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martes, 20 de septiembre de 2011
The Up-and-Coming Presence of India in Latin America
The Up-and-Coming Presence of India in Latin America: Chinese commodity demand has greatly boosted GDP growth in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and other resource-rich countries, thereby lifting millions out of poverty. These economic benefits are worth celebrating. Yet Beijing's burgeoning hemispheric ...
Brazil's Anglican Church works with indigenous people in their fight for land ...
Brazil's Anglican Church works with indigenous people in their fight for land ...: With a population of more than 200 million people, Brazil is the 10th largest economy in the world, yet more than 26 percent of the population lives in poverty – many in extreme poverty. A wealthy few and multinational corporations own most of the land ...
New campaign to protect Medicare and Medicaid
New campaign to protect Medicare and Medicaid: "The weak economy has hit the Latino community the hardest — unemployment rate for Hispanics has escalated to 11.6%," said Brent Wilkes, executive director of LULAC. "In a time when Latinos are already hurting, it's appalling that these are actual ...
60 bus line strike continues 'until company pays wage arrears'
60 bus line strike continues 'until company pays wage arrears': Likewise, drivers keep blocking the Colectora motorway in the kilometre 42 in Ingeniero Maschwitz, Buenos Aires. After a long meeting that started around 10 am, workers' delegates informed that no agreement could be reached as they demand payment of ...
Colombia: Controversy Over New Methodology to Calculate Poverty ...
Colombia: Controversy Over New Methodology to Calculate Poverty ...: Nazih Richani in Cuadernos Colombianos –a NACLA blog– has written two posts (1, 2) on Colombia's new methodology to calculate poverty: “The newly adopted Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) factors in health, housing, living ...
President Rousseff Will Tell UN Brazil Has a Lot to Tell About Dealing with ...
President Rousseff Will Tell UN Brazil Has a Lot to Tell About Dealing with ...
It is women who suffer more from extreme poverty, illiteracy, flawed healthcare systems, conflict and sexual violence. In general, women get less pay than men for the same jobs and have little presence at the decision-making levels in organizations and ...
Chile is called to respect life from its very beginning, says archbishop
Chile is called to respect life from its very beginning, says archbishop: Santiago, Chile, Sep 20, 2011 / 01:56 pm (CNA).- The president of the Bishops' Conference of Chile, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati, said the most important legacy that Chileans must pass on is “absolute respect and love for life,” because everyone “has the ...
Second wave of school desegregation efforts focus on parent choice, poverty
Second wave of school desegregation efforts focus on parent choice, poverty:
| According to UCLA's Civil Rights Project, the average white kid in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, with 32 percent of students living in poverty. In the South, most public school students attend schools that are mostly poor. ... |  Yahoo! News Blogs (blog) |
Chile President Pinera: Economy To Grow Around 5% In 2012
Chile President Pinera: Economy To Grow Around 5% In 2012: [It's] a healthy economy that's growing and creating jobs, but we're not bullet proof because we have trade ties with a lot of countries," Pinera said at a televised event in Santiago. Chile's economy is highly export-dependent and Europe and the US ...
FMI: Venezuelan economy to grow 2.8% with inflation at 25.8%
FMI: Venezuelan economy to grow 2.8% with inflation at 25.8%: The IMF report downgraded Venezuela's outlook slightly. After a significant rise of up to 3.3% in June, the IMF analysts estimated that Venezuela's economic growth will stand at 2.8% this year. As for inflation in the region, the IMF estimated that it ...
Puerto Rico asks US for help in fighting crime
Puerto Rico asks US for help in fighting crime: AP Puerto Rico's governor says the island will partner with federal agencies to prosecute criminal cases and help a struggling police force contain growing violence. Luis Fortuno said Tuesday that at least a dozen crimes will be prosecuted at a federal ...
