TravelogueingTheDarkSide

The 1980s Cold War hot spots of Central America; The El Salvador Civil War(1982-1984; The Troubles in Northern Ireland(1983); The Disintegration of Communism as the Iron Curtain Melted Away during the Freedom Summer of 1990; The Collapse of the Soviet Union(1991); The Montserrat Volcano Disasterof 1997; The post-9-11 War in Afghanistan; From the Tribal Belt Refugee Camps on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the Tora Bora Air Warin December 2001; The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Flood of New Orleans(2005); The Favela (slums) of Rio de Janeirowhen the World Cup came to town(2011-14); The Ongoing Ordeal of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2015).