Peru's Difficult Balancing Act

Peru's Difficult Balancing Act

With jobs in mining and construction on the rise and better social spending, the number of Peruvians living in poverty has dropped from nearly half to 31 percent, in a decade. And another $42 billion in foreign investments are reckoned to be in the ...

Landslide re-election win for Buenos Aires mayor

Landslide re-election win for Buenos Aires mayor

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Buenos Aires's conservative Mayor Mauricio Macri won re-election Sunday by a wide margin over the candidate backed by Argentina's left-of-center president. With 84 percent of the ballots counted, Macri had 63 percent of ...

Climate of fear as Mexican drug cartels rule roost

Climate of fear as Mexican drug cartels rule roost: "

THE CASUALTY rate in Mexico's drug war is higher than that of the US war in Afghanistan, leaving 40000 dead in the past five years, mostly civilians. By comparison, an armed uprising in southeast Mexico in January 1994 resulted in 150 deaths yet ...

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Venezuela Plans to Release 20000 Prisoners

Venezuela Plans to Release 20000 Prisoners: "

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Chávez appointee Iris Varela said Sunday she planned to reduce the prison population by 20000, a drop of 40 percent. A Venezuelan government minister said Sunday that the country plans to reduce its prison population ...

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Wealth gap widens between whites, minorities

Wealth gap widens between whites, minorities: "The NAACP and other black groups urged Obama to resist deep cuts to housing assistance or safety net programs, saying it would disproportionately hurt urban areas with high poverty and unemployment. The US poverty rate currently stands at 14.3 percent, ...

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Chavez advises US to worry about its debt not Iran-Venezuela ties

Chavez advises US to worry about its debt not Iran-Venezuela ties: "TEHRAN - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has advised the United States to worry about its financial crisis rather than being concerned over relations between Iran and Venezuela, the Fars news agency reported on Sunday. According to the FNA, ...

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15:17 UN: Peru's 2021 poverty reduction target possible

UN: Peru's 2021 poverty reduction target possible: "United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Heraldo Muñoz said Sunday it is possible that Peru's poverty rate could fall to 10% by 2021, when the country celebrates its bicentennial of independence. Muñoz said that Peru, just like other nations in Latin ...

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Argentinian authorities: 2 French tourists 'viciously' killed

Argentinian authorities: 2 French tourists 'viciously' killed: "Buenos Aires (CNN) -- Police in Argentina are investigating the slaying of two French tourists who were found dead near a hiking trail, authorities said. Other tourists found the bodies of the female victims, who were both around 30 years old, ...

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Decoding Mexico's murder mayhem

Decoding Mexico's murder mayhem: "

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — For all its mass graves, mutilations and massacres, Mexico has long claimed that it is much safer than Brazil and other Latin American counties. But new homicide numbers suggest that might not be the case this year. ...

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The Daily Herald -Cuba approves flights from 9 more US cities

The Daily Herald -Cuba approves flights from 9 more US cities: "HAVANA--Air travel between the United States and Cuba will become easier with the opening of charter flights to the forbidden island from an additional nine ...

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Only 10 of 129 Saudis 'still in Guantanamo': report

Only 10 of 129 Saudis 'still in Guantanamo': report

RIYADH — Just 10 out of a previous total of 129 Saudi detainees now remain at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a local daily reported on Sunday. "There are only 10 out of 129 detainees" still being held in the prison, Al-Medina daily ...

Tropical system will impact Puerto Rico later on Wednesday into Thursday

Tropical system will impact Puerto Rico later on Wednesday into Thursday: "

(TheWeatherSpace.com) -- In what could be Tropical Storm or Hurricane Emily will impact Puerto Rico on Wednesday into Thursday. The system is just south-southeast of the island as a tropical wave, growing into a tropical storm over the next 24 hours or ...

