Ten years after its opening, mention Guantanamo, and a thousand images emerge. Men in orange jumpsuits wearing goggles, hoods and handcuffs, hunched over in the relentless Caribbean sun; zoo-like cages, exposed to the elements, with nothing but buckets as toilets; secret areas of the prison compound where “enhanced interrogation techniques” were tested; a detainee deprived of sleep, and injected forcibly with fluids to cause swelling, until he broke; men found hanging from ropes in their cells. Read full article > >

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Imagining a world without Guantanamo

Leaders from 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean approve the creation of a new regional bloc that excludes the United States and Canada.

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New LatAm bloc ends first meeting

Venezuela’s President Chavez hosts a summit creating a new regional bloc, bringing together 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries without the US or Canada.

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Hugo Chavez hosts summit minus US

Four men suspected of smuggling drugs are killed off the east coast of Nicaragua after a high-speed chase through Caribbean waters.

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Nicaragua navy kills ‘drug gang’

Ensconced in a plexiglass bubble some 500 feet beneath the azure waves of the southern Caribbean Sea, Carole Baldwin spied a lumpy oddball of a flesh-colored fish. It looked like an anglerfish, also known as a sea toad. Yet Baldwin, one of the most experienced Caribbean fish specialists alive, had not seen this variety. Read full article > >

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Deep reef ‘twilight zones’ slowly yield their secrets to explorers

When Ernest Hemingway departed Cuba for Spain on July 25, 1960, he thought he’d be coming back. He was wrong. Less than a year later, on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, he leveled the barrels of his beloved W. & C. Scott & Son Monte Carlo B shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger. On the Caribbean island he left behind were his boat, his car and his house — a stuccoed, one-story affair that had been his base of operations for more than two decades. Read full article > >

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Hemingway’s Finca Vigia restored in partnership of Cuban, U.S. preservationists

Sir Richard Branson pulls out of a charity swim across the Irish Sea from Anglesey after a fire destroys his luxury Caribbean home.

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Branson pulls out of charity swim

Seven states along the east coast of the US declare emergencies ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irene, which has already caused havoc in the Caribbean.

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Irene takes aim at US east coast

A woman on her Caribbean honeymoon may have tried to fend off an attack before she and her husband were shot, a doctor tells a murder trial jury.

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Murdered bride ‘fought for life’

This isn’t a promotion for the new Pirates of the Caribbean film: An expedition off the coast of North Carolina has recovered the anchor from Blackbeard’s ship, The Queen Anne’s Revenge. The ship ran aground in shallow water in 1718 and was discovered…

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Blackbeard’s Anchor Recovered

The new Pirates of the Caribbean film had the biggest opening weekend of the year in the US and Canada, taking $90.1m (£55.6m), studio estimates suggest.

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Pirates sequel tops US box office

Watching “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” is to be reminded of 2003, when many skeptics (including yours truly) approached the first installment with a combination of suspicion and outright cynicism. A movie based on a theme park ride? How good could it be? Plenty good, as it turned out. And in a similar fashion the fourth installment dispels many fans’ trepidation regarding sequels and the diminishing returns they so often represent. The legions of filmgoers who have made the “ Pirates ” movies such a box office behemoth needn’t worry. “On Stranger Tides” feels as fresh and bracingly exhilarating as the day Jack Sparrow first swashed his buckle, infusing new reckless energy into a franchise that shows no signs of furling its sails. Read full article > >

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The stars of the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film met their fans on Sunday evening at Disneyland California.

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VIDEO: Pirates welcome for Depp and Cruz

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson’s plan to import lemurs to his Caribbean islands provokes concern among conservationists.

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Branson’s lemur plan raises alarm

The 2011 Cannes Film Festival lineup is out and ready to seduce those traveling to France next month for a week-or-so of all different types of films from around the world. Big, well-known titles include the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Terrence Malick’s long-awaited Tree of Life (starring Brad Pitt), Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (with Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan), Lars Von Trier’s trippy, end-of-days drama Melancholia, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, and so much more from directors like Pedro Almodovar (The Skin That I Live In), Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), The Dardenne Brothers (The Kid With The Bike), and Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be The Place), among others.