When Geronimo Basilio borrowed $100 from Santa Rosa Unida, the local NGO with a micro-credit loan fund in his northern Nicaraguan village, he did so a...
I like a good cigar once in a while. And I have had none better than the one I smoked recently. That's because I rolled it myself.
Yesterday was life-changing. I could write a book about this one part of my visit to Nicaragua, so describing it in a few paragraphs is going to be a challenge.
MIAMI -- Whatever happened to the 2009 hurricane season? It never amounted to much. And that was kind of a surprise. As the season started in Jun...
This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift.
This week, the United States helped bring an end to a serious political crisis in Honduras. A similar crisis is now brewing in Nicaragua, but this time, the United States won't be as lucky.
This week, Pittsburgh-based Global Links is celebrating its 20th year of providing desperately-needed medical supplies to nine different countries in ...
There's no silver bullet that can resolve the carbon emissions problem in Copenhagen, but there are steps that can be taken to help developing nations strengthen their institutions and, with that, enforcement.
Pro Mujer is helping some of the poorest women in Latin America to increase their income, develop their full potential, and claim their basic human rights, enabling them to become agents of change.
Mexico did not take lightly to the U.S. closing our border to their trucks -- that's why they're called "trade wars."
The White House denounced the action in Honduras as "illegal." But that call requires Washington to cut off all but humanitarian aid and could jeopardize the big Soto Cano base outside Tegucigalpa.
Metaphorically, micro lending is not giving someone a fish, and it's not teaching someone to fish; it's helping a fisherman patch a hole in his rowboat so he can get on with life.
Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.
Eric Massa, a freshman Democratic Representative from Corning in the state of New York, has introduced legislation on May 20 that would seek to punish Argentina by, among other things, denying the country access to U.S. capital markets.
The unity, faith, and support for the nation that America experienced after September 11th is giving way to distrust and fragmentation.
As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.
The scientists trying to learn how to wipe out "specific types of memory" are lagging way behind. American media outlets have been pulling off such feats for a long time.
The Third World exists in a precarious state of neo colonial dependency and cannot follow our path out of economic disaster because we insist they don't.
You are a delinquent taxpayer, which undermines our trust in your fiscal judgment.
What the United States needs to do under the Obama administration is, first off, pay more attention and engage not just with Nicaragua but to Latin America in general.
It's important to understand that the immediacy of a disaster response can also be followed by a long term recovery period that leaves those affected by Mother Nature better off than they were before.
In writing about the top 10 medical events of the decade, I...
