| Nearly half of the children in Guatemala suffer from chronic malnourishment. According to the Tico Times, sky high rates of economic inequality, violence, poverty and underdevelopment have given Guatemala the fourth-highest rate of chronic hunger in ... |  ThirdAge |
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lunes, 12 de diciembre de 2011
Guatemala: Half of Children Starving
Guatemala: Half of Children Starving:
Mexican man gets prison in ND for illegal re-entry
Mexican man gets prison in ND for illegal re-entry: AP FARGO, ND — A 29-year-old man who was deported back to his home country of Mexico after serving time for a cocaine charge in Utah has been sentenced to one year and six months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States. ...
Mexican soldiers kill 11 suspected cartel gunmen in battle near US border ...
Mexican soldiers kill 11 suspected cartel gunmen in battle near US border ...
Federal prosecutors also announced Monday that a judge sentenced five former soldiers to 25-year prison
terms for aiding a drug cartel. The rare convictions occurred in the
northern state of Sinaloa, home to the drug cartel of the same name. ...
Mexican Drug Smugglers Go Underground With Surprisingly Sophisticated Tunnels
Mexican Drug Smugglers Go Underground With Surprisingly Sophisticated Tunnels:
| With the crackdown on drug smugglers intensifying above ground, with the drug war in Mexico and tighter border security in the United States, the smugglers have stepped up the sophistication of their underground routes, some with elevator shafts and ... |  Fox News |
Venezuela Food Inflation at 34%
Venezuela Food Inflation at 34%:
| CARACAS -- While the Venezuelan government forecasts lower future inflation numbers, repressed price increases and increase monetary liquidity keep fueling inflation with the November national index, the INPC, coming in at 2.2%, higher than the 1.8% of ... |  Latin American Herald Tribune |
Zakaria: The Hugo Chavez show
Zakaria: The Hugo Chavez show: Haiti and Honduras have very little in common with Argentina and Brazil. Venezuela and Cuba have a completely different set of foreign policy goals from that of Mexico and Colombia. There is little sense of a shared political or economic agenda. ...
Will More Latino Teachers Solve The Latino Achievement Gap In US?
Will More Latino Teachers Solve The Latino Achievement Gap In US?: Not only are they Latino but they're also poor -- some of them -- they grew up in low income communities. But if you bring a Latino who has an affluent ...
UF students win anti-poverty group's campus challenge
UF students win anti-poverty group's campus challenge:
| After successfully competing in challenges such as living on $1.50 a day, a University of Florida student group has won a national competition. The ONE Campaign announced today that the UF chapter of the campaign won the first stage of a campus ... |  Gainesville Sun (blog) |
A rare glimpse into China's busy death row
A rare glimpse into China's busy death row: They have no death penalty. If we don't support humanity, humanity will not survive. Judging China as with any judgement is best done with the knowledge that we have limited knowledge so judgements are temporary tools on our way to learning. ...
Pope says he will visit Cuba, Mexico before Easter
Pope says he will visit Cuba, Mexico before Easter
At the mass in the Vatican Pope Benedict also called for renewed efforts "to overcome poverty, illiteracy and corruption and to eradicate injustice, violence, criminality, drug trafficking and extortion" in Latin America. The visit will be the pope's ...
Cubans honor Catholic patron ahead of papal visit
Cubans honor Catholic patron ahead of papal visit: Cuba's Catholic Church leader Cardinal Jaime Ortega (2nd L) takes part in a procession to honor the statue of Our Lady of Charity, the patroness of Cuba, in Havana December 6, 2011. By Jack Kimball HAVANA (Reuters) - White-robed priests burned incense ...