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California could make Mexican drug cartels bolder

California could make Mexican drug cartels bolder: "This was obviously written by the propaganda wing of the Mexican Drug Cartel - they're desperate to keep pot illegal in California. It would take someone with their head so far up their rear end that they see daylight ahead to not understand that the ...

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Venezuela: Lowest Percentage of Social Inequality in Latin America

Venezuela: Lowest Percentage of Social Inequality in Latin America: "Social policies of the Chavez government have been largely responsible for the decrease in poverty and increase in overall social well being in the South American nation. Using oil profits, the Venezuelan state has invested heavily in healthcare, ...

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Chilean March Against Gay Marriage Draws One Thousand

Chilean March Against Gay Marriage Draws One Thousand: "

... would allow gay and straight couples who have lived together for more than one year to enter a legal contract called the Non-Marital Cohabitation Agreement. The topic of legal recognition for gay couples has reverberated throughout Latin American ...

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Convicted killer Crosley Green in search of redemption

Convicted killer Crosley Green in search of redemption: "Harrison, who works in Washington, DC, got involved in the Green case through the American Bar Association. For 25 years, the Bar has had a program called Death Penalty Representation Project to connect defendants with competent lawyers in death ...

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The door opens for people-to-people exchanges with Cuba

The door opens for people-to-people exchanges with Cuba: "By MIMI WHITEFIELD - McClatchy Newspapers MIAMI Travel providers and other groups are scrambling to secure licenses and organize people-to-people exchanges in Cuba after the US government relaxed restrictions and decided to allow a wider variety of ...

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After 3 years, alleged killer of Yolo deputy to face trial

After 3 years, alleged killer of Yolo deputy to face trial: "Topete faces the death penalty or life in prison for allegedly shooting and killing Diaz on June 15, 2008. The shooting came after a high-speed pursuit through Dunnigan when Davis police alerted the Sheriff's Department that Topete was reportedly ...

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Alleviating extreme poverty in Chile: the short term effects of ...

Alleviating extreme poverty in Chile: the short term effects of ...: "This paper evaluates the effect of an anti-poverty program, Chile Solidario, during its first two years of operation. We find that the program tends to ...

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Cuba readies new phase in retail sector reform - Stabroek News ...

Cuba readies new phase in retail sector reform - Stabroek News ...: "HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will broaden private retail service beyond beauty parlours and barbers in October to include everything from coffee shops to locksmiths,

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Many Killed in Mexico Prison Violence

Many Killed in Mexico Prison Violence: "News - Ciudad Juarez, is the Mexico's most violent city. It borders US state Texas. If somebody says that it is the hub of the drug trade then he wo,'t.

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Mullany killers face the hangman's noose in Antigua

Mullany killers face the hangman's noose in Antigua

by Robin Turner, Wales On Sunday ANTIGUA'S Attorney General has refused to rule out the death penalty for the killers of Welsh honeymooners Ben and Catherine Mullany. Kaniel “Sample Dan” Martin, 23, and accomplice Avie Howell, 20, could face the ...

Latin America - protest songs as poetry

Latin America - protest songs as poetry: "Jara became an international symbol and the embodiment of the struggle for human rights and justice throughout Latin America. The cruel and oppressive Latin American dictatorships forced many protest singers into exile, including Argentina's Mercedes ...

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Chile Collahuasi miners will not extend strike-union

Chile Collahuasi miners will not extend strike-union: "SANTIAGO, July 30 (Reuters) - Workers at Chile's giant Collahuasi mine will not extend a 24-hour strike at the world's No. 3 copper deposit, a union leader said on Saturday. "It's 100 percent sure that the strike will end when those 24 hours are due," ...

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Homicides in Mexico jump by 23% in 2010

Homicides in Mexico jump by 23% in 2010: "In an announcement that may come as no surprise to many, Mexico's homicide rate has increased by nearly a quarter in 2010 when compared to the previous year, as Mexico's drug war continues to plague border towns. ...

