| Chico and Rita is an animated film which tells the love story of two musicians from Cuba. Chico is a very talented pianist in search of a singer who can match his ability. While out one night he spots just the woman he is looking for, Rita, ... |  Blogcritics.org (blog) |
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lunes, 9 de mayo de 2011
DVD Review: Chico and Rita
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Alleged drug lord Walid Makled sent to Venezuela
Alleged drug lord Walid Makled sent to Venezuela: "Venezuela's alleged drug kingpin, Walid Makled, will provide evidence against politicians and the military to Venezuela's legislature, his lawyer says. BY JIM WYSS BOGOTA -- Walid Makled, the alleged drug kingpin who was extradited to Venezuela on ...
Venezuela says problem at oil refinery partially affecting output, but exports ...
Venezuela says problem at oil refinery partially affecting output, but exports ...
By AP, CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's state oil company says the failure of an air circulation system has affected production at the South American country's largest refinery, but the problem will not affect oil shipments. Petroleos de Venezuela SA ...
16 Slain in Puerto Rico
16 Slain in Puerto Rico: "San Juan – Police superintendent Jose Figueroa Sancha met Monday with his regional commanders after another weekend of violence left 16 dead in Puerto Rico. The conference followed an admission by the force's head of field operations, Col. ...
Inflation-Fighting in Brazil Could Be Bad News for Automakers
Inflation-Fighting in Brazil Could Be Bad News for Automakers: "
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| Brazil's commodity driven economy has perpetually struggled with boom and bust cycles that have created a society divided into extremes of poverty and wealth. Monetary mismanagement and political corruption has reliably led to runaway inflation in the ... |  BNET (blog) |
Chile favors $7 billion hydroelectric dams on remote Patagonian ...
Chile favors $7 billion hydroelectric dams on remote Patagonian ...: ""Chile is still a poor country, with 2.5 million poor people, and to overcome poverty we need energy, and for that reason we need to develop our own ...
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Caring for poor, hospitals reach brink of closure
Caring for poor, hospitals reach brink of closure: "One-third of the city's families are below the poverty line. The hospital has lost $5 million a year since 2000. The state has cited the hospital for safety violations that would require nearly $6 million to correct. "The building is 85 years old, ...
Attorney General vows to close Guantanamo
Attorney General vows to close Guantanamo: "PARIS (Reuters) - US Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday the United States would close the Guantanamo Bay facility holding terrorism suspects in Cuba, despite missing a previous deadline to do so. On an official visit to Paris, Holder stressed ...
Chile April trade surplus surges with copper revs
Chile April trade surplus surges with copper revs: "SANTIAGO, May 9 (Reuters) - Chile's trade surplus CLTBAL=ECI surged 26 percent in April from a year earlier, when the country was battered by an earthquake, boosted by high prices for copper, central bank data showed on Monday. Chile, the world's top ...
Mining companies in Peru face higher taxes from next president
Mining companies in Peru face higher taxes from next president
There is apprehension that Peru's stellar economic performance of the last ... World Bank says one in three Peruvians still live below the poverty level. ...
Nicaraguan women challenge unemployment and poverty
Nicaraguan women challenge unemployment and poverty: "By Pha Lo on 05/08/2011 The women of El Carizal, Nicaragua, who decided to get organized and launch a coop producing a popular line of organic jam. [Photo: courtesy of Lauren Stocker EL CARIZAL, Nicaragua— In this farming community of 250 people, ...
Latin American Terrorist Ties with the Middle East
Latin American Terrorist Ties with the Middle East: "On May 10th, 2011, the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) will publish one of its strategic dossiers based on a study of the computer disks entitled The FARC Files: Venezuela, Ecuador and the Secret Archives of 'Raúl Reyes' that ...
Iranian Delegation to Visit Chile
Iranian Delegation to Visit Chile: "Earlier on Saturday, President of Chile's Chamber of Deputies Patricio Melero voiced his country's willingness to expand ties with Iran, specially in parliamentary fields. Speaking to Tehran's Ambassador to Santiago Houshang Karimi Abhari, Melero hoped ...
