Freedom of the press is essential to a democracy, even when the press opposes the leadership. Perhaps someday Hugo Chavez will realize that.
Corruption in Chile is apparently not limited to Augusto Pinochet.
Kidnapping and murders are still rampant in Haiti, only now it isn't political.
In Colombia, the continued murder of AUC members - apparently by their own - shows that their organizational culture is dominated more by omerta than by anything else. There's a phrase for that: criminal enterprise.



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