| By ANDERSON ANTUNES Brazilian soccer superstar Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima will play his farewell match with Brazil's national team today, but that will only mark the end of his career on the playing field, as he transitions to marketing his brand. ... |  Forbes (blog) |
| AP in Buenos Aires A plane covered in volcanic ash at San Carlos de Bariloche airport in southern Argentina. Photograph: Alfredo Leiva/AP Stiff winds blew ash from a Chilean volcano on Tuesday in a widening arc, grounding most air travel to and from ... |  The Guardian |
| Over thirty per cent of Peru's thirty million people live in poverty and eight per cent in extreme poverty. In rural areas, particularly in indigenous communities, more than half of all families are poor, many desperately so. ... |  Aljazeera.net |
| While three days of very hard partying gets under way, with the biggest Brazilian carnival in the UK planned, the ABC Trust wants to remind revellers that Brazil is as much about abject poverty and misery as samba, sun and soccer. ... |  Liverpool Confidential |
| Ollanta Humala, the retired military officer who defeated Keiko Fujimori in presidential elections June 6, has raised fears that he will emulate the extreme leftist politics of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, whose policies he championed when he ran for ... |  Council on Foreign Relations |
| With a former army officer winning the presidency, Peru joins Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela in tilting to the left. Add Peru to the list of Latin American countries that have turned left. On Sunday, Peruvians voted in a second-round run-off ballot and ... | Aljazeera.net |
| A large area of low pressure in the Caribbean continues to produce showers and thunderstorms over Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and Haiti. The National Hurricane Center has left this disturbance at a 40% chance of development over the next 48 hours. ... |  WPTV |
| Similar pro-people programs are now instituted in Venezuela by President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, Bolivia by President Evo Morales, Brazil's new President Dilma Rouseff, and, perhaps, by Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez and Uruguay's President ... |  The People's Voice |
| By Daniel Hannan Politics Last updated: June 6th, 2011 First it was Venezuela, then Bolivia, then Ecuador, then Nicaragua. Now it's my native Peru. One by one, largely unremarked here, Latin America's nations are turning to the authoritarian Left. ... |  Telegraph.co.uk (blog) |
| Those who are most likely to be identified as bad parents based on their children's behavior and academic performance may, more often than not, be victims of poverty, lack of education and job skills, and poor English. It doesn't seem entirely ... |  San Francisco Chronicle (blog) |
| A vendor, who prepares food for the day's customers, displays a picture of Cuba's President Raul Castro on the wall of his small business in Havana, Cuba, Friday June 3, 2011. Castro celebrates his 80th birthday Friday. There has been no word of any ... |  Atlanta Journal Constitution |
