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lunes, 16 de mayo de 2011
Nigeria: CCT - Bringing Households Out of Poverty
Nigeria: CCT - Bringing Households Out of Poverty: "According to records frm the foremost global financial institution, the World Bank, the first generation of conditional cash transfers (mostly in Latin American nd other middle income countries) have been marked by good implementation with respect to ...
Some workers in Cuba's private sector unionizing
Some workers in Cuba's private sector unionizing: "President Raul Castro has set in motion changes to stimulate Cuba's struggling economy. While officials have said private workers could join pre-existing unions, this is the first report of such activity.
Colombia is 100th Country to Ratify Disability Rights Treaty
Colombia is 100th Country to Ratify Disability Rights Treaty: "Women with disabilities whether physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory face multiple discrimination because of their gender, disability and in many cases, poverty. Countries need to give teeth to the convention by enacting strong laws and policies. ...
Six-time Olympic Medalist wants Calgary to Give Opportunity to the World's Poorest
Six-time Olympic Medalist wants Calgary to Give Opportunity to the World's Poorest: "In 2010, this group travelled to Colombia and were devastated by the extreme poverty they witnessed. They were also inspired by the strength, courage and entrepreneurial spirit of the everyday people they met, working against seemingly insurmountable ...
Massacre in northern Guatemala leaves 29 dead
Massacre in northern Guatemala leaves 29 dead: "Its weak law enforcement, rampant corruption and proximity to Mexico have drawn Mexican drug cartels into its border regions. In February, the government lifted a two-month-long state of siege that it had declared in Alta Verapaz province, ...
Hires and promotions, May 16
Hires and promotions, May 16: "The SH Cowell Foundation, which focuses its philanthropy on children living in poverty, has elected Lydia Tan to its board of directors. She is executive vice president and director, Northern California operations, of Related California. ...
Danbury man sees the other side of Guantanamo
Danbury man sees the other side of Guantanamo: "Ken Baylor of Danbury recently accompanied a group of civilians that toured the facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to show support for the troops stationed there. Baylor is photographed showing Challenge Coins that were presented to them by members of ...
Young actress travels to Nicaragua for Christian Aid Week
Young actress travels to Nicaragua for Christian Aid Week: "... which aims to 'help people in poverty, out of poverty' by supporting community projects in some of the world's poorest countries. Hayley visited Soppexcca, a co-operative of small-scale coffee producers in Nicaragua supported by Christian Aid. ...
Venezuela's Chavez says no knee surgery needed
Venezuela's Chavez says no knee surgery needed: "Chavez canceled a trip to Brazil, Ecuador and Cuba as a result last week, and has not appeared in public. Chavez says the injury occurred when he was jogging and hit his knee. Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, ...
Chile peso rallies after aggressive rate hike
Chile peso rallies after aggressive rate hike: "SANTIAGO May 13 (Reuters) - Chile's peso CLP= rose 0.84 percent to bid 462.30 per dollar in Friday pre-open trade, boosted by a stronger-than-expected interest rate hike a day earlier and as prices for main export copper rose. ...
Oldest building in Cuba destroyed in Saturday fire
Oldest building in Cuba destroyed in Saturday fire: "Firefighters were dispatched to St. James Hotel, 12 E. Main St., at 3:28 am Several fire companies responded, but the fire spread too quickly, said Cuba First Assistant Chief Dave Hardman. “It's destroyed, they've actually condemned the building and ...
Cuba Parade Says No to Homophobia
Cuba Parade Says No to Homophobia: "
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| The short march began at the cascading Malecon fountain only a few blocks from Pabellon Cuba – the center of this year's near-month-long “Campaign against Homophobia.” Colors, music and flags abounded. The majority of the participants took advantage of ... |  Havana Times |
Big Money Fast
Big Money Fast: "In 2009, 23 American Airline employees were arrested for transporting $20 million worth of cocaine on flights into and out of Puerto Rico. Assuming they were guilty, why would employees of a reputable airliner risk their freedom and their jobs by doing ...