Metro inmate highlights Chicago's connection to the Mexican drug cartels
Metro inmate highlights Chicago's connection to the Mexican drug cartels
And Zambada-Niebla's trial will likely be a big deal – one of the more prominent drug prosecutions in the US Journalist Alejandro Escalona covered the case and other links to the drug war in Mexico and he joined Eight Forty-Eight to elaborate. ...
32 inmates break out of three Mexican prisons
32 inmates break out of three Mexican prisons: XALAPA—Inmates staged near simultaneous jailbreaks from three prisons in the Mexican state of Veracruz early Monday and at least 32 of them escaped, officials said. Authorities said 14 of the fugitives were later recaptured, but prison officials were ...
Number of poor young families on the rise
Number of poor young families on the rise: Census Data recently released shows that, in general, poverty increased in 2009. However, women and children remain the hardest hit by the country's difficult economic times. A report on children's health in Florida released in August raised concerns ...
A Better Way to Fight Hunger in California
A Better Way to Fight Hunger in California:
| The California legislature recognizes that during the current climate of tight budgets and high levels of unemployment, California families are experiencing great need. In fact, the Los Angeles Times recently reported that California's poverty rate ... |  American Progress Action Fund |
Why Venezuela Supports Independence for Palestine
Why Venezuela Supports Independence for Palestine: By Hugo Chávez Frías I address these words to the United Nations General Assembly, to this great forum that represents all the people of earth, to ratify, on this day and in this setting, Venezuel's full support of the recognition of the Palestinian ...
The Dutch and the Indigenous People of America: an hidden heritage
The Dutch and the Indigenous People of America: an hidden heritage
Within the AWAD framework, The Netherlands Institute for Heritage, in cooperation with the Archaelogy Department of Leiden University, organizes the expert ...
US court upholds Chevron oil fine
US court upholds Chevron oil fine: Chevron has challenged the fine, arguing that lawyers and supporters of the indigenous groups who brought the case conspired to fabricate evidence. "Chevron remains confident that once the full facts are examined, the fraudulent judgement will be found ...
Waiting for revolution in Cuba, Burma and North Korea
Waiting for revolution in Cuba, Burma and North Korea: In countries like Cuba, North Korea and Burma (renamed Myanmar), and others, unelected regimes are raising the walls as they try to keep themselves safe from the very people they claim have nothing but love for their long-time rulers. ...
Bolivian Indians halt road march
Bolivian Indians halt road march:
| By Mattia Cabitza BBC News, La Paz About 1000 indigenous protesters in Bolivia have called a temporary halt to a march protesting against a new road. They have been walking for weeks to highlight opposition to a government plan to build a road through ... |  BBC News |
Joint Survival Exercise In Antarctica For Chilean & Argentine Armies
Joint Survival Exercise In Antarctica For Chilean & Argentine Armies: SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Sept 20 (BERNAMA-NNN-MERCOPRESS) - Chilean and Argentine army patrols ended over the weekend the "SAR Land 2011" exercise in the framework of the Argentine-Chilean combined Antarctic rescue patrol programme - Paracach. ...
Two migrants' rights defenders on Peace Caravan detained by military
Two migrants' rights defenders on Peace Caravan detained by military: The National Human Rights Commission ordered that the government provide him with “protective measures,” that is, a police escort. The government has not complied with this order, forcing Fray Thomas to take his case to the Inter-American Human Rights ...
CPJ submits brief to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights ...
CPJ submits brief to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights ...: CPJ submits brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning ... of protecting journalists rights at a time when leaders in Latin America and ...
It's a Kind of Magic
It's a Kind of Magic: "We have marriage for gay people from last year or two years ago so it's more open here. But in some parts of Latin America they don't show so much like in the rest of the world, or in Europe at least." Tibaldo describes the rocking out section at the ...
Guatemala seeks genocide trial for former general
Guatemala seeks genocide trial for former general
"They told us we had to go with them," said Matom, an indigenous Ixil who is now about 38. "I thought that if I stayed, they would kill me." The next day, villagers found the body of her brother and 12 others. This week, 29 years after her brother's ...
lunes, 19 de septiembre de 2011
Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO, Heritage Provider Network, Sponsors ...
Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO, Heritage Provider Network, Sponsors ...
... on the panel" The event was particularly timely and helpful in light of the front page article in the business section of the Los Angeles Times revealing the increased numbers of uninsured in California combined with the rise in poverty levels. ...
Girl says she was held, raped in Brazil men's jail
Girl says she was held, raped in Brazil men's jail
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 14-year-old girl has told police she was held and raped for four days by inmates after being taken inside a men's prison in northern Brazil. The girl escaped early Saturday and sought help from a jail guard, who took her to the ...
More than 1100 students transfer from failing schools
More than 1100 students transfer from failing schools: The federal transfers were offered by high-poverty schools that failed for at least three years to meet annual performance targets for students grouped by race, income and special education status, said Ella Thompson, principal of corrective programs ...
The AP Puts Faces on the Poverty Numbers
The AP Puts Faces on the Poverty Numbers: Another woman the AP profiles had four kids, two jobs, and a husband three years ago in Florida. That state's economy collapsed and she lost her jobs and her husband but still has the four kids. They ended up in a homeless shelter in Alabama and now ...
Rains ease Argentina farmland dryness, but more needed
Rains ease Argentina farmland dryness, but more needed: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Weekend rains brought much-needed moisture to farming areas in Argentina, but growers in the corn belt urgently need more rainfall in order to press on with plantings, a weather forecaster said on Monday. ...
Opinion: Hispanics will Lead America out of Recession
Opinion: Hispanics will Lead America out of Recession:
| In a recent address to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, President Obama asserted, “Our future is tied to how well the Latino community does.” Indeed. As our country works to decrease unemployment rates that are holding steady at 9.1 percent ... |  Fox News |
Boudou To Discuss Argentina's 2012 Budget Details Next Week
Boudou To Discuss Argentina's 2012 Budget Details Next Week: By Taos Turner Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Economy Minister Amado Boudou will discuss the details of Argentina's 2012 budget before Congress next week, government and congressional officials said Monday. ...
Predicting the Path Out of Poverty: Microfinance & Credit Risk Analysis
Predicting the Path Out of Poverty: Microfinance & Credit Risk Analysis
By 2007 she had 50 percent of the market share in Colombia and Latin America. “There were two problems with this,” Lilian says. Though she had managed to salvage her business by taking on microfinance lenders, she was not bringing in the revenue needed ...
Police investigating teenage girl's allegaton she was raped in Brazil men's ...
Police investigating teenage girl's allegaton she was raped in Brazil men's ...
By AP, RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in northern Brazil are investigating a 14-year-old girl's allegation she was held and raped for four days at a men's prison. The head of juvenile division of the state's police says the girl sought out a security officer ...
Man who claims brutal treatment in Mexican prison to serve as own attorney in ...
Man who claims brutal treatment in Mexican prison to serve as own attorney in ...: However, the former New Jersey resident is pressing his claim that the case should be dismissed because the US government acquiesced to his brutal treatment in a Mexican prison as he was fighting extradition. A hearing is set for Sept. ...
The Death Penalty: Why We Fight for Equal Justice
The Death Penalty: Why We Fight for Equal Justice:
| Thousands of hours of debate have ensued over whether the death penalty is moral or ethical or lawful. But it was the Justice William O. Douglas, in Furman v. Georgia, the case which briefly ended America's long experiment with the death penalty, ... |  The Atlantic |
Bishops, spouses hold prayer service at the Colombia-Ecuador border
Bishops, spouses hold prayer service at the Colombia-Ecuador border: Despite its own economic problems – a third of the country's 13.7 million people live in poverty – Ecuador keeps an open border and hasn't restricted the number of asylum seekers it allows to enter the country. Besides the more than 116000 refugees, ...
