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Chilean nurses struggle in blacked out, quake-damaged hospital
March 6 2010 at 08:35pm TALCA, Chile (AFP) – One week after a massive earthquake slammed south-central Chile, workers at the severely damaged Talca regional hospital are treating jittery patients as they handle their own fears. The main hospital, a rambling three-story structure occupying a large city block, was first built in the late 19th … Continue reading
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Violence mars anti-Trump protests in Washington / Washington (United States) – 20 January 2017 22:59 – AFP (Thomas WATKINS, Carlos HAMANN) / SCENE / 744 Words US politics inauguration protest 20 January 2017 Masked, black-clad protesters carrying anarchist flags smashed windows, lit fires and scuffled with riot police Friday in downtown Washington, blocks from the … Continue reading
I produced this clip for my J-school class in the fall. As a print monkey I had no experience with video, but somehow I cobbled together a cohesive string of images, dialog and background audio that made sense. Civil War reenactors are always happy to be pictured and will talk up a storm if you … Continue reading
The Institutional Revolutionary Party ran Mexico for 71 years though a combination of patronage, ballot-box stuffing and selective repression, a governing method incompatible with the 21st century democracy that Mexico aspires to be. And yet when it came time to vote on July 1, the PRI’s Enrique Pena Nieto was the hands-down winner. In the … Continue reading
Soon after US soldiers stormed into downtown Baghdad and secured the area that became the Green Zone, State Department officials and government contractors flew in to set up shop. To deal with the fierce summer heat they set up low ceiling partitions inside the buildings and brought in air conditioning units. By 2005 the buildings … Continue reading
Publish date: March 16, 2010 – by Carlos Hamann CONSTITUCION, Chile (AFP) – TWO days after Chile’s monster earthquake and tsunami pummeled this seaside town, the manager of its sole news radio station hauled broadcast gear three blocks from its damaged studio to a bench outside the town hall. There he ran up an antenna … Continue reading
BAGHDAD, Dec 8, 2005 (AFP) – Saddam Hussein’s underground bunker, surprisingly undamaged despite heavy US bombing in 2003, has become an informal tourist attraction for visitors and residents of Baghdad’s downtown Green Zone area. US forces hurled two 900kg (2000 pound) GBU-28 bunker-busting bombs at the building on the opening night of the US-led offensive … Continue reading
by Carlos Hamann UR, Iraq Aug 20, 2005 (AFP) – Dhia Mhesen rattles off fact after fact about this ancient mud brick city, the site of a giant ziggurat and the reputed birthplace of Abraham — the prophet revered by Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike. “The ziggurat was the temple of the moon god,” said … Continue reading
