Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Guyanese cartoonist highlights oil boom, corruption
By  • 23 February 2018
When Paul Harris entered a newspaper cartooning competition in Guyana in 1983, he did it not because he wanted to but to make his father happy. [caption id="attachment_9104" align="alignleft" width="173"] Guyanese cartoonist Paul Harris (courtesy)[/caption]…
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Tiny Guyana threatened by 'oil curse'
By  • 22 February 2018
Most people probably know little about the tiny South American nation of Guyana. In the U.S., it made headlines back in the late 1970s after an American cult leader named Jim Jones took his followers…
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Venezuela's descent
By  • 15 September 2016
When you think of humanitarian crises, they’re usually caused by war or some natural disaster like a drought or earthquake. But in Venezuela today millions of people face shortages of food and medicines for a…
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Oil-cursed Equatorial Guinea
By  • 24 December 2015
At first glance, the small West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is doing well. Sandwiched between Cameroon and Gabon on the Gulf of Guinea, the oil-rich nation of 820,000 has a per capita GDP equivalent…
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