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lunes, 19 de diciembre de 2011
Report: Death Sentences at 35-Year Low in US
Report: Death Sentences at 35-Year Low in US: But a new report out this morning indicates that death sentences across the United States reached a 35-year low this year. The Death Penalty Information Center said 78 people convicted of murder were sentenced to die so far in 2011, the first time in ...
Federal appeals court overturns Alabama inmate's death sentence for 1979 ...
Federal appeals court overturns Alabama inmate's death sentence for 1979 ...: The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals Monday overturned the death sentence given to 60-year-old Billy Joe Magwood for the 1979 shooting death of Coffee County Sheriff Neil Grantham. The appeals court said Alabama's law when Grantham was killed did not ...
Venezuela's Chavez expected at regional summit
Venezuela's Chavez expected at regional summit: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives to commemorate the death anniversary of national hero Simon Bolivar at the national cemetery in Caracas December 17, 2011. MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected to attend a regional ...
Court battle begins over S. Carolina immigration law
Court battle begins over S. Carolina immigration law: "They want to put the blame for unemployment on us when it's not like that. We're not taking anybody's job," she told Efe. According to Diana Salazar, the president of the Latino Association of Charleston, if the legal process does not prove to be ...
After Kim Jong-il's Death, Cubans Wait for Castro's Turn
After Kim Jong-il's Death, Cubans Wait for Castro's Turn: The death of Kim Jong-il, the North Korean dictator, has Cuban Americans and dissidents in Cuba pondering about the day when they will read Fidel Castro's obituary. As North Korea urges its people to rally behind Jong-il's youngest son and heir ...
Former Miss Venezuela dies of breast cancer at 28
Former Miss Venezuela dies of breast cancer at 28: FILE - In this May 11, 2001 file photo, Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall stands with other contestants, unseen, as they wait for the announcement of the winner of Miss Universe in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Ekvall died on Saturday Dec. 17 of cancer in Houston at ...
First Native American Cleared for Sainthood by Vatican
First Native American Cleared for Sainthood by Vatican:
| By ICTMN Staff December 19, 2011 A statue of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be certified a Saint by the Catholic Church, at the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, near Quebec City. The Vatican today announced that the Mohawk-Algonquin ... |  Indian Country Today Media Network.com |
Pope Benedict XVI confirms he will visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter - Miami ...
Pope Benedict XVI confirms he will visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter - Miami ...: By Daniel Shoer Roth and Juan O. Tamayo Pope Benedict XVI said Monday that he plans to visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter next year, and prayed that God would guide Latin Americans in “building a society based on the development of good, ...
Three Cubans Inducted into Hall of Fame of CAC Athletics Confederation
Three Cubans Inducted into Hall of Fame of CAC Athletics Confederation
Havana, Cuba, Dec 19.- Cuba's World and Olympic medalists
Ioamnet Quintero (women's High Jump), Aliecer Urrutia (men's Triple
Jump) and Yoel Garcia (men's Triple Jump) were inducted into the Hall of
Fame of the Central American and Caribbean Athletics ...
Raul Castro: Cuba to greet Benedict XVI with "affection and respect"
Raul Castro: Cuba to greet Benedict XVI with "affection and respect": Havana, Dec 19, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Cuba will greet Pope Benedict XVI on his upcoming visit to the island with "affection and respect," President Raul Castro said Monday at a meeting in Havana with a delegation from the Vatican, state television ...
Drugs Cartels and Elections in Latin America
Drugs Cartels and Elections in Latin America: Secretary Insulza has proposed that the meaning of “a serious impairment to the democratic order” could be expanded beyond the ousting of democratically elected officials and include cases of human rights violations. He also suggested the Democratic ...