Door to Cuba opens for students here
Door to Cuba opens for students here: "BY MATT WILHALME Staff Reporter May 8, 2011 10:11PM Christina Perez, a teacher at Dominican University, is taking a class to be one of the first to study abroad in Cuba under new travel regulations. They meet on Sunday, May 1, ...
Cuba's Hunt For Oil Raises Questions For US
Cuba's Hunt For Oil Raises Questions For US: "by Nick Miroff An oil rig operated by Cuba and China in eastern Havana. The Cuban government and its foreign partners plan to begin drilling in the Gulf of Mexico this fall. An oil rig operated by Cuba and China in eastern Havana. ...
Into each new life, a little rain falls
Into each new life, a little rain falls: "In addition to the graduating students, hundreds of family members and friends – some from as far away as Puerto Rico and North Carolina – filled the pavilion, waving and cheering from their seats. They also took pictures, hand-delivered flowers and ...
Cuba denies police beat dissident who later died
Cuba denies police beat dissident who later died
HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban government is denying opposition claims that police beat an ailing dissident who died two days after a protest. State-run website Cubadebate says witnesses to Thursday's incident in the city of Santa Clara reported that Juan ...
Challengers fall away in Argentina
Challengers fall away in Argentina: "By Jude Webber in Buenos Aires With five months to go before Argentina's presidential elections and candidates dropping like flies, Cristina Fernández, the incumbent, can feel increasingly confident. The latest rival to throw in the towel was Mauricio ...
Buenos Aires mayor drops out from October presidential race
Buenos Aires mayor drops out from October presidential race: "
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| Mauricio Macri the conservative mayor of Buenos Aires City and one of the leading contenders for next October's presidential election decided over the weekend not to challenge populist President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and instead will seek ... |  MercoPress |
Nutrition and Family Planning Intersect for a Healthier Guatemala
Nutrition and Family Planning Intersect for a Healthier Guatemala: "
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| FAO's monthly report for March says the cost of maize, a staple crop in Guatemala and other parts of Central America, rose 35 percent in the country over the previous three months. In Guatemala, around half of all children are stunted. ... |  USAID (press release) |
Study: Race is a Factor in Charity, Social Programs
Study: Race is a Factor in Charity, Social Programs: "The study also said America has a smaller government than some and yet larger government tends to reduce inequalities. Even among US states there is a race-based disparity. Especially in the South, welfare benefits are smaller in areas with large, ...
Life Along the Border Amidst the Drug War
Life Along the Border Amidst the Drug War: "
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| A Mexican journalist talks about how threats on his life and his family prompted him to move to Vancouver after covering the drug wars in Ciudad Juarez for nearly two decades. [Fronteras] The violence in Mexico is placing high demand on the blood ... |  PBS NewsHour |
Thousands march in Mexico City to protest the drug war | Raw Replay
Thousands march in Mexico City to protest the drug war | Raw Replay: "As vicious criminal gangs battle the Mexican military and each other for the immense cash reserves produced by U.S. prohibition policies, the nation to America's south has become increasingly concerned that fighting has begun to consume ...
Colombia sends reputed drug kingpin to Venezuela
Colombia sends reputed drug kingpin to Venezuela: "By LIBARDO CARDONA , 05.09.11, 12:15 PM EDT BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia on Monday extradited to Venezuela a man the White House has called an important drug kingpin, sending him to face trial in the very country where he says close associates of ...
Local Habitat team heading to Bolivia in 2012
Local Habitat team heading to Bolivia in 2012: "Despite the high level of poverty, Celinda Melgarejo, director of Habitat Bolivia, believes Muncie residents should come to her nation not only to help ...
