poverty

In 2004 I interviewed Eva, a transgender former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette

Beginning in mid-2006, news reports in English began appearing about paco, a cheap, highly addictive form of cocaine ravaging the

Since the January 1st uprising of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), Subcomandante Marcos-the guerrilla force's most visible leader-has emerged

The extraordinary rise of global finance has been the single most outstanding economic development in the last quarter of this

The last drop of rain fell on the rural community of Juarzerinho, in Brazil’s Northeast state of Paraíba on November

They arrive from the airport every Wednesday on a government provided bus to the same central downtown destination. Tonight the

“After 200 years of bees, let’s have 200 years of honey.” So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government

"Until last December, we observed evidence of malnutrition in some 30 children per month. Today the monthly average is more

Five hundred years ago, through the mountains of what today are Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, merchant caravans with hundreds

In the eastern urban sprawl of Santo Domingo, a vast concrete cross-shaped structure is rising steadily into the capi- tal's