Colombian mountain cyclists try to pedal out of poverty toward ...
Colombian mountain cyclists try to pedal out of poverty toward ...
The Andean mountains are the perfect training ground for boys with big dreams of racing in Europe.
Don't soak the rich to help the poor
Don't soak the rich to help the poor: Clearly it thinks the multi-million rand packages of top executives are excessive in a country, where 25% of the population is unemployed and 40% live in poverty. The Gini coefficient measures income inequality and by that measure SA, alongside Brazil, ...
Anhanguera Buys Four Brazilian Colleges for 510.6 Million Reais
Anhanguera Buys Four Brazilian Colleges for 510.6 Million Reais: At least 36 million people in the country of 190 million have risen from poverty since 2003, President Dilma Rousseff said on June 6. Brazil's unemployment rate fell to 6 percent in July, its lowest level this year. Anhanguera in April bought ...
International exhibition on future of global cities travels to Ahmedabad
International exhibition on future of global cities travels to Ahmedabad
The ten global cities that are part of this exhibiton are Ahmedabad, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dar es Salaam, Guangzhou, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, New York and Rio De Janeiro. The exhibition which has already travelled to the US, Mexico, ...
Real Estate Investment in Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires, a one way trip
Real Estate Investment in Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires, a one way trip: The city's charm adds to the convenient exchange rate that sets Buenos Aires being an ideal city for international tourism and in addition, a mine for investment. The investment opportunities are multiple and also the channels are open for ...
Bishop Calls On Catholics To Help The Poor
Bishop Calls On Catholics To Help The Poor: Catholic News Agency says the US Census Bureau shows nearly one of six Americans are living in poverty. California Bishop Stephen E. Blair says, quote, "There has to be a shared sacrifice by everybody if we're going to address the economy. ...
Healthcare Business News
Healthcare Business News: By Paul Barr The new US Census Bureau statistics on health insurance enrollment, income and poverty levels offer ammunition to both sides of the divide over whether the government should play a greater or smaller role in the country's healthcare system ...
How devoted moms buffer kids in poverty
How devoted moms buffer kids in poverty: For more information about this study, please contact: Gregory Miller at gemiller@psych.ubc.ca. The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Pathways to Resilience: Maternal ...
Calif. grocery strike deadline passes, talks go on
Calif. grocery strike deadline passes, talks go on: "At a time of persistently high unemployment, poverty and foreclosures the last thing we need is a devastating strike that will make it more difficult for thousands of workers to put food on the table for their families, pay their mortgages and afford ...
Uneven Progress in Child Health
Uneven Progress in Child Health: Despite pending challenges, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay have made good progress in fighting child malnutrition, cutting child mortality, and expanding vaccination coverage. But in Bolivia and Paraguay, where poverty rates are still high ...
Castro supervises expansion work of main port in Cuba
Castro supervises expansion work of main port in Cuba: 18 (Xinhua) -- Cuban leader Raul Castro Sunday supervised the ongoing expansion program of the Mariel port, a main port of Cuba with Brazil's investment, local media reported. "The expansion work has an extraordinary economic importance," said Castro ...
Record Tourism for Cuba this year (Canadians, as always, lead the ...
Record Tourism for Cuba this year (Canadians, as always, lead the ...: This is the eighth time Cuba has welcomed two million tourists, and this year it did so one month earlier than it did last year, demonstrating the growth.
Cuban Five: a Cruel and Bizarre Decision
Cuban Five: a Cruel and Bizarre Decision: Mr. Gonzalez had asked the Court to allow him to return home to Cuba to be with his wife, Olga, and his two daughters, Ivette and Irma. Several years ago, the Department of State decided to permanently bar Olga from getting a visa to come to the United ...
domingo, 18 de septiembre de 2011
Man gets 57 months in prison for illegal entry
Man gets 57 months in prison for illegal entry: A 40-year-old Mexican man who was arrested by Nogales Station Border Patrol agents in March was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for attempting to illegally re-enter the United States, US Customs and Border Protection said. ...