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domingo, 8 de mayo de 2011
Thousands march against violence in Mexico City
Thousands march against violence in Mexico City: "We are marching for a free country with social conscience," said Zepeda, who is from the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec. Gruesome violence has surged in the region southwest of Mexico City since drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva died in a December 2009 ...
Central America: Boosting Small Enterprise to Fight Poverty ...
Central America: Boosting Small Enterprise to Fight Poverty ...: "Cyril Almeida at Dawn has written a powerful and anguished column about the bewilderment among many Pakistanis on discovering that Osama bin Laden had been ...
An ancient 'lost civilization' in Cuba?
An ancient 'lost civilization' in Cuba?: "During the 1950s Cuban divers and underwater archaeologists found extensive artifact evidence of a Native American civilization on the western end of Cuba that was different and more advanced that the Taino-Arawak peoples, who migrated to the island ...
Rafiño: A young artist driven by perseverance
Rafiño: A young artist driven by perseverance: "By Ana I. Herrera / GablesHomePage.com Staff Writer One day after school, when he was 7 years old in his native Havana, Cuba, greatly worried his mother after a meeting with his second-grade teacher. As part of his classwork that day, Rafiño had been ...
'Hell' Reigns Supreme at Mexico's Ariel Awards
'Hell' Reigns Supreme at Mexico's Ariel Awards: "
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Venezuelan police chief, son killed during apparent attempt by gunmen to steal ...
Venezuelan police chief, son killed during apparent attempt by gunmen to steal ...
By AP, CARACAS, Venezuela — Authorities in Venezuela say the director of a municipal police force and his son have been slain in the western part of the country. Police in Zulia state say the police chief for a municipality near the city of Maracaibo ...
Changes in Cuba Leave Root Problem Intact
Changes in Cuba Leave Root Problem Intact: "As I finish writing this article, the modifications that were made to the “Guidelines” document still haven't been published, something that has generated a high level of uncertainty among many Cubans. (They are set to be released on Monday May 9). ...
Buenos Aires nominated as World Book Capital 2011
Buenos Aires nominated as World Book Capital 2011: "Designer of the tower, Argentine artist Marta Minujin stands in front of the "Tower of Babel", a creation made with thousands of books in languages from all over the world, at San Martin square in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 6, 2011. ...
Argentine energy chief faces bribery allegation
Argentine energy chief faces bribery allegation
BUENOS AIRES — Argentine Energy Minister Daniel Cameron could become the second high-ranking official in President Cristina Kirchner's administration to be prosecuted for corruption, according to a judicial source. Prosecutors petitioned Judge ...
Buenos Aires Mayor Macri Drops Argentine Presidential Bid
Buenos Aires Mayor Macri Drops Argentine Presidential Bid
By Taos Turner, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri dropped out of Argentina's 2011 presidential race on Saturday and announced plans to seek re- election in the capital city. ...
Cuba seeks to jump-start economy
Cuba seeks to jump-start economy: "A woman holds up a homemade poster of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro during the May Day celebration in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Sunday May 1, 2011. The gathering of hundreds of thousands of Cubans is being touted as a massive show ...
Heat doesn't need to be great at end to win
Heat doesn't need to be great at end to win: "James and Wade have climbed over too much – poverty, upbringing, all the other athletes fighting for these dollars and wins – to not trust their basketball talent in any situation. It has rewarded them too often, in too many ways. ...
The 'Garden Town' celebrates its centenary
The 'Garden Town' celebrates its centenary: "... history located at the centre of the station's park, and with the presentation of allegorical medals given to De Vicenzo; Armella; Ranelagh's oldest neighbour, Juan Bach; and the director of the Police Music Band of Buenos Aires Province. ...
Brazil Keeps Close Watch over Poverty, Inflation
Brazil Keeps Close Watch over Poverty, Inflation
A permanent watch over inflation, a new program to fight poverty and the elimination of three soccer teams in the South American Libertadores Cup 2011 made headlines in Brazil this week. President Dilma Rousseff and other top officials expressed their ...