Chilean soccer brings no surprises in Primera Division semifinals
Chilean soccer brings no surprises in Primera Division semifinals:
| SANTIAGO — There are now just four teams remaining in the Primera Division, Chile's top flight soccer competition. The semifinals match-ups will be Colo Colo vs. Cobreola and a battle of the two university teams- Universidad de Chile vs. ... |  I Love Chile News |
Argentina poised for shale oil and gas boom
Argentina poised for shale oil and gas boom: By Jude Webber in Buenos Aires Argentina could be nearing a shale oil and gas boom similar to the one that transformed the US energy landscape as former state monopoly YPF eyes another 1bn barrel discovery adjacent to a Patagonian field whose reserves ...
Opening opportunities for Guatemalan women
Opening opportunities for Guatemalan women:
| “We work in creating a personal, human identity, and self-esteem,” Jennifer Catino tells MediaGlobal, an associate for the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program for the council, who travels to Guatemala on a regular basis. Featured on PBS for working with ... |  MediaGlobal (blog) |
Native American Heritage Month promotes pride understanding
Native American Heritage Month promotes pride understanding: In 1990, President George HW Bush approved a joint resolution in designating the month of November: “National Native American Heritage Month.” This year's theme for the month is “Service, Honor, and Respect: Strengthening our cultures and communities. ...
Legal Battles in Mexico
Legal Battles in Mexico: CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO--It's not without reason that media coverage of the drug war is dominated by blood and horror: by some estimates, as many as 80000 Mexicans have been killed since the war began in earnest five years ago. ...
Citi and Raza Development Fund Announce Initiative to Strengthen Latino ...
Citi and Raza Development Fund Announce Initiative to Strengthen Latino ...
It serves a significantly distressed community with a poverty rate over 43% and unemployment
just under 15%. Other projects of the Southwest Community Development
Initiative will include charter schools, health clinics and community
facilities. ...
Markowitz wishes more young people would go to church
Markowitz wishes more young people would go to church:
| By Azi Paybarah In Brooklyn last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the latest phase of his plan to reduce crime and unemployment rates among young black and Latino men in the city, by relocating probationary officers into offices closer to ... |  Capital New York |
38 Years Later, El Centro for Puerto Rican Studies
38 Years Later, El Centro for Puerto Rican Studies: Founded in 1973, El Centro for Puerto Rican Studies in New York City has become more than an archive. It's more than a library. The center has become a reference point for the heart of Puerto Rican culture. El Centro holds some of Puerto Rico's most ...
Puerto Rican Drug Lord Captured in Dominican Republic
Puerto Rican Drug Lord Captured in Dominican Republic: Dominican authorities have announced the arrest of Miguel Rivera Diaz, alias "Bolo," one of Puerto Rico's most wanted drug traffickers. According to officials, Rivera had been hiding out in the Dominican Republic for the past decade while he ran a drug ...
Emerging economies key to tackle global challenges
Emerging economies key to tackle global challenges: Rio de Janeiro. The balance of economic power is shifting in such a way that ... growth and significant progress in reducing poverty and inequality, ...
Haiti taking the wrong direction
Haiti taking the wrong direction: In most of the world, and especially Latin America, it was the military that trampled the human rights of our brothers and sisters. It was a general's voice that ordered the arrest of students and artists, which resulted in a bloodbath. ...
Cuban Five prisoners are not alone
Cuban Five prisoners are not alone: Their cause is just: they are serving cruel sentences in US federal prisons for defending the Cuban people from US terrorism. The prisoners appreciate the vigorous worldwide campaign on their behalf. Nevertheless, as their years in jail mount, ...
Poorest farmers are key to tackling hunger
Poorest farmers are key to tackling hunger: A social scientist, Lora is a Research Fellow with expertise in rural livelihoods, poverty and gender, with a great deal of experience working in Africa, India and Central America. “Farming for Impact: a case study of smallholder agriculture in Rwanda” ...
