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The housing crisis, too, is a political sore point. Last week Treasury announced the initial results of its program to rewrite troubled residential loans. So far, of the more than 3 million past due loans at banks participating in the government's $75 billion loan-modification program, just slightly more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama vs. the Banks: The Pressure Intensifies | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

Since 2007, the Pentagon's Human Terrain System (HTS) has been placing social scientists in every Army combat brigade, regiment and Marine Corps regimental combat team. There are now more than 500 people employed by HTS, a number that is increasing rapidly. On the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Anthropologists Go to War? | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

Government efforts to control Mapuche protests have backfired. Recent raids by special forces of the carabineros, the national police, have scored arrests of Mapuche leaders but also provoked charges of brutality after the shooting of children, journalists and other bystanders. Three Mapuches youths have been killed, and Caifal claims two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prosperous Chile's Troubling Indigenous Uprising | 12/12/2009 | See Source »

Bachelet, a member of Chile's Socialist Party, and her center-left coalition, the Concertación, have been criticized for being soft on criminals. Many political analysts suggest that with presidential elections set for Dec. 13 - and with the Concertación well behind the conservatives in voter polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prosperous Chile's Troubling Indigenous Uprising | 12/12/2009 | See Source »

The government has installed security cameras on major highways, where more and more smoldering frames of forestry trucks are being found after Mapuche hijackings. Tourists have also been warned during this southern hemisphere summer, when the forestry attacks have been escalating, not to use major roads at night. At the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prosperous Chile's Troubling Indigenous Uprising | 12/12/2009 | See Source »

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