Striving to Become the Greatest
Striving to Become the Greatest: As quoted in a Huffington Post article , historian Alice O'Connor (University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in Twentieth Century US History) said "a growing number of Americans ...
Who's Going to Save Our Souls?
Who's Going to Save Our Souls?: This is a problem that has reached crisis levels-- a problem that not only affects black and Latino males, but whose ramifications will impact everyone in this country. This past August, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the city would be launching a ...
In Venezuela, top Chávez rival sounds confident note after key court victory
In Venezuela, top Chávez rival sounds confident note after key court victory
An Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruling on Friday cleared opposition leader Leopoldo López to run for Venezuela's presidency next year. By Girish Gupta, Correspondent / September 18, 2011 Opposition leader Leopoldo López at a rally in ...
Behind the poverty numbers: real lives, real pain
Behind the poverty numbers: real lives, real pain
Brown was married, living in Florida and working two jobs — one in a hotel laundry, the other at a retail store — when the recession hit. Today, those seem like the good old days. "I never really had to worry about food and the basic necessities ...
Bolivia: US embassy admits 'economic roots of social revolution'
Bolivia: US embassy admits 'economic roots of social revolution':
| This was how a May 6, 2006, US embassy cable from La Paz recently released by WikiLeaks viewed the powerful wave of struggle that led to the election of Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, in 2005. This secret assessment came despite ... |  Green Left Weekly |
Local golfing event helps poverty-stricken people in Nicaragua
Local golfing event helps poverty-stricken people in Nicaragua: by KVUE News Peggy Gentry, Chairman of the Austin Samaritans Board of Directors, joined us Sunday morning to talk about a special event. The Four Player Golf Scramble is planned for Monday September 26th, 2011 at the Forest Creek Golf Club. ...
US execution puts death penalty on trial
US execution puts death penalty on trial:
| Death penalty supporters say the US appeals system has worked correctly in Davis' case: "He's facing execution without the case being overturned on appeal, because he should," said Sharp. Troy Davis' latest published writing calls for help: "…they ... |  Aljazeera.net |
Florida suffers income decline, most poverty in 15 years - South ...
Florida suffers income decline, most poverty in 15 years - South ...: More Florida families saw cuts in their income and fell into poverty last year, ...
Mexico Evangelicals Leave Village Amid Crucifixion Threats
Mexico Evangelicals Leave Village Amid Crucifixion Threats: In 2009 twenty men, most of them evangelical Christians, were freed after spending more than a decade in prison after Mexico's Supreme Court overturned their sentences in a massacre in southern Chiapas state. Mexico's top court ruled that prosecutors ...
Bolivia: Indigenous Women's Day honours Aymaran resistance leader
Bolivia: Indigenous Women's Day honours Aymaran resistance leader:
| By David T. Rowlands At the Second Meeting of American Organisations and Movements in Tihuanacu, Bolivia, in 1983, September 5 was officially designated International Indigenous Women's Day. Since then, September 5 has been growing in recognition as a ... |  Green Left Weekly |
A marriage of a dream and a scheme
A marriage of a dream and a scheme: Now, Knoller faces up to 10 years in prison as well as forfeiture of her Holyoke home and the two rental properties - and deportation to Brazil. The sought-after green cards became worthless after Knoller's scheme was uncovered. ...
Lui's death leaves void in dance world
Lui's death leaves void in dance world: Lui was a longtime and passionate supporter of the dance community and most recently had been working on the upcoming performances of the National Ballet of Cuba, scheduled to take place in February 2012. Born in Vancouver, Lui attended Kitsilano High ...
A world turning to stone
A world turning to stone: Nearly 17 percent of California's 37 million-plus residents are living below the poverty line. That's a full percentage point higher than in 2009. The only word to describe this situation is bleak. Political candidates telling constituents they might ...
