Buscar este blog
martes, 16 de agosto de 2011
Rethinking Youth Engagement Strategies
Rethinking Youth Engagement Strategies: "percent higher than white and Asian young men, and the black and Latino unemployment rate is. 60 percent higher. What's more, the social indicators are ...
More Than Money: Bloomberg's Focus on Young Men of Color
More Than Money: Bloomberg's Focus on Young Men of Color: "... decries and ignores: in cities across America, Black and Latino males are over-represented in our jails, on our unemployment lines, and in our special education classrooms, and are more likely to see the inside of prison walls than college dorms. ...
Mexico's drug war inspires Gandhianstyle protest | Karla ...
Mexico's drug war inspires Gandhianstyle protest | Karla ...: "Karla Zabludovsky: Thousands marched to protest a proposed national security law, but drug war violence now goes beyond Mexico's borders.
Opening Doors and Closing the Gap: Workforce Development for Urban Youth
Opening Doors and Closing the Gap: Workforce Development for Urban Youth: "... that drove recommendations for the initiative found that across the five boroughs, African American and Latino men ages 18 to 24 have a poverty rate that is 50% higher than white and Asian young men, and an unemployment rate that is 60% higher. ...
Kirsten Gillibrand Plugs Urban Jobs Act In Queens
Kirsten Gillibrand Plugs Urban Jobs Act In Queens: "Gillibrand's office estimated that 39% of young blacks and 36% of young Latinos looking for work nationwide were unemployed in July. For Giovanni Matos, a 22-year-old Latino who has been involved with one such non-profit, Make the Road New York, ...
Another Austerity Casualty: Puerto Rico
Another Austerity Casualty: Puerto Rico: "According to Fox News Latino, Texas' economy isn't the only one showing that road to prosperity is paved by austerity. Since March of this year, the unemployment rate in Puerto Rico has fallen from 16.9 to 14.9 percent. Never mind that the Puerto Rican ...
Secure Communities Decision Irks Immigration Reform Advocates
Secure Communities Decision Irks Immigration Reform Advocates: "
"
| The poll showed that 51 percent of Latinos consider immigration reform and the DREAM Act the most important issues that the president and Congress should address. The next two most-important issues for Latinos were unemployment and education, ...
| 
AS/COA Online |
A migrant's dangerous route to the US
A migrant's dangerous route to the US: "
"
| Enrique was born in Santa Rosa de Copán, in the poverty-stricken eastern part of his Central American homeland. He made his first trip without papers to the United States when he was 21. On six occasions he has made it all the way to his destiny ...
| 
Aljazeera.net (blog) |
Venezuela announces temporary freeze of hospital fees as government aims to ..
Venezuela announces temporary freeze of hospital fees as government aims to ..
By AP, CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's health minister says private hospitals in the South American country have agreed to temporarily freeze their fees. The measure is part of efforts by President Hugo Chavez's government to contain health care ...
Chilean Students Stand by Demands
Chilean Students Stand by Demands
Santiago de Chile, Aug 16.- The student movement will stand by its demands, Giorgio Jackson, president of the student federation at the Catholic University of Chile, said Tuesday. The mobilizations of the last three months will continue if there is no ...
Mexico's Youth Slips into Drug Violence
Mexico's Youth Slips into Drug Violence: "
"
| Young people are increasingly becoming both targets and the perpetrators of violent crime in Mexico. A 14-year-old boy was sentenced to three years in Mexican prison for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession last month. ...
| 
PBS NewsHour |
What can hunger strikes achieve?
What can hunger strikes achieve?: "
"
| She was released from Holloway prison after 91 hours of fasting Cesar Chavez - Mexican American union leader who helped improve wages for farm workers. He staged several fasts, the first of which was for 25 days in 1968 Bobby Sands - the first of 10 ...
| 
BBC News |
Venezuela, Iran To Hold Talks; Seek To Boost Ties Within OPEC
Venezuela, Iran To Hold Talks; Seek To Boost Ties Within OPEC
CARACAS -(Dow Jones)- Venezuela will host a summit for bilateral talks with Iran next month as the two member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries look to strengthen their alliance. In a statement, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry ...
