Until this summer, very little attention was paid to the 714-mile border that Mexico shares with Guatemala and Belize. But an unprecedented increase in Central American migrant children crossing the US border, primarily in south Texas, changed that. Amid growing concern about the plight of these children and the capacity of US institutions to care 
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New Developments along Mexico’s Southern Border
By: Maureen Meyer et al | Friday, October 3rd, 2014Kazakhstan: Conflict in the Making? – Part Two
By: David Law | Thursday, October 2nd, 2014In the first part of this blog post on Kazakhstan, I argued that the country had every chance to rise to the challenge set by its president, namely for the country to become one of the world’s top 30 most developed by 2050 – and this in an atmosphere of ethnic tolerance and cooperation, such as largely
Kazakhstan: Wildflower Rising from the Steppes! – Part One
By: David Law | Wednesday, October 1st, 2014On the surface, all seems well in this ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse country of some 18 million, occupying a space roughly the size of Western Europe.
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