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lunes, 31 de octubre de 2011
'Walk to end poverty' draws 1800 to annual event
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
'Walk to end poverty' draws 1800 to annual event: Scott Randolph, Orlando commissioner Daisy Lynum, representatives from the University of Central Florida, Rollins College and Lake Mary high school, Sipple said. Similar walks were being held in nine other US cities,including Dallas, Los Angeles and ...


Weston Little League Hits a Home Run for Charity
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Weston Little League Hits a Home Run for Charity: “I knew we had to do something,” Hassan said. The Dominican Republic is a nation riddled with poverty. Many families there live below the poverty line, earning less than $9000 a year. “It's a league of 168 kids who play with tattered baseballs and ...


The 10 States that Can Elect the Next President
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
The 10 States that Can Elect the Next President:
| Nevada, Florida and Michigan have been devastated by declining home values and skyrocketing foreclosure rates. While the poverty rate grew by 1.8 percentage points to 14.7 percent nationwide, it grew at a faster clip in Colorado, Florida, Michigan, ... | The Fiscal Times |
Ibero-American Summit Condemns US Blockade Against Cuba
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Ibero-American Summit Condemns US Blockade Against Cuba
By Nestor Núñez - The 21st Ibero-American Summit recently held in Paraguay unanimously condemned Washington´s blockade against Cuba a few days after the international community´s approval of the ...
Is Cuba's Dominance in Sports a Pyrrhic Victory?
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Is Cuba's Dominance in Sports a Pyrrhic Victory?: The closing ceremony and the second place finish achieved by our delegation cheered those still disgusted by the defeat of the Cuban team in the Baseball World Championship. For a couple of weeks the sound of the hit balls echoed more loudly than the ...


November is National Native American Heritage Month
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
November is National Native American Heritage Month: Native Americans have served honorably in all our nation's wars despite the fact that they were not granted citizenship until 1924. About 12000 Native Americans served our country heroically in World War I; 44000 (of a total population of 350000 at the ...


Native American Student Hired By Keres Consulting
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Native American Student Hired By Keres Consulting:
| Tewa, a member of the Navajo, Hopi and Tewa tribes, is pursuing degrees in business administration and Native American studies. In her new paid part-time position she will be exposed to federal procurement processes and integrated marketing ... | Indian Country Today Media Network.com |
Former Venezuela President Carlos Andres Perez's Mistress Dies
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Former Venezuela President Carlos Andres Perez's Mistress Dies: Efe Cecilia Matos, the mistress of deceased former Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, died Monday in Colombia of "kidney and respiratory problems," one of her daughters told Efe. She was 66. "My mom died this morning. ...


Guatemala: Drug Trafficking and Violence (AUDIO)
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Guatemala: Drug Trafficking and Violence (AUDIO): Positioned at the midpoint between narcotics producers in South America and US consumers, Guatemala has become a major hub for overland drug trafficking. Violence and corruption, byproducts of the drug trade, pose a major challenge to Guatemala's ...


Brazil, Peru Strengthen Bilateral Ties and Cooperation
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Brazil, Peru Strengthen Bilateral Ties and Cooperation: At a press conference after the signing of such supplementary agreements, Patriota said that, like Brazil, Peu also wants to stimulate economic growth through job creation and poverty reduction. For his part, Roncagliolo said the Peruvian president, ...


Buying dollars in Argentina just got a lot tougher
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Buying dollars in Argentina just got a lot tougher:
| By Michael Warren, AP BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina launched a new crackdown on capital flight, tax evasion and money laundering on Monday, requiring people buying dollars to first prove they're up to date on their taxes. By Eduardo Di Baia, ... | USA Today |
US court trims conviction in Cuba player smuggling
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
US court trims conviction in Cuba player smuggling: By GREG BLUESTEIN AP ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court on Monday handed a partial victory to a professional sports agent who was sentenced to prison for smuggling five Cuban baseball players into Florida. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed ...


In Cuba, A Used Car Is No Bargain
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
In Cuba, A Used Car Is No Bargain: In October, Cuba legalized the sale and purchase of automobiles for all citizens. Now, Cubans who leave the island permanently can transfer ownership of their car to a relative or sell it outright. Previously, Cuba could seize the vehicles of those who ...


