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As the Central American caravan made its way through Mexico and we learned more about their conditions and efforts by Mexicans on both sides of the border, we continued to ask ourselves, “What would Sócrates do?”
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What do the CIA and Gandhi have in common? Both were advocates of what historian Daniel Immerwahr calls “community development.”