Argentina is no paradise
Argentina is no paradise:
| Third, by lying shamelessly about the inflation rate (it is said to be 8% annually when actually it touches 25% percent), the government is concealing the true level of poverty and priming a bomb that is threatening to explode in the near future. ... |  The Guardian (blog) |
Argentina starts building new F1 circuit
Argentina starts building new F1 circuit: (CNN) -- Argentina's bid to host a Formula One race for the first time in more than a decade is under way after work started on a new circuit outside the capital Buenos Aires. The $100 million project is expected to be completed in two stages by the ...
Detectives focus on human trafficking
Detectives focus on human trafficking:
| Often the 'we" is an organized crime group, Russian, Asian, Latin American," Coonan said. Coonan says Florida's economy is riddled with human trafficking. "It's oftentimes in our restaurants, our hotels, our agricultural sector, where someone can come ... |  MyFox Tampa Bay |
Trezeguet to sign for River
Trezeguet to sign for River:
| The Rouen-born France international, who has been a River fan since his boyhood in Buenos Aires, will be officially unveiled before the weekend as a free agent. Trezeguet's signing was set to be concluded on Monday night, but the 34-year-old had to ... |  SkySports |
NCAA Blunder: Changing North Dakota's Tribal Nickname
NCAA Blunder: Changing North Dakota's Tribal Nickname: We still have the Washington Redskins, and the Cleveland Indians haven't scrubbed Chief Wahoo — a cartoonish representation of a Native American — off their hats. In other instances, a tribe's backing has allowed a team to keep its nickname, ...
Finance Director and Membership Coordinator Positions
Finance Director and Membership Coordinator Positions: AIANTA is a nonprofit association of Native American tribes and tribal businesses organized to advance Indian Country tourism. The Association is made up of member tribes from six regions: Eastern, Plains, Midwest, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, ...
IACHR: Latin America still in debt with women
IACHR: Latin America still in debt with women: Unstable Salaries, limited access to social security, higher poverty and illiteracy tendency: Latin America is still in debt with women, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) stated in a report released on Monday. ...
Chilean conjoined twin dies after separation
Chilean conjoined twin dies after separation
In this image Jessica Navarrete, right, and Roberto Paredes, parents of
conjoined twins Maria Paz and Maria Jose Paredes Navarrete kiss them
before a separation surgery in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. Maria Jose died Sunday from organ ...
Raleigh's Black, Latino Homeowners Hit Hard by Foreclosures
Raleigh's Black, Latino Homeowners Hit Hard by Foreclosures: These days, mortgage payment problems seem to stem more from unemployment than poor loan choices, Harris said. “A lot of these people were in blue collar type jobs and those jobs seem to be the ones affected the most,” he said. ...
Brazilian police seize 13 tons of pot
Brazilian police seize 13 tons of pot: ... face drug trafficking charges and could spend between five and 15 years in prison if convicted. The checkpoint was set up as part of an operation launched in June to monitor Brazil's borders. The Federal Police and armed forces patrolled 11600 ...
Corruption Weighs on Brazilian Politics
Corruption Weighs on Brazilian Politics:
| Professor Weyland affirms that Brazil's growing middle class will have a great effect on the issue in the future. “The more people emerge from poverty and join the so-called 'middle class', the less corruption tends to be accepted. ... |  Latin America News Dispatch |
Talks break down over Newmont mine in Peru
Talks break down over Newmont mine in Peru: ... and promised to hold miners to better social and environmental standards in a country with a 30 percent poverty rate. "We know there have been many mistakes in the past in Peru and much needs to be corrected," Valdes told Santos during talks. ...
Michellet Bachelet says Brasil without Poverty could be considered an example ...
Michellet Bachelet says Brasil without Poverty could be considered an example ...: After a meeting with President Rousseff in the Presidential Palace, the Director of the UN Women Organization, Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile, said the Brazil without Poverty program can be used as an example for other countries as a way ...
