photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez
Soldiers stand next to the body of a rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, after clashes in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Saturday, July 25, 2009.
photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez
Soldiers stand at a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, after troops faced off with rebels in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Saturday, July 25, 2009.
photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez
A police officer wades through flood waters toward residents standing outside their flooded home in Puerto Salgar village in Colombia, Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez
Air force officers and congressmen tour the Palanquero Air Force base in Puerto Salgar in Colombia's central Magdalena valley, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009.
photo: US Coastguard / CDR Joe Hester
Cartagena, Colombia (OCT. 3, 2006) -- United Sates Coast Guard personnel from the Coast Guard Cutter Legare ,Colombian National Police and the Rotary club of Cartagena work together to repaint a school in the Puerto Rey neighborhood outside Cartagena, Colombia. Although the school had only hoped to paint the exterior faade, the volunteers successfully repainted the entire school, inside and out. USCG photo by CDR Joe Hester (107011) ( LEGARE, VOLUNTEER (FOR RELEASE) )
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Police officers stand guard over packages of seized cocaine at the police station in Santa Marta, Colombia, Nov.27, 2009.
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Maraca
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Capt. Fernandez
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Ernest Scott
Capt. Fernandez
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Population density, Census 2000.
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Sancocho
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Maddelin Angebrand
Lt. Jonny L. Cosby checks the vision of a Nicaraguan woman to prescribe glasses during a humanitarian assistance project in Puerto Cabezasn Nicaragua during the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008.
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Rear. Adm. Joseph Kernan, commander of the U.S. 4th Fleet, speaks to a doctor from Hospital Nuevo Amanecer Enfermera Nancy Bach, a local hospital in Puerto Cabezas.
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U.S. Navy Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Scott Parker gives a high five to a Nicaraguan child at a medical site in Puerto Cabezas during the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Ernest Scott
Capt. Walter Towns, right, and Capt. Fernandez
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Gas Natural headquarters in Barcelona.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Gina Wollman
U.S. Navy and Air Force dental volunteers, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), give a dental exam to a Nicaraguan citizen.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist First Class David G. Crawford
Chief Hospital Corpsman Chris Land and U.S. Public Health Service Capt. Jose Belardo help a Nicaraguan man suffering from partial paralysis back to his house.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist First Class David G. Crawford
Lt. Cmdr. Sugat Patel, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), examines a Nicaraguan woman complaining of chest pains at a clinic during a humanitarian assistance project.
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American pottery
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Members of a U.S.-backed Colombian Army counter narcotics battalion carry bags containing cocaine found at a coca laboratory near Puerto Asis, Colombia, in the southern state of Putumayo, Monday, Feb. 12, 2001. According to the army nearly 30,000 hectare
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Lt. Cmdr. Louis Cimorelli, assigned to Fleet Surgical Team 4 embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), performs a check-up on a Nicaraguan child.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class David Danals
Navy Capt. Michael Ashe and Air Force Col. Dan Dupont, both assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), perform a dental procedure on a Nicaraguan child.
photo: US Coastguard / Ricardo Castrodad.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Coast Guard Sector San Juan hosted Dominican Republic Navy vessels from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, 2009 during their final port call before returning to the Dominican Republic as part of their International Midshipmen Instruction Cruise 2009. The D.R. Navy Vessel's "Altura Almirante Didiez Burgos," PA-301; "Tortuguero", PM-203 and Orion, GC-109 made Port Calls in Cartagena, Colombia; Williamsted, Curazao and Fort de France, Martinique prior to visiting Sector San Juan. U.S. Coast
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Plantain chips
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Panaeolus cyanescens a type of mushroom
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William S. Parker
Cmdr. Freeman Dodsworth holds an Operation Smile patient.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William S. Parker
Lt. Quinn O'Bannon gives a sermon during Mass.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Joshua Adam Nuzzo
A young Nicaraguan girl and her grandmother wait to see medical personnel.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Joshua Adam Nuzzo
Capt. Timothy Shope gives a Nicaraguan woman a medical exam.