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    The First Sip of Water
    An iPhone crashes through Cuba's Internet Wall of Shame
    "The chief is delirious, it's a worry, but you pal, you, fight for your food."
    Inside a political tornado with hurricane force winds
    Coco cannot die... there is no room for one more death.
    Farinas: "There are moments in history when there have to be martyrs"
    Health of Cuban hunger-strike blogger falters
    Castro's wolfpack is barking at the moon
    The prisoner's dilemma
    Ballad of a Prison Blogger
    Castro's goons take aim at Blogger Academy
    Cuba's flinty-eyed blogger extraordinaire
    Brazil
    Narco-literature genre emerges from Latin America's culture of drug-fueled violence
    Lula mocks Cuban hunger strikers, rejects Iran sanctions
    Readers in the Americas demand justice for murdered journalists.
    camps
    Boys played soccer on the newly flattened fields. American soldiers lounged in their humvees...
    Canada
    Canadian agents 'connived at torture'
    Chile
    Terrifying aftershock rattles inauguration of Chile's president elect
    Who wrote that Chile has an earth tremor on the average of once every two days and a devastating earthquake every presidential term?
    Looting the biggest aftershock for Chile
    Death toll at 700 in Chile and 2 million displaced
    Chile devastated, but Pacific islands dodge tsunami
    Colombia
    Narco-literature genre emerges from Latin America's culture of drug-fueled violence
    Readers in the Americas demand justice for murdered journalists.
    Cuba
    The First Sip of Water
    Cuba joins China, Iran and Burma as the Great Jailer of writers ...
    After 51 Years The Revolution Can't Even Provide Running Water
    An iPhone crashes through Cuba's Internet Wall of Shame
    Havana Has The Air of a Brothel...
    "The Murmurs Overlap... Everyone Spies on Everyone."
    Investors flee as Castro's promises turn to dust
    Thinking of a cut-price Cuban holiday? Try packing some 'dissident attire'
    Garton Ash memoir 'The File' inspires Cuban dissidents
    How Germany's DHL aids Cuban repression
    Castro's thugs attack the 'Ladies in White,' while Europe sits on its hands
    "The chief is delirious, it's a worry, but you pal, you, fight for your food."
    Inside a political tornado with hurricane force winds
    Coco cannot die... there is no room for one more death.
    Journalist group names Cuba an 'Internet enemy'
    Yoani Sanchez asks public to pressure Fariñas to abandon hunger strike
    Fariñas in 'grave' condition -- report (UPDATED)
    Cuba makes it to the hall of shame
    "Fellow citizens go to the bodega like automatons, meekly vegetate at work and cast hopeless ballots at the polls"
    Prominent jailed dissident lashes out at "murderous" Castro brothers
    disaster
    Mapping a Way From Disaster in Haiti
    dissidents
    The First Sip of Water
    Cuba joins China, Iran and Burma as the Great Jailer of writers ...
    After 51 Years The Revolution Can't Even Provide Running Water
    An iPhone crashes through Cuba's Internet Wall of Shame
    Havana Has The Air of a Brothel...
    Thinking of a cut-price Cuban holiday? Try packing some 'dissident attire'
    Garton Ash memoir 'The File' inspires Cuban dissidents
    Dominican Republic
    Binational Projects for Haiti and the Dominican Republic
    drugs
    Blog del Narco blazes a trail, showing what others can't or won't
    'El Chapo' stays free in Mexico, with bribes all the way to the top
    earthquake
    Terrifying aftershock rattles inauguration of Chile's president elect
    Who wrote that Chile has an earth tremor on the average of once every two days and a devastating earthquake every presidential term?
    Looting the biggest aftershock for Chile
    Guantanamo
    Battlefield with borders in a war without end
    Gulf Coast Oil Disaster
    Gulf braces for long term ecological disaster
    How Oil Industry Cash Kept Regulators at Bay
    The Gulf is Bleeding: Institute for Southern Studies
    BP ducks being tarred with Gulf of Mexico oil disaster tag
    Gulf of Mexico
    Gulf braces for long term ecological disaster
    How Oil Industry Cash Kept Regulators at Bay
    Unending disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
    Haiti
    Surfari Haiti
    Where the streets have no names and 1.5m are forgotten
    New Book: Haïti, une traversée littéraire
    Binational Projects for Haiti and the Dominican Republic
    Preval gets busy at ground zero
    Haiti's Town Hall Meeting - Live on TV
    Mapping a Way From Disaster in Haiti
    'Island Beneath the Sea' by Isabel Allende. Haiti's slave rebellion the backdrop for a vivid historical novel.