ISAF Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
ISAF Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico: ISAF Annual Conference for 2011 will be held this week in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Thursday 3rd November. ISAF Committee, Sub-committee and Commission members will travel from around the globe to San Juan where they will be joined by ISAF Member ...


Venezuelan choir brings museum audience to its feet with South American program
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Venezuelan choir brings museum audience to its feet with South American program:
| By Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer Opus 3 ArtistsSchola Cantorum de Venezuela, a 40-member vocal ensemble, appeared at the Cleveland Museum of Art Friday, Oct. 28 with a diverse, lively program of serious and popular works from South America and Cuba. ... | Plain Dealer (blog) |
Central America: Forum aims to curb corruption's impact
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Central America: Forum aims to curb corruption's impact: This, in turn, damages economic growth by diminishing the trust of the investment community, and impedes efforts to reduce poverty in Central America. Both petty bribery and political influence in the judiciary erode social cohesion, ...


Battling Prison Rape: Immigration Detainees Deserve Protection, Too
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Battling Prison Rape: Immigration Detainees Deserve Protection, Too: Mayra Soto, a woman who suffered persecution for her sexual orientation in Mexico, was once raped in a Mexican jail. She later fled to the United States and was incarcerated in an immigration detention facility, where she was once again raped – this ...


Families of Central American illegal immigrants search for lost relatives in ...
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Families of Central American illegal immigrants search for lost relatives in ...
The caravan is scheduled for a two-week trip through nine Mexican states. Their pleas for respect are far different than the growing outrage in the United States against illegal immigrants. US prisons report Hispanics are now the ethnic group with the ...
Collahuasi copper mine strike ends, Chile production falls 1.9%
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Collahuasi copper mine strike ends, Chile production falls 1.9%: SANTIAGO (Commodity Online): Chile's Collahuasi, the third largest Copper mine in the world, restarted production after a partial strike demanding bonus payments ended on an agreement between the management and workers. "An agreement was reached over ...
Brazil Helping Its People Break Vicious Circle of Poverty
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Brazil Helping Its People Break Vicious Circle of Poverty: "I can buy things with that money: clothes, shoes, I pay for services, and the best thing: I was able to buy roof tiles, and put a proper roof on my home," ...
Surprise treat for local hero
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Surprise treat for local hero: Months later she took her first trip to Guatemala, volunteering with Parroquia ... It was an eye-opener to me to learn what poverty really means,” she said. ...
Lifelong Death Sentences
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Lifelong Death Sentences: Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote that the 33 years Mr. Valle had spent on death row amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. That line of reasoning strikes some supporters of the death penalty as perverse. “It is a very strange argument to say that a ...


US Supreme Court won't hear appeal in death penalty case from Mississippi ...
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
US Supreme Court won't hear appeal in death penalty case from Mississippi ...: Chamberlin had claimed — among other things — that her trial attorney failed to question prospective jurors about their feelings about the death penalty, failed to raise the issue of her drug addiction and failed to raise the issue of her dominance ...


Buying dollars in Argentina just got a lot tougher
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
Buying dollars in Argentina just got a lot tougher: By Michael Warren AP / October 31, 2011 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Argentina has launched a new crackdown on capital flight and tax evasion. It is requiring people who want to buy dollars to first prove that they're up to date on their taxes. ...


No Right to Housing for Millions of Slum Dwellers
> Hora de verano Oriental :
lunes, octubre 31, 2011
No Right to Housing for Millions of Slum Dwellers: Nearly half of the 43 million inhabitants of the seven countries of Central America – Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama – live in poverty, and millions have serious difficulties in gaining access to decent, ...
domingo, 30 de octubre de 2011
Police looking to predict crimes in Palm Beach County
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Police looking to predict crimes in Palm Beach County: "Your lower-poverty areas are, in the majority of cases, your high-crime areas. "We knew they would see a lot of resources in those areas, and [police] did a lot of public relations. It worked and they were understanding," he said. ...


