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From close encounters with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to investigating the conflict in Serbia’s little known Sandzak region to being force-fed by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon, journalist Justin Vela takes the reader on a multi-year journey through countries that stay in the headlines. As an undergraduate student enrolled in an alternative study program, Vela traveled around the world from November 2006-May 2009, coming face to face with many of the issues that define current events today. www.justinvela.com