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Four months after Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Suad Khadir and her family are still living in a tent. To escape the heat, they often seek refuge under the rubble. Photo: Ashraf Amra./New York Times

Misery hangs over Gaza despite pledges of help Ethan Bronner  New York Times May 28, 2009

Rodrigo Rosenberg's video, made before his death and saying 'if you see this, I will have been murdered', has been shown repeatedly on Guatemalan TV. See the video on YouTube

Video made by Guatemalan lawyer blames his slaying on Guatemalan president William Booth Washington Post May 14, 2009 

Gang suspects are arrested in a suburb of San Salvador. Gang violence is one factor in the country’s homicide rate, one of the world’s highest. Slayings averaged almost 12 a day in the first three months of this year. Photo Jose Cabezas / AFP/Getty Images

El Salvador grapples with rising bloodshed--per capita homicide rate is 10 times US Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles Times May 13, 2009

Election win for Ecuador's Correa BBC News May 2, 2009

Food prices remain high in developing countries Food and Agriculture Organization April 23, 2009

Mexico has ramped up its containment efforts.  Photo: BBC

Mexico flu sparks global action BBC News April 23, 2009

A boy stands in parched corn field near Harare, Zimbabwe.  Photo: Associated Press

Could food shortages bring down civilization? The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. Lester Brown Scientific American May 2009 Climate change resulting in drought, population growth, and neglect of developing country agriculture will cause billion-person famines in next 40 years, US scientist says  Lewis Smith Times Online March 23, 2009  See Hunger Notes special report Global issues: the earth, the environment, and poor people

Mexico flu sparks global action BBC News April 23, 2009

The police archives with information on the disappeared and the Guatemalan government's role in their disappearance might have been destroyed  had it not been for Police Officer Ana Corado who refused an order to destroy the records before they were identified and secured by human rights activists. Photo Ann Marie O'Connor/Washington Post

The emerging secrets of Guatemala's disappeared Anne-Marie O'Connor Washington Post April 11, 2009 

Wife of Guatemalan human rights activist kidnapped, tortured, as her husband was about to release a key human rights report Manuel Roig-Franzia  Washington Post April 11, 2009 

Impoverished Haiti slips further as remittances dry up Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post April 17, 2009 

Hernando Renteria is among the farmers who returned to his land in Choco to find it planted with African palm oil trees, one of which he's hacking down. Photo: Juan Forero/Washington Post

Colombia orders return of stolen farmland. Illegal militias forced hundreds of poor black farmers off their land, which politically connected businessmen then seized and turned into lucrative palm oil plantations. US pact is motivation for move, critics say.  Juan Forero Washington Post March 23, 2009

Mauricio Funes greeted his supporters in San Salvador on Sunday night after winning El Salvador’s presidential election. Photo: Luis Romero/Associated Press

Salvadoran vows moderate rule: president-elect promises to improve economy, help poor William Booth Washington Post March 17, 2009 El Salvador elects first left president  Blake  Schmidt and Elisabeth Malkin New York Times March 16, 2009 In El Salvador vote, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the revolutionary group-turned-mainstream political party, seems poised for victory William Booth Washington Post March 9, 2009

Bolivian leader redistributes thousands of acres of land from large-scale owners BBC News March 15, 2009

Pipelines to mines siphon water from some of the driest towns on earth, in northern Chile. Photo: Tomas Munita/New York Times

Chilean town withers in free market for water Alexi Barrionuevo New York Times March 14, 2009

Job candidates tussle for enrollment forms at a career fair in India, where more than half a million jobs vanished in the last three months of 2008, according to the World Bank. Photo: Mahesh Kumar/Associated Press

US downturn dragging world into recession Anthony Faiola  Washington Post March 9, 2009

Soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try to regain control of a city in which more than 2,000 people have been murdered over the past year.  Officials say they intend to have 7,000 troops and police in position by the end of the week. Photo: Associated Press

US Defense department: Mexico's two most deadly drug cartels have more than 100,000 foot soldiers--an army that rivals Mexico's armed forces Sara A. Carter Washington Times March 3, 2009 Mexico troops enter drug war city BBC News March 2, 2009

CIA adds global financial crisis to daily threat updates for President Obama: growing CIA belief that economic meltdown is now principal security threat Joby Warrick Washington Post February 26, 2009

Chávez wins removal of term limits  Juan Forero Washington Post February 16, 2009

Lebanon: Climate change and politics threaten water wars in Bekaa IRIN February 1, 2009    Arabic language version

First salvos of trade wars as worldwide recession deepens Anthony Faiola Washington Post February 1, 2009  Downturn accelerates as it circles the globe--economies worse off than predicted just weeks ago Anthony Faiola Washington Post January 24, 2009 A stimulus plan with dual goals: reform and recovery David E. Sanger New York Times January 31, 2009 Biden to  lead task force on 'middle class' issues with goal to raise standard of living for working families Anne E. Kornblut and Anthony Faiola Washington Post January 31, 2009

An Aymara Indian voted Sunday at a polling station in El Alto, Bolivia, a city of slums on the outskirts of the capital, La Paz Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters

Bolivians ratify new constitution Simon Romero New York Times January 26, 2009 As Bolivia votes on new constitution, opposition finds itself divided Joshua Partlow Washington Post January 25, 2009

Access to maternity care helps save lives. Photo BBC

Women in poor nations are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy complications than those in the developed world, UNICEF warns  BBC News January 15, 2009 

Worldwide measles eradication target unlikely to be reached--European nations major part of the problem BBC News January 7, 2008

UN and Red Cross add to outcry on Gaza war  Ethan Bronner New York Times  January 9, 2007  100 survivors rescued in Gaza from ruins blocked by Israelis  Craig Whitlock and Reyham Ardel Kareem Washington Post  January 6, 2008

To rid slums of drug gangs, police in Rio try war tactics  Joshua Partlow Washington Post  January 6, 2009

Wealthy countries seek land in Cambodia, Madagascar, and Brazil  David Montero Christian Science Monitor December 22, 2008

Number of children immunized has been inflated for years David Brown Washington Post  December 9, 2008

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