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martes, 14 de junio de 2011
President Obama Arrives In Puerto Rico For Brief, Historic Visit ...
President Obama Arrives In Puerto Rico For Brief, Historic Visit ...: "President Obama Arrives In Puerto Rico For Brief, Historic Visit | NY1 News is Time Warner Cable's 24-hour newschannel in New York City, delivering breaking news and features about the five boroughs.
Warm Welcome for Obama in Puerto Rico - NYTimes.com
Warm Welcome for Obama in Puerto Rico - NYTimes.com: "Political implications, not groundbreaking policies, highlight President Obama's visit to Puerto Rico.
Mexico Drug War: 70 Percent Of Guns Seized Originate In U.S.
Mexico Drug War: 70 Percent Of Guns Seized Originate In U.S.: "MEXICO CITY -- About 70 percent of the guns seized in Mexico and submitted to a U.S. gun-tracing program came from the United States, according to a report released by three U.S. senators Monday. Of the 29284 firearms recovered by ...
Mexican journalist writes about the drug war
Mexican journalist writes about the drug war: "By RON GONZALES Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, author of "Los Morros Del Narco," says that violence in México has reached such levels that everyone, whether or not they are directly involved in the drug war, is being affected by it. ...
Elected Officials, VIPs and Grassroots Slam Drug War on 40th Anniversary
Elected Officials, VIPs and Grassroots Slam Drug War on 40th Anniversary: "Students for Sensible Drug Policy is coordinating candlelight vigils in more than 20 cities in North America, including one in Mexico City. The vigils will be held in remembrance of the victims of the war on drugs, and will highlight the message that ...
France appeals to Brazil to support resolution on Syria | Ya ...
France appeals to Brazil to support resolution on Syria | Ya ...: "France's U.N. envoy appealed to skeptical Brazil on Monday to support a European draft resolution that would condemn Syria for its bloody crackdown on anti-government demonstrators. Brazil, like India and South Africa, has expressed ...
Equinix Expands in Brazil
Equinix Expands in Brazil: "Global data center service provider Equinix Inc. (EQIX) recently announced its intention of expanding operations in Brazil. The company also secured a couple of new contracts, which will likely improve its business volume in the coming quarters. ...
Chilean navy frigate deal under scrutiny
Chilean navy frigate deal under scrutiny
SANTIAGO, Chile, June 14 (UPI) -- A Chilean navy deal that led to the purchase of four used frigates from the Netherlands has fallen foul of the law in the Latin American country over suspicions that all wasn't well with the transaction. ...
More flights halted by ash from Chilean volcano
More flights halted by ash from Chilean volcano: "The river, which has been swollen with rainwater in recent days, has deposited large amounts of volcanic rock in Ranco Lake. Associated Press writers Debora Rey in Buenos Aires, Federico Quilodran in Santiago, Chile, Sarah DiLorenzo in Sydney, ...
Central America Should Turn to Community Policing, Experts Say
Central America Should Turn to Community Policing, Experts Say: "In Latin America, community policing was adopted in 2009 by the government of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, when Pacification Police Units (UPPs) were set up in some of the favelas or crowded shantytowns surrounding the city. ...
Rule of Law Strongest in Rich Nations, Weakest in Poor
Rule of Law Strongest in Rich Nations, Weakest in Poor: "But it also found strong performance on specific variables by low- income and middle-income countries, such as Ghana, which earned high scores on ensuring limits to government power and access to civil justice, and several Latin American countries, ...
New Bill to Create Affordable Health Insurance for Some California Residents ...
New Bill to Create Affordable Health Insurance for Some California Residents ...
A new bill passed in the California State Senate is creating a new health insurance opportunity for workers that live near the federal poverty level. If signed into law by the Governor, these plans will help to insure over 700000 people that live ...
