Members of the Mexican peace movement march in the north of the country
Photograph: Tyler Stringfellow
As the Mexican peace movement gets on the road again and heads south to Guatemala, Monina Morris, a Colombian anthropologist, speaks about her experience of living with violence and how she sees Mexico's march for justice.
People with the Mexican peace movement march in protest against violence
Photograph: Tyler Stringfellow
This week's attack on a casino killing 52 people in Monterrey, Mexico was shocking even by Mexican standards of violence. Ceser Manjarrez, a freelance cameraman and scriptwriter writes about his recent experience in the city he grew up in.
Young FSLN supporters arrive in Managua, Nicaragua, 19 July
Photograph: Eva Carroll
Tuesday marked the 32nd anniversary of Nicaragua's FSLN Revolution. Does the Sandinista dream live on, and what is the state of the country's politics today? Eva Carroll reports from Managua
A man with his face covered takes part in a demonstration in the town of Cherán, Mexico.
Photograph: Clayton Conn
Since April this year the Mexican town of Cherán has been defending itself against illegal loggers backed by a local drug cartel. Increasingly isolated and running out of supplies townspeople opened up the town on 26 June to welcome Javier Sicilia's caravan of peace
A man looks out over a balcony from a house in Cuba where Cuban officials plan to let Cubans buy and sell their own homes for the first time in 50 years
Photograph: Ben, a Cuban in Europe.
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At the beginning of the month Cuban officials opened up discussion on housing rights in Cuba, where people are not allowed to buy or sell their own homes. While citizens have welcomed the move it has also created suspicions. Cuban blogger, Yoani Sanchez, gives her thoughts
Cuban conductor, Zenaida Romeu. Image taken from Yoani Sanchez's blog
By Yoani Sanchez, Cuba
Glancing at the TV I was caught by a phrase from Zenaida Romeu, director of the chamber group that bears her name. It's Tuesday and the energy of this woman, a guest on the program With True Affection, Two... had me sitting in front of the screen while the potatoes burned on the stove. She answered the questions skillfully, with a language far from the boring chatter that fills so many other spaces.
CORAIL-CESSELESSE, Haiti -- It was after midnight in a remote annex of this isolated tent camp on a windswept gravel plain. Marjorie Saint Hilaire's three boys were fast asleep, but her mind was racing.
Ms. Felicien read one appeal for help as other camp residents listened. "It is like we are bobbing along on the waves of the ocean, waiting to be saved," she said.
The camp leader had proposed writing letters to the nongovernment authorities, and she had so much to say. She lighted a candle and summoned a gracious sentiment with which to begin.
"To all the members of concerned organizations, I thank you first for feeling our pain," she wrote slowly in pencil on what became an eraser-smudged page. "I note that you have taken on almost all our problems and some of our greatest needs."
Coco Fariñas takes his first sip of water, Santa Clara hospital, Cuba. Photo: Yoani Sanchez
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