Parliamentary cooperation tops Angolan and Cuban officials

Parliamentary cooperation tops Angolan and Cuban officials

Havana - Aspects related to socioeconomic cooperation and the need of strengthening the parliamnetary partnership topped on Monday the meeting between the speaker of the Angolan National Assembly and Vice-president of the Cuban Cabinet Council, ...

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Spain's newly elected government may be less friendly to Cuba

Spain's newly elected government may be less friendly to Cuba

The new Conservative government that won Sunday's elections in Spain may be less friendly to Cuba, analysts say. By Juan O. Tamayo Relations between Cuba and Spain may be headed for choppy waters after Spain's conservative Popular Party won elections ...

Carlisle man's Cuban cycle challenge for charity

Carlisle man's Cuban cycle challenge for charity

By Pamela McGowan A Carlisle businessman is cycling across Cuba to raise money for four different cancer charities. Barry Maxey, of Online Systems, completed the C2C cycle challenge two years ago. He has since been building himself up for an even ...

UN says a quarter of Bolivians suffer from hunger

UN says a quarter of Bolivians suffer from hunger

Panades said these high figures make it impossible for Bolivia to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015 on poverty relief. ...



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Local couple work to better the lives of children

Local couple work to better the lives of children

They are the Mayan Indians in Guatemala in Central America who suffer from malnutrition to the point it has stunted their growth. Vicki and Jody started an organization called Safe Homes for Children to help the poor families in Guatemala. ...

Highest income-inequality tract in America is gentrifying

Highest income-inequality tract in America is gentrifying

For the last 40 years, crime, resident flight, unemployment and inadequate housing have made this poverty-stricken area the city's most downtrodden and feared neighborhood. So when a new Census Bureau report found that from 2005 to 2009, ...



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Free Markets and the Food Crisis in Central America

Free Markets and the Food Crisis in Central America

According to the FAO, the region is home to two countries that suffer from severe poverty and malnutrition—Nicaragua and Honduras—and the region as a whole ...

Greencastle students sell bracelets to benefit Nicaraguan youth

Greencastle students sell bracelets to benefit Nicaraguan youth

"For every 10 bracelets that we sold, one Nicaraguan youth was able to attend ... are a lot of talented kids who are undermined by poverty," Rodgers said. ...



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Report urges emerging economies to tackle inequalities

Report urges emerging economies to tackle inequalities

Recent OECD research also argued that the middle classes in Latin America are often quite economically vulnerable, at risk of slipping down the economic ladder. Recently popularised innovations, including cash transfers, pensions and new forms of ...



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Hunger dinner raises awareness of poverty in Ogden

Hunger dinner raises awareness of poverty in Ogden

The event was organized by two AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America volunteers at WSU's Community Involvement Center. It was designed to raise awareness of Ogden's hungry residents. "We're feeling guilty, very guilty," said Jean Robins, ...

Coca-Cola Foundation Grants $250000 to American Indian College Fund to ...

Coca-Cola Foundation Grants $250000 to American Indian College Fund to ...

By American Indian College Fund DENVER, Nov. 22, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Coca-Cola Foundation is continuing its support of first-generation Native American scholars through a generous donation of $250000 to the American Indian College ...

Court upholds tough standard of proof for death-row inmates

Court upholds tough standard of proof for death-row inmates

By Bill Rankin A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Georgia's tough burden of proof required of death-penalty defendants seeking to prove they are mentally disabled and thus not eligible for execution. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Venezuela's meat imports from Nicaragua up 120% over 2010

Venezuela's meat imports from Nicaragua up 120% over 2010

Nicaragua has exported 10996 calves during 2011 to Venezuela -an increase of 120% compared to 2010, according to information provided by Salón Guerrero, the president of the Nicaragua Ranchers' Federation (Feganic). Guerrero added that livestock ...



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Venezuela Price Law to End 'Capitalist Speculation,' Jaua Says

Venezuela Price Law to End 'Capitalist Speculation,' Jaua Says

22 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela's "fair price and costs" law, that goes into effect today, will end "capitalist speculation" by setting price caps and forcing companies to report information to several government agencies, Vice President Elias Jaua said. ...