Oakland airport to offer direct charter flights to Cuba
Oakland airport to offer direct charter flights to Cuba: "
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| Cuba Travel Services will be offering direct charter flights to Cuba from the Oakland airport by the end of the summer. Just six months ago, because of travel sanctions against Cuba, a US citizen could have faced up to a $55000 fine and possibly served ... |  San Francisco Chronicle (blog) |
Central America Should Turn to Community Policing, Experts Say
Central America Should Turn to Community Policing, Experts Say: "In Latin America, community policing was adopted in 2009 by the government of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, when Pacification Police Units (UPPs) were set up in some of the favelas or crowded shantytowns surrounding the city. ...
Rule of Law Strongest in Rich Nations, Weakest in Poor
Rule of Law Strongest in Rich Nations, Weakest in Poor: "But it also found strong performance on specific variables by low- income and middle-income countries, such as Ghana, which earned high scores on ensuring limits to government power and access to civil justice, and several Latin American countries, ...
Secretary-General Hails Colombia's Growing International Importance at Signing ...
Secretary-General Hails Colombia's Growing International Importance at Signing ...
Otherwise, we will find it hard to reduce poverty or achieve food and nutrition security — for the poor of the world, including Colombia. Colombia is a country rich in resources and potential, but its rates of poverty and inequality are high. ...
Brazilian Rent Prices Booming, Analysts Fear Bust
Brazilian Rent Prices Booming, Analysts Fear Bust: "Prices are up more than 24% from last April, with the average price for a new property in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro's most expensive district, rising to US$8212. Major contributing factors are increasing wealth in the nation, a more stable economy, ...
Critics do not boost but rather delay progress By Pete Albea (Florida)
Critics do not boost but rather delay progress By Pete Albea (Florida): "
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| It seems ironic, however, that I have never heard or seen any of those smart and brilliant legislators propose or file vital bills, such as: a) viable and sustainable solutions to liberate our people from poverty or improve their chances of getting a ... |  Mindanao Examiner |
After 50 years, Cuba publishes Che's diary
After 50 years, Cuba publishes Che's diary: "By Shasta Darlington, CNN Havana (CNN) -- More than 50 years after the fact, Cuba has published the diary that Ernesto "Che" Guevara kept during the armed struggle that he waged alongside Fidel Castro from the Sierra Maestra mountains. ...
Venezuela moves to cut energy use
Venezuela moves to cut energy use: "
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| Big electricity users in Venezuela have been told to cut consumption or face increased charges. Consumers who save energy will be in line for discounts, officials said. The move comes after a series of recent power failures, the most recent last Friday ... |  BBC News |
Chile Peso Closes At Two-Week High As China Data Boosts Copper
Chile Peso Closes At Two-Week High As China Data Boosts Copper: "By Anthony Esposito SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--Chile's peso ended at a two-week high versus the dollar Tuesday, as strong Chinese industrial production data boosted international copper prices. The peso closed at CLP465.90 to the dollar, compared with ...
Brazil's Consumer Agency Asks For Intervention In Eletropaulo
Brazil's Consumer Agency Asks For Intervention In Eletropaulo
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's consumer protection agency, Procon, said late Monday it asked electricity regulators to assume administrative control of AES Corp. (AES) subsidiary Eletropaulo (ELPL4.BR) after frequent power shortages. ...
Chile seeks truth about deaths of Allende and Neruda
Chile seeks truth about deaths of Allende and Neruda: "... towards the common good, development and poverty alleviation rather than to enrich corporations. Nixon and Kissinger were particularly active in attempting to manipulate Chile's internal affairs immediately after the election of Salvador Allende. ...
Argentina's lessons learned after 'dirty war' can be applied to Syria today ...