In Argentina, Cloudy Trade Policies Hamstring Importers
In Argentina, Cloudy Trade Policies Hamstring Importers: By TAOS TURNER BUENOS AIRES—Argentina's government is now using import substitution policies to turn the South American nation into one of the world's most protectionist countries. The import substitution policy essentially encourages the replacement ...
domingo, 18 de diciembre de 2011
Cubans in Brasilia Reaffirm Commitments
Cubans in Brasilia Reaffirm Commitments: Brasilia, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuban residents in Brasilia said they will continue demanding in 2012 the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in US prisons, and the lifting of Washington''s ...
Exploring Gay Bogata, Colombia
Exploring Gay Bogata, Colombia: On any list of gay-friendly Latin American cities, Bogota would have to be near the top. After all, it's the capital of one of South America's most progressive nations in terms of gay rights. Add to that an array of impressive cultural and historic ...
28 Year-Old Former Miss Venezuela, Eva Ekvall, Loses Her Battle With Breast Cancer
28 Year-Old Former Miss Venezuela, Eva Ekvall, Loses Her Battle With Breast Cancer
Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall died in Houston after fighting
breast cancer since last year, her representatives said. She was 28.
“Sadly, cancer had the last word,” writer Leonardo Padron told
Globovision. Ekvall, an actress and news anchor, ...
Venezuelan hero Bolivar remembered in Port-of-Spain
Venezuelan hero Bolivar remembered in Port-of-Spain: Venezuelan ambassador Maria Marcano Casado delivers the feature address on Simon Bolivar while local historian Michael Anthony, left, looks on at the Venezuelan Centre, Victoria Avenue, Port-of-Spain. Photo: Brian Ng Fatt The annals of European history ...
Eden: Immigration raids on the upswing in U.S.
Eden: Immigration raids on the upswing in U.S.: Oct. 4, Buffalo, NY: A Mexican national was sentenced for harboring illegal and undocumented aliens . Javier Banda-Mireles, 38, was convicted of harboring illegal aliens for commercial advantage and sentenced to 12 months in prison. ...
Venezuela honors Simón Bolívar with new coffin « Repeating Islands
Venezuela honors Simón Bolívar with new coffin « Repeating Islands: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez paid tribute to 19th century independence leader Simón Bolívar on Saturday by unveiling a new coffin containing Bolivar's remains and adorned with gold, pearls and diamonds, the Associated Press ...
Zambrano reviving career in Venezuela
Zambrano reviving career in Venezuela: By Javier Maymí, ESPNDeportes.com Carlos Zambrano, who was hit in the head by a line drive earlier in the winter season, returned to action with the Caribes de Anzoátegui in the Venezuelan League. After three shaky starts, the embattled Chicago Cubs ...
US Maintained Historic Policy of Agression against Cuba in 2011
US Maintained Historic Policy of Agression against Cuba in 2011: Havana (Prensa Latina) The legislative and institutional aggressions of the United States against Cuba actually increased in the course of 2011, despite the relative flexibilities of the blockade decreed by US President Barack Obama at the beginning of ...
Cuba: Poetry Behind Bars
Cuba: Poetry Behind Bars:
| Moreover, according to this rookie cop, non-Cubans were breaking the law by consuming in a facility not designed for tourists. Mario Castillo during the first “Leer Poesia” (read poetry) meeting presented by the Critical Observatory. ... |  Havana Times |
Cuba: A Great Experience in the Fight Against Cancer
Cuba: A Great Experience in the Fight Against Cancer
Cancer is a health problem worldwide and Cuba is no an exception.
Therefore, health authorities have intensified the fight against this
disease that causes more than 7 million deaths per year worldwide,
according to the World Health Organization. ...
Flower power gives Bangladeshi women a way out of poverty
Flower power gives Bangladeshi women a way out of poverty:
| Ask a farmer in Bangladesh's deep south about the water hyacinth and he will say it is a curse. The floating plants form broad green blankets that strangle waterways and create a prime breeding ground for mosquitoes. But for Minati Mondol, ... |  The Guardian |
The opposite of opposition
The opposite of opposition: ... Justicialist Party with a growing sense of alienation (perhaps in style even more than substance) from the often youthful cadres (“posh kids” in Moyano-speak) now replacing the trade unionists and Greater Buenos Aires ward politicians of yore.