Puerto Ricans Smoking Menthol Cigarettes Have Hardest Time Quitting
Puerto Ricans Smoking Menthol Cigarettes Have Hardest Time Quitting
The report stated Hispanic smokers in Puerto Rico were 43 percent less likely to quit than non-menthol cigarette smokers. African-American menthol smokers were 19 percent less likely to quit, which is worrisome since 71 percent of black smokers ...
Argentina's presidential election
Argentina's presidential election: "Her chosen candidates had fared poorly in local elections in the city of Buenos Aires and in the heavily populated provinces of Córdoba and Santa Fe. And securing a victory in the eyes of the media and public opinion would require not just finishing ...
Mexico Starts Program for Orphans in Juarez
Mexico Starts Program for Orphans in Juarez: "By Sandra Ramirez - Producer JUAREZ - Mexico's drug war has claimed thousands of lives, but not every victim is among the dead. For every person that has died there are often children who are orphaned. That's why Mexico has launched a new $8 million ...
Jurors see victims' photos in death penalty case
Jurors see victims' photos in death penalty case: "But jurors still must see all the evidence gathered against him to formally convict him of two counts of capital murder and a count of attempted capital murder as prosecutors seek the death penalty. That process began Tuesday morning, when prosecutors ...
Iran sides with Venezuela against Imperialism: Ahmadinejad
Iran sides with Venezuela against Imperialism: Ahmadinejad: "TEHRAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will stand by Venezuela in the joint struggle against imperialism to the bitter end. Ahmadinejad made the remarks during a telephone conversation with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday. ...
Hate Crimes Against Latinos Are on the Rise in California
Hate Crimes Against Latinos Are on the Rise in California: "Anti-black hate crimes are still the most common in the state, making up for 29 percent of the 1100 reported by California for 2010. Tthe Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks the activities of hate groups in the United ...
Cuba: Esteban Lazo Attends Baracoa's 500 anniversary
Cuba: Esteban Lazo Attends Baracoa's 500 anniversary: "Baracoa is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. The event, organized by the local Assembly of People's Power, put an end to a wide range of activities celebrating the 'birthday' of Cuba's elder city. ...
American majority wants Cuban embargo lifted — RT
American majority wants Cuban embargo lifted — RT: "Poll after poll show a growing number of Americans want an end to the US embargo on Cuba. It has been in place for over half a century and though it was designed to bring down Fidel Castro, it is Cuba's citizens who have felt its impact ...
Democracy, not theocracy in Cuba | Babalú Blog
Democracy, not theocracy in Cuba | Babalú Blog: "Our good friend the brilliant Professor Carlos Eire in an editorial in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel: Post-Castro Cuba needs a democracy, not a.
How Rick Perry's Book Proves His Betrayal of Federalism
How Rick Perry's Book Proves His Betrayal of Federalism: "
"
| Crucial to understanding federalism in modern-day America is the concept of mobility, or the ability to vote with your feet." "If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol, don't come to Texas," he writes. ...
| 
The Atlantic |
Food Price Trends
Food Price Trends: "Largest Domestic Price Movements (up to June 2011) Domestic prices of some staples have increased sharply in Central and South America and East Africa. In East Africa, the price of sorghum increased by 180 percent in Mogadishu and the price of maize ...
Venezuelan journalist flees threat
Venezuelan journalist flees threat: "It's a different life than the one she planned and started as a journalist in her native Venezuela, but she can sleep better at nights and walk the streets without having a gun held to her head. That's worth the trade. At 27, she is starting over. ...
lunes, 15 de agosto de 2011
Primary win boosts chances of Argentina's Fernandez
Primary win boosts chances of Argentina's Fernandez: "By Simon Gardner and Alejandro Lifschitz BUENOS AIRES, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Center-left Argentine President Cristina Fernandez looks set to win a second term in October and deepen her interventionist policies after thrashing rivals in a primary election, ...
Why El Paso is in Texas, not New Mexico A divided nation, political compromise ...
