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Labor Of Love — What It Takes to Make Intercultural Relationships Work

Choosing a partner from another culture often comes with a fight to make the relationship work. The challenges are unpredictable, and the emotional toll — as well as the effort required — can be immense.

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Economy In The News Migrant Lives

No Migrants, No Coffee: The Struggling Nicaraguans Powering Costa Rica’s Harvest

Coffee is a multi-million dollar industry in Costa Rica. But the work on coffee farms is demanding and carried out mainly by migrants, many of whom have left neighboring Nicaragua in search of a better life.

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Society Women Worldwide

Heartbeat International: How An Anti-Abortion Movement Spread From Ohio To The World

Founded in the United States in 1971, Heartbeat International has grown into one of the largest anti-abortion networks in the world, with more than 3,250 affiliated centers in 89 countries, including 288 in Latin America. But it uses misleading advertisements, inaccurate information and sketchy data collection to achieve its goals.

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Migrant Lives

Dying To Get To America: Why So Many Missing Migrants Go Unidentified

Since the 1990s, thousands of migrants have tried to enter the U.S. by crossing the borders of Arizona and Texas, and many have died in the desert. Yet there is no unified DNA program to identify the remains of missing migrants. So who identifies them and how do they do it?

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Migrant Lives

Walls Of Shame: Trump Is Not Alone In Building Barriers To Shut Out Latin Americans

Keeping out the poor from one country to another, or even within a country, is not a new idea, though former U.S. President Donald Trump seems to have set off a new wave across the region, and the world.

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