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  • Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America

    Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...

  • Baseball fuels dreams desperation in Dominican Republic

    (Nick Purdon is a current affairs reporter and Leonardo Palleja is a current affairs producer and videographer with CBC's The National. Purdon and Palleja visited the Dominican Republic in late April 2013 to explore the dark side of Dominican baseball. Like many profesional ball teams, the Toronto Blue Jays have a number of stars from the Dominican Republic: Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes, Edwin ...

  • Broward women brought 143 Haitians to S. Fla. for fake jobs feds say

    Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said.But when they arrived, they found the jobs didn't exist, and they were left to fend for themselves — the victims of a fraud perpetrated by two Broward women, prosecutors said.The plot was so audacious that one of the women, Jetta ...

  • A Unique and Diverse Caribbean Theme of Colloquium in Havana

    Havana, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Beyond its cultural, historical and linguistic, the Caribbean as a whole has a unitary essence, said today the director of Casa de las Americas, Cuban writer Roberto Fernandez Retamar. During the inauguration of the International Symposium on Cultural Diversity in the Caribbean, Retamar, also essayist indicated that this region has been felt more from the last few ...

  • Dominican Republic 22 Drug Traffickers Arrested

    Santo Domingo, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The Dominican Republic National Police arrested 22 people in the last three days, linked to the drug traffic in the north-western province of Santiago, said press reports Monday. The sources some said the arrested are 18 years old, also firearms, money in cash, stolen vehicles and other items, were confiscated. The Dominican Republic has a favorable ...


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Analyze That

Analyze That

Analyze That is the opposite of its predecessor, the hilarious Analyze This (1999). While reviewing that film three years ago, I wrote that the films ultimate strength and why it was so effective as a comedy was because director Harold Ramis knows to play the movie straight, and he doesn't force the laughs down our throats. Its as if someone else directed Analyze That, althou ... ...

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  • Dominican Republic prosecutor says drug cartel plans to kill him

    Dominican Republic.- La Romana province prosecutor Jos Polanco Ramrez said Monday drug traffickers and killers-for-hire plan attempts on his life and those of his family, for which he was assigned more bodyguards. He said Justice minister Francisco Dominguez and Police chief Jose A. Polanco already provided increased protection for him and his family, from the threat by the so-called ...

  • Haiti Relief Jam II in the suburbs on June 2

    Relief jam concerts have proved to be powerful fundraising tools, most recently for Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina rebuilding efforts, among others. Now, a local relief concert comes back with its second edition, in a continuing attempt to help children in Haiti, and give them access to education, medical supplies and ...

  • See giant leatherback turtles rebound in the Caribbean

    In this May 2, 2013 photo, a tourist takes photographs of a leatherback turtle as it heads to the ocean after burying her eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. Officials with the U.S.-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say Trinidad is now likely the world s leading tourist destination for people to see leatherbacks. (AP Photo/David ...

  • Earthquake Shakes Eastern Caribbean Islands

    Port of Spain, May 20 (Prensa Latina) An earthquake of 5.3 degrees on the Richter scale shook several Eastern Caribbean islands without causing damage or casualties, the Seismic Department of the University of the West Indies reported today. The institution stressed that the quake?s epicenter was located southwest of Barbuda, part of the Antigua and Barbuda federation. At the end of last month, ...

  • Ben Fountains top 10 books about Haiti

    A woman participates in the Voodoo festival in Souvenance village, Haiti in 2012. The event attracts thousands of pilgrims each Easter. Photograph: Andres Martinez Casares/Xinhua ...

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