helping the violent MS-13 gang to flourish both in El Salvador and the U.S....
    6. Nov 6, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Elections in Nicaragua, Guatemala underscore threats to democracy

    World Now
    Elections in Guatemala and Nicaragua: Voters on Sunday were choosing presidents in Guatemala and Nicaragua, two Central American countries where democracy has been dramatically weakened by violence and political abuse....
    7. Aug 13, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  7. WEST BANK: Palestinians determined to get more recognition

    Babylon & Beyond
    The Palestinian Authority is doubling its efforts to get as many countries to recognize it before September, when it plans to officially ask the United Nations for recognition and membership. Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said on...
    8. Jun 19, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Virginia Fields dies at 58; scholar of early Mesoamerican art, archaeology at LACMA

    Virginia M. Fields, a leading scholar of early Mesoamerican art and archaeology who joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's curatorial staff in 1989 and devoted 22 years to making the museum a vital center of Latin American culture &#8212; partly by organizing major exhibitions such as last year's <a href=&quot;http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/olmec-colossal-masterworks-ancient-mexico">"Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico"</a> &#8212; has died. She was 58.
    Virginia M. Fields, a leading scholar of early Mesoamerican art and archaeology who joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's curatorial staff in 1989 and devoted 22 years to making the museum a vital center of Latin American culture — partly by...

    Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Manchester, Diabetes, University of California, University of California, Los Angeles

    9. Mar 13, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Book review: 'Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War'

    Revolution
    Los Angeles Times
    Revolution The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War Deb Olin Unferth Henry Holt: 212 pp., $24 In the 1980s, Central America was astir with civil unrest, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua. While nation-states and their proxies intervened...

    Tags: El Salvador, Book, Human Interest, Nicaragua, Christianity

    10. Nov 18, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Art review: The Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

    Culture Monster
    BOSTON -- In 1994, a museum wave began to surge in Dallas. This weekend it breaks on a Massachusetts shore. Saturday the Museum of Fine Arts Boston opens an impressive, $345-million new wing to display the Art of the Americas.......
    11. Mar 11, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Small waves from tsunami likely to hit California on Friday morning; beaches might be cleared

    L.A. NOW
    Southern Californians could see small waves Friday morning resulting from the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan....
    12. Mar 11, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Tsunami warning extended to much of Pacific region, but not to U.S. West Coast

    L.A. NOW
    Officials widened an alert for possible tsunamis resulting from the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Japan, covering large swaths of the Pacific Ocean but not California and the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada. [Update 2 a.m. Friday: Authorities have......
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