A cartoon introduction to life in the camps in and around Port-au-Prince.
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More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the cash? Nick Harvey investigates.
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Haiti is not just recovering from the earthquake but from the political and economic interventions of recent decades, as Phillip Wearne explains.
Filed in: Development Disasters Haiti NGOs
Costa Rica’s former President Oscar Arias Sanchez – who was instrumental in abolishing his own country’s army – explains why.
Filed in: Costa Rica Haiti Military
Revolution vs globalization Still squeezed, still embattled, still hanging in there: John Ripton asks how Castro’s Cuba will fit into the new world economy.
Filed in: Cuba Globalization
Cuba hurts - and so does Eduardo Galeano, following the spate of executions and arrests in Havana.
Filed in: Cuba
Grenada’s revolutionary fair trade
Filed in: Caribbean Fair Trade
Success, like beauty is in eyes of the beholder. Three very different countries who can claim some measure of success are looked at by three very different correspondents: LAOS by a special correspondent, CUBA by RONALD BUCHANAN, TAIWAN by RICHARD HANSON
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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.’
Filed in: Antigua
Two young Indian children have been taken into care in Norway because their mother fed them with her fingers. Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled.
India's plans to buy up land in Africa are shameful, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
By cutting the fuel subsidy the Nigerian government has snatched away the main benefit to the people from the country's oil wealth, says Sokari Ekine.
With a ring of prayer planned to protest the eviction of the Occupy camp at St Paul’s, the Christian Left is coming of age, says Symon Hill.
Add your name to those urging the UK government to support Ecuador's initiative to keep the oil in the ground.
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