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Mexico: Almost 50 percent of population lives in poverty

Mexico: Almost 50 percent of population lives in poverty: "Coneval Secretary General Gonzalo Hernandez Licona said that during the two-year interval, the states of Veracruz, Guanajuato, Chihuahua, Oaxaca, and Baja California had the highest increase of people living in poverty. He added that the increasing ...

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Peru's new president celebrates independence parade

Peru's new president celebrates independence parade: "... the high poverty plaguing his Andean nation despite its solid economic growth. ... also in attendance and representatives from Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, ...
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Eight Sentenced to Prison in US for Trafficking Guns to Mexico

Eight Sentenced to Prison in US for Trafficking Guns to Mexico: "WASHINGTON – Eight men have been sentenced to prison terms in Texas for their involvement in the purchase of weapons destined for Mexico, bringing an end to a gun-trafficking investigation that began last year. The US Justice Department said Thursday ...

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The Cost of War: an Economic Draft

The Cost of War: an Economic Draft: "With unemployment on the rise, it will be difficult to build back those assets. The shuttering of the US industrial sector and the attack on public sector jobs hit the Black and Latino workers very hard. Rather than tax the rich and use these public ...

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Hispanic Voters on the Fence as Obama Speaks to Influential Civil Rights Group

Hispanic Voters on the Fence as Obama Speaks to Influential Civil Rights Group

In his speech, Obama acknowledged that the recent recession hurt Hispanic communities more than many others and asked for patience. “I don't need to tell you Latino unemployment is painfully high. And there's no doubt that this economy has not ...

Latino Leaders: Budget Deal Must Not Come on the Backs of Low-Income Families ...

Latino Leaders: Budget Deal Must Not Come on the Backs of Low-Income Families ...

“With almost 3 million Latinos unemployed, a 12 percent unemployment rate, a 20 percent poverty rate and more than 30 percent without health insurance, the preservation and strengthening of this country's social safety net is the highest priority to ...

California poll shows air-quality concerns high among Latinos

California poll shows air-quality concerns high among Latinos: "With unemployment high, many also see a potential for job creation," he added. More than 2500 California residents were interviewed by phone in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese for the survey, which was conducted from July 5-19 and has a ...

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We Need to Expand Financial Opportunities in Low-Income Communities of Color

We Need to Expand Financial Opportunities in Low-Income Communities of Color: "On Tuesday, the Pew Charitable Trust released a new report confirming that blacks and Latinos fared worse in the Great Recession than whites from the perspective of median wealth, or household net worth at the median. Few who have been following shifts ...

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Minorities Are Being Left Out Of The Electric Vehicle Revolution

Minorities Are Being Left Out Of The Electric Vehicle Revolution: "For many of these potential customers, it's not about a lack of income--Latinos, for example, increasingly represent California's middle class. Even though 39% of California residents are Latino, the group makes up just 19% of hybrid buyers. Low-income ...

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Venezuela promises to contribute to refinery JV with Brazil

Venezuela promises to contribute to refinery JV with Brazil: "Caracas – Venezuela's energy minister said state oil giant PDVSA will deliver its pledged contribution to a refinery joint venture with Brazilian state-controlled energy firm Petrobras. "We're going to enter with half (the amount) of the $5 billion ...

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Utah kidnapping suspect sentenced to prison, deportation

Utah kidnapping suspect sentenced to prison, deportation: "By melinda Rogers A Mexican national who was deported in August, then returned to the US two months later and abducted a woman and child in Clearfield, has been ordered to serve federal prison time for illegally re-entering the country. ...

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A look at economic developments around the globe

A look at economic developments around the globe: "Already, US trade partners are worried about depending too heavily on one country and looking to diversify, just as China is expanding into Latin America and other markets historically dominated by the US Across the globe, allies fear that the drama ...

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Strike continues at Chilean copper mine Escondida

Strike continues at Chilean copper mine Escondida: "By Carolina Pica SANTIAGO (MarketWatch) -- Unionized workers at Chilean copper mine Escondida on Friday rejected the company's offer of a bonus and the strike at the mine continues, a union leader said. The strike, which began on the evening of July 21 ...

