Conflict 
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.
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 [...]
Bucket Baths and Dead Farmers
I arrived in the Philippines at the end of May to begin my internship with Integrated Rural Development Foundation (IRDF). IRDF is a progressive local organization that was formed in ‘89 not long after the dictator Ferdinand Marcos fell. I am staying in the staff-house with a few coworkers who reside there during the week. [...]
