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More Drugs In The Caribbean

AP | Posted 04.04.2013 | Latino Voices
Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drugs in the Caribbean, Caribbean Drug Smuggling, Drugs South America, Carribean, Drugs Latin America, Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug Smuggling, Caribbean Drug Trafficking, Latino Voices News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A top U.S. State Department official says the Caribbean will likely see a surge in drug trafficking activity by 2015 as opera...

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I Want My Daughters Back!

John Blumenthal | Posted 02.03.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Montana, Polaroids, When Children Move Out, Empty Nester, Carribean, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mexico, Relationship With Adult Children, Missing Adult Children, Paris, Livebetteramerica-Relationships, Teenagers, Fifty News
John Blumenthal

Some people claim that God created teenagers so parents wouldn't die of utter despair when their formerly adorable children left the nest and toddled off to college. But what if your teenagers are not insufferable? What if they're sweet, affectionate and pleasant to be around? What then?

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VIDEO: Vieques' Historic Malecon, a Walking Tour of a "Perfect Tropical Harbor"

Andy Plesser | Posted 09.02.2011 | Travel
Read More: Travel, Vieques Puerto Rico, Vieques, Carribean, Travel News
Andy Plesser

2011-07-03-Screenshot20110703at3.15.58PM.jpg We toured historic Malecon in Esperanza, the sleepy tourist town on the south coast of Vieques, the "perfect tropical harbor."

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Nate C. Hindman

Champagne And Easy Money: The Web's Young Stars Confront Another Bubble

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 07.10.2011 | Business
Read More: Peter Thiel, Google, Initial Public Offerings, Small Business, Paypal, Twitter, Stock Market, Summit Series, Richard Branson, The Roots, Entrepreneurs, Secondary Markets, Facebook, Startup Founders, Social Media, Groupon, Russell Simmons, Secondmarkets, Carribean, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Tech Bubble, Small Business America, Sharespost, Silicon Valley, Business News

For the sixth annual Summit Series, an invite-only gathering of elite entrepreneurs held earlier this month, 1,000 attendees paid $3,500 each to board a 14-story ocean liner for a three-day cruise in the Caribbean.

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Re-Introducing Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Women of African Descent

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Boston, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Gays and Lesbians, Gay, Sexual Abuse, Women Sexuality, New York City, Gay Rights, Transgender, Carribean, Lesbian Moms, African-Americans, African Americans, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, African-American Issues, The Carribean, Politics News
Irene Monroe

a groundbreaking study in July came out titled "Black Lesbians Matter" examining the unique experiences, perspectives, and priorities of the Black LBT community, and sadly little is known about it.

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Haiti: Double Tragedy

Sarah Cliffe | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: New Orleans, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Maps, Latin America, Developing Countries, Conflict, Carribean, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake Relief, wdr2011, Development, 2011, Haiti Aid, World News
Sarah Cliffe

I visited Haiti just before Christmas with Nik Win Myint from the WDR team. I talked to community groups in some of the slums that have been most rava...

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Father's Day: Sole Survivor Of A Plane Crash At 11 Grows Up To Teach His Son To Face His Fears

Norman Ollestad | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Vacation, Surfing, Fathers, Parenting, Fishing, Bullying, Books, Father Son, Carribean, Father's Day, Plane Crash, Books News
Norman Ollestad

At age eleven, I was in a plane crash with my father, his girlfriend, and the pilot of our chartered Cessna. By the end of the nine-hour ordeal, after clawing down steep, icy terrain, I was the only survivor.

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Haiti Offers Opportunity to Begin New Era for U.S. Foreign Assistance

Samuel A. Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Disaster Relief, Foreign Affairs, Haiti Disaster Relief, US Foreign Policy, Haiti, International, State Department, World News, Foreign Policy, Usaid, International Relief, Robert Zoellick, President Obama, World Bank, Ngos, Haiti Earthquake, Carribean, Hillary Clinton, Rajiv Shah, World News
Samuel A. Worthington

The end goal should be a new era for foreign assistance; one that does not rely on Cold War-era rationales. Still, though, the window to enact lasting change is closing.

