Daniel Wilkinson is Deputy Director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch. (June 2011)
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Death and Drugs in Colombia
June 23, 2011
Y refundaron la patria…: De cómo mafiosos y políticos reconfiguraron el Estado colombiano [And They Refounded the Nation…: How Mafiosi and Politicians Reconfigured the Colombian State] edited by Claudia López Hernández
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The New Challenge to Repressive Cuba
August 19, 2010
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Cuba—A Way Forward
May 27, 2010
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Hugo Chávez Versus Human Rights
November 6, 2008
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A Deceptive Amnesty in Cuba
July 9, 2010
The Cuban government has announced it will release fifty-two political prisoners who have been locked up since 2003. The announcement is certainly good news for the prisoners and their families, who have been through a very difficult seven-year ordeal. But we’ve seen such negotiated releases before.
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Can the Internet Bring Change to Cuba?
July 6, 2010
For decades, the Castro government has been very effective in repressing dissent in Cuba by, among other things, preventing its critics from publishing or broadcasting their views on the island. Yet in recent years the blogosphere has created an outlet for a new kind of political criticism that is harder to control. Can it make a difference?