Why El Paso is in Texas, not New Mexico A divided nation, political compromise ...: "
"
| On the other, political leaders refused to cut spending for social programs. Strong interest groups supported each political camp. There are few moderates willing to consider compromise in either camp. While there are obvious distinctions, the recently ...
| 
El Paso Inc |
Social Security and Medicare Unconstitutional, says Rick Perry
Social Security and Medicare Unconstitutional, says Rick Perry: "
"
| In an interview with the Daily Beast's Andrew Romano Texas Gov. and Republican presidential candidate, Rick Perry, suggested that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional. The constitution states that Congress has the power to impose taxes on ...
| 
AllMediaNY |
Romney claims unique background vs. Perry
Romney claims unique background vs. Perry
Reacting to Rick Perry's weekend entry into the GOP race, Romney said he liked the Texas governor personally but believed his own 25-year career as a venture capitalist left him better suited to create jobs. Yet he also differentiated himself from the ...
Economic Creationism is the New Science
Economic Creationism is the New Science: "
"
| Iowa has joined the ranks of crazy, putting first in a straw poll someone out to destroy social security and medicare. This agenda would lead to the biggest increase in abject poverty the United States has ever seen. Meanwhile, Texas Governor Rick ...
| 
Economic Populist |
Can Rick Perry maintain his good ties with Muslims as a GOP candidate?
Can Rick Perry maintain his good ties with Muslims as a GOP candidate?
An evangelical Christian and self-described social conservative who recently led a Christian prayer rally in Texas, Perry has had a surprisingly warm relationship with Muslims as governor, says Mohamed Elbiary, founder of the Freedom and Justice ...
Perry looms large in narrowing US Republican race
Perry looms large in narrowing US Republican race: "
"
| The Texas governor, who succeeded George W. Bush in 2000, has touted his "Texas miracle," in which the state has created jobs while the nationwide unemployment rate has hovered above nine percent. Perry also has strong credentials as a social ...
| 
Jakarta Globe |
Is Capitalism Doomed?
Is Capitalism Doomed?: "Even fast-growing emerging markets (China, emerging Asia, and Latin America), and export-oriented economies that rely on these markets (Germany and resource-rich Australia), are experiencing sharp slowdowns. Until last year, policymakers could always ...
Menthol Cigarettes Harder to Quit
Menthol Cigarettes Harder to Quit: "
"
| Hispanics from Puerto Rico who smoked menthol cigarettes were 43% less likely to quit than non-menthol smokers. African-Americans were 19% less likely to successfully quit smoking if they smoked menthol cigarettes, although 71% of black smokers ...
| 
ThirdAge |
Colombian rebel leader seeking asylum in Venezuela | The ...
Colombian rebel leader seeking asylum in Venezuela | The ...: "A leader of the Venezuelan Communist Party says an asylum request by a recently captured Colombian rebel has put on hold the man's handover to Colombia by Venezuelan authorities. Guillermo Torres Cueter was captured in Venezuela in May.
Argentina's June Industrial Output +9.3% On Year - Group
Argentina's June Industrial Output +9.3% On Year - Group: "BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Argentina's industrial activity in June rose 9.3% on the year led by automobile production, according to manufacturers association UIA. "The expansion continues to show disparate rates of growth and relative concentration. ...
Captured rebel commander's return to Colombia on hold due to asylum request in ..
Captured rebel commander's return to Colombia on hold due to asylum request in ..
By AP, CARACAS, Venezuela — A leader of the Venezuelan Communist Party says an asylum request by a recently captured Colombian rebel has put on hold the man's handover to Colombia by Venezuelan authorities. Guillermo Torres Cueter was captured in ...
1000th Gay Marriage Performed in Mexico City
1000th Gay Marriage Performed in Mexico City
Mexico City officials have announced they have performed the 1000 gay marriage in the city since same-sex marriages were approved back on March, 2010. Mexico City was the first Latin American city to allow same-sex marriage and as a result 6% of those ...