Cuba Presents Results of Anti-Lung Cancer Vaccine

Cuba Presents Results of Anti-Lung Cancer Vaccine

The forum, organized by the Molecular Immunology Center and the state-run CIMAB SA trade company, will assess how that drug performs in patients from Cuba and other countries where the medicine has been registered. CIMAvax-EGF is the first vaccine ...



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Almost One in Four Children in Florida Live in Poverty

Almost One in Four Children in Florida Live in Poverty

The child poverty rate rose in 27 state, and by one percent or more in 12 states, including Florida. The numbers are more pronounced among minorities. 38.6 percent of black children live in poverty in Florida. 36.3 percent of children who are listed as ...

Spain's crown prince visits Chile

Spain's crown prince visits Chile

Santiago – Chilean President Sebastian Piñera on Tuesday welcomed Spanish Crown Prince Felipe and his wife, Princess Letizia, with the honors reserved for heads of state at Moneda Palace. The royal couple, who arrived on Monday night in Santiago, ...



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Native Americans sue Wash. state for sending them to mission schools where ...

Native Americans sue Wash. state for sending them to mission schools where ...

Eight Native Americans have filed suit against the Washington Department of Social and Health Services, claiming the agency placed them in a mission school where they were sexually abused by a Jesuit priest decades ago. Attorney Blaine Tamaki said ...

Mexico Drug Violence Touches Both Sides Of The Border

Mexico Drug Violence Touches Both Sides Of The Border

President Felipe Calderon launched an assault on the drug cartels when he took office, utilizing security forces and the Mexican military. The ensuing "Drug War" has led to violent deaths for nearly 50000 people in the past five years, including police ...

Acapulco: where inmates run the prison

Acapulco: where inmates run the prison

by Patricia Treble - Prisoners at Acapulco's penitentiary didn't have time to clean house when more than 500 Mexican police officers paid their residence an unannounced pre-dawn visit last week in order ...

IDB will contribute $200 million to social programs in Peru

IDB will contribute $200 million to social programs in Peru

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will provide the Peruvian government with $200 million for the execution of social programs designed to fight social exclusion and poverty. IDB president Luis Alberto Moreno, said that these resources would be ...



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Hope for the slums of Brazil

Hope for the slums of Brazil

Author Janice Perlman stated in her book Metamorphosis of Marginality: Four Generations in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, that Brazil's top 10 per cent earns 50 per cent of the national income and 26 per cent of Brazilians are living below the poverty ...



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Free Markets and the Food Crisis in Central America

Free Markets and the Food Crisis in Central America

Central America continues to suffer from historical conditions of malnutrition and poverty that are getting worse as a result of its form of insertion into the globalized economy, and especially its trade and financial liberalization policies. ...



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Belarus Tightens Energy Ties with Venezuela Following 20 Years of ...

Belarus Tightens Energy Ties with Venezuela Following 20 Years of ...

Following years of natural gas price hikes by Gazprom Belarus is strengthening ties with energy rich Venezuela. Balarus's natural gas pipeline.

Digital Window Into Guatemala's Past to Launch at Conference on the Politics ...

Digital Window Into Guatemala's Past to Launch at Conference on the Politics ...

Given the importance of ensuring uninterrupted access to this archive, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances both expressed concern that any changes in government ...

Minister admits links with bloody Colombian army

Minister admits links with bloody Colombian army

Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne blurted out the revelation as he was replying to an impassioned parliamentary debate on severe violations of human rights in the Latin American country. Labour MP and former foreign office minister Chris Bryant ...

Native American Indian Film Festival Continues Storytelling Tradition

Native American Indian Film Festival Continues Storytelling Tradition

BY SARAH ROBBINS For thousands of years, storytelling was a primary means of education for Native American cultures. From sharing family history to passing along the most effective fishing techniques, it was all passed from one generation to the next ...

54 Young People Celebrate Completing the 2011 Youth Career Initiative in Brazil

54 Young People Celebrate Completing the 2011 Youth Career Initiative in Brazil

The initiative has been in operation since 1995 and provides a practical platform for governments, companies, and non-profit organisations to work collaboratively towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – in particular poverty alleviation.

