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martes, 23 de agosto de 2011
Venezuelan Newspaper under Investigation Due to “Defamation” of Women
Venezuelan Newspaper under Investigation Due to “Defamation” of Women: By Rachael Boothroyd - Venezuelanalysis.com Coro, August 23 rd 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – This Monday, Venezuelan women marched to the District Attorney's Office in Caracas demanding that the office take action against the weekly newspaper “6to ...
Chile Economic Growth May Exceed 5% Next Year, Larrain Says
Chile Economic Growth May Exceed 5% Next Year, Larrain Says: Speaking at the Bloomberg Chile Economic Summit in Santiago today, Larrain reiterated the government's projection for gross domestic product expansion this year, which is 6.6 percent. The government aims to average 6 percent annual growth over its ...
Peru can reduce poverty to less than 20% IDB says | ANDINA Peru ...
Peru can reduce poverty to less than 20% IDB says | ANDINA Peru ...: Peru is able to reduce its poverty rate to less than 20 percent over the next five years, said the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Chavez Says Venezuela Will Only Recognize Qaddafi Government
Chavez Says Venezuela Will Only Recognize Qaddafi Government: AP CARACAS – President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that Venezuela will continue to recognize Muammar al-Qaddafi as the leader of Libya and will refuse to recognize a rebel-led interim government. Chavez spoke as Libyan rebels blasted through the gates of ...
Director of Venezuelan weekly accused of slander
Director of Venezuelan weekly accused of slander: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The director of a Venezuelan weekly newspaper strongly critical of President Hugo Chavez and his allies has been charged with slander among several other alleged crimes, the Attorney General's Office announced Tuesday. ...
Chile Court orders protection for student leader
Chile Court orders protection for student leader:
| University of Chile student president Camila Vallejo looks on during a protest in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. Students have been striking for more than two months and marching by the tens of thousands calling for free and equal quality ...
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MiamiHerald.com |
Brazil gives former Italian militant ID documents
Brazil gives former Italian militant ID documents: Battisti escaped from an Italian prison in 1981 while awaiting trial for four political murders in the 1970s. He was arrested in Rio de Janeiro in 2007. He denies the killings. Brazil's Supreme Court has upheld a decision by former President Luiz ...
Chile: Expats Unfazed as U.S. Embassy in Santiago Issues ...
Chile: Expats Unfazed as U.S. Embassy in Santiago Issues ...: The U.S. Embassy in Santiago emailed an “emergency message for U.S. citizens” registered in Chile to keep out of the frequent and increasingly violent protests, but foreigners in Santiago don't seem to be losing sleep over the roaring ...
Chile faces 2-day shutdown over 'utopian' demands
Chile faces 2-day shutdown over 'utopian' demands: By EVA VERGARA - SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile is bracing for a nationwide, two-day shutdown as unions, students and a center-left coalition of political parties demand fundamental changes in society. They want to replace Chile's ...
Chile Peso Ends Barely Stronger On US Stimulus Expectations
Chile Peso Ends Barely Stronger On US Stimulus Expectations: By Renzo Dasso SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--The Chilean peso ended slightly stronger versus the dollar Tuesday, as market participants anxiously awaited Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments Friday, which they believe will hint at a new round of ...
Nourish International: Sustainable Approach to Solving Poverty ...
Nourish International: Sustainable Approach to Solving Poverty ...: Now that I know more about development and poverty, I have a greater sense of ... from women's empowerment in Cameroon to bamboo reforestation in Nicaragua. ...
Recession Leads To Jump In Child Poverty Rates - Miami News Story ...
Recession Leads To Jump In Child Poverty Rates - Miami News Story ...: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The recession may have ended two years ago, but the ripple effects continue to be felt across the country, including in the living room ...
Black lawmakers target high urban unemployment
Black lawmakers target high urban unemployment
... at a time of high joblessness and poverty in urban areas. "I think our politicians need to step up and do a better job of helping people," said Lavern Eli, the executive director of Curley's House of Style in Miami's Model City neighborhood. ...
Corruption: Brazil Sheltering Wanted Marxist Terrorist
Corruption: Brazil Sheltering Wanted Marxist Terrorist
The Colombian embassy official cited in the report also “echoed press and other public accounts that PT leaders had met with Cadena in prison,” according to the US embassy document. “While pointing out that claims of FARC donations to PT campaigns had ...
Baby Boomers Fear Poverty at Retirement
Baby Boomers Fear Poverty at Retirement: Aug 23, 2011 (Daily Champion/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Baby boomers face so much uncertainty that nearly half of them fear that their retirement will result in poverty, according to a new study by California-based investment advisers ...
