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Thanks to Cablegate, the Americas have been treated to a mega-civics lesson in globalized whistleblowing. A year after the diplomatic dust has settled on the WikiLeaks phenomenon in Latin America, it seems appropriate to assess what the biggest leak of US documents in history has left in its wake. In the new special issue of The Nation, guest editor Peter Kornbluh explains how Cablegate rocked the region, revealing secrets of state--and the hidden hand of the US--in Latin America.

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