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Two Lessons in Journalism from Honduras
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 1 month ago
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First the background. I helped judge the Robert Spiers Benjamin Award for reporting from Latin America. Several entries stood out, including those by reporting teams that covered the region's drug wars, immigration strife and (sometimes) stirring
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Honduras uncovers plot to kill lawmaker, reporter
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 1 month ago
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Honduras (AP) The leader of Honduras' congress says police have uncovered a plot by drug gangs to assassinate a lawmaker, a police chief and a television reporter in the next few months. Congress President Juan Hernandez says the government is
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Top Honduran anti-money laundering official shot dead
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 2 months ago
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Breaking News Top Honduran anti-money laundering official shot dead A leading anti-money laundering official was shot dead late on Thursday in Honduras, which is struggling to cope with violent Mexican drug cartels. Orlen Chavez, head of the anti-
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From El Salvador to Iraq, the U.S. torture trail
Baghdad :: Iraq | 2 months ago
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AP The investigation was sparked by the release of classified U.S. military logs on WikiLeaks...Petraeus to Iraqi torture centres set up by a Special Forces veteran who was also involved in the 1980s dirty wars' in Central America The Pentagon sent a
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Kidnapped Mexican girl found in El Salvador
Sonsonate :: El Salvador | 2 months ago
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Valeria Hernandez de Jesus was lured away from her mother, a vendor in Texcoco's Plaza Bicentenario, by a man, media reports said. The little girl was found wandering the streets of the Salvadoran city of Sonsonate by police. Mexican officials
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Mexico: Vanished 4-year-old found in El Salvador
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 months ago
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Mexican authorities say a 4-year-old girl who vanished from her home near Mexico City on April 1 has been found alive and well in El Salvador. Mexico's Foreign Relations Department says Valeria Hernandez de Jesus was discovered wandering on a street
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Forest fire smoke shuts down airport in Honduras
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 2 months ago
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Honduras The main airport for Honduras' capital has been closed for several hours because smoke from forest fires reduced visibility. Civil aviation agency spokesman Ezequiel Oliva says visibility fell to about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) during the
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Chiquita, Harris Teeter partner with Carolinas HealthCare to send used medical equipment to Central America
Quetzaltenango :: Guatemala | 2 months ago
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Thursday, Apr. 11, 2013 Chiquita Brands and Harris Teeter have announced a partnership with Carolinas HealthCare Systems International Medical Outreach program to support the donation of used medical equipment and computers to Central America.
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NAFTA Corn Fuels Immigration
Oaxaca :: Mexico | 2 months ago
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I was sitting outside the faded colonial church in Teotitlan del Valle, a village in the beautiful, proudly indigenous state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. I surveyed the scene, trying to decipher the source of my uneasiness. In the town square facing
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Costa Rica to install Internet access in public schools
San José :: Costa Rica | 2 months ago
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At present 4,800 public schools have access to the Internet and this year will reach 100 percent with the installation of the service in the 151 that still do not have it, the state-owned telephone and electric company ICE said in a communique. The
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