Angelo emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 14. In his road toward the American Dream, Angelo lived on the street and worked in places where he was exploited. In the mid-1990s, a co-worker helped him pursue a high school equivalency degree. Working at grocery stores and studying at the same ...
Thirty years ago, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. Thousands of people died of radiation, tens of thousands have died of homesickness and stress. But what is Chernobyl today -- a mere passing memory? A destination for nuclear tourists and stalkers? Or a place with its own special...
In 2012, I investigated conditions for Central American migrants traveling through Mexico. At that time, the vast majority rode the cargo trains known as La Bestia, The Beast. Despite facing a horrific journey--it's estimated that 80% of refugees were attacked, 60% of women raped, people ...
They said it was an act of God. As the "Vivekananda Flyover" collapsed in the heart of Kolkata, India on March 31, 2016, resulting in the loss of more than 25 lives, critical injuries of more than 100 victims, the act was definitely of mankind! As the people...
From 1990-94, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabagh in the Caucasus fought a fierce war with Azerbaijan. Long after the ceasefire of 1994, I made my first trip to the region in 1998, when the Armenians had already ceased control of nearly all of Nagorno-Karabagh and added large swaths of land previously...
Kolkata is one of the most important economic and cultural hubs of India. In the suburbs of all this noise and humdrum of daily city life, lies one of the biggest open-air waste disposal sites. The area around it has a life of its own -- a life shrouded in squalor and an uncanny solitude...