Bolivia denies phone-tapping after charge against US
Bolivia denies phone-tapping after charge against US: The socialist Morales government has insisted that the road must be built, and has called for dialogue on the terms and the impact on the environment and local communities. Bolivia is South America's only indigenous-majority nation. ...
Costa Rica Teams Up With Mexico Against Crime
Costa Rica Teams Up With Mexico Against Crime:
| "Mexico's battle is of all civilized nations in the worl", said Chinchilla, who congratulate Calderón for his strategy in diminishing the drug trade. Days earlier Chinchilla was quoted in the Mexican newspaper El Universal, that the drug war is not won ...
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Inside Costa Rica |
Cuba Enhances Program for Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Cuba Enhances Program for Early Detection of Breast Cancer: HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 22 (acn) The Cuban public health system is stepping up actions to guarantee the early diagnosis of breast cancer, in collaboration with the Cuban Women Federation (FMC) through the Alas por la Vida (Wings for Life) community project. ...
Cuba calls for respect for Syrian sovereignty
Cuba calls for respect for Syrian sovereignty: Rodolfo Reyes, Cuba's representative to the UN Human Rights Council, stated today that the island rejects "any attempt to ignore Syria's sovereignty." Reyes added, "It is in the hands of the Syrian people and their authorities to determine their will ...
Mega Cities Could Trigger Water Shortages and Social Unrest
Mega Cities Could Trigger Water Shortages and Social Unrest: ... urban growth is "inextricably linked" with slum expansion and poverty. ... Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a population of 12.8 million; Kolkata, India, ...
The Argentine Tango: From Buenos Aires to London via Hollywood
The Argentine Tango: From Buenos Aires to London via Hollywood: The Argentine Tango originated from Buenos Aires in the 1890s, taking its influence from African rhythms and European music. It was in the densely populated, working class areas of the city that the dance thrived amongst the mainly Spanish and Italian ...
Dutch groom in Mexico's 1000th gay marriage
Dutch groom in Mexico's 1000th gay marriage: The marriage was consecrated on the 41st floor of the Torre Latinoamericana, Latin America's first skyscraper. Gómez stressed that being a gay man in the capital city is not easy. “My intimate life has led to conflicts with my parents, on the street ...
Somali pirates get life sentences
Somali pirates get life sentences: Both pleaded guilty; three others face charges that could carry the death penalty. US prosecutors vowed to make the case serve as a lesson for Somalia's pirates, who have created their own autonomous region based on hijackings and ransom payments in ...
Post-Gaddafi, is Cuba next?
Post-Gaddafi, is Cuba next?:
| As the Gaddafi regime appears set to crumble in Libya, perhaps now is as good a time as any to reflect on Latin America's last remaining dictatorship - Cuba. There are more than a few similarities between the two regimes. ...
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Business News Americas |
College Students Become Easy Targets For Identity Theft
College Students Become Easy Targets For Identity Theft: MIDLAND, Texas – College students often have many responsibilities to manage when it comes to school, work and their social lives, which means identity theft and credit ratings often take a back seat to other priorities. However, Better Business Bureau ...
lunes, 22 de agosto de 2011
Let Us Remember Dr. King's Struggle for Economic Justice
Let Us Remember Dr. King's Struggle for Economic Justice: The national unemployment rate is 9.2 percent with African American and Latino unemployment at 15.9 percent and 11.3 percent respectively. Income inequality is higher now than when Dr. King died in 1968. Since 2005, Hispanics and African-Americans have ...
Summit seeks development fund for Afro-descendants
Summit seeks development fund for Afro-descendants: The proposed development fund, whose amount has yet to be specified, would also be directed at poverty-fighting programs for indigenous communities in Latin America, Alvarez Casildo said. He is head of the Honduras-based Organization for Ethnic ...
Femicide: Guatemala's growing epidemic
Femicide: Guatemala's growing epidemic: Femicide, defined as 'the killing of females by males because they are female', has long been a problem across Latin America, and over time the media has grown numb to the violence. Women from indigenous communities are often targeted for rape and ...
Harvard study says poverty doesn't explain away low American math scores
Harvard study says poverty doesn't explain away low American math scores: Previous studies have suggested that Americans do comparatively better once you control for poverty. A US Department of Education report found that American kids in schools where less than 10 percent of the students received free or reduced lunches, ...
Penalty phase for Texas man who killed 4 relatives
Penalty phase for Texas man who killed 4 relatives: EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A South Texas man convicted of killing his mother-in-law, his toddler son and his two stepsons could get the death penalty. The punishment phase is scheduled Monday in Edinburg for 45-year-old Roberto Aguirre Rojas. ...
Life sentence for Somali pirates
Life sentence for Somali pirates:
| Their nine co-conspirators are to be sentenced in the coming weeks. Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar have been charged with murder and kidnapping over the deaths. They could face the death penalty if convicted.