Iran Conducting Anti-US Operations in Latin America
Iran Conducting Anti-US Operations in Latin America: Iran is conducting anti-US operations from Latin America, including military training camps in Venezuela, and expanding its reach across the border from the US in Mexico, according to footage unveiled late Thursday by the largest Spanish-language ...
domingo, 11 de diciembre de 2011
The case for the Racial Justice Act
The case for the Racial Justice Act: Prosecutors were more than twice as likely to strike qualified African-Americans from the jury pool than whites. Juries were more than 2 1/2 times as likely to sentence a defendant to death if at least one of the victims was white. ...
Torture and murder rife in Mexican jail: freed inmate
Torture and murder rife in Mexican jail: freed inmate:
| In this 2007 photo, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, left, walks with his Secretary of Defense Guillermo Galvan. Photo: AP A US citizen recently freed from a Mexican prison in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has claimed he witnessed government ... |  Sydney Morning Herald |
Cuba stops dissident Rights Day protest, 200 held
Cuba stops dissident Rights Day protest, 200 held: By Jack Kimball and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban dissidents said on Saturday that about 200 people were temporarily detained by the Communist-run island's security services in the days leading up to an international human rights celebration. ...
Argentine president meets Chinese president's envoy on ties
Argentine president meets Chinese president's envoy on ties:
| BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Re-elected Argentine President Cristina Fernandez met here Saturday with Chinese President Hu Jintao's special envoy Jiang Shusheng to promote bilateral relations. Jiang, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the ... |  People's Daily Online |
Torture and murder rife in Mexican jail freed inmate
Torture and murder rife in Mexican jail freed inmate: A US citizen recently freed from a Mexican prison in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has claimed he witnessed government corruption heard the killing of a ...
Climate talks end with promise for a deal in 2020
Climate talks end with promise for a deal in 2020
She assembled a powerful coalition behind EU proposals, which included
African states, the world's poorest nations in Asia and Africa, island
states and major players like Brazil and hosts South Africa. It held together for two weeks and effectively ...
Venezuela keen to strengthen ties with Spain
Venezuela keen to strengthen ties with Spain: Venezuela is keen to strengthen its ties with Spain and is eager to build the bilateral relationship based on mutual respect, Venezuela's Ambassador to Spain, Bernardo Alvarez, said last week. Alvarez made the comments at the Spanish city of Cadiz, ...
Torture and murder rife in Mexican jail: freed inmate
Torture and murder rife in Mexican jail: freed inmate:
| In this 2007 photo, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, left, walks with his Secretary of Defense Guillermo Galvan. Photo: AP A US citizen recently freed from a Mexican prison in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has claimed he witnessed government ... | Sydney Morning Herald |
Kitzhaber not first governor to question capital punishment
Kitzhaber not first governor to question capital punishment
When Hatfield unseated Democrat Robert Holmes as governor in 1958, they were united on at least one thing: "Both of us felt the people should reassess this grave issue, and we fought side by side to prove the death penalty morally wrong. ...
US citizen speaks out about government corruption, beatings as ex-inmate in ...
US citizen speaks out about government corruption, beatings as ex-inmate in ...
By ALFREDO CORCHADO and ANGELA KOCHERGA A US citizen from the El Paso area, recently freed from a Mexican prison
in Ciudad Juárez, said he witnessed government corruption, heard the
killing of a gang leader by federal police, and personally watched a ...
American says he witnessed corruption in Mexican prison
American says he witnessed corruption in Mexican prison: By Alfredo Corchado and Angela Kocherga, The Dallas Morning News MEXICO CITY — A US citizen from the El Paso, Texas, area recently freed from a Mexican prison in Ciudad Juarez said he witnessed government corruption, heard the killing of a gang leader ...
President Ramotar endorses Cuba chairing CELAC in 2013 ...
President Ramotar endorses Cuba chairing CELAC in 2013 ...: Guyana's “excellent” relationship with Cuba was echoed by Ramotar, including the government's firm stand on the lifting of the “unjust economic, trade and financial embargo against Cuba.” During the opening session of the Fifth Summit of the ...
