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		<title>LESSONS FROM THE EAST</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American policymakers bicker over every issue, attempting to score political points instead of passing the reforms our country desperately needs, and so economic and social progress is stuck at a crawl. On the other side of the world, however, China and India are flourishing. When I visited the two nations in March and April, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SYRIA: THE WAR OBAMA DOES NOT WANT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is no pacifist. We have known that since he won the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2009: In his acceptance speech, he said that conflict is appropriate sometimes. &#8220;We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;There will be times when nations will find the use of force not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWO LEADERS WHO CANNOT LEAD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Maduro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have something in common: Millions of people in both their countries think that these men won their recent elections by cheating, and so their legitimacy as leaders is in question. Both Pena Nieto and Maduro are now also focused on asserting their authority, rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DO YOU HEAR US NOW?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latinos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the United States, a foreign accent can sometimes signal to others where a person is from, and it can even communicate how long that person has been in this country. If a person&#8217;s first language is Spanish, as it is for me, it is likely that he will speak English with an accent.And in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHEN NOBODY IS SAFE</title>
		<link>http://jorgeramos.com/en/when-nobody-is-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorg6688</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weapon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Psychologists suggest that when large-scale tragedies occur, parents should assure their children that they are safe. As parents, we must stress that we are here to protect them and convince our children that what has just happened to other people will not happen to them. But what if that is not true? I am sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOANI SANCHEZ WILL NOT BE SILENCED</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Does your son ride a bike?&#8221; the officer asked. &#8220;He should be careful.&#8221; This exchange happened the last time Yoani Sanchez, the well-known Cuban journalist and blogger, was arrested. She had been detained and harassed by the Cuban national police after criticizing the authoritarian regime in her writing, but this threat against her 17-year-old son, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHAVISM WITHOUT CHAVEZ</title>
		<link>http://jorgeramos.com/en/chavism-without-chavez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorg6688</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can Chavism endure without Hugo Chavez? World history includes many examples of ideological legacies that quickly fizzled after a charismatic leader&#8217;s death, but &#8220;Chavistas&#8221; in Venezuela have been doing everything that they can to preserve the late president&#8217;s strong-armed approach to government since he died from cancer last month. In fact, his supporters in government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LET THEM TIE THE KNOT</title>
		<link>http://jorgeramos.com/en/let-them-tie-the-knot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorg6688</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jorgeramos.com/en/?p=722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this (presumed) land of equality, millions of citizens are discriminated against every day. While more than 8 million men and women in the United States identify as gay or bisexual, according to data from UCLA&#8217;s Williams Institute, they don&#8217;t have the same rights as the other 300 million Americans because the federal government does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ETERNAL HUGO CHAVEZ</title>
		<link>http://jorgeramos.com/en/the-eternal-hugo-chavez/</link>
		<comments>http://jorgeramos.com/en/the-eternal-hugo-chavez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorg6688</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jorgeramos.com/en/?p=718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When officials in Venezuela announced plans to embalm the body of the late President Hugo Chavez, I was in India watching a cremation ceremony along the Ganges River. The contrasts were apparent: As the people gathered beside the water quietly bid farewell to a loved one, Venezuelans were refusing to let go. After Chavez&#8217;s death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JEB BUSH&#8217;S IMMIGRATION DILEMMA</title>
		<link>http://jorgeramos.com/en/711/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorg6688</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeb Bush]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeb Bush, the author of the new book &#8220;Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution,&#8221; probably never imagined that he&#8217;d find himself caught in the middle of the battle. These days Bush is one of the most influential Republicans in the country. A former governor of Florida and the brother and son of American presidents, he [...]]]></description>
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