Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

When News21 producers Don Duncan and Elizabeth Mendez-Berry traveled to to Miami in order to investigate shifts in the Latino community, what they found was that Cuban voices are no longer the only Hispanic ones in Miami politics.
As part of the upcoming elections there, local politicians are focused on campaigning in Colombian and Nicaraguan [...]

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News21 reporter Elizabeth Mendez Berry and I have been talking to Cubans in Miami over the past week, as we report our story on challenges to their political power from other Latinos, and from within their own community. And we have noticed many events and people recurring as points of reference for this community.
For the [...]

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Editor’s Note: Columbia News21 Fellow Don Duncan just returned from a two-week journey to Afghanistan, where he followed an Afghan refugee returning there to visit for the first time since being resettled in Phoenix, Ariz. Also see his earlier dispatch.
 
 
Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan – Since the U.S.-led invasion by the coalition forces of Afghanistan in [...]

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Editor’s Note: Columbia News21 Fellow Don Duncan has been travelling in Afghanistan, following an Afghan refugee returning there to visit for the first time since being resettled in Phoenix, Ariz. Watch for additional updates on their two-week journey, which is being supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
When Dost Mohammad Khairy’s computer goes [...]

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