Former US chief prosecutor condemns 'law-free zone' of Guantánamo
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Former US chief prosecutor condemns 'law-free zone' of Guantánamo:
| A shackled detainee is taken from a vehicle for interrogation at Camp Delta, at the Guantanamo base in Cuba in 2006. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP The former chief prosecutor for the US government at Guantánamo Bay has accused the administration he ... | The Guardian |
Argentina: Why President Fernandez Wins and Obama Loses
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Argentina: Why President Fernandez Wins and Obama Loses:
| Negative growth rates and a sharp decline in income, increased poverty and multiplied the number of food stamp recipients. Unlike Argentina, discontented citizens took to the ballot box. Attracted by the demagogic “change” rhetoric of Obama, ... | Axis of Logic |
'Walk to end poverty' draws 1800 to annual event
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
'Walk to end poverty' draws 1800 to annual event: ... raised more than $200000 to fight poverty and hunger in Asia and Africa, according to spokeswoman Martha Sipple. Among the event's local participants were State Attorney Lawson Lamar, representatives from the University of Central Florida, ...
Ortega Won't Let Go of Nicaragua
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Ortega Won't Let Go of Nicaragua: But Ortega enterprises have provided limited relief for Nicaragua's victims of grinding poverty. The opposition points out that he has never won more than ...
Chavez: Venezuela refuses to pay compensation in foreign currency to British ...
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Chavez: Venezuela refuses to pay compensation in foreign currency to British ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela refuses to pay compensation in foreign currency to a British-owned company after his government expropriated tens of thousands of acres of its ranchlands. Chavez says the government has ...
Argentina: Between ayatollahs and democracies
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Argentina: Between ayatollahs and democracies: In Buenos Aires last week, Nisman met with Dan Restrepo, President Obama's senior adviser on Latin America, and the person leading the US's anti-terrorist policy. Nisman updated Restrepo on his investigation against Iran, including his team's findings ...
Feeding 7 billion and more
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Feeding 7 billion and more: The food riots in 2008 in certain African, Asian, and South American countries that were sparked by high food prices were another stark reminder that bleak times may be just over the horizon. Unfortunately, poverty even exists in more developed ...


