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  • Fish salesmen play dominoes for money and beers after work on the Stabroek Market docks in Georgetown, Guyana. A lack of infrastructure connecting Guyana to continental South America has isolated the country, one of the poorest in the western hemisphere, from potential trade opportunities. Government plans to pave the 350 mile road from Georgetown, its coastal capital, to its southern border are expected to open Guyana to booming trade with neighboring Brazil, a buying super power in South America with 200 times the population of Guyana.

  • Young boys push canoes near their home in Sinamaica Lagoon, situated along a notorious Venezuela/Colombia waterway used by narco-traffickers. Sinamaica is one of the last remaining ´floating villages´on earth, where habitants including indigenous "Añú" indians live in houses above water; and travel to work, school, etc. via wooden canoes or small motor boats. Life in the lagoon is currently threatened by social issues such as severe poverty, water contamination and global warming.

  • Workers harvest tilapia larvae at the Regal Springs plant in El Boroboton, San Francisco de Yojoa, Honduras. Regal Springs is one of the largest producers of aqua farmed tilapia in the world. They ship approximately 70,000 pounds of tilapia to the United States every day.


  • Refugees fleeing drought, famine and a civil war in Somalia ride a bus to Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, Kenya. According to the United Nations, 3.7 million Somalis are in crisis.

  • Women wave their ration cards in effort to get a bag of flour during a food distribution in a camp for Darfur refugees near Iriba, in eastern Chad.

  • Hundreds of people came to have their goats vaccinated during an event sponsored by CARE in a UNHCR camp for Darfur refugees near Iriba, in eastern Chad.

  • Women wait with their babies to be seen by doctors at a free clinic in Gouroukoun IDP camp near Goz Beida, in eastern Chad.

  • Overcrowded cells plague Izalco men's prison for incarcerated members of the Mara 18 gang, in El Salvador.

  • Family and friends make homage to a motorizado shot down in the La Pastora (The Shepherd) slum in Caracas, Venezuela by resting his casket on motorcycles and revving their engines while other motorizados make a series of laps around the cemetery at high speed, revving their engines as well, and occasionally riding on one wheel. Although a great percentage of motorizados work honestly, the profession is often criminalized because of its association with delinquent behavior. The agility of motorcycles makes them the preferred get-away vehicle for criminals involved in robberies, kidnappings and murders. Motorizados often find themselves victims of criminal activity as well, motorcycle theft is rampant in Caracas and newspapers report murders of motorizados weekly.

  • Members of the Mara 18 gang incarcerated in Izalco men's prison in El Salvador pose for a portrait inside their overcrowded cell.

  • Family and friends mourn the death of a motorizado shot down in the La Pastora (The Shepherd) slum in Caracas, Venezuela. Although a great percentage of motorizados work honestly, the profession is often criminalized because of its association with delinquent behavior. The agility of motorcycles makes them the preferred get-away vehicle for criminals involved in robberies, kidnappings and murders. Motorizados often find themselves victims of criminal activity as well, motorcycle theft is rampant in Caracas and newspapers report murders of motorizados weekly.

  • Residents of the neighborhood across the street from the Amuay oil refinery run to safety as a gasoline storage tank explodes on Monday, August 27, 2012 in Punto Fijo, Venezuela. Officials report that 41 people have died since the first explosion and fire errupted early Saturday morning.

  • A couple embraces after seeing their destroyed home for the first time. Their home, which once stood two blocks from the Amuay refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, was converted to rubble when the plant's huge storage fuel tanks exploded early Saturday morning, killing at least 39 people.

  • Scenes of frightening destruction extended for many blocks through the working class neighborhoods around the Amuay refinery on Sunday, as firefighters struggled to control fires still burning in the plant's huge fuel storage tanks after an explosion early Saturday that killed at least 39 people.

  • PDVSA contractors work to clean up oil waste outside of the Amuay refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela on Sunday. Pools of oil filled the streets, apparently seeping from underground pipes burst by the explosion at the refinery early Saturday morning, killing at least 39 people.

  • An activist peers over a camp where illegal immigrant workers live in McGonigle Canyon during a Minute Men rally in San Diego, CA. The activists attempted to raid the immigrant camp but were restrained by Border Patrol agents.<br /> <br /> To License this image, please contact Aurora photos, www.AuroraPhotos.com (Image ID: 3197400023)

  • A woman surrounded by foreign tourists stands outside of Club Elektra, a club where men go to pick up prostitutes in the historic district in Cartagena, Colombia. A sex scandal erupted recently when secret service agents were found bringing prostitutes to their hotel rooms while in Cartagena preparing for President Barack Obama's arrival to the Summit of the Americas.

