As a correspondent based in Mexico, I have seen the arguments over drug policy intensify here and in Central America over the past year, but the most ambitious plan now comes from farther south.
A court issued jail sentences of 4 to 12 years on Monday to three bloggers who wrote about human rights abuses, corruption and foreign policy, intensifying a crackdown on citizens' use of the Internet to criticize the government.
But as calls for a relaxation of the policy intensify, and official hints of looser restrictions increase, so do concerns that the one-child culture is now so ingrained among Chinese that the authorities may not be able to encourage more births even if they try.
Below the picture, the president scribbled, "Chuck, is it a rose between two thorns?" But at the dawn of the 2008 presidential campaign, as a debate over the administration's Iraq policy intensifies on Capitol Hill, Mr. Hagel is standing alone.
While these policies intensified fears in neighboring countries over Bolivia's ability and willingness to export its gas at certain prices, they hold wide appeal among Bolivia's voters, reflected in the election victory here last month of Mr. Morales, the country's first indigenous president.
Although the team was created one year ago, its existence is only now becoming known outside of Mr. Rumsfeld's inner circle as the debate over the administration's Iraq policy intensifies.
But worries about fiscal policy have intensified, and Europe remains on a low boil.
Mr. Edwards's campaign is focusing on the third: the ways that government policy has intensified the trends.
In the current divided Congress Republicans took control of the House in January 2011 while the Democrats retained the Senate the bickering over federal science policy has intensified.