Venezuela: 2012 Budget to Stimulate Jobs, Production & Social Services
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Venezuela: 2012 Budget to Stimulate Jobs, Production & Social Services: By Correo del Orinoco International Agriculture, infrastructure, and energy are just some of the main governmental sectors that will see a boost in funding next year according to Venezuela's proposed 2012 budget revealed last week by Finance and ...
Campaigner took US to task and won massive class action
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Campaigner took US to task and won massive class action
ELOUISE Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet tribe who led a 15-year legal battle that ended with the United States government agreeing to pay $US3.4 billion in compensation for mismanagement of Native American trust funds since the late 1800s, ...
Honduras becomes Western Hemisphere cocaine hub
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Honduras becomes Western Hemisphere cocaine hub: Long an impoverished backwater in Central America, Honduras has become a main transit route for South American cocaine. "Honduras is the number one offload point for traffickers to take cocaine through Mexico to the US," said a US law enforcement ...
The force of victory
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
The force of victory: Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, the leader of the centre-right party PRO, knew that all along. Macri decided not to run for president and instead won re-election in July. Macri will thus live to fight another day. He knew all too well that 2011 was ...
Puerto Rico's First Wind Farm Financed
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Puerto Rico's First Wind Farm Financed:
| by Lauren Craig, October 30th, 2011 Pattern Energy Group has secured financing for Finca de Viento Santa Isabel, the first commercial wind energy project in Puerto Rico. The 75-megawatt (MW) project in the southern municipality of Santa Isabel is ... | EarthTechling |
Native American entrepreneurs build a network of success ...
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Native American entrepreneurs build a network of success ...: Two Oregon Native business owners and a local nonprofit share their success stories.
Closed women's prison has new job
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Closed women's prison has new job
Mexico, Afghanistan, Morocco, Brazil and Honduras are some of the countries that have sent criminal justice officials to Canon City to better understand the American system and glean strategies that could help them at home. Sanguinetti said training at ...
The Best of Arizona: Native American leaders
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
The Best of Arizona: Native American leaders
He was one of the first Native Americans to graduate with a medical degree. Before he died in 1923, Montezuma spent the last 20 years of his life as a powerful advocate for his people. Pattea is president of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and was ...
Unemployment hurts everyone, but blacks and Hispanics people have been hit ...
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Unemployment hurts everyone, but blacks and Hispanics people have been hit ...
Rodgers said the increase in Latino unemployment rates during the recession came through their work in the construction field, and those numbers probably are an understatement because of a large number of undocumented workers. Of concern, he said, ...
Cuba Government Opens 3.2 Million Acres of Idle Land for Individual Use
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Cuba Government Opens 3.2 Million Acres of Idle Land for Individual Use:
| HAVANA – The Cuban government up to last September had awarded usership of over 1.3 million hectares (3.2 million acres) of land for agricultural purposes, of which 79 percent is being used for crops that are mostly being tilled by “individual” farmers ... | Latin American Herald Tribune |
Former Brazilian President Lula to Have Chemotherapy for Tumor in Larynx
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Former Brazilian President Lula to Have Chemotherapy for Tumor in Larynx
“Lula is a leader, a symbol and an example to all of us,” Rousseff said in the statement yesterday. Heads of state from South America, who look up to Lula for his role in reducing poverty, expressed support for the former president. ...
Drug war turning thousands of children into orphans
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Drug war turning thousands of children into orphans: By Dudley Althaus CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Eleazar glanced up from the toy cars he pushed across a threadbare carpet, flashing to the moment that men gunned down and killed his father. “They were in a black pickup,” the 10-year-old whispered as a ...
EU - Colombia: main areas of development cooperation
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
EU - Colombia: main areas of development cooperation: In this zone an estimated 75% of the population lives below the poverty threshold and 40% of them in conditions of extreme poverty. Only a limited number of the Afro-Colombian population has access to public services such as water, electricity or ...
Poverty, minority rates reflected in grades schools earn
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Poverty, minority rates reflected in grades schools earn: Since 2008, the Louisiana Department of Education has recognized 82 schools for high achievement with a high poverty student population. To meet the current requirements, HPHP schools must achieve a baseline SPS of 100 or higher for two consecutive ...
Multidimensional poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: new ...
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Multidimensional poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: new ...
This paper studies poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean from a multidimensional perspective, exploiting the Gallup World Poll, a survey that provides a ...
Cardinal hails improved relations with Cuban gov't
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
Cardinal hails improved relations with Cuban gov't: Havana - Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega said that the dialogue with President Raul Castro's government remains open, that it affects all areas of national life including the process of economic reforms on the island, ...
The Rise of Femicide and Women in Drug Trafficking
> Hora de verano Oriental :
domingo, octubre 30, 2011
The Rise of Femicide and Women in Drug Trafficking: Perhaps the only solution is to forcefully push government officials in Latin America to take more aggressive action against the human rights violations that inevitably crop up and the violence that emerges from drug trafficking. ...


viernes, 28 de octubre de 2011
Brazil has thousands working in forced labor: ILO
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Brazil has thousands working in forced labor: ILO
... in similarly difficult working conditions, the report noted. Employers were said to be mainly white men from the affluent southeast of Brazil, Latin America's largest economy. The workers were found to be mostly black males who grew up in poverty (AFP.
Millions suffer from hunger and malnutrition
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Millions suffer from hunger and malnutrition: Despite being one of the largest food producers in the world, the Latin American and Caribbean region has 209 million people living in poverty—35 percent of its 595 million inhabitants—, of which 81 million suffer from hunger and undernourishment. ...
Praise and dollars from the World Bank to Peruvian president Humala
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Praise and dollars from the World Bank to Peruvian president Humala:
| ... for Latin America Pamela Cox who was accompanied by Hasan Tuluy who is to replace her next January 2012. Humala was elected in June promising to better distribute the fruits of a decade-long economic boom to the 1 in 3 Peruvians living in poverty. ... | MercoPress |
'Green peacemaking' needed on Latin America's environmental disputes
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
'Green peacemaking' needed on Latin America's environmental disputes
At the heart of most environmental tensions is access to natural resources by economies with high levels of poverty, which tend to be heavily dependent on commodity exports. This reflects the trade-off Latin American governments make between ...
Floods threaten Mexico and Central America with famine
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Floods threaten Mexico and Central America with famine: The Central American damages are a direct consequence of the poverty and extreme levels of social inequality that are endemic to the region. As in Tabasco and Chiapas, resources that should have been used to buttress infrastructure, for rational urban ...