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Rudolph Elmer: Julius Baer Whistleblower Speaks Out On Swiss Banks And Offshore Tax Havens

nytimes.com | LYNNLEY BROWNING | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Switzerland, Julius Baer, Mauritius, Swiss Banks, Carribean, Rudolph Elmer, Tax Evasions, Offshore Tax Havens, Tax Havens, Business News

[Rudolph] Elmer, who ran the Caribbean operations of the Swiss bank Julius Baer for eight years until he was dismissed in 2002, moved to Mauritius in ...

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Countries Billionaires Could Buy: Forbes

forbes.com | Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, North Korea, Costa Rica, Carribean, Billionaires, Mozambique, Alice Walton, Business News

Castles in France. Islands in the Caribbean. Private jets. With a collective $1.27 trillion at their disposal, the members of The Forbes 400 could buy...

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Chavez Aids Antigua After Stanford Fraud Scandal

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Barbuda, Venezuela, Venezuelan-President-Hugo-Chavez, Allen Stanford, Huga Chavez, Stanford, Allen Stanford Fraud, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Antigua, Allen Stanford Investigation, Antigua Barbuda, Venezuelan President, Carribean, Carribean State, Chavez, Venezuela Hugo Chavez, Hugo Chavez Venezuela, World News

The tiny Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda, still reeling from the fraud scandal surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, on Thursday found ...

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Will Obama Retreat on Democracy?

Ted Piccone | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: President Obama, South America, Secretary of State Clinton, Beijing, George W. Bush, Carribean, Castro, Obama Foreign Policy, Cuba, Beijing-China, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, World News
Ted Piccone

Obama needs to lead by example by implementing human rights reforms at home and by reminding colleagues they share a responsibility to follow universal democratic standards.

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French Troops In Guadeloupe To Quell Violent Riots

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: France, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, Strikes, Gendarmerie Officers, French Carribean, President Nicolas Sarkozy, Riots in Guadeloupe, Jacques Bino, French Troops in Guadeloupe, Carribean, Point-a-Pitre, Martinique, World News

France is sending four military police units to Guadeloupe after one person was killed during month-long riots and strikes on the French Caribbean isl...

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Haiti: Aristide, Ex-Rebel Barred From Senate Elections

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Haiti, Haitians, Carribean, Caribbean, Aristide, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Premier Aristide, Aristide Ousted, Haitian Elections, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's electoral council has barred members of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's popular political party from r...

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A Post-Thanksgiving Cornucopia: World AIDS Day, The Birth of (RED)WIRE, Milk and Prop 8

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Prop 6, Congress, Hiv, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ontario, Who, Dixie Chicks, Asia, China, Wolrd Health Foundation, Gay Adoption, Ali Partovi, Olympic Bird's Nest, Patna Women's College, The Killers, W Hotels, Premiere Wen Jiabao, Aids, Elvis Costello, World AIDS Day, Melissa Etheridge, Latin America, President Barack Obama, Rod Stewart, Nand Kishore Yadev, Sheryl Crow, The Police, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Emile Hirsch, Coldplay, India, Matthew Sheppard, James Franco, Starbucks, Gay Marriage, Jay-Z, Josh Brolin, Toronto, Prop 8, Spider-Man, Canada, Sean Penn, Keith Olbermann, California, Don MacKinnon, Lisa Gurry, W, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Senator Barbara Boxer, (RED), Elton John, World Health Organization, Kargil Chowk, Hear Music, Senator John v. Briggs, High School Music, John Legend, Unicef, Molly Johnson, Msn, Lucas Grabeel, United States, Harvey Milk, Gus Van Sant, Death Cab for Cutie, Into the Wild, President George W. Bush, Itunes, Carribean, Matthew Shepard, Ilike, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

The new online digital magazine (RED)WIRE will sponsor a series of unique performances by artists such as U2 and Sheryl Crow, in its bid to help fight AIDS.

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