Cuba to let farmers sell directly to tourist sector

Cuba to let farmers sell directly to tourist sector

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban farmers can bypass the state and start selling products directly to businesses catering to tourists, state-run media said on Monday in announcing the latest market-oriented reform in the one of the world's last communist ...

The Nicaraguan elections

The Nicaraguan elections

There is widespread poverty in Nicaragua and populism and patronage are a powerful combination when it comes to securing votes. Thus, the economic support ...

The “president of the poor” wins another term in Nicaragua

The “president of the poor” wins another term in Nicaragua

Instead, Mr Arce said Nicaragua had to “generate new wealth for social justice” which would “benefit more people”. Poverty has been falling in Nicaragua. ...

More seniors going hungry, AARP study finds

More seniors going hungry, AARP study finds

The Food Insecurity Among Older Adults report, which drew on surveys in two federal databases, found half of people age 50 to 59 from the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, and near poverty level, were in danger of not having enough food. ...

Poverty 101: Group learns reality of life for area's poor

Poverty 101: Group learns reality of life for area's poor

The event was organized by Bridges to Circles, a community-based initiative of Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida and Prosper Pensacola, and it was sponsored by WSRE. About 15 people participated in the simulation, and about 15 people from the ...

United Way financial education program receives $1 million in grants

United Way financial education program receives $1 million in grants

The campaign targets individuals and families living at, near or below the poverty line, but is available to anyone in the United Way service area — Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and northern St. Johns counties. During the past eight years, ...

Americans stay put as mover rate reaches record low

Americans stay put as mover rate reaches record low

Those living below the poverty rate were most likely to move. About 21.7 percent of the category moved in 2010, compared with 15.3 percent of those living at or just above the poverty rate and 9.1 percent of those living at 150 percent of the rate or ...

Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month

Several activities are planned to mark Native American Heritage Month locally. All events are free unless noted otherwise. Seneca Stories with Ronnie Reitter: Listen to traditional stories from the Seneca Nation. Reitter is a storyteller from the ...

Organizations help Native American students transfer with confidence

Organizations help Native American students transfer with confidence

Native Transfer Day was created to help Native American students make an easy transition from community colleges into university life. Whitehorse is a freshman at Phoenix College, but the Navajo teenager hopes to eventually finish her degree at ASU. ...

New Census Bureau classification of 'near poor' is virtually useless

New Census Bureau classification of 'near poor' is virtually useless

He seems unaware of the work of AEI's Nick Eberstadt, like this AEI paper or his 2008 book The Poverty of the Poverty Rate: Measure and Mismeasure of Material Deprivation in America. One of Nick's central points is that the poverty definition first ...

Mexico gives muddled response to criticism of human rights violations amid ...

Mexico gives muddled response to criticism of human rights violations amid ...

A new report says Mexico fails to limit security forces' torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings in the drug war. But Calderon's response 'skirts the issue,' says blogger Patrick Corcoran. By Patrick Corcoran, 

Chilean fruit imports progressively growing

Chilean fruit imports progressively growing

By Christina DiMartino | November 21, 2011 Tom Tjerandsen, managing director of the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, North America, in Santiago, Chile, who works from Sonoma, CA, told The Produce News that Chile exported approximately 900000 tons of ...

Teachers union in Puerto Rico wants to keep charter schools out of the country

Teachers union in Puerto Rico wants to keep charter schools out of the country

In 2008, teachers in Puerto Rico joined with students and parents in an island-wide, 10-day strike decrying the state of education. The shutdown was a historic one, as it's against the law in Puerto Rico for teachers to strike. ...

Puerto Rico rocked by child's death from malnutrition

Puerto Rico rocked by child's death from malnutrition

A 4-year-old boy who weighed just 6.3 kilograms (13.8 pounds) died Monday in a hospital in Puerto Rico's capital. The child was brought to San Juan's Pavia Hospital on Sunday by his mother, Luz Gonzalez, ...

Local couple work to better the lives of children

Local couple work to better the lives of children

“We eventually moved our orphanage near Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands where the poverty and need was so much more pressing. In time it became obvious that for the same amount of money it was taking to run a small orphanage we could help ...

Cuba: Repression Rundown for last week | Babalú Blog

Cuba: Repression Rundown for last week | Babalú Blog

The Coalition of Cuban-American Women as a rundown of the repression carried out by the Castro dictatorship that took place last week in.