US Proposes Unmanned Border Entry With Mexico
US Proposes Unmanned Border Entry With Mexico:
| | AP AP BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas – The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security amid rising fears of spillover violence. This hardly seems a time the US would be willing to allow people to ... |  Fox News |
Puerto Rico upbeat about future
Puerto Rico upbeat about future: MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico -- There was little time left on the clock and the curtain was about to close on Puerto Rico's qualifying campaign for Brazil 2014.The Boricuas were up 1-0 on St. Lucia, a team with only one point from its previous five Group D ...
Egypt's military rulers to decide fate of Guantanamo returnee
Egypt's military rulers to decide fate of Guantanamo returnee: By HANNAH ALLAM CAIRO -- Adel el Gazzar emerged from eight years of imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with one leg, no US charges against him and no chance of returning to his native Egypt, where he was sure to have been locked up again by ...
Paying the price for a Durban victory
Paying the price for a Durban victory
Did this happen at the failed talks in Buenos Aires in 1998, just
a year after the Kyoto Protocol was triumphantly signed, or in 2001 in
Bonn, when President George W Bush refused either to attend or to sign
up? The latest Conference of the Parties ...
Maradona attends mother's funeral in Buenos Aires
Maradona attends mother's funeral in Buenos Aires: Natacha Pisarenko / AP Argentina's soccer legend Diego Maradona leaves a funeral home after attending the funeral of his mother, Dalma Franco de Maradona, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday Nov. 21, 2011. Maradona's mother, widely known as "Dona Tota," ...
Argentina's women step into greater leadership with new surge
Argentina's women step into greater leadership with new surge:
| Image: Vanessa de la Fuente (WNN) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: One hundred years ago Argentinian feminist pioneer Julieta Lanteri took the word “Boldness” to the maximum allowed for a woman at the beginning of the 20 th century. In 1911 the city of Buenos ... |  Women News Network |
Opinion: Brazil is an Imperialist Killing the OAS
Opinion: Brazil is an Imperialist Killing the OAS: Once the champion of regional integration and human rights, Brazil has been changing its foreign policy approaches and now it is the enemy of the Inter American Human Rights System and an active promoter of “non-intervention” in terms of democracy and ...
Zombie film takes dead aim at life in Cuba
Zombie film takes dead aim at life in Cuba: The suggestion that 52 years of socialist rule have turned Cuba into a zombie state, a central conceit of the new Cuban horror spoof "Juan of the Dead," is daringly irreverent satire for a country that takes its revolution deadly seriously. ...
Cuban artists bring perspective of their homeland via Cleveland Institute of ...
Cuban artists bring perspective of their homeland via Cleveland Institute of ...:
| By Chuck Yarborough, The Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio -- For many Americans, Cuba alternately is ground zero for the eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev over nuclear missiles; a poverty-stricken island cruelly ... |  Plain Dealer (blog) |
The Obama Administration and the American Indian
The Obama Administration and the American Indian: Tom Coburn in particular-- for failing to act on the judicial nomination of worthy native American candidate Arvo Mikkanen. I blasted the Supreme Court for its failure to protect Native American interests in a trust case. ...
Dominican police arrest one of Puerto Rico's most wanted fugitives
Dominican police arrest one of Puerto Rico's most wanted fugitives
The National Police Antinarcotics Division arrested alleged drug baron and murderer, Puerto Rican
national Miguel Rivera Diaz (Bolo), said to be the successor of kingpin
Jose Figueroa Agosto in his country, on international and local arrest
warrants. ...
Hemingway Bar Could Chill US-Cuban Relations
Hemingway Bar Could Chill US-Cuban Relations: Last month, Cuban officials inaugurated an invitation-only bar named after Hemingway at the mansion in northwest Washington where they have their offices. Born in 1899 in Illinois, Hemingway traveled widely and lived in Canada, Paris and Florida's Key ...
