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Amidst violence, Guatemala heads for Sept. elections
July 22, 2011Guatemala is the second most violent country in the Western Hemisphere (after Colombia) and the election campaign is shaping up to be violent also. Iit is not clear to what degree poor and working class Guatemalans,...
Read moreWomen’s World Cup: bright spot for Japan, women’s sports
July 21, 2011After a deadly earthquake, devastating tsunami and nuclear power plant disaster, the Japanese people got some good news July 17, when their women's soccer team won the 2011 FIFA World Cup Final.
Read moreChileans demand free education
July 21, 2011The Chilean education system has been caught in the eye of a storm driven by hundreds of thousands of students and teachers who are demanding democratic education reforms.
Read morePlanned gas pipeline in Puerto Rico brings criticism
July 21, 2011The project would cut diagonally through sensitive mountain forest regions, the largest on the island, home to much of Puerto Rico's biodiversity.
Read moreMurdoch hacking scandal crossing the Atlantic
July 20, 2011Sen. John Rockefeller called for a congressional investigation of charges that Rupert Murdoch's journalists attempted to buy 9/11 victims' phone records.
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