  • 15-year old, Yanaifre Acevedo, (center) poses for a portrait in a slum in Caracas, Venezuela holding her newborn son, Dilan, with her sister, Keisy (right), who also got pregnant with her son John, when she was 15 years old, and their friend Diovile Toro, 19 years old, with her 5-month old daughter, Diovelys.

  • Couples dance in the wee morning hours as popular local bands Gio Fuertisimo and The Dreams perform a Ritmo act at Club Facade in Curacao. Ritmo is sexy and smooth, grown-and-sexy. The cadence is slow and soft; the lyrics are in Papiamentu; the dance is intimate and partners-only—a beguiling groove reminiscent of Haitian Zouk.

  • Buenos Aires slum in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelans will go to the polls this Sunday to elect their 165-seat national assembly, which is currently monopolized by supporters of Hugo Chavez. Although Chavez remains popular among constituents living in the slums, their support is wavering due to increases in crime, inflation, food and electricity shortages.

  • Dionicio Sanchez, 16, (left) exercises on community gym equipment in Buenos Aires, a slum in Caracas, Venezuela. "I have to exercise every day to keep my body looking this good," he said. Catholic priest, Father Hector Marquez, 35, is working to unite the residents of Buenos Aires through community councils and projects aimed toward making the slum a safer place to live.

  • Rondy Meynayd, 40, shows the handguns he uses to protect himself while working in the gold mines in the backend camps outside of Mahdia, Guyana. Meynayd said he earns between 5,000 to 25,000 USD per week mining gold in the rainforst of Guyana. He has never been robbed, but said he would shoot anyone if they tried without thinking twice.

  • Followers of Maria Lionza perform a ritual to cure a problem with this man's job during their pilgrimage to Sorte Mountain in Yaracuy, Venezuela. During the ritual, to the rhythm of drum beats, spiritual leaders smoke cigars, blow whiskey and assist participants to enter a spiritual trance.

  • Congregation members attend holy week mass given by Archbishop Baltazar Porras at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mérida, Venezuela on Wednesday, March 19, 2008. Archbishop Porras has been an influential voice of dissent within the Catholic Church toward President Hugo Chavez and recently defeated referendum proposals to the Venezuelan constitution.

  • A street scene in Aguazul Sierra, where most of Regal Springs' 1,560 employees live in the small village of Aguazul Sierra on the edge of Lake Yojoa in northwestern Honduras. Regal Springs is one of the largest producers of aqua farmed tilapia in the world. In accordance with sustainable aqua farming requirements, Regal Springs provides its workers with health care, micro loans and competitive wages.

  • A man herds donkeys through the narrow streets of San Cristóbal de Rapaz, a peasant community in the highlands of Peru.

  • Workers harvest cacao, a high-quality bean used to make fine chocolate, at the Monterosa plantation on March 27, 2009 in Choroni, Venezuela. Cacao is a labor-intensive crop, each pod is sliced open with a machete, then the beans are scooped out by hand, the same process harvesters used in the 18th century. Cacao growers are trying to revive the industry in face of challenges such as crop plagues, plantation seizures and government intimidation.

  • Women prepare fish to sell at a street market in Quibdó, the capital of the department of Chocó, the poorest region of Colombia. Gordon Radley, former president of Lucasfilm (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) traveled to Quibdó this month as part of his decades-long search for the remains of his brother, Lawrence Radley, a Peace Corps volunteer who died in a plane crash in the Chocó jungle in 1962. Radley promised that he would someday retrace the last steps of his brother, and complete the journey from Bahía Solano to Quibdó that his brother died trying to make.

  • Street scene in Port Kaituma, a small mining community located 6 kilometers from the site of Jonestown in northwestern Guyana. On November 18, 1978, 918 people died in a mass suicide, considered the second-largest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster other than that of September 11, 2001..Tourism officials in Guyana are making plans to turn Jonestown into a tourism attraction, a move anticipated by Port Kaituma locals eager to infuse their economy with tourists' dollars.

