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...said. Gaza's beaches may be packed and its streets safe, but its factories are shut, and its stores have almost no customers. The economic damage caused by the siege is immense, with unemployment at around 44%; about 80% of the population receives food aid from U.N. agencies. Nasser el-Helou, a hotel owner and a spokesman for the Chamber of Commerce, said the Gazan economy would collapse within weeks if the siege continues...
...Gazan business owners like Telbani and el-Helou--practical, apolitical men--are unanimous in their criticism of Israel rather than Hamas for economic problems. "If we are free, we should control our own borders," said el-Helou. "But we do not, so the full responsibility is on the Israeli side." And business leaders point to a paradox of the embargo; it is destroying the only class of Palestinians who looked favorably on Israel. Most of those in commerce speak Hebrew and have--or used to have--Israeli clients, partners and friends. They had once looked forward to the day when...
...rights of indigenous peoples; it bases itself in the mountains and hills of Oaxaca and Guerrero states. On Wednesday evening, the EPR took responsibility for the less-than-impressive "artifacts." There might be more trouble. A well-connected Mexico City columnist, Raymundo Riva Palacio of the daily El Universo Grafico, told TIME that he believes the EPR is also holding two businessmen for ransom, asking $68 million for their release...
...couple of days," she says, "you're able to make a small difference." Other tour operators stress that voluntourism really does have lasting impact because, despite rapid turnover among individual volunteers, trip organizers develop long-term relationships with community partners. On one of her first group trips to El Salvador in 2001, explains Nancy Rivard, who founded Airline Ambassadors to expand on relief work she began as a flight attendant for American Airlines, volunteers helped 150 families acquire land and rebuild homes devastated by earthquakes. They were scheduled to open a vocational-training center near those homes during the last...
...civil war. More recently, Ivory Coast's heroic exploits at the World Cup and African Cup of Nations have helped promote the peace process that has brought that country's civil war to a close. Then again, soccer has also been known to reinforce conflicts - a brief war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 was triggered by events at a soccer match between the two countries, while Croatian nationalists still mark the start of their war with Serbia not from the day the first shots were fired, but from a violent confrontation at a May 1990 match between...