What in the World

El Salvador's prisons are bloody and brutal. And overcrowded. And with one of the highest homicides rates in the world and with 700 arrests a day that level of overcrowding shows no signs of abating. But rather than give up on prisons and prisoners the people who are running the prison service have decided to change tack and reform the system. Their response is Yo Cambio

Caracas is the most urbanised city in the most urbanised country in the most urbanised region of the world. Nine-three percent of the population of the country live in urban areas. The city has a population of 2.1 million and 5.1 million depending on where the boundary is drawn. The boundary keeps shifting outwards and upwards. And the city continues to draw people in, not just from within Venezuela and neighbouring countries but also from The Caribbean most notably from Haiti. Not only are Latin America’s cities stretched way beyond their capacity but they are also the most unequal in the world.

Gaddafi’s demise did not result in the hoped-for democratic revolution. Four years on instead of forming a democratic and functioning state, the revolutionaries are fighting each other.

For forty years now the Sahrawi people have lived in exile. Their home: five refugee camps in one of the hottest parts of the desert where summer temperatures reach over 50 degrees centigrade. Yet they continue to dream of the prospect of returning to their homeland in northwest Africa.