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Mexico blames drug war for 23% rise in homicides

Mexico blames drug war for 23% rise in homicides: "The number of homicides in Mexico rose by nearly a quarter in 2010 compared to the year before as the drug war intensified across the country, Mexican ...

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Murray poised to lead lieutenant governor's group

Murray poised to lead lieutenant governor's group

It has been meeting this week in Puerto Rico, where the election was held. Murray will serve until July of 2012 as chairman-elect and lead the policy resolutions committee. In July of 2012, he will ascend to the chairmanship. ...

Poverty, Reading Scores, and Resilient Schools

Poverty, Reading Scores, and Resilient Schools: "New research in the July issue of American Behavioral Scientist looks carefully at factors that correlate with poverty, as well as school resiliency among 270000 students in over 250 schools in Broward School District in Broward County, Florida. ...

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Judgment on Gay Marriages May Be Made Today in Colombia | Latin ...

Judgment on Gay Marriages May Be Made Today in Colombia | Latin ...: "•Today, the Colombian Constitutional Court is to make a decision on gay marriages as .... Latin American Countries to Study Amazon Deforestation and Water ...

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Canada marks 35 years since abolition of the death penalty

Canada marks 35 years since abolition of the death penalty: "

These men's appeals will bring before American courts the same question that was put to Canada's legislators 35 years ago. Is the death penalty fair and just in a liberal democratic country? At the end of that long debate, it was Pierre Trudeau who, ...

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Amanda Knox prosecutors pursue life sentence despite setbacks

Amanda Knox prosecutors pursue life sentence despite setbacks: "Since Italy does not have the death penalty, a life sentence is the country's harshest punishment. The punishment calculus in Perugia looks to be completely out of whack! In 2008, Rudy Guede was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher. ...

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Mexican Drug Violence Isn't Hurting Foreign Investment

Mexican Drug Violence Isn't Hurting Foreign Investment: "Since President Felipe Calderón came into power in December 2006, more than 35000 have been killed and many businesses scared out of Mexico in the drug wars. Much of the violence has taken place on the country's border with the United States. ...

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Venezuela to Compensate American Oil Companies for Nationalization?

Venezuela to Compensate American Oil Companies for Nationalization?: "If Cuba's Fidel Castro is America's favorite Latin American bête noire, then Venezuela's Hugo Chavez qualifies as Washington's reigning Prince of Darkness. In 1960, Fidel Castro nationalized US business interests without compensation, bringing down on ...

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Support for the death penalty: Chinese and American college ...

Support for the death penalty: Chinese and American college ...

Gender, victimization, and criminal justice-oriented concerns significantly shape both Chinese and American students' attitudes toward the death penalty. ...

Florida's Corporate Tax Credit Voucher Program records big enrollment gains

Florida's Corporate Tax Credit Voucher Program records big enrollment gains

The threshold is currently 185 percent above the federal poverty level, but the average household income of participants is under $26000 a year. Two-thirds of the students are black or Hispanic and three-fifths live in a single-parent home. ...

California Farm Workers Can Finally Eat Their Own Harvest In Produce Paradise

California Farm Workers Can Finally Eat Their Own Harvest In Produce Paradise: "But with unemployment hovering at 21.4 percent in the county and widespread poverty in the region, the Merced market and others like them are playing an ever more crucial role: places to buy affordable fresh produce using CalFresh nutrition benefits, ...

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Difficult life path leads Puyallup native to Miss America Pageant

Difficult life path leads Puyallup native to Miss America Pageant: "

Brittney Henry knew all about poverty when growing up in the Puyallup area, raised in a broken home, mostly by a single mom. Henry's difficult road will lead her in January to the Miss America Pageant, where the 24-year-old hopes to be the first Miss ...

