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Karl Penhual, the co-author of this article, is a very respected video journalist for CNN. He is a regular on Anderson Cooper 360 and search results show he is well-known by many news sources. The article is mainly factual, but the authors do use direct quotations from the miners, showing concrete evidence and giving substance to the story. Given CNN tries to remain unbiased, the article does not give any opinions on the story, meaning little personal bias is visible.

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.

Although in Spanish, this website is like the cnn equivalent for Colombia.

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.

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

That means that if all goes well, everything will be in place at midnight Tuesday to begin pulling the men out of their subterranean purgatory

Though this article has no specified author, the site is obviously trustworthy from the copyright at the bottom of the article (Copyright 2010 by BNO News B.V. All rights reserved. Info: sales@bnonews.com.).  The article is clearly written, tapping evidence from officials to support the story.  The information is broken down and covered thoroughly, even though the article itself is quite short. 

This article by the CNN Wire Staff is quite short, yet the writing is clear and free of grammatical errors.  CNN is a trusted news source and has always provided the facts.  This article uses many quotations from officials closely connected with the incident as well as some facts to provide the story with logos.  The most recent update was today (the 17th of October).  The only potential problem with this article could be that its length, which is made up for in the clear and concise information.

"Race to the bottom"

This article tells the story of a man who went to Cuba to help religious groups. He is being detained because of insufficient paperwork, and it talks about how this is causing tension between Cuba and the Obama Administration. It also discusses whether he is a threat, and the kind of social and political rules Cuba employs.

An extensive biography on Fidel Castro and an interesting movie.