| The delegation, traveling with the goal of finding new markets for Taiwan's technology products in Latin America, completed a whirlwind roadshow in Nicaragua's capital Managua in 40 hours, where a Taiwan-Nicaragua business cooperation conference took ... |  Focus Taiwan News Channel |
| In 2009, South Carolina's median household income shrank by $1600 – a 3.7 percent decline from 2008. The state's poverty ranking also shot up to 17.1 percent in 2009 – a 10.6 percent increase from the previous year. South Carolina ranked 42nd ... |  FITSNews |
| But Herakles, a New York-based investment firm planning to construct a 60000-hectare plantation in the Central African country of Cameroon, says its approach will bridge this gap between economic development and the environment. ... |  Mongabay.com |
| Claribel Ferrer, third from left, is helped through a line as the Latin American Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual holiday food bag distribution in Miami last December. The poverty rate in the South climbed faster than the national average, ... |  Christian Science Monitor |
| Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) wearing a feather headgear, greets an indigenous woman during a ceremony with indigenous representatives at Miraflores Palace in Caracas September 10, 2011. By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan ... |  Reuters |
| ... more than 50000 people gathered in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, to decry policies that have destroyed unions, privatized essential public industries, enriched a small elite and killed more than 50000 people in the nation's drug war. ... |  Truthdig |
| Osmel Sousa, president of the Miss Venezuela contest, is widely believed to be behind the country's success at beauty pageants. Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images In the last three decades Venezuela has won more beauty titles than any other ... |  The Guardian |
| A hard-hitting new report by the US Department of Justice sharply criticizes the Puerto Rican Police Department (PRPD) for brutality, racism, corruption and violations of constitutional rights of the people of this US-controlled island nation of 3.7 ... |  People's World |
| He says he will fight crime with firmness, including calling a referendum on reinstating the death penalty for crimes like kidnapping. Like Mr Perez Molina, he wants to expand the role of the army in combating drug gangs. But as well as talking tough, ... |  BBC News |
| It is the main reason that the percentage of seniors in poverty has dropped to roughly 10% from what many experts believe was more than 50% during the Great Depression. About 90% of voters of both parties say it has been very good or good for the ... |  USA Today |
| While most countries have been plagued with the global crisis, Brazil has structural reasons to be growing. One of them is the emergence of a huge middle class which is getting out of poverty, fueling the country's growth and creating huge business ... |  The Next Web (blog) |
| Tapir is a popular game animal for indigenous tribes, but is also increasingly sold in rising commercial wildlife-meat markets and restaurants in South America. "Another serious threat to this species is road-kill. Morro do Diabo State Park in São ... |  Mongabay.com |
| And poor credit combined with the lagging economy have led to higher unemployment and steeper income declines among blacks and Latinos than among other groups. The region's whites are now 85 percent more likely to own homes than blacks, and 45 percent ... |  Modesto Bee |
| Venezuela's Vice-President Elias Jaua, accompanied by some ministers, has visited several hospitals in Caracas to invigorate the paralyzed health sector in the country, Press TV reports. The aim of Jaua's Saturday visit is to find the gaps and move the ... |  Press TV |