  • A local woman displays the colorful costume she hand sewed and adorned with coins for an upcoming community festival in San Cristóbal de Rapaz, a peasant community of herders in the highlands of Peru that provides sanctuary to one of the last known khipu collections currently in ritual use. Khipu are rare textile artifacts used primarily by Inca Indians to keep accounts. According to anthropologist Frank Salomon, "They (the people of Rapaz) feel that they must protect the khipu collection for the same reason we that feel we have to defend the physical original of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I've heard people say, it's our Constitution, it's our Magna Carta."

  • Street scene in San Cristóbal de Rapaz, a peasant community of herders in the highlands of Peru that provides sanctuary to one of the last known khipu collections currently in ritual use. Khipu are rare textile artifacts used primarily by Inca Indians to keep accounts. According to anthropologist Frank Salomon, "They (the people of Rapaz) feel that they must protect the khipu collection for the same reason we that feel we have to defend the physical original of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I've heard people say, it's our Constitution, it's our Magna Carta." (Spanish translation, "Somos Peru" = "We are Peru")




  • Street scene in San Cristobal de Rapaz, a peasant community of herders in the highlands of Peru that provides sanctuary to one of the last known khipu collections currently in ritual use. Khipu are rare textile artifacts used primarily by Inca Indians to keep accounts. According to anthropologist Frank Salomon, "They (the people of Rapaz) feel that they must protect the khipu collection for the same reason we that feel we have to defend the physical original of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I've heard people say, it's our Constitution, it's our Magna Carta." (Spanish translation, "Somos Peru" = "We are Peru")

  • Dancers prepare to perform during the Ferria del Sol beauty pageant and carnival celebration at the Metropolitan stadium in Merida, Venezuela on Jan. 26, 2008. Venezuelans enjoyed concerts, traditional music and dance cultural events, beauty pageants and bull fights before observing the 40-day Lentan season. ..*Image available in color*

  • Three sisters displaced by mudslides wait in line to receive new shoes in Panabaj, Guatemala. Over 1200 indigenous Mayans disappeared during the October 2005 mudslides triggered by Hurricane Stan.

  • Teenagers play basketball in Buenos Aires, a slum in Caracas, Venezuela. Catholic priest, Father Hector Marquez, 35, is working to unite the residents of Buenos Aires through community councils and projects aimed toward making the slum a safer place to live.

  • Maximo, 34, rests in his room adorned with side-by-side posters of Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. Maximo is the only adult male responsible for providing for the sixteen women and children that live in his family home located in the red zone of Belen. He proudly identifies himself as a member of the Bolivarian Revolution, sympathetic to the though of legendary Latin American revolutionary, Che Guevara and present day President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Maximo was fatally shot on Thursday, April 24, 2008 in Belen.

  • Petare slum is one of the most violent areas of Caracas, Venezuela, reporting over a dozen homicides every weekend. According to the ngo, the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), Caracas has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world, with two people murdered every hour, a homicide rate that has quadrupled over the eleven year presidency of Hugo Chávez. Equally disturbing is the level of impunity, corruption and incompetency in the Venezuelan judicial system. OVV reports that 91% of crimes go unsolved in Venezuela.

  • A woman passes by a police operation in Petare. Petare slum is one of the most violent areas of Caracas, Venezuela, reporting over a dozen homicides every weekend. According to the ngo, the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), Caracas has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world, with two people murdered every hour, a homicide rate that has quadrupled over the eleven year presidency of Hugo Chávez. Equally disturbing is the level of impunity, corruption and incompetency in the Venezuelan judicial system. OVV reports that 91% of crimes go unsolved in Venezuela.

  • A gun shot victim is brought into the Pérez de León hospital emergency room in Petare. Petare slum is one of the most violent areas of Caracas, Venezuela, reporting over a dozen homicides every weekend. According to the ngo, the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), Caracas has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world, with two people murdered every hour, a homicide rate that has quadrupled over the eleven year presidency of Hugo Chávez. Equally disturbing is the level of impunity, corruption and incompetency in the Venezuelan judicial system. OVV reports that 91% of crimes go unsolved in Venezuela.

  • ..Alejandra, a single mom, performs as an exotic dancer in a local discotec. She has worked as a dancer for over five years and is considered to have one of the best routines, usually saved for the end of the night. ....Despite her confidence in her ability to dance, Alejandra is self conscious about her weight and is constantly crash dieting. She recently spent an entire night's wages on a constricting undershirt advertised to slim one's waistline when worn regularly. At 30-years-old and after giving birth to her daughters, she says it is a lot harder to keep weight off than it was when she was younger.

