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Timothy Gatto is a well respected member of the Liberal Party of America. Because of his political views, this article is biased, but there is still accurate information and a perspective on what is happening in Latin America. The date stamp is recent, and there is more information on the author with links to an external site.

The author of this article, J. Preston Whitt, is a research associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C, according to verifiable sources. This article is informative and has lots of useful information about both the past and present of socialism, as well as an extremely current date stamp and verified sources that are cited in a biography with an external link. It is organized and flows nicely, and has links to other reputable sources with similar topics.

Mery Vaca is a respected journalist who focuses on Bolivia. The page is in Spanish, but it appears to be grammatically correct and BBC Mundo is usually very high quality. She quotes activists in the issue and various sources she uses for her statistics. It was last edited on September 29, 2010. This page provides facts and focuses on a single organization for its information. It has a wide scope of the information it provides.

This article does not site specific authors but it does have places to email the author and contact the site's administrators. Again, the site is in Spanish, but the sources are reliable (WHO, Intervida.org) and the information is confirmed in other sites I've seen. There are some Google ads on the site, most likely to support its upkeeping. The article was last edited on January 24, 2007 and has not been updated since. The site is written for women, so it is focused on the Intervida organization to help women and has some scary statistics to tell women to be careful.

Written by Dennis Rosen, a pediatric pulmonologist at the Chidlren's Hospital in Boston, for the New York Times, this article is a well written account of a doctor trying to save lives in Haiti. As the article is mostly personal, there is little factual information. The objective of the article seems to be to give readers hope that Haiti is improving. Published on Sept 27, 2010, the article is fairly recent.

Jacqueline Charles, of the Miami Herald, is the newspaper's Caribbean Correspondent. and is a native Haitian. Though the article does mention that statistics come from "recent polls", it is not said where or when the polls were taken. The article also seems a bit biased towards the people who are frustrated about the elections and the government, and barely mentions those who believe the opposite. The article was very recently published (on Oct15, 2010), and seems to cover quite a bit of information within this fairly narrow topic.

Current events on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

great selection of articles on current events in Latin America

Article source for my current event blog post; British priest Paul McAuley on thin ice with Peruvian government for environmentalist efforts.

A way to put faces with the trapped Chilean miners.

News blog from Cuba

Blog of an expatriate American woman in Honduras

This article shows that democracy in Latin America is still vulnerable. Continued support is needed to keep democracy in place

Blog from Octavo Cerco in Cuba

Blog from young Cubans

This website answers questions about US-Cuba relations. I believe it is very reliable given it is written by Stephanie Hanson, an employee of the Council on Foreign Relations, which publishes the internationally respected Foreign Affairs Magazine. The Council on Foreign Affairs is a non-biased think tank committed to accurate, current news. The author seems simply interested on informing her audience with reliable information. She sites her sources with links to external articles, and she provides clear evidence.

Stephanie Hanson is a published writer who covered economic and political development in Latin America for over three years for the Council of Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan organization committed to remaining objective about matters of policy. This article cites the vast majority of its statistics and factual information to reputable sites, and confirms information I knew previously. The information is mostly factual, and seems fairly unbiased. The author's objective seems to be only to inform interested citizens about the topic. This article was published on January 11, 2010, and covers a large variety of topics relating to US and Cuban foreign affairs. 

This website has a clear author (Stephanie Hanson) who appears qualified after a google search revealed her extensive experience and recognition writing about global issues. The Council of Foreign Relations is the site's organization which is a famous, distinguished resource for public and government debate. Information is accurate, grammatically correct, and clearly cites sources. CFR is a nonpartisan organization which aims to be an unbiased facilitator of discussions about world issues. The article itself presents basic facts and allows readers to form their own opinions. The site indicates the date when the article was last revised (January 11, 2010), has a 2010 copyright, and provides up-to-date links. It covers a wide range of points and is pretty long but is well-organized with an introductory outline dividing it into clear sections.

Anthony DePalma is a noted journalist for the New York Times, having spent time reporting from various countries in Latin America. This article is a compilation of New York Times coverage of Cuba, Fidel Castro, and US-Cuba Relations. On the right side of the page, there are links to other related sources. The page is easy to read and has a wide range of information. The New York Times is generally a very accurate newspaper, and the article was edited in July of 2010, which is definitely recent enough to have current information on what is covered in the article. This is a good background article, but there are other sources available for more specific aspects.