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...main dock in Gaza city, many of the fishermen call their predicament "an economic war." Abu Mohamed, pulled empty nets from his boat after a fruitless night of fishing. Just hours before, in the early morning, Abu Mohamed's boat had been shot at. "This is terrorism," he said. "Sometimes we feel like we are fighting to fish...
Despite Honduras' string of misfortunes, Martínez remains optimistic that the country's political situation will normalize and that tourism will help pull it out of the hole. Several big projects, such as Carnival Cruise Lines' tourism dock, under construction in Roatán, and a $15 million golf course-beach resort in the north of the country are still moving forward - a sign, Martínez says, of future recovery. "It's a matter of recuperating our international image, and I think that can happen overnight - just the same way we moved from positive to negative...
...guns: A box of semiautomatic handguns mailed to a federal building was not properly X-rayed at the building's loading dock and was allowed to be delivered...
...holiday. On July 4 2006, he test fired - unsuccessfully, it turned out - a long-range, multi-stage ballistic missile, in explicit defiance of a U.N. resolution. By comparison, today's exercise felt a bit like a teenager tossing a few M-80s into the water off a dock somewhere. (See pictures of North Koreans at the polls...
Coca itself evokes an American western boomtown, with the equivalent of saloons and other entertainment for the Halliburton or Texaco employee looking to blow off steam. Across from the canoe dock stands a large military casino, funded by—no surprise—oil. A large amount of oil revenue (the local guides claim 40 percent) is funneled directly into Ecuador’s large military...