Latin America's new shining path
Latin America's new shining path: "The figures show poverty falling fast in Peru – but the smart restaurants and gleaming offices of central Lima are still surrounded by crime-ridden slums, where 20 per cent of the population lack access to running water. It is a pattern of affluence ...
Organ trafficking: 'Her heart was missing'
Organ trafficking: 'Her heart was missing': "
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| Antonio Medina, 23, a paperless Central American migrant moving through Mexico to the US, says he knows a fellow traveller who witnessed organ trafficking, after he and his wife were captured by a criminal gang. "He was travelling with his wife and ... |  Aljazeera.net |
Pele Robbed in Brazil
Pele Robbed in Brazil: "While Brazil is experiencing an economic upswing and the left wing Workers' Party government of President Luiz Ignacio "Lula" da Silva is making major strides to improve the lot of its underclasses, the country still has enormous problems with poverty ...
Violent protests follow approval of massive dam project in Patagonia
Violent protests follow approval of massive dam project in Patagonia: "
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| Last week, Chile's Aysén Environmental Review Commission approved the environmental assessment of a five dam proposal on two rivers. The approval, however, is marred in controversy and has set off protests in many cities, including Santiago. ... |  Mongabay.com |
Pinera Signs Bill to Scrap Copper Funding for Chile Military
Pinera Signs Bill to Scrap Copper Funding for Chile Military: "Pinera, Finance Minister Felipe Larrain and Defense Minister Andres Allamand signed the bill during a ceremony today at the presidential palace in Santiago. Pinera, who unseated the Concertacion coalition that had governed Chile since Augusto Pinochet ...
On Point In California With Homeboy Industries
On Point In California With Homeboy Industries: "
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| This is a cycle of poverty and crime and as Father Boyle says, hopelessness, that marginalizes huge populations of people and children in our country. There are people (and children) who are basically living in a warlike situation in their communities. ... |  WBUR |
America and the Americas
America and the Americas: "The Cold War is over, and Latin America is a lot more comfortable with its options. Looking southward from the State Department, the Hemispheric landscape has also transformed. There are no longer military dictators actively supported or quietly ...
Cuba trained Ghanaian Doctors and Associates organises health screening programme
Cuba trained Ghanaian Doctors and Associates organises health screening programme
Yamoransa (C/R), May 16, GNA - La Vanguardia, an Association of Cuba Trained Ghanaian graduate doctors and Associates at the weekend screened about 1500 people from Yamoransa and the its environs for ailments at Yamoransa near Cape Coast. ...
US Coast Guard searches off Dominican coast for missing Greek sailor
US Coast Guard searches off Dominican coast for missing Greek sailor: "By: AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The US Coast Guard says it is searching the Atlantic Ocean for a Greek mariner who apparently fell overboard as his ship passed north of the Dominican Republic. Coast Guard spokesman Ricardo Castrodad said Monday that a ...
FBI Releases Preliminary Statistics for Law Enforcement Officers Killed in 2010
FBI Releases Preliminary Statistics for Law Enforcement Officers Killed in 2010
By region, 22 victims were killed in the South, 18 in the West, 10 in the Midwest, three in the Northeast, and three in Puerto Rico. The total number of officers feloniously killed in 2010 was eight more than the 48 officers slain in 2009. ...
Massive Puerto Rico pipeline triggers debate
Massive Puerto Rico pipeline triggers debate: "BY DANICA COTO AP In this May 1, 2011 photo, demonstrators march during a protest against the proposed construction of a gas pipeline in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno has made the $450 million project a central goal of his ...
lunes, 9 de mayo de 2011
DVD Review: Chico and Rita
DVD Review: Chico and Rita: "
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| 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) |
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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| "It's a theme that has taken on a dimension that nobody had imagined three or four years ago," said Estrada in reference to Mexico's ongoing drug war. Hell grossed $7.1 million, making it last year's No. 2 box office earner. Damian Alcazar, who plays a ... |  Hollywood Reporter |
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 ...
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