Argentina's lessons learned after 'dirty war' can be applied to Syria today ...: "
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| Speaking late yesterday after viewing the memorial in Buenos Aires to thousands of Argentines tortured and killed during that country's “dirty war” between 1976 and 1983, Mr. Ban said: “This is the darkest era of Argentina. At the same time, ... |  UN News Centre |
Colombia helps alleviate Venezuelan energy crisis
Colombia helps alleviate Venezuelan energy crisis: "Colombia has begun transferring power to Venezuela to help alleviate its neighbor's energy supply problems amidst blackouts and shortages, El Espectador reported Tuesday. Venezuela has recently been enduring energy problems similar to those in 2010, ...
lunes, 13 de junio de 2011
A General in the Drug War
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| That was in Mexico, where Europe's 20th-century upheavals had tossed both her parents: Her mother fled Franco's Spain, while her father, the son of Leon Trotsky's elder daughter, joined his grandfather in exile as an orphaned teenager. ... |  New York Times |
Ezeiza airport to resume activities tonight, Aeroparque to do so only partially
Ezeiza airport to resume activities tonight, Aeroparque to do so only partially
As the volcanic ash cloud invading Buenos Aires seems to be fading away, authorities from the Ezeiza international airport announced that airlines would resume their services at 9 pm tonight. Aeroparque airport officials announced that they would ...
Brazil Datafolha Poll: Approval For President Rousseff Up To 49%
Brazil Datafolha Poll: Approval For President Rousseff Up To 49%
In Brazil, it is legal for a member of congress to have a side business. On the economic side, the IPCA consumer price index is above the upper limit of the government's target range, at 6.55%, and the central bank recently indicated that it may ...
Vietnam Dung Quat refinery to reach 200800 bpd 2017
Vietnam Dung Quat refinery to reach 200800 bpd 2017: "It was unclear if the refinery would import oil from Venezuela because shipping costs would be high, given the weight of crude from the South American country and the long distance, Giang said. Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA said in April it hopes to ...
Iquitos, Peru: 70% Children in School Live in Poverty, Work
Iquitos, Peru: 70% Children in School Live in Poverty, Work: "ElComercio.pe reports that about 70% of school children are beginning to work from five years of age. According to the NGOs Human Capital and Social A.
Puerto Rico Prepares For Whirlwind Presidential Visit
Puerto Rico Prepares For Whirlwind Presidential Visit: "
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| Puerto Rico is preparing for its first presidential visit in a half-century, when President Barack Obama arrives tomorrow for less than five hours. NY1's Josh Robin filed the following report from San Juan, PR Along with palm fronds, there's something ... |  NY1 |
Platform Equinix Expands Capacity in Brazil
Platform Equinix Expands Capacity in Brazil: "ALOG is one of the leading carrier-neutral data center providers in Brazil and serves approximately 1000 local and international customers. Equinix and Riverwood Capital completed the acquisition of ALOG in April 2011, extending Platform Equinix™ to ...
Artificial Selection Promotes a Better Life
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| This move is in marked contrast to the rest of South America; in 2010, for the second consecutive year, Brazil had the largest increase of genetically modified crop plantings, adding 4 million hectares, and is currently in talks to expedite approvals ... |  Laboratory Equipment |
Venezuela to Restrict Electricity Use for Second Straight Year
Venezuela to Restrict Electricity Use for Second Straight Year: "Jaua said that President Hugo Chavez, who is currently recovering from an unplanned surgery in Cuba for a pelvic abscess, has been in contact with his cabinet to design policies to resolve the electricity problem. Jaua didn't provide details on what ...
Anti-Poverty Programs and Presidential Election Outcomes: Familias ...
Anti-Poverty Programs and Presidential Election Outcomes: Familias ...
Using a comprehensive data set for Colombian municipalities between 2002 and 2010, in this paper we study the effects of large anti-poverty programs on presidential election outcomes. In particular, we test for two of the main ...
Puerto Rican Pride On Display At Fifth Avenue
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| A million people celebrated Puerto Rican heritage today at the 54th annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in Manhattan. NY1 Noticias' Carleth Keys and Stephanie Vies on the Time Warner Cable float. Click to enlarge. Onlookers waving Puerto Rican flags and ... |  NY1 |
Hugo Chavez recovering after surgery in Cuba
Hugo Chavez recovering after surgery in Cuba: "CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he is quickly recovering after undergoing surgery in Cuba last week for a pelvic abscess and noted that medical tests have shown no signs of any "malignant" illness. ...