Street Vendors in Florida
Street Vendors in Florida: In Buenos Aires. It is a delightful walking street, filled to the brim with artists and artisans selling exquisite paintings with tango dancers in impossible positions which they will assure you are possible, beautiful lace and floral scarves, ...
viernes, 9 de diciembre de 2011
For Haitians, help seems far away
For Haitians, help seems far away: So close to modernity, even in the neighboring Dominican Republic. ... a view of a poverty so deep and vast that this effort would hardly make a dent. ...
Dominican Republic First Lady to Be Vice Presidential Candidate in ...
Dominican Republic First Lady to Be Vice Presidential Candidate in ...
... because she represents what Dominican society needs due to her sensitivity, ... “putting the fight against poverty at the center of economic policy. ...
Venezuelan government seizes 1087 companies in seven years
Venezuelan government seizes 1087 companies in seven years: From 2004 to date, the Venezuelan government has seized 1087 private companies, according to data from the Venezuelan Confederation of Industries (Conindustria). Carlos Larrazábal, Conindustria's president, announced this figure at a press conference. ...
The real spirit of Celac is on the streets of Venezuela
The real spirit of Celac is on the streets of Venezuela:
| Over the weekend, Venezuela played host to 33 presidents – indeed, the entire continent of the Americas, except the US and Canada, were invited to the first ever conference of Celac, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. ... |  The Guardian |
Man gets life in prison for killing wife on cruise ship
Man gets life in prison for killing wife on cruise ship
The Associated Press reported that Robert McGill apologized for his
actions during his sentencing but gave no explanation for killing his
wife, Shirley, while on a five-day Mexican cruise to Cabo San Lucas. McGill, a 57-year-old former teacher, ...
US Marshals capture alleged attempted murderer and rapist
US Marshals capture alleged attempted murderer and rapist: United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced today that the US Marshals Service (USMS) arrested Juan Carlos Torres-Melendez, a 33 year old man with a prior address in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Torres-Melendez was sought on an arrest warrant dated May 19, ...
Cocaine, heroin and two stowaways found on Venezuela oil tanker in Port of ...
Cocaine, heroin and two stowaways found on Venezuela oil tanker in Port of ...: By Mike Baird CORPUS CHRISTI — Federal authorities found two Colombian stowaways and about 100 pounds of drugs just before 8 pm Thursday on an oil tanker from Venezuela as it docked at the Port of Corpus Christi, officials said. The crew of the tanker ...
Human rights in Cuba: A reality for all and every Cuban
Human rights in Cuba: A reality for all and every Cuban: In Cuba, 100% of the population enjoys social protection, guaranteed through the Social Security and Welfare Systems. All these achievements have been ...
City gov't ministers sworn in: no major changes to cabinet
City gov't ministers sworn in: no major changes to cabinet: The new Cabinet members of the Buenos Aires City Government were today sworn in, in the city neighbourhood of Barracas, with newly reinstated City Mayor Mauricio Macri present, alongside his deputy, María Eugenia Vidal. The city government members ...
Connecticut Man Sentenced to Death in Deadly Home Invasion
Connecticut Man Sentenced to Death in Deadly Home Invasion:
| The attack in 2007 led to the defeat of a bill to outlaw the death penalty in Connecticut, sparked tougher state laws for repeat offenders and home invasions, and drew comparisons the crime described in "In Cold Blood," which documented the brutal ... |  Fox News |
Boy critical after Puerto Rico police shooting
Boy critical after Puerto Rico police shooting: AP Authorities in Puerto Rico say a 14-year-old boy is in critical condition after a police officer shot him in the head during a drug seizure. A police statement says the officer fired after the unidentified boy pointed a weapon at him. ...
Florida Puts Squeeze on Medicaid Outlays
Florida Puts Squeeze on Medicaid Outlays: She noted that states are allowed to impose some cost-sharing requirements on Medicaid patients, and some do, but Florida is taking it a step further by allowing private companies to charge premiums and co-pays to people below the poverty line. ...
