* Colombia: Days after Colombia’s Constitutional Court rejected holding a presidential referendum the tribunal will examine the validity of a controversial military pact with the U.S.* Latin America: According to a recent Inter-American Development Bank report remittances to Latin America may be “stabilizing” after plummeting by 15% last year.
* Mexico: Seven out of every ten Mexican women above the age of fifteen have been abused and roughly one in eight has been the victim of sexual harassment according to the country’s main human rights commission.
* Bolivia: President Evo Morales blasted U.S. counternarcotics efforts and called them a “tool for realizing its hegemonic goals or expressing the discredit of the governments, including Bolivia.”
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Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, AFP, LAHT, Reuters, People’s Daily Online
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