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The Truth of a Colombian Taxi Driver(0)
I once read a book on Cuban politics and society called “This is Cuba, everything else is a lie.” When researching the book, the authors noticed that everyone they talked to in Cuba gave them very different answers to the same questions about politics and society in the socialist state.
Divided Country Sobers Up to Go to the Polls
It’s an unusually quiet Saturday night in Colombia’s capital Bogotá. As has become tradition in this country, the ley seca, or “dry law,” was put in effect Friday at 6 p.m., making it illegal to sell alcohol in shops, bars and restaurants until after Sunday’s election for congress.
Video: eDiplomacy Ushers In a New Culture of Collaboration at State
Richard Boly is not what you’d expect from your typical State Department diplomat. And the Office of eDiplomacy isn’t what you’d expect from the oldest U.S. federal agency.
International community hides behind the UN as Sudan lurches towards civil war
Sudan is at a crossroads. Long before claims of genocide in Darfur bought the conflict in Sudan to our attention, the country had already been laid to waste by three decades of civil war between the country’s North and South that left 5 million displaced and 2.5 million dead. Hostilities formally ended in 2005 with [...]
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