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BBC News |
Cuba plans to 'stop the robbery' of their athletes
Cuba plans to 'stop the robbery' of their athletes:
| Since then, the defection of several of its stars has caused debate in Cuba to allow athletes to play abroad. Cuba's version of the New York Yankees, the powerhouse Industriales, won the country's 2010 baseball championship with lights-out pitching by ...
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The National |
Exploring the Links Between Poverty and Threats to Biodiversity
Exploring the Links Between Poverty and Threats to Biodiversity: Newswise — ITHACA, NY — In rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, poor farmers supplement their livelihoods by hunting and cutting wood, but such practices can seriously threaten biodiversity in the developing world. Now, two Cornell ...
From poverty to pro for powerful Palhares
From poverty to pro for powerful Palhares:
| In Brazil, it's not appropriate to refer to somebody as poor. Instead, they come from "humble backgrounds." You could go through the entire UFC roster, but you probably won't find anybody as humble as Palhares. Not so long ago, ...
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ESPN |
Jury trial for triple murder suspect Jorge Orozco set to begin in February
Jury trial for triple murder suspect Jorge Orozco set to begin in February: Orozco remained in a Mexican jail until March, when he was brought back to Idaho. He has been held in the Elmore County Jail since then. The FBI is still trying to find Orozco's brother, Simon Orozco, who they say helped sneak him out of the country ...
Namibia returning vaccines to Cuba
Namibia returning vaccines to Cuba:
| In 2010, the Namibian government decided to buy a specific percentage of medical products from Cuba, to diversify its supplier base. Namibia had previously bought a pentavalent vaccine from the South African subsidiary of Glaxo Smith Kline, ...
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Cuba Standard.com |
Libya: Col Gaddafi could flee to Venezuela or Cuba
Libya: Col Gaddafi could flee to Venezuela or Cuba
Among the countries that are said to have expressed a willingness to receive Gaddafi are Venezuela, Cuba and Russia, another government source claimed. "Pretoria is playing a very delicate and useful role to ensure he leaves the country through a safe ...
Venezuela's Chavez condemns US & European involvement in Libya
Venezuela's Chavez condemns US & European involvement in Libya: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in a statement on Sunday evening, repeated his condemnation of NATO forces aiding Libyan opposition forces who have moved forward on the Libyan capital. "The democratic governments of Europe, well not all of them, ...
'41 Children Go Missing Each Day in Mexico': NGO
'41 Children Go Missing Each Day in Mexico': NGO: Under Mexican law, minors cannot serve prison sentences longer than three years, which may explain why some gangs have turned to recruiting teen hitmen, including 14-year-old Edgar Jimenez, alias "El Ponchis," a US citizen charged with kidnapping and ...
The Creole Choir of Cuba Announces A Capella Album and US Tour
The Creole Choir of Cuba Announces A Capella Album and US Tour: The Choir – six women and four men, aged 27 to 61 – hail from Camagüey, Cuba's third largest city. All have studied music to university level in Camagüey and all are members of the Provincial Choir, directed by their leader Emilia Chavez. ...
Katrina Pain Index 2011: Race, Gender, Poverty
Katrina Pain Index 2011: Race, Gender, Poverty: It is impossible to understand what happened and what still remains without considering race, gender and poverty. The following offer some hints of what remains. $62 million: The amount of money that the State of Louisiana and the US Department of ...
Our View: Louisiana's unrelenting poverty stunts children and ...
Our View: Louisiana's unrelenting poverty stunts children and ...
The news about the overall well-being of Louisiana's children is rarely good, a tough reality that has been reconfirmed by the latest Kids Count survey by ...
Rick Perry's Scientific Campaign Method
Rick Perry's Scientific Campaign Method:
| But given the interest in Rick Perry, the Texas governor and new Republican presidential candidate, the portion of “The Victory Lab” about Mr. Perry will be published on Tuesday as an electronic book, “Rick Perry and His Eggheads: Inside the Brainiest ...
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New York Times (blog) |
Bolivia's president accuses US of sparking protest
Bolivia's president accuses US of sparking protest
More than a thousand indigenous Bolivians have been marching against a highway being built across their land. Evo Morales says the US is behind the opposition. An ensemble of musicians from the Moxos indigenous group take part in a march in San Ignacio ...
California Indigenous America Asks Questions About U.S.Green ...
California Indigenous America Asks Questions About U.S.Green ...
Video documentary on indigenous people in California and their opposition to large solar development on sacred lands in California.
ZenCrusader: The indigenous peoples of Central America live in ...
ZenCrusader: The indigenous peoples of Central America live in ...: “The indigenous peoples of Central America live in peace and close to nature. Are you unaware of the savagery and near genocide they suffered under ...