Unemployment drops as Alabama's immigration reform enacted

Unemployment drops as Alabama's immigration reform enacted

Hispanic lobbies are an important force in the Democratic Party, partly because they promise to rally a large slice of the nation's varied Hispanic voters to back President Obama in 2012. The federal government sued the state, but persuaded a judge ...

Students experience Native American culture at Shaw Heights

Students experience Native American culture at Shaw Heights

One of the stories behind this form of Native American dance is that a young man was crippled and asked the spirit to take it away so he could dance again, he told students, so the dance starts off low and moves up as the man is healed. ...

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American Indian Occupation Gets Permanent Exhibit At Alcatraz

American Indian Occupation Gets Permanent Exhibit At Alcatraz

Some forty years after a group of protesters — which swelled at one point to 800 people — occupied the island of Alcatraz for 19 months to protest the unfair seizing of Native American lands, a room in the prison's basement is getting a permanent ...

Small airplanes collide in flight on landing approach, killing 2 in Argentina

Small airplanes collide in flight on landing approach, killing 2 in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Two small planes have collided while both were approaching to land at an Argentine airport, and two people have died. Argentina's air force says one of its planes collided with a civilian plane as both were approaching the ...

The Austerity Regime

The Austerity Regime

The resulting layoffs, lowered wages and an accelerated poverty rate left the government ever more destitute. Beginning with the very public default of Argentina on their IMF loans, most of Latin America declared itself independent from the IMF regime. ...

A third of metropolitan Buenos Aires live below poverty line claims Catholic ...

A third of metropolitan Buenos Aires live below poverty line claims Catholic ...

The paper which was released a few days after the Argentine Catholic Church renewed its authorities refers to the area most densely populated of the country which has a total population of 40 million. However poverty in Argentina has been diminishing ...

Border starting to look like a war zone

Border starting to look like a war zone

With drones overhead, massive imposing borders and heavily armed militaries pursuing an enemy that easily blends into the civilian population, the drug war on the Mexican border is increasingly more like Afghanistan, says James Poulos in Foreign Policy ...

New Vaccination Campaign in Cuba

New Vaccination Campaign in Cuba

21 de noviembre de 2011, 10:03Havana, Nov 21 (Prensa Latina) Cuban health authorities will begin on Monday a new vaccination campaign against seasonal flu, in which more than one million people will be immunized. This was expressed by Doctor Luis ...

Cuba to let farmers sell directly to tourist sector

Cuba to let farmers sell directly to tourist sector

Tourists eat at a ''Paladar'' or home restaurant in the town of Cienfuegos, in central Cuba some 250 kilometres, (155 miles), from Havana January 20, 2011. HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban farmers can bypass the state and start selling products directly to ...

Jewish high school in Buenos Aires can't meet demand

Jewish high school in Buenos Aires can't meet demand: BUENOS AIRES – Julian Berezovsky's life was turned upside down three years ago when at age 15, his father, a Hebrew teacher at the Congregation of Reform Judaism in Orlando, Florida, died on the eve of Rosh Hashana. He and his family had to move back ...

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Curb childhood poverty

Curb childhood poverty:

As Brownback administration officials come to Wichita today for the second of three town-hall meetings on childhood poverty, here's hoping they are open to all possible solutions for an issue central to the governor's agenda and the state's future. ...

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Dominican Republic/World Bank: 600000 Poor Households will Benefit from ...

Dominican Republic/World Bank: 600000 Poor Households will Benefit from ...: WASHINGTON, November 17, 2011- Today the World Bank's Board of Directors approved two loans totaling US$90 million for the Dominican Republic to enhance performance results in the social sector, which will benefit 600000 low-income households, ...

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The oldest old: Reaching 90 more likely than ever

The oldest old: Reaching 90 more likely than ever

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rolls of America's oldest old are surging: Nearly 2 million now are 90 or over, nearly triple their numbers of just three decades ago. It's not all good news. They're more likely than the merely elderly to live in poverty and to ...

