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14 Apr 2015 4 minute read

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Eduardo Galeano – a tribute

Vanessa Baird remembers a remarkable and utterly original beacon of the Latin American Left.

6 Nov 2014 4 minute read

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Can Dutch drug policy be an example for Britain?

Charlotte Sexauer looks at how local communities in the Netherlands are leading drug policy reform.

30 Dec 2013 3 minute read

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The top 10 web articles of 2013

Lydia James compiles a list of your favourite New Internationalist blogs and features over the past...

1 Aug 2013 2 minute read

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Get your legal high in Uruguay

Is this the beginning of the end for the world’s deadly and ill-conceived ‘war on drugs’? asks Vanessa Baird...

The pain of blows

11 Mar 2013 6 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

The pain of blows

A violent mugging in Montevideo brings New Internationalist editor Vanessa Baird face to face with...

A new tool for a new generation

29 Apr 2010 2 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

A new tool for a new generation

Argentina launches ambitious plan to give all its students a laptop.

Bank strike!

10 Feb 2009 2 minute read

This article is more than 14 years old.

Bank strike!

Or how the Masters of the Universe could have taught the miners a thing or two.

2 May 2008 3 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Uruguay

It was the meddling British who used their cartographic skills to delineate the country that would become Uruguay in the early...

Sub-prime people

19 Mar 2008 3 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Sub-prime people

What turns a credit crunch into a financial crisis? One reliable sign
is when people who have always advocated...

Down the dictators

3 Oct 2007 2 minute read

This article is almost 16 years old.

Down the dictators

Meet Reed Brody. He hunts dictators for a living. Dictators need to be hunted by full-time professionals. For, as Reed...

1 Mar 2005 5 minute read

This article is more than 18 years old.

The Waters of October

The wonder - and the water - of Uruguay's first-ever Left election victory. Eduardo Galeano celebrates.

View From The South

1 Mar 2005 5 minute read

This article is more than 18 years old.

View From The South

1 Jan 2005 1 minute read

This article is more than 18 years old.

Landslide: Uruguay turns left

Uruguay's leftist landslide.

1 Apr 2004 5 minute read

This article is more than 19 years old.

Ricardo: 'The only thing I hate in the world is the police'

Selling religious cards in Uruguay by day, afraid of the dark at night. Interview by *Jenny Smith*.

Essay

5 Jun 2003 6 minute read

This article is almost 20 years old.

Essay

Mixedmedia

5 Jun 2003 7 minute read

This article is almost 20 years old.

Mixedmedia

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