Amigo: A Tale from America's Forgotten War
Amigo: A Tale from America's Forgotten War
And, like today's Internet, this novel communications system was hacked (literally) by Indigenous resisters who climbed the wooden poles on a weekly basis and easily snipped the wire lines. Sayles, of course, is a master screenwriter. ...
Indigenous Rights And A New Wave of Social Change
Indigenous Rights And A New Wave of Social Change: Blackfire's cause - Native American and indigenous rights- indisputably deserves the attention. Despite a flurry of protests in the 1960s and 1970s, and a slew of policy changes from Congress, today's state and national legislation often still ...
NEC expects Latin America sales to reach $5bn
NEC expects Latin America sales to reach $5bn: By Samantha Pearson in São Paulo NEC expects to increase sales in Latin America tenfold to $5bn by 2017, boosted by demand from Brazil's gadget-obsessed consumers and infrastructure needs as the country prepares to host the World Cup and the Olympics. ...
'Native American rights widely abused'
'Native American rights widely abused':
| “The states have acknowledged the preexistence of indigenous people in the American territory, but still their rights continue to be undermined.” Executive Director of the Amnesty International's office in Argentina Gabriela Boada told a Press TV ...
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Press TV |
domingo, 21 de agosto de 2011
Campus California Tackles Misconceptions Regarding Clothing Collection Boxes
Campus California Tackles Misconceptions Regarding Clothing Collection Boxes: ... and send volunteers to developing countries in Africa and South America. Textile reuse has strong environmental benefits and also allows the organization to contribute towards improving human conditions and eliminating poverty locally and overseas. ...
Bolivia sees rise in people-smuggling
Bolivia sees rise in people-smuggling:
| ... a Christian charity, believes young Bolivians are easily lured into fictitious opportunities abroad because of poverty at home. "Many of these young people can't see a future here," he says. Bolivia is the poorest country in South America. ...
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BBC News |
Language barrier still remains daunting challenge for Latin American baseball ...
Language barrier still remains daunting challenge for Latin American baseball ...:
| And, if they can't, "You see so many players fall through the cracks," says Raymond Abreu, Director of Latin American Operations for the Oakland Athletics. No major American sport is as bilingual as baseball. Twenty-seven percent of the opening-day ...
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al.com |
Louisiana lets payday loans flourish: A guest column by Edward Ashworth
Louisiana lets payday loans flourish: A guest column by Edward Ashworth: Life is hard enough for people trying to work their way out of poverty. Louisiana should make it harder for the predators that take advantage of their plight. Edward Ashworth is director of the Louisiana Budget Project.
In light of Miami allegations, college football needs the 'death penalty'
In light of Miami allegations, college football needs the 'death penalty'
After hearing the details of arguably the largest college football scandal in decades, a number of media members have suggested the NCAA to bring down the dreaded "death penalty" on the University of Miami, canceling the school's involvement in the ...
Death penalty just cheap revenge
Death penalty just cheap revenge
Since the early 1970s, in America alone, 123 people in 25 states have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. The death penalty is a flawed method of retribution. It makes the state as much a criminal as the defendant. ...
Despite victory, Argentine leader faces hard choices
Despite victory, Argentine leader faces hard choices: By Andres Oppenheimer BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- When I asked a group of 10 influential business people at a luncheon here last week whether President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is likely to intensify or moderate her leftist-populist policies after ...
Pope Tells Pilgrims to Stay True to Their Beliefs
Pope Tells Pilgrims to Stay True to Their Beliefs: ... the pope announced that the next such event would be in Rio de Janeiro in 2013. ... About 800000 people in Spain fell into poverty from 2007 and 2010, ...
Citizens chart crime using social media
Citizens chart crime using social media:
| In Latin America, a region with some of the highest crime rates, new online tools help people report and map crime. "I was walking down the street, talking on my cell phone, when a guy on a motorbike came by and grabbed the phone out of my hand. ...
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Aljazeera.net |
Many Cubans living abroad can't go back
Many Cubans living abroad can't go back: By JUAN O. TAMAYO MIAMI -- Tampa teenager Melissa Gonzalez wanted to visit her ailing grandfather in Cuba. But her travel agency told her that the Cuban government had turned down her request for an entry permit, without explanation. ...
French reporter witnesses Virginia execution
French reporter witnesses Virginia execution: At first, the French abolition of the death penalty in 1981 was not particularly popular, he said. "But gradually the absence of a death penalty in France, in contrast with (the wide use of) capital punishment in the US, became a defining feature of ...
Spinning their wheels: Farmworkers want Publix to pay more for tomatoes
Spinning their wheels: Farmworkers want Publix to pay more for tomatoes: ... to pay the penny premium is “to be part of the solution to the poverty and other human rights abuses that farmworkers face,” said Jordan Buckley, of Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida, an organization that works in conjunction with CIW. ...
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