A Call for An Enlightened US Foreign Policy Toward Latin America

A Call for An Enlightened US Foreign Policy Toward Latin America: ... array of issues from securitization to economic policy, as well as a methodology that could allow states to develop their own regional approaches for improving records on human rights, alleviating poverty, and other issues plaguing Latin America. ...

Philanthropy, social protection, and the US foreign budget

Philanthropy, social protection, and the US foreign budget:

Philanthropic foundations now play a major role in funding development, contributing billions of dollars each year to the global fight against poverty. Without the political constraints faced by most donors, there is an argument that foundations can be ...

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Let's make climate change talks inclusive

Let's make climate change talks inclusive: ... United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de Janeiro ... institution dedicated to helping poor, rural people overcome poverty. ...

Full text: White paper on rural poverty reduction

Full text: White paper on rural poverty reduction: ... seminars, forums, visits and bilateral exchanges related to poverty reduction, and signed cooperation agreements or established cooperation centers for poverty reduction with other developing countries, including Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, ...

Rural Women Share Their Trials and Wisdom

Rural Women Share Their Trials and Wisdom: They exemplify the reality of poverty and neglect experienced by tens of thousands of families in a country that has enjoyed years of high economic growth that has not been felt by everyone – overall, more than 30 percent of Peru's 29 million people ...

Belle Chasse Primary School students celebrate American Indian heritage

Belle Chasse Primary School students celebrate American Indian heritage:

Enlarge Susan Poag,The Times-Picayune SUSAN POAG / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Connell Vallette of "The Yellow Moon Singers" talks about Native American customs during a special Native American/Pilgrim Celebration for the fourth grade students of teacher Mary ...

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Gay Advocates Say Transgender Murders Severely Undercounted in Puerto Rico

Gay Advocates Say Transgender Murders Severely Undercounted in Puerto Rico

While Trans Day of Remembrance websites currently list only one 2011 murder of a trans woman in Puerto Rico, Sophia Isabel Marro Cruz, the spokeswoman for Transexuales y Transgeneros en Marcha (Transexuals and Transgenders On The Move) says there are ...

Frenchwoman jailed in Mexico rips press

Frenchwoman jailed in Mexico rips press: Paris – Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico, said in an interview aired Sunday on French television that reports in the Mexican press alleging that she was involved in illegal activities ...

Kansas Recognizes Contributions of Native American Tribes ...

Kansas Recognizes Contributions of Native American Tribes ...: Kansas Governor Sam Brownback recently signed a proclamation apologizing to the states Native American tribes.

Argentine soccer legend Maradona's mother dies

Argentine soccer legend Maradona's mother dies: Buenos Aires – Dalma Salvadora Franco, the mother of legendary Argentine soccer player Diego Maradona, died on the weekend in a Buenos Aires hospital from a heart condition, media reports said. She was 81. The soccer legend's mother, known as "Doña ...

Cell death of prisoner 'not suspicious'

Cell death of prisoner 'not suspicious': Peter Kane, 40, had been sentenced to 10 years in jail in July 2010 for smuggling two kilograms of cocaine from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The court had also fined him Dh50,000. Officers at Dubai International Airport's Terminal Three had found the cocaine ...

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Spain's likely new leader: A master of ambiguity

Spain's likely new leader: A master of ambiguity: ... out the labor market and social welfare system reforms he deems necessary. ... A lover of Cuban cigars, Rajoy has also suggested he may ease Spain's ...

The Deterioration of Security Environments in Latin America

The Deterioration of Security Environments in Latin America: A prominent human rights group, PROVEA (Programa Venezolano de Educación-Acción en Derechos Humanos), recently announced that at least 13985 people were killed in Venezuela in 2009. Venezuela currently has one of Latin America's highest murder rates. ...

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Young Jewish innovators to gather in Buenos Aires

Young Jewish innovators to gather in Buenos Aires: BUENOS AIRES (JTA) -- Some 50 young Jewish social innovators from 16 countries will gather in Buenos Aires to discuss innovative ways to connect to Jewish life. The social entrepreneurs and Jewish innovators will participate in ROI Community's ...

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US Blockade Affects Cuban Press

US Blockade Affects Cuban Press: 20 de noviembre de 2011, 08:56Havana (Prensa Latina) The work of the Cuban press is affected by serious limitations, being a target of the measures derived from the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US government against Cuba ...