Brazil latest country to get angry about graft
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Brazil latest country to get angry about graft: From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the “new Brazil”; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from ...
Give in-state tuition to US-born kids of illegal immigrant parents?
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Give in-state tuition to US-born kids of illegal immigrant parents?
The Southern Poverty Law Center is suing Florida on behalf of five students who are being forced to pay out-of-state tuition rates even though they were born in the US and grew up in Florida. One of those students is 18-year-old Kassandra Romero. ...
Cuba eases curbs to boost food output
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Cuba eases curbs to boost food output
HAVANA, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Cuba is easing communist rules and nudging its agriculture toward a market economy model as part of a stepped-up government effort to boost food production. Imports of raw foodstuffs and processed food claimed a further 25 ...
Mexico detains Los Zetas cartel financial operator
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Mexico detains Los Zetas cartel financial operator: Mexican President Felipe Calderon gave the military the lead role in battling the nation's heavily armed cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006. Since then, drug-war violence has claimed nearly 50000 lives across Mexico. ...
Venezuela's Chávez condemns assassination of Qaddafi as 'disregard for life'
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Venezuela's Chávez condemns assassination of Qaddafi as 'disregard for life'
by Ewan Robertson, Venezuelanalysis.com Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez condemned the killing of Libyan head of state Muammar Qaddafi as an “assassination” and “a disregard of life.” The Libyan leader was confirmed dead Oct. 20 by the rebel National ...
Brazil and Uruguay Move Against Crimes During Dirty War
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Brazil and Uruguay Move Against Crimes During Dirty War: ... life in prison for kidnapping, torture and murders of detainees at the notorious Navy Mechanics School, where 5000 people were held and only half survived. The past has been haunting Argentina, and Chile and Brazil and Uruguay for many years now, ...


OECD, UN Urge Latin American Nations To Pursue Reforms
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
OECD, UN Urge Latin American Nations To Pursue Reforms: But "with one in three Latin Americans -- 180 million people -- living below the poverty line and 10 of the countries in the region ranking in the 15 most unequal in the world, a more diversified and productive economy is critical to sustaining and ...


Cuban small businesses hampered by limitations, uncertainty
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Cuban small businesses hampered by limitations, uncertainty: Small businesses began to spring up in Cuba one year after the government of Raul Castro relaunched his plan of economic adjustments, but their future is hampered by many constraints, insecurity and uncertainty. "Many people enter this world of ...


Youth group finds spiritual calling, serves Pine Ridge Reservation family
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Youth group finds spiritual calling, serves Pine Ridge Reservation family: By Adam Louis Some time after ABC camera crews packed and left a South Dakota American Indian reservation, a small group of Goshen County residents took a trip of their own to one of the poorest places in the nation. Long before “20/20” aired its ...


Fugitive wanted in February robbery caught in Puerto Rico
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Fugitive wanted in February robbery caught in Puerto Rico: ALBANY -- 40-year-old Charlie Robles-Delgado was arrested in Puerto Rico and indicted for the robbery and burglary of a 90-year-old woman last February. Robles-Delgado allegedly broke into the victim's house early on February 25, placed a knife to the ...


Brazil and Colombia: An Unexpected Alliance
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Brazil and Colombia: An Unexpected Alliance: ... they also become consumers of what businesses produce,” Lula concluded, while highlighting the importance of policies that reduce poverty.[1] The Colombia-Brazil forum demonstrates that a new partnership is forming between two nations who, ...
Chile's Industrial Output Rises Faster-Than-Forecast 5.2%
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Chile's Industrial Output Rises Faster-Than-Forecast 5.2%: Chile's one-year interest rate swap, which reflects traders' views of average borrowing costs, remained unchanged from yesterday's 4.73 percent at 10:16 am Santiago time. The central bank, which has held its benchmark rate at 5.25 percent for four ...


Venezuela to pay off USD 122 billion debt until 2038
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Venezuela to pay off USD 122 billion debt until 2038: If the Venezuelan government continues to implement its present fiscal and monetary policies -based on bond issuances-, both the country and its top source of revenue, state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa), will face a major debt burden ...