Che diary of Cuban revolution published in Havana
Che diary of Cuban revolution published in Havana
HAVANA — Cuba has published the diary that revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara kept during the guerrilla campaign that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959, its editors announced Monday. "Diary of a Combatant" recounts Che's experience from the ...
A Demographic Portrait of Hispanics in Puerto Rico, 2009
A Demographic Portrait of Hispanics in Puerto Rico, 2009: "The 2010 US Census counted 3.7 million Hispanics 1 living in Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States. 2 This was down from 3.8 million in 2000. By contrast, in the 50 US states and the District of Columbia (DC), the Hispanic population of Puerto ...
Sometimes a Puerto Rican driving a $400000 Lamborghini is a drug kingpin
Sometimes a Puerto Rican driving a $400000 Lamborghini is a drug kingpin: "To give the NYPD a little credit, it turns out that Puerto Rico's biggest drug trafficker, Angel Ayala-Vazquez, was driving around in a silver Lamborghini Murciélago purchased for him by National's pitcher Livan Hernandez. Since that car was seized by ...
Venezuela rated the worst performer in accountability
Venezuela rated the worst performer in accountability: "Venezuela is viewed as the worst government in the world in accountability and effective checks by its citizens, according to the Rule of Law Index -an annual survey on rule of law around the world released on Monday by the World Justice Project, ...
Cuba Speaks of its Results in the Fight against HIV-AIDS at the UN
Cuba Speaks of its Results in the Fight against HIV-AIDS at the UN
Havana, Cuba, Jun 13.- Cuban deputy Health Minister Luis Estruch extolled the results his country has achieved in the fight against HIV-AIDS at a UN top-level meeting on this disease. Estruch noted that it is possible to say that Cuba eliminated AIDS ...
Child Labour Elimination - An International Obligation
Child Labour Elimination - An International Obligation: "Asia Pacific accounts for 41% of the child labour, followed by Africa with 33% and Latin America with 8%. Besides the developing world, child labour still exists in the USA and many parts of Europe particularly Central and Eastern. ...
Rescuing children from a trash dump
Rescuing children from a trash dump: ""When you work in situations where the context is one of such great poverty, it's very difficult to talk to parents about the long term because usually they live in the immediate term," Durón Miranda said. "We tell them that a child that has more years ...
Brazil: President Reiterates Decision to Eradicate Extreme Poverty
Brazil: President Reiterates Decision to Eradicate Extreme Poverty
President Dilma Rousseff reiterated her decision to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil and provide a decent living to over 16 million people living in those conditions. The Brazil without Misery program will provide professional training, ...
Sway of the wealthy remains strong in Brazil's cities
Sway of the wealthy remains strong in Brazil's cities: "“And if we view it as the government does, as the elimination of extreme poverty, there is no question it is happening. “There is still a big income gap, but the dream of social mobility is very much alive in Brazil. The new middle class is rising. ...
School Bullying a Growing Problem in Argentina
School Bullying a Growing Problem in Argentina: "
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| By Teresa Sofía Buscaglia BUENOS AIRES – Physical and psychological intimidation among students – “bullying”– is a growing problem in Argentina's schools according to a joint study by UNICEF-Argentina and FLASCO (the Latin-American School of Social ... |  Fox News |
High school education has evolved
High school education has evolved: "Another growing population in schools — homeless children — comes from the relentless fiscal crisis that has pushed families into hard times and prevented others from climbing out of poverty. The National Center on Family Homelessness reports that ...
Gov. Chris Christie Says: Earn $6000 A Year? No Medicaid For You!