Gay rights at center of Zimbabwe's constitutional debate
Gay rights at center of Zimbabwe's constitutional debate: Gay rights were given specific recognition in South Africa's new constitution. NGO corruption suggests: How about a story on NGO corruption in the Third World, tied to American agribusiness. And is it true industry uses non. ...
CELAC: New Community of 33 Latin American and Caribbean Nations
CELAC: New Community of 33 Latin American and Caribbean Nations: ... were approved by the meeting, addressing issues such as the Malvinas Islands, food and nutritional security, financial speculation and food prices, the human rights of immigrants, solidarity with Haiti and a security strategy for Central America. ...
Tastings, films and tango flavor of Argentine week
Tastings, films and tango flavor of Argentine week: The cultural bounty of Buenos Aires is being shared this week thanks to a host of events in Korea. A photo exhibition of modern images snapped in the Argentine capital by renowned photographer Miguel Molinari kicked off the Latin American country's ...
Murder victim's family among those testify against death penalty
Murder victim's family among those testify against death penalty: "Thirty-five years ago, the US Supreme Court brought back the death penalty, reasoning that judges and juries could be provided with enough guidance to identify the offenders most deserving of capital punishment," said Dale Johnston, who was wrongly ...
The Jews of Cuba: Like a Cigar That Wouldn't Go Out « Repeating ...
The Jews of Cuba: Like a Cigar That Wouldn't Go Out « Repeating ...: When traveling to Cuba with UJA-Federation of New York, our group was astounded to find a vibrant Jewish community flourishing in a country that had outlawed religion for 30 years. Under the first decades of Fidel Castro's Communist ...
Polk tours Cuba's substance abuse programs
Polk tours Cuba's substance abuse programs: By Jeanne Millsap — Herald Correspondent Morris substance abuse counselor Kristie Polk took advantage of what she called an opportunity of a lifetime last month to tour Cuba's drug and alcohol facilities. The trip also afforded her the opportunity to ...
Everyone deserves human rights
Everyone deserves human rights: Across Latin America, US corporate, economic, trade and military policies have made migration the only option for millions of people struggling for their families' survival. Free trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA have caused an economic exodus from ...
La Plata murders' main witness receives death threats
La Plata murders' main witness receives death threats: Osvaldo Martínez, boyfriend of one of the murder victims, Bárbara Santos arrives to court in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province on December 07, 2011. One of the most important witnesses in the La Plata quadruple murder case, where three women and a young ...
Faith Advocates for Jobs work to support the unemployed and their families
Faith Advocates for Jobs work to support the unemployed and their families
Rev. Janamanchi noted that unemployment in the African American community is at 15.5 percent. In the Hispanic/Latino community, unemployment is at 11.4 percent. Youth unemployment is at 23.7 percent. "As poor communities, communities of color, ...
Today in History
Today in History: In 1969, Britain's House of Lords joined the House of Commons in making permanent a 1965 ban on the death penalty for murder. In 1971, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced in Chicago the founding of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). ...
Russian TV to Highlight Cuban Care for the Disabled
Russian TV to Highlight Cuban Care for the Disabled: 18 de diciembre de 2011, 00:07Moscow, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) As of January, Russian TV Center channel will devote a series of programs to Cuban achievements in the treatment of disabled people and their rehabilitation, according to diplomatic sources. ...
US defends $3.4M grant to Cuba program
US defends $3.4M grant to Cuba program: A grant to a Miami nonprofit that supports democracy in Cuba ignited critics who argue the money was given to reward Obama's cronies. By Juan O. Tamayo The US Agency for International Development is strongly rejecting complaints of political favoritism ...
