The US Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean “says there is no factual basis on which to suggest that criminal deportees from the United States are contributing to the escalating crime situation in the Caribbean”. Francis Wade isn't convinced.
Rima Abdelkader reports from New York about ‘conflict cell phones' in the Democratic Republic of Congo on her CUNY University journalism blog.
Danny Ayala Hinojosa of El Federalista [es] has photos of a recent protest against Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.
In light of the recent arrest of a Peruvian gang accused of killing their victims to sell their body fat and whose actions closely resemble that of the mythical character the “Pishtaco,” J. Francisco Canaza of Apuntes Peruanos [es] writes that many people in the Andes region still believe in a modernized version of the legend.
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I AM GLAD THAT THERE IS SUPPORT GROUP TO HEKP DEPORTEES IN THE CARBIAN, IS THERE ANYTHING LIKE IT FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME HERE IN PERU, AFTER 25 YEARS I WAS SEND BACK (BEING A PERMANENET RESIDENT ALIEN)JUST LIKE THAT AND LEFT TO MY OWN DIVISES, IN A COUNTRY UNKNOWN TO ME, STILL I LOVE AMERICA, BUT IS TOO HARD TO SURVIVE HERE IN LIMA ON MY OWN, PLEASE CAN SOMEBODY HELP.
HUMBERTO CORDOVA