Child pornographer sentenced to five years in prison
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Child pornographer sentenced to five years in prison: Cantin was arrested in November 2010 following a tip from someone in Brazil. When police raided his Anjou apartment they found tens of thousands of pictures of children as young as five being sexually abused. Cantin also filmed himself abusing a ...


Ex-Guantanamo guard tells of violence against detainees
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Ex-Guantanamo guard tells of violence against detainees: By Jenifer Fenton for CNN Editor's note: Nearly three years after President Obama declared the Guantanamo prison for terrorist suspects would be closed, the camp in Cuba remains open. Of the more than 750 inmates that were once held there, ...


The state of poverty and opportunity in Louisiana
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
The state of poverty and opportunity in Louisiana: number of residents in Louisiana in 2010, 18.7 percent lived below the official poverty line, 7.5 percent were unemployed. To reduce poverty in Louisiana, we ...
Political will a must to end child malnutrition
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Political will a must to end child malnutrition:
| While it is rarely thought of as a Latin American problem, malnutrition is prominent in much of Central America, most notably El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. There, chronic child malnutrition is as prevalent as it is in Africa or South ... | NL-Aid |
Buenos Aires Celebrates Armenia festival attracts over 15000
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Buenos Aires Celebrates Armenia festival attracts over 15000:
| Lori Antounian, Davit Gevorgyan (center background) and Ará Gevorgyan take their bows during the daylong Armenian festival in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina - Over 15000 people strolled along Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October ... | Armenian Reporter |
Students commemorate Native American heritage at Peace Tree ceremony
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Students commemorate Native American heritage at Peace Tree ceremony: The ceremony celebrates the planting of the West Virginia University Peace Tree, which commemorates WVU's commitment to the rediscovery of Native American heritages. Representatives of WVU's Native American Studies program spoke of the tree's rich ...
Spain's former colonies now 'part of the solution'
> Hora de verano Oriental :
viernes, octubre 28, 2011
Spain's former colonies now 'part of the solution'
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — It was a strange new world for Spain and ... one in three Latin Americans lives in poverty — a total of 180 million people — and ...
jueves, 27 de octubre de 2011
Guatemala still has highest fertility rate in Latin America
> Hora de verano Oriental :
jueves, octubre 27, 2011
Guatemala still has highest fertility rate in Latin America
"The problem is that the country does not increase the productivity, it does not improve the quality of its workforce or created wealth per person," said Paulo de Leon, an analyst with Central American Business Intelligence. He added that population ...
Children of illegal US immigrants file lawsuit over tuition fees
> Hora de verano Oriental :
jueves, octubre 27, 2011
Children of illegal US immigrants file lawsuit over tuition fees
A little-known legal loophole in the state of Florida has been exposed this week, with a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Miami on behalf on citizens whose parents are undocumented US immigrants ie do not hold a valid America visa, ...
Poorer Countries Have Higher Rates of Stroke, Study Finds
> Hora de verano Oriental :
jueves, octubre 27, 2011
Poorer Countries Have Higher Rates of Stroke, Study Finds
... but also significant is what proportion of their gross domestic product is expended on health," study lead author Dr. Luciano Sposato, director of the neurology department at the Vascular Research Institute at INECO Foundation in Buenos Aires, ...
Reflections on the death penalty in America
> Hora de verano Oriental :
jueves, octubre 27, 2011
Reflections on the death penalty in America:
| The issue of the death penalty is among the most talked-about conundrums in American society, for it attempts to determine a point at which it is acceptable to end a human life. The recent execution of Troy Davis, a man who many believed was wrongly ... | The Archway |
Guatemala still has highest fertility rate in Latin America
> Hora de verano Oriental :
jueves, octubre 27, 2011
Guatemala still has highest fertility rate in Latin America: 7.4 million People are poor in Guatemala; 2.2 million live in extreme poverty. In Guatemala, the population has doubled in less than 30 years, according to ...
'The Justice Cascade': Holding Human Rights Abusers Accountable
> Hora de verano Oriental :
jueves, octubre 27, 2011
'The Justice Cascade': Holding Human Rights Abusers Accountable:
| This year's panel of judges called The Justice Cascade "compelling" and "eye-opening," recognizing it for its important contribution to the field of human rights, Latin American studies and accountability. Sikkink will read from "The Justice Cascade" ... | Duke University |
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