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Since Guatemala’s civil war, a thirty-six year struggle that started in 1960 during which a quarter of a million people were killed or “disappeared,” Guatemalan children have been adopted abroad in steadily rising numbers. The few hundred brought to the U.S. annually in the mid-nineties, when that war ended, rose to nearly five thousand in […]

Africa’s greatest star, Didier Drogba, didn’t single-handedly end his country’s civil war, but such is the respect he commands that when he called for Ivorians to look beyond what divided them, the people listened

What story did this particular picture tell? Its minimal presentation left all interpretation to the reader, but as the News Chronicle was a left-leaning newspaper—fiercely anti-Franco, for example, in the Spanish civil war—the implication was clear enough: the picture exemplified the scandalous gulf between Britain’s rich and poor.