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    <description><![CDATA[A nation of extremes.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Laos]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[As the forces of corporate globalization press on its borders, change is inevitable.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-12-01T04:11:00-0800</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Experimenting with capitalism in Cuba]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-11-01T09:32:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Over two decades of conflict have bred a climate of impunity where human rights violations – killings and unexplained ‘disappearances’ of people – have become all too common.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-10-01T03:01:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Costa Rica stands apart from its Central American neighbours, not least because it has no army.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-09-01T08:30:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[A small landlocked state in central Africa, sandwiched between its vast neighbours Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi has suffered as much from ethnic conflict as its other (equally tiny) neighbour, Rwanda. Yet while the 1993 Rwandan genocide continues to commandeer international attention, Burundi’s travails tend to slip under the radar.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-07-01T00:53:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Antigua and Barbuda]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When new Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer moved into Antigua’s government offices in 2004, his predecessors had bequeathed him a scene of desolation. Wilmoth Daniel, his deputy, explained that they found ‘the drawers open – all the files were removed like a thief in the night ... What a shame of those individuals in authority to [remove] all those files, the soul and heart of the country.’]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-06-01T07:45:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Although Tajikistan is the heir to an ancient Persian and Turkic cultural legacy, the modern state dates back to 1929 and Stalin’s creation of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-03-01T07:05:00-0800</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Columbus, on his fourth and final voyage, landed on the American mainland for the first time near present-day Trujillo, Honduras. The day was 14 August 1502, and he named the place Honduras (‘depths’ in Spanish) for the deep waters off the north coast.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-01-01T04:26:00-0800</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mozambique]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Those with money adapt well to the new Mozambique, which over 16 years ago dropped a Marxist/Leninist regime in favour of a free-market economy.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[In October 2006, Thailand expanded its list of tourist attractions with one of the world’s most laid-back military coups. Tourists and local residents alike posed for photos alongside the tanks and cheerful soldiers.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2006-11-01T19:20:00-0800</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Tourism of the more adventurous kind is increasingly common in Uganda – tracking mountain gorillas, or rafting on the Nile, but to many outsiders Uganda’s claim to fame is still little more than Idi Amin, the jovial but brutal dictator.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2006-10-01T22:24:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[If people in the rich world associate Benin with anything at all, it is likely to be child trafficking, slavery or voodoo – not exactly the ideal calling cards for a nation. Latterly, however, Benin is developing an entirely new reputation.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Belize is a renowned eco-tourist destination for ‘reef and rainforest’ holidays. Tourism has come at a cost though, including damage to the reef, adding to that from pollution and global warming.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2006-08-01T21:15:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Gabon is a good example of why judging how well a country is doing by _per-capita_ income is just useless. It is oil-rich and yet half the population lives below the poverty line. World Bank/IMF strictures are doing their part to help keep it that way. ]]></description>
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