Syrian Students in Cuba Condemn Media Provocation against Syria
Syrian Students in Cuba Condemn Media Provocation against Syria: HAVANA, (SANA) – Syrian students studying in Cuba condemned the media provocation and misleading campaign targeting Syria, stressing their support to the reform program led by President Bashar al-Assad. In a statement released by the National Union of ...
viernes, 16 de diciembre de 2011
Death Sentences Drop To Historic Lows In 2011
Death Sentences Drop To Historic Lows In 2011
by Laura Sullivan The high-profile case of Troy Davis sparked national debate on the death penalty. Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, says there's growing discontent among Americans about capital punishment. ...
Historic drop in executions as US death sentences reach 35-year low
Historic drop in executions as US death sentences reach 35-year low
By Rebecca Seales Fewer new death sentences are being handed out in the US than ever before, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center. So far in 2011, 78 people convicted of murder have been sentenced to death - the first ...
Argentina's lower house passes bill limiting foreign ownership of rural land ...
Argentina's lower house passes bill limiting foreign ownership of rural land ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina's lower house of Congress has
passed a bill limiting foreign ownership of rural land to 2500 acres
(1000 hectares) per family. President Cristina Fernandez introduced the
measure, which reduces the limit on foreign ...
Guatemalans hunker down against rising violence
Guatemalans hunker down against rising violence
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Dire poverty, gang violence and drug trafficking create a sense of isolation among some people in Guatemala City. Squalor and poverty are constants. Many motorists in the city of 3 million hide behind tinted windows. ...
3 arrested after Puerto Rico policeman killed
3 arrested after Puerto Rico policeman killed
AP Authorities in Puerto Rico have charged three teenagers with
murder following the drive-by shooting of an off-duty police officer.
Police said in a statement Thursday that officer Isaac Joel Pizarro was
killed shortly after dropping off a relative ...
Is Puerto Rico becoming a narco-state?
Is Puerto Rico becoming a narco-state?
By Elyssa Pachico, With over 1000 murders in Puerto Rico
this year, some commentators have warned that the US territory is on
the verge of becoming a "narco-state" that has been infiltrated by the
drug trade. ...
Argentina Pressures Banks To Lower Rates As Economy Slows
Argentina Pressures Banks To Lower Rates As Economy Slows
By Ken Parks Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)-
Argentina's biggest private and public sector banks have pledged to
lower the interest rates they charge businesses and consumers after
meeting with the head of the central bank. ...
Argentine exchanges agree to merge
Argentine exchanges agree to merge
It is based in the city of Rosario, northeast of Buenos Aires –
as is the stock exchange MervaRos, or Mercado de Valores de Rosario.
Rofex began talks with city rival MervaRos last year after rebuffing an
approach from Argentina's other futures ...
Cuba attracts more than 2.5 million tourists
Cuba attracts more than 2.5 million tourists
Havana, Dec 16, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Cuba welcomed more than
2.5 million tourists up to this week, a record-setting number according
to authorities in the sector, who are forecasting a total of 2.7 million
by the end of 2011. ...
Cuba as a Biotechnology Island
Cuba as a Biotechnology Island
HAVANA TIMES, Dec 16 — Thanks to the recently concluded international congress “Biotechnology Havana 2011,” the Cuban public can know learn — albeit superficially — down what paths we are being dragged by our homegrown bio-technocrats. ...
Miami Dade County charter schools
Miami Dade County charter schools
... schools — an advantage for the charter schools, given that poverty correlates with poor academic performance. Charter schools in Miami-Dade also enroll a smaller share of black students than traditional public schools, according to federal data. ...
US executed fewer people this year, report says
US executed fewer people this year, report says
The story notes, though, that 61 percent of those surveyed by Gallup support the use of the death penalty,
USA Today reports. Couldn't the real reason behind the decline in
executions be that there was a reported shortage of lethal injection ...
