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Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado, President of the Republic of Ecuador Censorship fears with Ecuador's new law to regulate media He was a media darling before his inauguration in 2007, but President Rafael Correa’s adversarial relationship with the press has counted among the defining...
Argentine currency Argentina's currency controls bring desperation, bargains The Brazilian visitors gawk in wonder as they stroll past shop windows along touristy Florida street in the Argentine capital. The jackets, the shoes — they're all so...
Registering for DACA US immigrant youth experience a delayed coming of age Nearly 300,000 young adults previously living illegally in the United States have been granted permission to stay and work through the program, one of the most...
San Pedro Garza García is a city-municipality of the Mexican state of Nuevo León and is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. A public-private effort to reduce violence in Mexico On one side of a low hill in the middle of Monterrey, Mexico’s biggest industrial city, lies Independencia, a district so run down that donkeys still carry heavy goods...
Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada Nicaragua canal project generates deep skepticism In a matter of weeks, a little-known Chinese tycoon has hired some of the world's top experts in mammoth infrastructure projects and pushed through Nicaragua's congress...
Honduran police repressing political demonstration, 2009 Efforts to cleanup police force in Honduras at impasse In the midst of a scandal over the police shooting of a university president's son, the government of Honduras launched an unprecedented effort last year to clean up a U...

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