In the middle of a drug cartel war, the inhabitants of the state of Chihuahua live in fear of violence that permeates the region. A record of more 2,400 executions took place in 2008. In just the first months of this year, approximately seventy-five police officers have lost their lives in the fight.
Chihuahua, the largest [...]

Thousands of miles from any major civilisation and with temperatures as high as 50℃, two armies are prepared to resume a war. On one side there are over 100,000 heavily armed Moroccan conscripts, drafted from coastal cities and temperate mountain valleys, waiting behind a huge fortified rubble wall. This wall runs for nearly 2,500 km, is [...]

Thailand is now a divided in two: The anti-government group called the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), or simply THE RED SHIRTS, and the others wearing YELLOW SHIRTS, the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD). PAD crashed with the Thai police in October 2008, left two people dead and some 400 injured.  Then, [...]

In the first days of August 2008, the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili ordered and attack against the separatist region of South Ossetia. As retaliation, the Russian troops took over the regions of Abdkazia and South Ossetia and bombed several locations in Georgian territory.
During the conflict thousands fled their villages and towns, leaving homes, family members [...]

HAITI | FALL 2008
Since 1804, when it became the world’s first black republic after a successful slave revolt, Haiti has seen few periods of stability. Today the small Caribbean nation faces the most significant challenges of any country in the Western Hemisphere. In this failed state severe poverty, endemic corruption, high unemployment, pervasive hunger, and [...]

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“Why can’t America buy me a new leg?” asked a 55-year-old former RLA (Royal Lao Army) soldier from Xieng Khoaung (Xiang Khuang, Phonsavan) Laos, as he grasped a set of parallel bars during an impromptu workout at the National Rehabilitation Center in Vientiane, Laos. “Oh I don’t know” replied [...]