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Mexican students protest 'biased' election coverage
World NowThousands of mostly university students poured into the streets of Mexico City for the second time in a week to protest the way presidential elections are being run and, more specifically, covered in the Mexican media.... -
Review: "The Little Red Guard" by Wenguang Huang
"At the age of 10, I slept next to a coffin that Father had made for Grandma." So begins "The Little Red Guard," a gripping, lyrical memoir by Wenguang Huang, a Chicago-based journalist and writer. As the keeper of his grandmother's "shou mu," or...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, William Faulkner, China, Philosophy, Religion and Belief
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The U.S. and the Chinese dissident
The good news from Beijing is that the government is willing to let dissident Chen Guangcheng apply to go abroad for education and medical treatment. Whether hell ultimately get to leave is anyone's guess right now. It's a compromise that would satisfy...Tags: U.S. Department of State, China, Justice and Rights, Human Rights, Politics
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The week in Latin America: Meet Cuba's Scrabble man
La PlazaStories that made headlines this week in Latin America, and highlights from our coverage of the region by Times reporters and your blogger here at La Plaza.... -
Veracruz panic started before 'terrorist' tweets, reports say
La PlazaCracks are appearing in the case against the Twitter users in Mexico accused of terrorism for spreading rumors of an attack. Local reports and claims suggest that the "panic" that spread over rumors of child abductions at school campuses started at... -
'Mexico has a clear project,' presidential front-runner says
La PlazaThe front-runner in Mexico's 2012 presidential election delivered his sixth and final state-of-the-state address in the city of Toluca this week, in an opulent political event that effectively sought to cement Gov. Enrique Peņa Nieto as the heir... -
China's 'soft landing,' as predicted by the World Bank
After a superheated rise, China’s economy is starting to slow. Luckily, according to the World Bank, the Asian superpower is headed for a “soft landing” instead of a crash that could overwhelm the multitude of countries with which...
Tags: Economic Organization, China, Politics, World Bank Group, International Organizations
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Fang Lizhi dies at 76; Chinese dissident
Fang Lizhi, one of China'sbest-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China's 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. He was 76. His wife, Li...Tags: Political Systems, Teaching and Learning, University of Arizona, Science, Politics
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Forty-nine Headless Corpses Found In Northern Mexico
ReutersCADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey in one of the country's worst atrocities in recent years. The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose...Tags: Massacres, Corporate Crime, Politics, Murder, Mexico
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Blind Chinese Activist Chen Arrives In New York
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the...Tags: G8, United Air Lines, Manhattan (New York City), Camp David, U.S. Department of State
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Human rights must be at the center of U.S.-China policy
President Barack Obama's China policy combines deterrence and engagement, but it gives insufficient attention to human rights. Since early 2009, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noted that human rights "can't interfere" with other aspects of Sino-...Tags: Republican Party, Hu Jintao, Politics, Beijing (China), Xi Jinping
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Allen West, House Republicans' nutcase
Conservatives are to be commended when they repudiate members of their movement found to be racist, extremist or otherwise crazy. National Review has severed ties with John Derbyshire and Rob Weissberg for public displays of antipathy to black people, a...
Tags: Republican Party, William F. Buckley, Nancy Pelosi, Allen West, Democratic Party
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