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Singer Gloria Estefan holds aloft a photograph of Cuba's Las Damas de Blanco as she, along with her husband, Emilio Estefan (L), and others march in support of them on March 25, 2010 in Miami, Florida. In Cuba last week the Las Damas de Blanco, Ladies in White, who are peaceful dissidents, were attacked by government security forces in Havana. -- PHOTO: AFP




Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, who is running for a congressional seat, whispers a few words at the glass coffin holding the remains of her husband, late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who remains unburied since he's death in 1989. She was on the first day of her campaign at the town of Batac, Ilocos norte province, north of Manila, on March 26, 2010. The Philippine election shifted gear on Friday as campaigning for Congressional seats starts, with interest centred on the president's move to run for the lower house and the risks from a new automated voting system. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Paintings are exibited for sale at the Petion-Ville area of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The capital is a graveyard of fallen cathedrals, libraries and places of cultural interest. Invaluable private art collections were also decimated by the quake. Despite the extent of the loss, the word culture is strangely absent from the draft Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) drawn up by the government in conjunction with the international community. -- PHOTO: AFP