Solidarity with Cuban Five Grows in Catalonia

Solidarity with Cuban Five Grows in Catalonia: 20 de noviembre de 2011, 10:07Holguin, Cuba, Nov 20 (PL) In Catalonia, there is a strong movement of solidarity with Cuba and especially for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998, ...

Education foundation helps students in Peru (Mission Report)

Education foundation helps students in Peru (Mission Report):

However, in many developing countries, including Peru, the tables are turned. In these countries tuition costs are quite cheap, but even so, few people can afford them due to a perpetual state of rampant poverty. Kuska's structure: Kuska is a nonprofit ...

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Venezuelan Ruling Party Sets Up Grassroots Groups

Venezuelan Ruling Party Sets Up Grassroots Groups: 20 de noviembre de 2011, 10:10Caracas, Nov 20 (Prensa Latina) The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Sunday is holding a massive demonstration of militants to mark the completion of a deployment carried out during the weekend in the ...

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Artist highlights mothers of victims of violence in Venezuela

Artist highlights mothers of victims of violence in Venezuela

Just last week I posted about the rescue of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos from kidnappers, so the timing of the artist's work in Venezuela seems to be fortuitous considering such a high-profile case caught the attention of many ...

Hip Cities That Think About How They Work - NYTimes.com

Hip Cities That Think About How They Work - NYTimes.com: Santiago. A vibrant mix of Latin American culture and European sensibility, this Chilean city is modern, safe and smart. The rapidly growing city of 6.7 million — ...

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Bolivia: Solidarity activists need to support process

Bolivia: Solidarity activists need to support process: By Federico Fuentes The recent march in Bolivia by some indigenous organisations ... Bolivians they have no right to develop their economy or fight poverty. ...

Idaho holds state's first execution in 17 years

Idaho holds state's first execution in 17 years: Rhoades acknowledged killing the women but appealed Idaho's execution protocol. The US Supreme Court denied the appeal Thursday. Thirty-four US states have the death penalty, according to the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center. ...

Gov. Otter receives lots of letters opposing execution

Gov. Otter receives lots of letters opposing execution: The European Union ambassador to the US writes that the EU is opposed to capital punishment under all circumstances, and seeks a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty. - 61 letters are from Idaho residents, with 10 saying the execution should go ...

Suspect wanted in 2001 bombing that killed San Jose student is arrested in ...

Suspect wanted in 2001 bombing that killed San Jose student is arrested in ...: ... charges that could carry the death penalty. Anthony Chang was apprehended in the South American country this week, years after he fled the country when he was linked to the infamous robot dog plot that led to the death of 18-year-old Patrick Hsu, ...

Portugal court refuses to send US fugitive home

Portugal court refuses to send US fugitive home

But Wright insisted Thursday that he never fired a shot in the holdup and pleaded "no defense" to the murder charge because his lawyer advised it avoid a life sentence or the death penalty. "I didn't kill anyone. I accompanied someone (who) committed a ...

Bolivians flee homeland to find work elsewhere

Bolivians flee homeland to find work elsewhere

The World Bank estimates that almost 7 percent of Bolivians don't live in Bolivia, opting to work and live in places that have more work and less poverty. ...

Lords of poverty struggle to survive

Lords of poverty struggle to survive:

... Microfinance institutions were the lords of poverty, imperiously ruling over ... Unlike its foreign counterpart like Bancasol of Bolivia and Compartamos ...

Business Standard

United Nations: Migiro tasks youth on sustainable development

United Nations: Migiro tasks youth on sustainable development: New York, US - UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha Rose-Migiro on Thursday exhorted young people to use their skills and energy to encourage leaders at next year's UN conference on sustainable development in Brazil. PANA reported that the UN Conference on ...

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Brazilian president signs law creating truth commission to probe human rights ...

Brazilian president signs law creating truth commission to probe human rights ...

“They represent a decisive step toward the consolidation of Brazil's democracy.” Rousseff is a former guerrilla who was arrested and tortured in prison during the dictatorship. The armed forces backed the commission after being assured that it would ...