'After 18 years, I no longer have power,' Carrio says
'After 18 years, I no longer have power,' Carrio says: "The head of the Civic Coalition thanked her Vice-President candidate, Adrián Pérez, for talking to the press on Sunday and explained that she did not give a press conference because “we wanted to wait until the final result in Buenos Aires province to ...
Declassified CIA documents: Friendly fire hit Cuban exiles' planes during Bay ...
Declassified CIA documents: Friendly fire hit Cuban exiles' planes during Bay ...
By AP, MIAMI — Newly declassified documents show a CIA operative accidentally fired on friendly pilots during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. The B-26 bombers flown by the Cuban exiles were disguised to look like Cuban military planes, ...
Cuba Holds First Gay Wedding, Sort Of
Cuba Holds First Gay Wedding, Sort Of: "
"
| By IBTimes Staff Reporter | August 15, 2011 4:03 PM EDT A gay man and a man-to-woman transgender were wed in Havana, Cuba on Saturday. Tying the knot on former President Fidel Casto's birthday, Ignacio Estrada and Wendy Iriepa became the first gay ...
| 
International Business Times |
Millions to Join Medi-Cal Rolls
Millions to Join Medi-Cal Rolls: "The program will also be open to people making as much as 138 percent of federally-determined poverty level wages (up from 100 percent of the federal number due to California's high cost of living), currently around $31000 annually for a family of four ...
Documentary highlights medical mission
Documentary highlights medical mission
“In Nicaragua, I saw the absolute poverty and need for medical care,” Brody said. Next, was figuring how to execute a medical mission. ...
Power struggle hits Mexican prison gang
Power struggle hits Mexican prison gang: "By Salvador Hernandez and Denisse Salazar Orange County Register ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. Founded in the state's prison system, La Eme Spanish for the letter M ...
Advancing Food Sovereignty and Agricultural Production in Venezuela
Advancing Food Sovereignty and Agricultural Production in Venezuela: "By Correo del Orinoco International This week Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez underscored the importance of the Venezuelan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ACAV), the first national education, research, and extension center dedicated to improving ...
4 Mexican navy personnel kidnapped by drug gangs
4 Mexican navy personnel kidnapped by drug gangs
possibly indicating that they are being held as prisoners — a highly unusual practice even for Mexico's bloody drug war. Drug cartels in northern Mexico sometimes hide bodies in clandestine graves, but that practice is less common in Veracruz. ...
The Death Penalty Is a Miscarriage of Justice: It Should Be Abolished
The Death Penalty Is a Miscarriage of Justice: It Should Be Abolished: "As it now stands, America's Western allies have abolished the death penalty, leaving America as one of only three industrialized democracies still carrying out capital punishment. Internationally, the US ranks fifth in terms of the number of prisoners ...
The Gay Marriage Debate Hits Latin America
The Gay Marriage Debate Hits Latin America: "
"
| (Photo by Quim Llenas/Cover/Getty Images) A year after Argentina became the first Latin American country to pass legislation to legalize homosexual civil unions, the gay marriage debate has heated up, as several countries consider similar bills. ...
| 
Fox News |
Critics say environmentalist rhetoric of Bolivian President Evo Morales rings ...
Critics say environmentalist rhetoric of Bolivian President Evo Morales rings ...
His rhetoric is empty,” said Rafael Quispe, leader of the main indigenous organization in Bolivia's highlands, Conamaq. The president insists the projects are needed to lift Bolivians from poverty and provide energy and food security. ...
UNASUR Bloc Creates Three Task Groups To Tackle Global Financial Crisis
UNASUR Bloc Creates Three Task Groups To Tackle Global Financial Crisis: "This was agreed by its Economy ministers and Central bankers from the 12-nation organisation at an emergency meeting in Buenos Aires over the weekend. Proposals include expanding a special Latin American reserve fund - FLAR - investing reserves in ...
domingo, 14 de agosto de 2011
Mother accused of absconding with congressman's grandchildren pleads not guilty
Mother accused of absconding with congressman's grandchildren pleads not guilty: "Lopez said the Mexican authorities brought the Dejonghs in for questioning on Wednesday and offered the boys pizza and an opportunity to stay in Mexico. "But they said they'd have to go through the court system and it was likely the boys would be put ...
