Latin American and Canadian News from World Press ReviewWorld News ReviewAn Encounter With Chile's Powerful Pascua- February 25, 2008 Home to the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the largest in the world outside of Antarctica and Greenland, the remote region of Aysn also boasts one of Chile's most powerful rivers, the Pascua.http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3078.cfm Cuba Votes as Fidel Castro Steps Down- February 21, 2008 Before any evaluation regarding the legitimacy of Cuban elections can begin, we must first start by analyzing the electoral system that Fidel Castro has left for Cuba.http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3075.cfm The Militarization of the World's Urban Peripheries- February 17, 2008 Urban peripheries in Third World countries have become war zones where states attempt to maintain order by establishing a sort of "sanitary cordon" to keep the poor isolated from "normal" society.http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3071.cfm |