Gov. Chris Christie Says: Earn $6000 A Year? No Medicaid For You!: "
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| Never mind that $118 a week is but a fraction of the poverty line as defined by the United States of America. Pay no attention to the fact that New Jersey battles California for the mantle of having the highest cost of living of any state in the nation ... |  Forbes (blog) |
domingo, 12 de junio de 2011
Hugo Chavez recovering after surgery in Cuba
Hugo Chavez recovering after surgery in Cuba: "AP CARACAS, Venezuela—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is quickly recovering after undergoing surgery in Cuba for a pelvic abscess. Chavez says the operation was a success and has not slowed him down. During a telephone interview broadcast ...
Investors fear Peru's new president is a disciple of Hugo Chavez
Investors fear Peru's new president is a disciple of Hugo Chavez: "Prominent among Humala's campaign advisers were people on secondment from the organization of Brazil's highly successful pragmatic leftist leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and his successor as president earlier this year, Dilma Rousseff. ...
Always Looking for the Next Move
Always Looking for the Next Move: "But, back at Fuerte Apache, the barrio where he grew up in poverty in Argentina, he sounded as if his head was in the clouds. His sport has made him a multimillionaire, a restless and footloose one. At 27, he has played for Boca Juniors in Argentina, ...
Investors fear Peru's new president is a disciple of Hugo Chavez
Investors fear Peru's new president is a disciple of Hugo Chavez: "About one third of Peru's 29 million people remain on the poverty line despite ... off in Brazil before going on to Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. ...
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Latin American and African Perspectives
Latin American and African Perspectives: "She is currently heading research project on “Women and Law in Latin America” and “Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Complex Legal ...
Huge crowd expected for NYC's Puerto Rican parade
Huge crowd expected for NYC's Puerto Rican parade: "AP NEW YORK — Island pride will turn Fifth Avenue into a sea of red, white and blue when the National Puerto Rican Day Parade steps off under gray skies. Entertainer John Leguizamo has been named global ambassador to the arts for Sunday's parade. ...
Puerto Rico Gets First Presidential Visit In 50 Years
Puerto Rico Gets First Presidential Visit In 50 Years: "by NPR Staff President Obama's itinerary this week includes a trip to Puerto Rico on Tuesday — a significant event for Puerto Ricans both on the island and the mainland. The island is buzzing at the prospect of the first official presidential visit ...
Scandal hits Argentina's mothers of the disappeared
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| Kirchner's government has also helped the Mothers transform themselves from an advocacy group into a powerful anti-poverty organisation. Since Bonafini declared in 2006 that "there is no longer an enemy in the Casa Rosada [Argentina's seat of ... |  The Guardian |
Peru victory further consolidates continent's left shift
Peru victory further consolidates continent's left shift
As the US-based Latin American commentator Mark Weisbrot has pointed out, “ Peru's growth did reduce poverty significantly”, “but the government didn't ...
US to blame for Mexico drug war: Activist
US to blame for Mexico drug war: Activist: "
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| Supporters of the peace caravan led by Mexican poet Javier Sicilia attend a rally in EL Paso, Texas, June 11, 2011. An anti-drug war Mexican activist has called on the United States to be held accountable for the drug-related violence in Mexico. ... |  Press TV |
Korean investors wary of possible instability in Peru
Korean investors wary of possible instability in Peru: "“We understand that he is more sympathetic with a moderate left-wing approach like Brazil.” Brazil's moderate left-wing has successfully combined social programs for the poor with policies that attract foreign investors. SK Energy predicted that Peru ...
Ban moved by flood devastation in Colombia, voices UN readiness to help
Ban moved by flood devastation in Colombia, voices UN readiness to help: "Mr. Ban pointed out that South America is rich in experiences that are relevant to the global agenda of human rights, transitioning to democracy, combating poverty and tackling climate change. “I am convinced that the region can play an even bigger ...
Battisti Walks as Brazil Rejects Italy's Appeal - Corriere della Sera
Battisti Walks as Brazil Rejects Italy's Appeal - Corriere della Sera: "Supreme court turns down attempt to overturn Lula's decision not to extradite former terrorist.
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