Mexico's Drug War, Feminized
Mexico's Drug War, Feminized: "With her case and others, this is what Mexico is struggling to figure out. The number of women incarcerated for federal crimes has grown by 400 percent since 2007, pushing the total female prison population past 10000. No one here seems to know what to ...
Defendants sue after murder convictions overturned
Defendants sue after murder convictions overturned: "In 1998, Mexican nationals Jesus Ramirez and Alberto Sifuentes were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of a Littlefield convenience store clerk. Ten years later, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned those convictions ...
HCA warns investors about the cost of Medicaid cuts
HCA warns investors about the cost of Medicaid cuts: "
"
| However, states with budget deficits may seek a waiver from this requirement to address eligibility standards that apply to adults making more than 133% of the federal poverty level. # The Health Reform Law also provides for significant expansions to ...
| 
Florida Independent |
Protesters target Trader Joe's tomatoes
Protesters target Trader Joe's tomatoes: "
"
| Dozens of residents including a Glover Park contingent swarmed around Trader Joe's Wednesday to protest the treatment of workers in Florida who they say are victims of forced labor, sub-poverty wages and other abuses. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers ...
| 
The Georgetown Dish |
Poor in a rich world
Poor in a rich world: "Based on the World Bank's poverty line (income of $1.25 per capita per day), about 12 million people worldwide live below the poverty line. Extreme poverty in Asia, Africa, Latin America and other developing areas has made hunger an acute problem, ...
Primary Tests Argentine Leader in Re-Election Bid
Primary Tests Argentine Leader in Re-Election Bid: "By MATT MOFFETT BUENOS AIRES—Argentines went to the polls Sunday in an unprecedented presidential primary election that will serve as a test of the re-election prospects of leftist President Cristina Kirchner. Analysts say that Mrs. Kirchner is hoping ...
Bolivian leaders' ecology credentials challenged
Bolivian leaders' ecology credentials challenged: "Bolivia, one of South America's poorest countries, is about to face a ... are needed to lift Bolivians from poverty and provide energy and food security. ...
"
"
Argentina holds first national primary election
Argentina holds first national primary election: "
"
| President Fernandez retains strong popularity, based largely on Argentina's strong economic growth, as well as her efforts to reduce poverty. Supporters also credit her and her husband with steering Argentina out of a deep economic crisis a decade ago. ...
| 
BBC News |
Cheerful Chavez returns to Venezuela after chemo
Cheerful Chavez returns to Venezuela after chemo: "CARACAS Aug 14 (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela in the early hours of Sunday after undergoing a second round of chemotherapy in Cuba, looking strong and cheerful as he stepped out of his airplane in Caracas. ...
A Typical Cuba Scam
A Typical Cuba Scam: "
"
| Let's remember we're talking about Cuba: a country where capital typically doesn't circulate through private hands and where the “petty-bourgeoisie” was uprooted (at least apparently) more than fifty years ago. Although this issue of a few nickels and ...
| 
Havana Times |
Bolivian leaders' ecology credentials challenged
Bolivian leaders' ecology credentials challenged
Environmentalists and indigenous groups accuse him of hypocrisy for promoting natural gas and oil exploration in virgin forests of this landlocked South American nation that ranks eighth globally in tropical forests. Critics say he's also turned a deaf ...
Brazil prison hires geese for extra security
Brazil prison hires geese for extra security: "By Daniel Sperling, Entertainment Reporter Wellington Picanco, a warden at the Sobral prison in Sao Paulo, claimed that the birds make ideal security personnel due to their ability to sense "strange movements". He also told G1 News of his hope that the ...
Cuba Celebrates Castro's 85th Birthday « CBS Miami
Cuba Celebrates Castro's 85th Birthday « CBS Miami: "Fidel Castro marks his 85th birthday Saturday, but celebrations began Friday in Cuba with a music concert in his honor.
Suscribirse a:
Entradas (Atom)
Breaking News | Las Américas