    Haiti's Uncertain Ground
    Boys played soccer on the newly flattened fields. American soldiers lounged in their humvees...
    Haiti faces rape epidemic in dangerous tent cities
    Homegrown plan to decentralize Haiti
    Journalists fleeing Haiti in aftermath of quake
    Port-au-Prince: The Moment
    Bill Clinton, in Haiti, Emphasizes Urgent Need for Sanitation and Health Care
    How 'Civic Hacking' Answered Haiti Disaster
    Rivalry of relief and media groups hampers aid flows
    The citizen scoop on Haiti
    'Angela's Ashes' author warned world of dire poverty in Haiti - but no one listened
    Op-Art: Scenes From a Catastrophe
    Honduras
    Honduras emerges as world's most dangerous places to be a reporter
    Who is persecuting the Garifuna people?
    Readers in the Americas demand justice for murdered journalists.
    hunger strike
    The First Sip of Water
    Coco cannot die... there is no room for one more death.
    Prominent jailed dissident lashes out at "murderous" Castro brothers
    Farinas: "There are moments in history when there have to be martyrs"
    intelligence
    Wikileaks exposes truth behind Afghan war
    How US spooks plotted to blow up Wikileaks
    Literature
    New Book: Haïti, une traversée littéraire
    media
    On the streets of Port au Prince...Chimin Lakay
    Where the streets have no names and 1.5m are forgotten
    Wikileaks exposes truth behind Afghan war
    Journalists fleeing Haiti in aftermath of quake
    Mexico
    Blog del Narco blazes a trail, showing what others can't or won't
    'El Chapo' stays free in Mexico, with bribes all the way to the top
    Narco-literature genre emerges from Latin America's culture of drug-fueled violence
    Social media in Mexico's grisly drug war
    Mexico's president blames gangs, not cops for attacks on media
    Did murdered Mexican media owner extort money?
    Readers in the Americas demand justice for murdered journalists.
    military
    Security Firms Hit 'Pay Dirt' in Haiti
    Pax Americana lite
    Praise the Lord and pass the ammo...US rifles in Iraq and Afghanistan have Bible verses inscribed
    militias
    America's Uncivil War in the Age of Obama
    NGOs
    Haiti's Uncertain Ground
    Peru
    Peruvian photojournalist captures judge pointing gun at him
    Machu Picchu visitors airlifted to safety
    prisons
    Bail rules keep US jails stuffed with inmates as bondsmen make out like bandits
    propaganda
    Unpopular Front - US revives Cold War tactics to turn tide of opinion in Pakistan
    Puerto Rico
    New bid to erect Columbus statue in Puerto Rico
    rape
    Haiti faces rape epidemic in dangerous tent cities
    rebuild
    Preval gets busy at ground zero
    Haiti's Town Hall Meeting - Live on TV
    Homegrown plan to decentralize Haiti
    slave rebellion
    'Island Beneath the Sea' by Isabel Allende. Haiti's slave rebellion the backdrop for a vivid historical novel.
    surf
    Surfari Haiti
    USA
    New bid to erect Columbus statue in Puerto Rico
    Wikileaks exposes truth behind Afghan war
    America's Uncivil War in the Age of Obama
    Gulf braces for long term ecological disaster
    How Oil Industry Cash Kept Regulators at Bay
    The Gulf is Bleeding: Institute for Southern Studies
    Angry Brigade musters outside Washington DC
    How US spooks plotted to blow up Wikileaks
    Unpopular Front - US revives Cold War tactics to turn tide of opinion in Pakistan
    Beyond 'pale, stale and male'
    What does Shaker Aamer know about Gitmo torture? (and why won't the US let him back to Britain)
    Jimmy Kimmel's Decade in Unnecessary Censorship

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