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An amateur video of traditional Panamanian dancing, with the cumbia sounds, polleras, and all that. A profile of "The Bishop of the Poor," who's not in very good standing with the Holy See but was recently elected president of Paraguay. Cause for hope, and maybe a bit of annoyance, depending on how you see things. On the one hand, the Cuban government is reforming a number of things, the one that's highlighted here being its official hostility to gay people. On the other hand, Cuba is far from fully democratic and rather than leadership coming from the grass roots we see a member of the Castro family out front here. Former Cuban political prisoner Armando Valladares warns that all the reforms going on in Cuba are cosmetics designed to camouflage a continuing dictatorship. Other analysts see something deeper than that underway in Cuban society. Marina
Silva resigns
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/i-give-up-says- brazilian-minister-who-fought-to-save-the-rainforest-828310.html The main problem has shifted from small-time farmers and ranchers to massive soybean agribusiness, but Mother Nature is on the run in Amazonia every bit as much under the moderately leftist Lula da Silva's administration as she was during the times of his immediate predecessors. That has led Marina Silva, who came from a family of poor rubber tappers and became Lula's environment minister, to resign her post in the Brazilian cabinet and resume her seat as a senator. Panamanian baseball may be officially led by the scuzziest of politicians at the moment, but it has a long and proud tradition and this website celebrates it. Also in this section: Tino Fernández, one of Panama's
outstanding bus
painters La
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