The Oldest Woman in Cuba Wishes All Mothers Peace
The Oldest Woman in Cuba Wishes All Mothers Peace: "On the occasion of Mother's Day on Sunday, the elderly woman spoke with ACN at the farm where she was born on February 2, 1885. With admirable clarity and energy for her age, Candulia, as close family and friends call her, asked for “all the good” and ...
Cuba: Third Tourist Destination in the Caribbean
Cuba: Third Tourist Destination in the Caribbean: "HAVANA, Cuba, May 7 (acn) Cuba is the third most important tourist destination in the Caribbean, said the Cuban Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero, during a working session of the 31st International Tourism Fair FITCuba 2011 that concluded on Saturday ...
Some on Pinellas School Board question funding for teachers' master's degrees
Some on Pinellas School Board question funding for teachers' master's degrees: "
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| In the past four years, the University of Florida's Lastinger Center and the district have provided scholarships to teachers from high-poverty schools to get their master's degrees in education. In return, the teachers continue teaching in those ... |  Tampabay.com |
A snapshot of the Venezuelan petroleum industry in May, 2011
A snapshot of the Venezuelan petroleum industry in May, 2011: "Venezuela has proven reserves of about 85 billion barrels of conventional oil and some 185 trillion cubic feet of gas. These volumes make Venezuela the leader of the HAVES in the hemisphere. Probable resources are even more important. ...
Venezuela calls for closer cooperation with Iran
Venezuela calls for closer cooperation with Iran: "TEHRAN – Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has said that Caracas is keen to have closer cooperation with Iran in the international arena. Maduro made the remarks during a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Behrouz Kamalvandi who is ...
Cubans to learn specifics of economic changes
Cubans to learn specifics of economic changes
HAVANA (AP) — Cubans will soon get their first look at the details of highly anticipated economic changes that were approved at last month's Communist Party Congress, official news media said Saturday. An announcement in party newspaper Granma said ...
NGO 'Journalists for the Truth' says Freedom of Speech Thriving in Venezuela
NGO 'Journalists for the Truth' says Freedom of Speech Thriving in Venezuela: "By Correo del Orinoco International Refuting claims that Venezuela has been saddled by a clamp down on freedom of expression in recent years, Vice President for the NGO Journalists for the Truth, Jose Gregorio Nieves, challenged corporate media outlets ...
Chile | Innovations for Poverty Action
Chile | Innovations for Poverty Action: "Innovations for Poverty Action applies rigorous research techniques to develop and test solutions to real-world problems faced by the poor in developing ...
Criminalization of the Internet in Cuba
Criminalization of the Internet in Cuba: "In any case, the new government offensive against debate in cyberspace, that some of us Cubans have access to, is worrisome. It is an orthodox assault by the regime that is taking advantage of the difficult international situation to settle some of its ...
viernes, 6 de mayo de 2011
Argentina Fines Economic Consultant Ecolatina for Publishing Inflation Stats
Argentina Fines Economic Consultant Ecolatina for Publishing Inflation Stats: "In addition to issuing a personal appeal to the President, Ecolatina ended their statement by stressing that “inflation is the most ruthless mechanism in generating more poverty,” and that “ignoring this fact, blatantly lying and going after those who ...
Venezuela Rejects Use of Terror to Fight Terrorism
Venezuela Rejects Use of Terror to Fight Terrorism: "The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, assuming Bin Laden's announced death is true, demands an immediate stop to the occupation and violence provoked by the US in Central Asia with the alleged intention of neutralizing Bin Laden. ...
Top US diplomat for Latin America resigning
Top US diplomat for Latin America resigning
But Valenzuela's tenure was criticized by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who said he didn't do enough to counter rising anti-Americanism in the region led by Presidents President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Rafael Correa of ...
Boosting Small Enterprise to Fight Poverty
Boosting Small Enterprise to Fight Poverty: "By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, May 6, 2011 (IPS) - Small and medium-sized companies in Central America are the targets of foreign development aid programmes aimed at fighting the region's high poverty levels. One of the initiatives is the Access ...