New ad campaign aims to prevent FARC child soldiers

New ad campaign aims to prevent FARC child soldiers

Poverty, abuse and neglect at home are common drivers in the recruitment process, which is usually voluntary. The launch of the campaign was attended by two demobilized guerrillas who were recruited as children. "Carmenza" ran away from home at age 11 ...

Girls recruited as sexual slaves by Colombia's largest rebel group

Girls recruited as sexual slaves by Colombia's largest rebel group: With the poverty rate at around 60 percent and few jobs available in rural areas, children are drawn to join rebel armies by false promises of adventure, food, and money. But when children arrive at rebel jungle camps, they find life is very different ...

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DC students explore Brazil

DC students explore Brazil: By Chris L. Jenkins This summer, 15 Washington high school students spent 10 days in Brazil, where they experienced everything from the rustic beauty of Ipanema to the hardscrabble poverty of the country's favelas. The trip to Rio de Janeiro and ...

Venezuela's election economy

Venezuela's election economy: This has clearly not escaped Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, who thanks to his control over PDVSA, the state oil company, has access to a good deal more money than most politicians in the region. And even though there is still a year to go until ...

Cuban dissident slams censorship, travel restrictions

Cuban dissident slams censorship, travel restrictions

MIAMI — Blogger Yoani Sanchez denounced the travel restrictions and censorship imposed on dissidents like her in communist Cuba, as she introduced her latest book at a Miami book fair via telephone. Sanchez, named by Time magazine as one of the world ...

Cuba to Unveil Monument in Honor of State Terrorism Victims

Cuba to Unveil Monument in Honor of State Terrorism Victims

Holguin, Cuba, Nov 18.- As part of the activities of the Seventh Colloquium to Free the Cuban Five a monument will be unveiled in honor of state terrorism victims, on Friday, in the town of Boca de Sama, in the eastern province of Holguin, ...

Honduras: America's great foreign policy disgrace

Honduras: America's great foreign policy disgrace:

In May 2011, an agreement was finally brokered in Cartegena, Colombia which allowed Honduras back into the Organisation of American States. But the Lobo government has not complied with its part of the Cartegena accords, which included human rights ...

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Immigrant workers leave struggling Spain

Immigrant workers leave struggling Spain: By Brian Byrnes, CNN Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- For Laura Dominguez, nothing tastes more like home more than mate tea and dulce de leche, both typically Argentine flavors that she missed during the eight years she lived in Spain. ...

Fed's Williams: fiscal action "badly needed"

Fed's Williams: fiscal action "badly needed": SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Federal Reserve actions won't by themselves bring down high unemployment quickly, a top Federal Reserve official said on Friday. "In this environment, monetary policy alone would take a very long time to bring about the ...

Photos: Students clash with riot police in Chile

Photos: Students clash with riot police in Chile

AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI Protesters use a banner to shield themselves from a police water canon during a protest demanding education reform in Santiago, Chile, Friday Nov 18, 2011. Students have been demanding education reform for at least six months. ...

US couple jailed for killing Russian adopted son

US couple jailed for killing Russian adopted son: Before the jury announced its decision in September, prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for the couple, who were released on $50000 bail each in September. Russian child rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov condemned the US jury's ruling that the ...

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Counting the poor in America proves difficult, controversial

Counting the poor in America proves difficult, controversial:

The official measure, devised in 1964 to measure progress in President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," is based on the idea that families spend one-third of their income on food. To establish federal poverty lines, experts calculated the lowest ...

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Global Palate highlights Native American culture

Global Palate highlights Native American culture: Tonight at 6 pm., the last Global Palate event of this semester will take place in Andrews Hall and focus on Native American Heritage. Marietta College administration, professors, and students frequent the event. Travis is quick to note that it is not ...

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Abolish the Death Penalty in 4 Simple Steps

Abolish the Death Penalty in 4 Simple Steps: Despite the common assumption that the death penalty has been a constant throughout American history, the practice has fallen in and out of public favor, with a spotty presence over the years. In the wake of 1972's Furman v. Georgia case ...

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Protect Anti-Poverty Programs in Deficit Negotiations

Protect Anti-Poverty Programs in Deficit Negotiations: The full text of the letter follows: On behalf of the Union for Reform Judaism, whose more than 900 congregations across North America encompass 1.5 million Reform Jews, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, whose membership includes over 1800 ...

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