Mexico's Drug War Cartels Profit From U.S. Guns And Money ...
Mexico's Drug War Cartels Profit From U.S. Guns And Money ...: Latin American leaders have long maintained that the United States' voracious appetite for illicit drugs weakens their efforts to stem the narcotics trade.
Massive Population Drop Found for Native Americans DNA Shows
Massive Population Drop Found for Native Americans DNA Shows
Indigenous populations quickly dropped by roughly half following European contact about 500 years ago, a new DNA study says.
US denies Guantanamo discipline block violates human rights, releases first ...
US denies Guantanamo discipline block violates human rights, releases first ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Officials at Guantanamo Bay are defending
conditions at a disciplinary block known as Five Echo, denying that
they violate the Geneva Conventions. Officials say Five Echo is by its
nature harsher than the communal section of ...
Chávez, Santos and Humala to skip CFK inauguration ceremony
Chávez, Santos and Humala to skip CFK inauguration ceremony: The presidents of Venezuela, Colombia and Peru, Hugo Chávez, Juan Manuel Santos and Ollanta Humala have decided to cancel their trips to Buenos Aires and won't attend President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's inauguration ceremony. ...
Native artists address past injustices in Spencer exhibit
Native artists address past injustices in Spencer exhibit:
| “I learned a lot doing the exhibition about the details of the history of Native American removal,” she said. “We think of these horrible things as happening a long time ago; really it wasn't that long ago. We're still correcting the wrongs. ... |  Kansas City Star |
US Initiative on Gay Rights Raises Challenges for Diplomacy
US Initiative on Gay Rights Raises Challenges for Diplomacy: Gains in gay rights throughout Latin America, for instance, could create a domino effect in nations that for now find themselves behind the curve. “Compared to the rest of the Americas, the Caribbean states are really the outliers in LGBT rights, ...
Forging an Alliance to Fight for Climate Action
Forging an Alliance to Fight for Climate Action: Closing a one-day summit of Cuba and the 15-member Caribbean Community ... have on development efforts and social welfare of the people of the region. ...
US Initiative on Gay Rights Raises Challenges for Diplomacy
US Initiative on Gay Rights Raises Challenges for Diplomacy: Gains in gay rights throughout Latin America, for instance, could create a domino effect in nations that for now find themselves behind the curve. “Compared to the rest of the Americas, the Caribbean states are really the outliers in LGBT rights, ...
Clean up the Development Banks before New Bailout
Clean up the Development Banks before New Bailout: Nonetheless, in "fighting" poverty, the World Bank and its Latin American cousin, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) spent and lent over $920 billion in public money since they opened their cash windows in 1945 and 1959, respectively. ...
Crunching the "improved" economic news
Crunching the "improved" economic news
In a revealing footnote about the administration's priorities, the Hispanic unemployment
rate is 11.4 percent, much stronger than the African American rate.
This is consistent with the White House strategy that acquiring the
Latino vote is ...
Cuba Oil Drilling Tests US on Protecting Florida or Embargo
Cuba Oil Drilling Tests US on Protecting Florida or Embargo: 8 (Bloomberg) -- Four US inspectors armed with safety glasses and notebooks will set out on a mission next month to protect Florida's beaches from a Cuban threat. They'll rendezvous in Trinidad and Tobago with the Scarabeo 9, a rig headed to deep ...
Native American Scholarships available for NSU tribal studies program
Native American Scholarships available for NSU tribal studies program: AND, $5000 scholarships for Native American and Alaska Native students pursuing careers related to health or tribal policy. To watch the video, find your Faculty Rep, view the eligibility guidelines and find application materials, go to the scholarship ...
US president declares “war” on poor countries
US president declares “war” on poor countries: A presidential memorandum from the office of United States (US) President Barack Obama Tuesday, signaled that the US is now in “combat” mode overseas against countries that the US deems to be guilty of violence—such as imposing the death penalty, ...
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