UN official outlines measures needed to overcome glaring inequalities in Latin ...
UN official outlines measures needed to overcome glaring inequalities in Latin ...: "Latin America and the Caribbean remains the most socially unequal region in the world, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said today, highlighting the measures required to tackle the problem in a region which has made ...
Chile CMPC 1Q Net Profit Jumps 78% On Year To $141.3 Million
Chile CMPC 1Q Net Profit Jumps 78% On Year To $141.3 Million: "By Carolina Pica SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Chilean pulp and wood products company Empresas CMPC SA's (CMPC.SN) net profit jumped 78% on the year in the first quarter to $141.3 million, according to the company's Thursday filing with the SVS local ...
Venezuela says OPEC members should maintan quotas
Venezuela says OPEC members should maintan quotas: "By Kejal Vyas CARACAS -(MarketWatch)- The recent drop in oil prices is characteristic of the typical fluctuations in the market, Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said Friday, adding that fellow members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting ...
Buenos Aires will have 30000 books' Babel Tower in city center
Buenos Aires will have 30000 books' Babel Tower in city center
Well known argentine artist, Marta Minujín, will create a 25-metre high "Tower of Babel" in Plaza San Martín, a famous square in the city centre of Buenos Aires. The structure will be made of a pile of 30000 books in different languages, 16 thousand of ...
Argentina's Banco Macro Lifts 2011 Loan Growth Forecast To 35%
Argentina's Banco Macro Lifts 2011 Loan Growth Forecast To 35%: "By Ken Parks Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Banco Macro SA (BMA, BMA.BA), one of Argentina's biggest private-sector banks, raised its outlook on Friday for loan growth this year to 35% from 30% owing to what it described as broad ...
Venezuelan Accountant Head Pleads Guilty in PDVSA $500 Million Ponzi in USA
Venezuelan Accountant Head Pleads Guilty in PDVSA $500 Million Ponzi in USA: "
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| The latest was Juan Carlos Guillen Zerpa, the Managing Partner of international accounting giant BDO's Venezuelan affiliate, who the FBI says was paid $1 million to fake $275 million in missing funds. CARACAS -- Juan Carlos Guillen Zerpa, 44, ... |  Latin American Herald Tribune |
Latam inflation slows, easing rate hike pressure
Latam inflation slows, easing rate hike pressure: "By Luciana Lopez and Antonio de la Jara SAO PAULO/SANTIAGO, May 6 (Reuters) - Inflation slowed in Brazil and Chile in April as price-fighting efforts by policy-makers gained traction, prompting some economists and investors to scale back expectations ...
Cubans begin to enjoy making money
Cubans begin to enjoy making money: "
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| Wealth sticks out like a sore thumb in Cuba, especially with a person like Orlando – who has amassed a small fortune for over 20 years – and lives in Cuba's generally humble countryside. Orlando's three-story stone white house with its hand carved ... |  msnbc.com |
Whale death off Puerto Rico blamed on plastic bags
Whale death off Puerto Rico blamed on plastic bags
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A rare whale has washed up dead in Puerto Rico, and a biologist is blaming plastic bags for its demise. Nilda Jimenez says that she conducted a necropsy of the Gervais beaked whale and found more than 10 pounds (4.5 kilos) ...
UNDP Chief We must tackle inequality in Latin America
UNDP Chief We must tackle inequality in Latin America: "A central message of the Latin America and Caribbean Human Development Report was ... byproduct of successful poverty reduction programmes inequality itself ...
The Right to Be Apolitical in Cuba
The Right to Be Apolitical in Cuba: "
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| Since I was a little girl, the only people who wrote me were my father, who had emigrated to the United States, and my cousins, whose parents got them out of Cuba to “escape socialism.” Therefore, such a farewell would be completely incomprehensible to ... |  Havana Times |
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