Charter Schools Enrolling Low Number of Poor Students
Charter Schools Enrolling Low Number of Poor Students
... CEO of the Colorado-based Charter School Growth Fund, which recently committed $10 million to help Florida
charter schools expand into low-income communities. In 2010, of the 83
charter schools open in Miami-Dade, more than two dozen had poverty ...
On Religion: A One-Man War on American Muslims
On Religion: A One-Man War on American Muslims
“We live in the age of the Internet and a well-organized extreme right,”
said Mark Potok, who investigates hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center and has followed Mr. Caton's activities. “This little man was able to have his voice amplified in ...
Dialysis and Death for Native Americans
Dialysis and Death for Native Americans
For Native Americans, geography may play a role in kidney failure
risk. The proportion of dialysis centers treating American
Indians/Alaska Natives differs depending on the geographic region of the
United States. These regional differences may account ...
GO RUN trains Native women to run for public office
GO RUN trains Native women to run for public office
As one of the lead trainers was Prairie Rose Seminole (Three Affiliated Tribes of ND) who is Coordinator for the Fargo Native American Center, and also trains for The White House Project and Wellstone Action. Seminole worked with the women to create a ...
Brazil president's popularity steady in first year
Brazil president's popularity steady in first year
A trained economist and career civil servant, Rousseff was elected with a
mandate to continue Lula's progress in lifting millions out of poverty and reduce the stark gap between the resource-rich country's wealthy and poor. After red-hot growth of 7.5 ...
US sentencing postponed for Somali pirates
US sentencing postponed for Somali pirates
All four aboard the 58-foot yacht were fatally shot days later after negotiations with the US Navy broke down. Three men who prosecutors say shot the Americans are facing murder and other charges that could carry the death penalty.
Venezuela's oil prospects unchanged following OPEC's decision
Venezuela's oil prospects unchanged following OPEC's decision
"OPEC has only baptized a child who had already been born," said Venezuelan economist and oil analyst Rafael Quiroz. As a result, OPEC's decision will not have much effect on Venezuela, because market conditions have not changed, Quiroz added. ...
Chilean twins in delicate condition post-surgery
Chilean twins in delicate condition post-surgery
AP SANTIAGO, Chile — Conjoined twin girls who were
separated in a 20-hour operation were in critical condition on Friday
and one was in danger of dying, according to the director of the Chilean
hospital where they are being treated. ...
jueves, 15 de diciembre de 2011
Chilean doctors separate conjoined twins
Chilean doctors separate conjoined twins:
| By EVA VERGARA AP SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean doctors successfully separated conjoined twin girls in a marathon 20-hour surgery, saying Wednesday that the operation went extremely well despite challenges. In this image taken from a video released by ... |  Atlanta Journal Constitution |
Chile announces new contingency plan to face European debt crisis
Chile announces new contingency plan to face European debt crisis: SANTIAGO, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chile is adopting a second contingency plan to counter the impact of the economic crisis in the European Union on the country, Chilean Finance Minister Felipe Larrain said on Wednesday. The plan includes measures to boost ...
Behind the social walls of El Salvador
Behind the social walls of El Salvador: By Rick Steves, Tribune Media Services SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Europe is my passion and the focus of my work, but Latin America has long held a fascination for me. I took my first trip to the region (to Nicaragua and El Salvador) in 1988, ...
Papal encouragement for Latin American faithful
Papal encouragement for Latin American faithful: ... the Holy Father asked the people of Latin America to promote “ever more adequate initiatives and concrete programs aimed at reconciliation and fraternity, increasing solidarity and protecting the environment, increasing efforts to overcome poverty, ...
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 ...
Unemployment is world's fastest-rising fear - survey
Unemployment is world's fastest-rising fear - survey:
| In Latin America, however, crime and violence emerged as commonly discussed themes. Indeed in Brazil, famous for social tensions in its urban slums, along with Ecuador and Mexico, noted for drugs-related killings, crime and violence were the most ... |  BBC News |
Women of Putumayo department recieve human rights award
Women of Putumayo department recieve human rights award: The organization 'Weaver of Life' which brings together nearly 300 leaders from this department received the Antonio Nariño prize Monday, from the German and French ambassadors to Colombia. Weavers of Life also received a bronze statue by Nadin Ospina ...