Embassy of the United States Santiago Chile Chilean Students ...
Embassy of the United States Santiago Chile Chilean Students ...: Fifty Students from some of the largest milling and baking companies in Chile received a prestigious international certification in bread and pastry making ...
Colombian mountain cyclists try to pedal out of poverty toward glory in Europe
Colombian mountain cyclists try to pedal out of poverty toward glory in Europe
Many were raised here in the state of Boyaca, where countless boys believe that they, too, can pedal their way up mile upon grueling mile, and right out of poverty. Johan is among the more promising racers. At 16, he is still soft-spoken and bashful. ...
Terry Fox in Cuba: Annual Run Largest Outside Canada
Terry Fox in Cuba: Annual Run Largest Outside Canada: by Wendy Holm l The Holm Team This year, Cuba celebrated its 13th Terry Fox Run. Organized by communities across Cuba every year in March, it is the largest Terry Fox event outside of Canada. When I mention this to friends, they are amazed. ...
Census report shows surge in poverty; local agencies concur
Census report shows surge in poverty; local agencies concur: In Indiana, the poverty rate in 2010 rose to 16.3 percent, higher than the national average of 15.1 percent and the state's 2009 poverty rate of 16.1 percent. The latest numbers put Indiana in a tie for 15th in the nation with California and Oklahoma. ...
Pino ties native roots to natural teaching
Pino ties native roots to natural teaching: When not teaching classes at SCC, Pino's research and activism over the past 33 years has involved environmental issues as they impact indigenous peoples throughout the world. "The area that I have prioritized is uranium mining and milling and its ...
Shannon: An Americas Agenda for the World
Shannon: An Americas Agenda for the World: There are still too few people of means paying their fair share of taxes to their government in order to support services for those who will otherwise be mired in poverty," says US UnderSecretary of State Thomas Shannon about Latin America. ...
Poverty forces Indians to brave deadly dives
Poverty forces Indians to brave deadly dives:
| "There is still a lot of lobster being pulled by hand, and it is being chilled and brought to the US," said Eric Douglas, a diving safety expert and author who has studied divers in Honduras, Brazil and Mexico and who has worked with Dr. Mejia. ... |  China Daily |
Worlds apart – the neighbourhoods that sum up a divided America
Worlds apart – the neighbourhoods that sum up a divided America:
| Their lives provide a shocking example of growing inequality in America, where the rich are leaving a growing mass of the poor completely behind. The numbers are stark enough. Last week a census report revealed that 46 million Americans live in poverty ... |  The Guardian |
Cancer fails to thwart his life's mission of hope, healing
Cancer fails to thwart his life's mission of hope, healing: Doctors have allowed him a few weeklong trips back to Guatemala, but he needs ongoing care that he can't get in Central America to "keep ahead" of the cancer. Shaffer's longevity in Guatemala and the long list of accomplishments of the mission have ...
Eliminate social security and old-age poverty will be back
Eliminate social security and old-age poverty will be back:
| California is among 10 states where not all state workers, such as prison guards, pay into Social Security. Teachers and workers in 450 California cities, counties and special districts also don't pay into Social Security. ... |  Modesto Bee |
Cuba: Self-Employed Workers Almost Double in One Year
Cuba: Self-Employed Workers Almost Double in One Year: by PL — last modified Sep 17, 2011 11:59 AM Self-employment in Cuba is having a favorable impact taking into account that nowadays the Cuban government has doubled the number of licenses granted from about 150000 last year to 333000 at present. ...
viernes, 16 de septiembre de 2011
The Food Bank of Central Louisiana has again partnered with the Concordia ...
The Food Bank of Central Louisiana has again partnered with the Concordia ...: We want to put an end to the cycle of poverty, and that can begin with education,” stated Jayne Wright-Velez, executive director of the Food Bank of Central Louisiana. “We are thankful for the staff and volunteers of the Doty Road Kids Cafe program. ...
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