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Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 24 October 2010
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During the eight centuries of the Spanish War of the Reconquest (711-1492 A.D.), the knights, Moors and Christians, weary of killing one another, would occasionally hunt wildlife to avoid boredom. While deer were easy prey and a cornered bear or boar would usually put up a fight, it was the wild [...]
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 17 October 2010
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LGBT pride or gay pride is the concept that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity. The movement has three main premises: that people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity, that diversity is a gift, and that sexual orientation and gender [...]
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 8 September 2010
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Over the last two governments held by Evo Morales in Bolivia, the issue on Coca has been a crucial one, the president who was a mayor Coca syndicalist has tried to change the bad image and reputation of the leaf that has been cultivated long before the Inca Empire. No matter how big the [...]
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 25 June 2010
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Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, experienced a 7.0 cataclysmic earthquake on January 12, 2010. The disaster rocked the nations capital and shook the small country to its core killing more than 230,000 people and displacing several million.
My pictures document the eruption of violence and looting when the hungry, [...]
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 2 June 2010
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Sinamaica Lagoon is a large extension of water located northwest of Zulia state, Venezuela. The Paraujano population or ethnic Añu that inhabit this area have been lived on the Lagoon, in stilted houses over the water “palafitos”, since pre-colonial times. People living there, now estimated at 2800, use this body of water for fishing, transport, [...]
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 24 January 2010
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The archipelago of Cuba consists of 110.992 square kilometers, situated in the center of the Caribbean Sea. This country has been whipped by both natural disasters and political regimes, both of which have left the island the bearer of a past that marks it in the extended and continually-changing story of Universal History. A national [...]
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