Cuba restrictions slow agreement on government funding bill
Cuba restrictions slow agreement on government funding bill
By NBC's Frank Thorp Restrictions on family travel and remittances to Cuba
have emerged as one of the final sticking points in reaching a deal on
end-of-year government funding legislation stalled before Congress. Rep.
...
Cuban claims English interest
Cuban claims English interest:
| The Cuba international defected to America in 2008 and has since established himself as a real force in the MLS with Seattle. Now Alonso has confirmed that there is interest in England, having already spent time training with Everton in 2010. ... |  SkySports |
Year 2011 Marked by Strong Solidarity with Cuba
Year 2011 Marked by Strong Solidarity with Cuba
Havana, Cuba, Dec 15.- The President of the Cuban Friendship Institute Kenia Serrano said the activity of movements of solidarity with Cuba during this year 2011 was extraordinary and is on the rise. “This has been a year in which the Cuban people has ...
'Unlawful detention' of Pakistani should end
'Unlawful detention' of Pakistani should end: Human rights lawyers hailed a "historic" legal victory after English judges came to the aid of a 29-year-old Pakistani held by allied forces for more than seven years without trial in Afghanistan. Yunus Rahmatullah was captured by British troops in ...
Hezbollah, terrorist financing, and Venezuela: Don't panic
Hezbollah, terrorist financing, and Venezuela: Don't panic
Venezuela! And all of that appears to be true. At the same time,
in spite of all the red flag key words, the details within these
articles and the indictment show how the US government can deal with the
issue of Hezbollah in the hemisphere without ...
Poverty falls in Colombia, LatAm: UN
Poverty falls in Colombia, LatAm: UN: Colombia's poverty rate has fallen by 10% in eight years, following a Latin American trend, said a United Nations report released Wednesday. The Social Panorama of Latin America, by the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, ...
Peru housing boom defies bubble worries
Peru housing boom defies bubble worries: The Andean country's poverty rate has fallen sharply over the last decade to around 30 percent from above 50 percent. Enrique Espinoza, the director of the construction chamber CAPECO, said the foundations of the housing boom are solid. ...
Rubio vote on ambassador perturbs Puerto Ricans
Rubio vote on ambassador perturbs Puerto Ricans: Marco Rubio voted against confirming Mari Carmen Aponte, said to be the first Puerto Rican woman ever appointed a US ambassador. By WILLIAM MARCH | The Tampa Tribune Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's opposition to confirming a US ambassador to El Salvador ...
Seek alternatives to donor funding in poverty fight
Seek alternatives to donor funding in poverty fight
These include: failures of previous economic management approaches such
as the Washington Consensus; emergence of new global economic players
(Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Venezuela and South Korea) from among recent developing countries ...
'Food Deserts' Causing Obesity In Low-Income Communities
'Food Deserts' Causing Obesity In Low-Income Communities
... it is easy to forget that in low-income neighborhoods in the nation's capital many ... particularly in African-American and Latino neighborhoods, ...
Texas Woman Headed To Prison For Heroin Trafficking
Texas Woman Headed To Prison For Heroin Trafficking: CHARLES, Ill. (December 15, 2011)—Claudia Chagoya, 42, of El Paso has pleaded guilty in Illinois to trafficking $2.1 million in heroin from a Mexican cartel. Kane County, Ill., prosecutors say Chagoya agreed to a 20-year prison sentence and pleaded ...
México: poverty increases in the country, especially in urban areas ...
México: poverty increases in the country, especially in urban areas ...
According to Cepal, in contrast, in the majority of Latin America and the Caribbean, poverty rates have diminished. It details that in 2009, 34.8% of the Mexican ...
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