Democracy Now! April 16, 2012

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US policy on Cuba, the drug war, and economy all come under fire at Colombian summit. President Obama refuses to back growing call for drug legalization to stem spreading violence in Latin America. And housework as work: Selma James on unwaged labor and the decades-long struggle to pay housewives. Plus headlines and more.

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6th Summit of the Americas

The sixth Summit of the Americas was held at Cartagena, Colombia, on 14 and 15 April 2012. The central theme of the summit was "Connecting the Americas: Partners for Prosperity." The main issues at the summit's agenda was the exclusion of Cuba, the legalisation of drugs to fig... Explore this topic

Drug liberalization

Drug liberalization is the process of eliminating or reducing drug prohibition laws. Variations of drug liberalization include drug relegalization, drug legalization, and drug decriminalization. The reasons given for this include the failure of current policies, the revenue to... Explore this topic

Cartagena

Cartagena or Cartagena de Indias, is a large port and industrial city on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region and capital of the Bolívar Department. The city had a population of 892,545 as of the 2005 census. It is the fifth-largest city in Colombia. Th... Explore this topic

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. It is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to t... Explore this topic

US-Latin America relations

During the Cold War era, the United States feared the spread of communism and, in some cases, overthrew democratically elected governments perceived at the time as becoming left-wing or unfriendly to U.S. interests. Examples include the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the 1964 Br... Explore this topic

Latin America

拉丁美洲简称拉美，通常指称美洲大片以罗曼语族语言作为官方语言或者主要语言的地区。因为罗曼语族衍生于拉丁语，拉丁美洲由而得名。关于拉丁美洲究竟由哪些国家组成存在着不同的意见。从社会政治角度说，拉丁美洲主要包括美洲西班牙语和葡萄牙语盛行的地区：墨西哥、大部分的中美洲、南美洲以及加勒比海地区。这时它是伊比利亚美洲的同义词。尽管拉丁美洲的概念是由法国皇帝拿破仑三世提出的，其它罗曼语族的语言占主导的地区，例如较多说法语的加拿大魁北克通常不被包括在拉丁美洲范畴内。现在有时，特别是在美国，拉丁美洲的这个词被用来指所有美国以南的美洲，包括像伯利兹、圭亚那、牙买... Explore this topic

Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade is a global black market, dedicated to cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and sale of drugs, which are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs by drug prohibition laws. A UN... Explore this topic

Felipe Calderón

Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa is a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012. He is a member of the Partido Acción Nacional, one of the three major Mexican political parties. Prior to the presidency, Calderón received two... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The lower forty-eight contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada... Explore this topic

War on Drugs

"War on Drugs" is a term commonly applied to a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention undertaken by the United States government, with the assistance of participating countries, and the stated aim to define and reduce the illegal drug trade.... Explore this topic

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