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Mexico: 2 US citizens killed in prison fight

Mexico: 2 US citizens killed in prison fight: "(AP) EL PASO, Texas — Mexican authorities say two US citizens were among 17 inmates killed in a prison near the Texas border when other inmates armed with automatic weapons opened fire on them. Prison spokesman Hector Conde said Thursday that ...

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New Peru president: the poor are my priority

New Peru president: the poor are my priority

"Peru's peasants and the poor in the countryside in general will be the priority," Humala said in remarks before a newly installed Congress and dignitaries who included 11 presidents, almost all from South America. He quoted South Africa's ...

PDVSA Accelerates Orinoco Production With Horizontal Wells

PDVSA Accelerates Orinoco Production With Horizontal Wells: "By Daniel Cancel - Petroleos de Venezuela SA is accelerating efforts to bolster production in the heavy crude fields of the Orinoco Belt by drilling hundreds of small horizontal wells, company President Rafael Ramirez said. ...

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Happy Birthday, presidente! Venezuela's Chavez at 57

Happy Birthday, presidente! Venezuela's Chavez at 57

CARACAS — "I am like the phoenix bird," declared Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is recovering from having a cancerous tumor removed, as he turned 57 on Thursday. "There have been birthdays and birthdays. This one (finds me) in full re-birth," ...

Thoughts from the Andes, Poverty in Latin America

Thoughts from the Andes, Poverty in Latin America: "Poverty in Latin America As we have not passed the half-way point of 2011 and various Latin American countries had elections (Brazil, Peru) or soon will ...

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Family offers ministry of presence in Colombia

Family offers ministry of presence in Colombia: "The Walker-Wilsons returned to Asheville, NC, after two years in Colombia knowing more languages than Spanish. They are now fluent in the languages of poverty, trust, priority, relationships, family and faith that they knew only through the glass ...

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Unions consider next moves in Chile copper strike

Unions consider next moves in Chile copper strike: "By FEDERICO QUILODRAN - SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's mine-union leaders were meeting Thursday to decide whether to join a walkout that has stopped production at the world's most productive copper mine. The strike at the privately ...

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In 3 States, Criticism of Presidential Pay

In 3 States, Criticism of Presidential Pay: "Among the findings: Nearly 80 percent of Pell Grant recipients attending community colleges in 2009-10 had family incomes of less than 150 percent of the federal poverty threshold, and 60.7 percent were below the poverty threshold for a family of four ...

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Cameron's visit and challenge to Chinese investment drive

Cameron's visit and challenge to Chinese investment drive

This, according to David Cameron, UK's prime minister “is what has lifted hundreds of thousands out of poverty in Brazil, China and Indonesia and it can do the same here in Africa. “So it's right that we give the poorest countries the most open access ...

Health care in Brazil

Health care in Brazil: "Her approach to cutting extreme poverty combines the conditional cash transfers that, under Lula, reached a quarter of the population with public-health measures such as better sanitation and free exercise machines in favelas. ...

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Brazil and Latin America gear up for Earth Summit 2012

Brazil and Latin America gear up for Earth Summit 2012: "

Latin America has abundant renewable resources that can help meet the region's growing energy demand and address the unmet energy needs of the 31 million people without access to electricity -- helping to bring them out of persistent poverty. ...

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Brazil signs plan to end poverty in northeast

Brazil signs plan to end poverty in northeast: "News - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has launched a program to eradicate extreme poverty in the country's northeast. The plan announced Monday is part ...

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Despite Recent Progress Brazil Still a Long Way from Equality ...

Despite Recent Progress Brazil Still a Long Way from Equality ...

Brazilian poverty Over the past decade, income inequality and poverty in Latin America have been on the decline. These two key socioeconomic indicators have ...

New Town man sentenced to federal prison for felon in possession of firearm ...

New Town man sentenced to federal prison for felon in possession of firearm ...: "AP BISMARCK, ND — A New Town man has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Authorities say 46-year-old Brazil Faheem Alameen was sentenced on Tuesday. Alameen, who also goes by ...

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