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Cuba’s new economic reforms: What’s really changing?
Within the next few months the Cuban government will ditch the Cuban convertible peso (CUC), one of the country’s two currencies, and one which is pegged to the US dollar. The CUC is designed to separate the heavily subsidi...
A Perspective on Sociology
I still remember four years ago when, as a high school student, I crept into one of the Sociology classes at my sister’s university in Hong Kong.
Has The Gang Truce In El Salvador Failed?
Violent drug gangs have been confronting El Salvador with an enormous internal security problem for more than two decades; inhibiting development and prolonging poverty and structural violence. If one considers the 1992 peace a...
Meet The Woman That Spent 10 Days In An Insane Asylum To Change Journalism Forever
When Elizabeth Cochran was just twenty years old she read a particularly upsetting editorial in her local paper entitled What Girls Are Good For. In short, the column effectively considered the answer to be nothing. Eliza...
Daily News Roundup – 24 December 2012
Africa Egypt set to declare result of constitution referendum Egypt is due to announce the official results of a referendum on a controversial draft constitution. Early unofficial results suggest more than 60% of voters sa...
Remembering The Lima Football Tragedy, 50 Years On
Fifty years ago, Peru’s National Stadium in Lima became the site of what is today considered the worst tragedy to ever happen at a football stadium, during which 320 people were killed and 500 were wounded. On May 24, 196...
