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Article: Walls.(View from Montevideo)
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- New Internationalist
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- November 1, 2006
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The Berlin Wall made the news every day. From dawn to dusk we read about it, heard about it, and saw It: The Wall of Shame, the Wall of Infamy, the Iron Curtain.
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Eventually, this wall, which deserved to fall, fell. But other walls have sprung up, and continue to spring up, and though they are far larger than the Berlin Wall little or nothing is said about them.
Little is said about the wall the United States is erecting along its border with Mexico, or the double razor-wire fences around Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish enclaves on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco. Next to nothing was said about the West Bank Wall, which ...