  • 'Jose', 33, has spent the majority of his adult life involved in the drug trade in Venezuela. "I want to change," he says, "I don't want to have any more enemies."

  • Alejandra covers Samantha's eyes during a murder scene in the popular late-night soap opera, "Women Assassins" at their home in the red-zone-sector of Belen in Merida, Venezuela. ....Alejandra says she wants Samantha to have a better life than the one she has lived, and is diligent about teaching her the importance of school, having Christian values and making good decisions. ....

  • Family and friends carry Maximo's remains to his family's burial tomb in the local cemetery. Maximo was fatally shot outside of his cousins' home in Belen, a red zone heavily controlled by Colombian narco-traffickers. Police investigators have not solved nor do they claim to have any leads on Maximo's murder. His case, like the majority of other red zone killings in Belen, will most likely go unsolved. Police corruption and incompetence often leads families to resort to taking justice into their own hands, perpetuating street violence in their community.

  • Portraits of life in Belen, a red-zone sector in Venezuela heavily controlled by Colombian narco-traffickers. ....'Yati' mourns the death of his cousin Maximo during his burial in the Belen cemetery, shouting, "Enough! Enough already!" as fellow mourners attempted to delay the lowering of his casket into the family tomb. ....Maximo was fatally shot outside of 'Yati's' home in Belen, a red zone sector in Venezuela. 'Yati' and Maximo grew up in Belen together, and regularly referred to each other as brothers, instead of cousins. "No one knew Maximo [middle name, last names] like I did, no one can miss Maximo [middle name, last names] like I do," 'Yati' said through tears. "He was my best friend, my brother."

  • Portraits of life in Belen, a red-zone sector in Venezuela heavily controlled by Colombian narco-traffickers. ....Family and friends mourn the death of Maximo during his burial in the Belen cemetery. Maximo was fatally shot outside of his family home in Belen on April 24, 2008. Mourners adorned his casket with roses and notes, and provisions they believed he would like to have for his journey into the heavens. Several people left chocolates, cigarettes, and alcohol. Through tears, his male cousins and closest friends respectfully poured bottles of Venezuelan rum over his casket as their way of honoring him in their last moments with his body.

  • Portraits of life in Belen, a red-zone sector in Venezuela heavily controlled by Colombian narco-traffickers. ....Karina mourns the death of her cousin, Maximo during his burial in the Belen cemetery. Maximo was shot outside of his family home in the center of Belen. Police investigators say they have no leads on his case, which will most likely never be further investigated nor solved. Rampant police corruption and incompetence lead residents of Belen to seek their own street justice or revenge.

  • Members of a special tactical division of the Sucre police force conduct a late night foot patrol in Petare. Petare slum is one of the most violent areas of Caracas, Venezuela, reporting over a dozen homicides every weekend. According to the ngo, the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), Caracas has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world, with two people murdered every hour, a homicide rate that has quadrupled over the eleven year presidency of Hugo Chávez. Equally disturbing is the level of impunity, corruption and incompetency in the Venezuelan judicial system. OVV reports that 91% of crimes go unsolved in Venezuela.

  • Worried-looking Americans pass by zealots warning of the apocalypse, with SUVs, banks and corporate America signage reflected behind them in New York City, New York on June 23, 2007. Corporate greed, irresponsible spending and lending has driven the American economy into a financial crisis.

  • Maria Rosario Bacat Ruiz poses for a family portrait in front of her small home with her five children, Ruth, Jesus, Jose and six-month old twins Gabriela and Graciela. Bacat lives in impoverished conditions in a camp for migrant sugarcane laborers and their families outside of Tuxtepec in southern Mexico. All seven members of her family sleep on overlapping woven straw mats in their alloted room in the camp and share cooking and bathroom facilities with other families working the sugarcane harvest.

  • Venezuelans celebrate Palm Sunday during semana santa festivities in Caracas. Several hundred "palmeros" climb the El Avila mountain to bring down palm branches for all of the churches in the city. Residents greetrf them at the bottom of El Avila with a procession into town.

  • Emmanuel Sanchez, age 6, quietly returns to his home after showing his home-made ghost costume to cousins living nearby in the Los Fresnos border colonia in McAllen, Texas on Oct. 31, 2005.

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