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<link>http://www.americaspolicy.org/</link>
<description>CIP Americas Program: Presenting a new world of Citizen Action, Analysis, Ideas, and Policy Options</description>
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<copyright>Copyright (C) 2009, Center for International Policy. All rights reserved.
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	<day>Saturday</day>
	<day>Sunday</day>
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<webmaster>webweaver@irc-online.org (Chellee Chase-Saiz)</webmaster>
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<title>Hungry for Justice: How the World Food System Fails the Poor</title>
<link>http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5249</link>
<pubDate> 05:06:22 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>Inequalities in the world's food system have been aggravated by recent developments to create the much talked-about food crisis. But what is behind the headlines? This new series delves into agrofuels, trade policy, corporate concentration, climate change, and rising demand to help sort out the real causes of the crisis and what needs to be done about it.</description>
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<title>Oaxaca: After the Barricades</title>
<link>http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5364</link>
<pubDate> 07:01:39 EDT</pubDate>
<author></author>
<description>This series contains texts from writers across the hemisphere on the strides made by social movements, the role of gender equity and women's rights, and the stumbling advances and the steps backwards in guaranteeing respect for human rights. It also contains a sub-series on the self-organized movement in Oaxaca, Mexico that startled the world by taking over the city in 2006 and running it for several months.</description>
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<title>Fueling the Debate: Agrofuels, Biodiversity, and Our Energy Future</title>
<link>http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4558</link>
<pubDate> 05:12:23 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>Colombia's experience with palm oil biodiesel, Brazil's new role in supplying the world with sugarcane-based ethanol, planned agrofuel production in Central America, and corn's conversion from food to fuel in the United States&amp;mdash;the agrofuels push is changing land use and economies throughout the hemisphere. Analysts of the Americas Policy Program from these countries and others shed light on the rising debate over agrofuels and its social and environmental impacts.</description>
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<title>Redibujando el mapa de Am&amp;eacute;rica Latina</title>
<link>http://ircamericas.org/esp/4626</link>
<pubDate> 06:18:20 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>Megaproyectos de infraestructura est&amp;aacute;n cambiando la geograf&amp;iacute;a social, pol&amp;iacute;tico y f&amp;iacute;sico de Am&amp;eacute;rica Latina. La Iniciativa para la Integraci&amp;oacute;n de Infraestructura Regional Sudamericana (IIRSA), el Plan Puebla Panam&amp;aacute; y otras propuestas dise&amp;ntilde;adas para promover el comercio, la integraci&amp;oacute;n energ&amp;eacute;tica y el acceso a recursos naturales tendr&amp;aacute;n impactos ambientales y sociales importantes. En esta serie, los analistas del Programa de las Am&amp;eacute;ricas monitorean los proyectos, sus impactos, su financiamiento y las respuestas ciudadanas.</description>
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<title>IRC Programs Transition to Center for International Policy</title>
<link>http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4667</link>
<pubDate> 12:00:10 EDT</pubDate>
<author></author>
<description>The good news is that the IRC's core work through the <a href="www.americaspolicy.org">Americas Policy Program</a> and the Global Good Neighbor Initiative will live on. They have become programs of the <a href="www.ciponline.org">Center for International Policy</a> (CIP) in Washington, DC.</description>
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<title>Re-mapping Latin America's Future</title>
<link>http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4625</link>
<pubDate> 06:14:13 EDT</pubDate>
<author></author>
<description>Large scale infrastructure projects are changing the social, political, and physical geography of Latin America. The South American Regional Integration and Infrastructure Project (IIRSA), Plan Puebla Panama, and other proposals designed to promote trade, energy integration, and access to natural resources  will have important environmental and social impacts. In this series, Americas Policy Program analysts monitor the projects, their impact, financing, and citizen response.</description>
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<title>Reframing the Immigration Debate: The Actors and the Issues</title>
<link>http://americas.irc-online.org/am/2959</link>
<pubDate> 04:14:48 EDT</pubDate>
<author></author>
<description>A series of articles on immigration to engender dialogue and provide food for thought on the issues.</description>
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<title>Agrocombustibles, Biodiversidad y Nuestro Futuro Energ&amp;eacute;tico</title>
<link>http://ircamericas.org/esp/4559</link>
<pubDate> 05:18:01 EDT</pubDate>
<author></author>
<description>Desde la experiencia de Colombia con la palma aceitera, el nuevo papel de Brasil en abastecer al mundo con etanol a base de ca&amp;ntilde;a de az&amp;uacute;car, planes para producci&amp;oacute;n de agrocombustibles en Am&amp;eacute;rica Central, hasta la conversi&amp;oacute;n del ma&amp;iacute;z de alimento a energ&amp;iacute;a en los Estados Unidos&amp;mdash;las iniciativas de agrocombustibles est&amp;aacute;n cambiando el uso de suelo y las econom&amp;iacute;as en todo el hemisferio. Analistas del Programa de las Am&amp;eacute;ricas de estos y otros pa&amp;iacute;ses llaman la atenci&amp;oacute;n al debate sobre los agrocombustibles y sus impactos sociales y ambientales.</description>
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<title>Hambriento por justicia: Como el sistema mundial de alimentos falla a los pobres</title>
<link>http://ircamericas.org/esp/5250</link>
<pubDate> 05:06:24 EDT</pubDate>
<author></author>
<description>Inequidades en el sistema mundial de alimentos han sido agravadas por eventos recientes que han creado el llamado crisis de alimentaci&amp;oacute;n. Pero, &amp;iquest;cual es el trasfondo de los titulares? Esta nueva serie investiga los agrocombustibles, pol&amp;iacute;ticas de comercio, cambio clim&amp;aacute;tico y aumentos en demanda para buscar las causas ver&amp;iacute;dicas y que hay que hacer para solucionarlo.</description>
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<title>Golpe en Honduras se torna violento, se imponen sanciones</title>
<link>http://ircamericas.org/esp/6226</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:52:42 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Laura Carlsen</author>
<description>Si los l&amp;iacute;deres del golpe desesperadamente decidieron deponer por la fuerza al presidente electo, en este momento se encuentran m&amp;aacute;s desesperados a&amp;uacute;n. El golpe se ha tornado m&amp;aacute;s violento luego de ser despojado de su pretensi&amp;oacute;n de legalidad por el repudio universal y ante el levantamiento popular.</description>
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