| ... of president Fernando De La Rua had carried out to mitigate the effects of Argentina´s four-year recession. Ten years ago official unemployment skyrocketed to more than 20%, poverty rates to 54% and workers´ salaries were reduced by 13%. ... |  Press TV |
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lunes, 26 de diciembre de 2011
Argentina marks 10th anniversary of worst economic crisis
Argentina marks 10th anniversary of worst economic crisis:
Another face of the US recession: homeless children
Another face of the US recession: homeless children: Based on new or experimental methodology aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty, the data showed that about 48 percent of Americans are living in poverty or on low incomes. Under the bureau's so-called Supplemental Poverty Measure for 2010, ...
Prudential named a best place to work by the Human Rights Campaign ...
Prudential named a best place to work by the Human Rights Campaign ...: The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. ...
The Wages of Mass Immigration Is LGBT Mandates in School
The Wages of Mass Immigration Is LGBT Mandates in School: By Mark Krikorian We keep hearing about how immigrants — those from Latin America, in particular — bring with them family values to help our side in the culture war. While Hispanic immigrants, like black Americans, are conservative on certain social ...
Native American proclaimed Catholic saint | The Indianapolis Star ...
Native American proclaimed Catholic saint | The Indianapolis Star ...: The Vatican has announced a 17th-century Mohawk-Algonquin woman will be canonized as a Catholic saint.
On patrol with The Shadow Wolves, the best hunters of humans in the world
On patrol with The Shadow Wolves, the best hunters of humans in the world
On the trail with the US Department of Homeland Security's Shadow Wolves, the department's only Native American
tracking unit, along the Arizona-Mexico border. By Nick Allen, Tohono
O'odham, Arizona In the seemingly endless desert wasteland of the ...
Mexican Army Says It Has Arrested Head of Security for Drug Cartel Chief 'El ...
Mexican Army Says It Has Arrested Head of Security for Drug Cartel Chief 'El ...
Authorities say Guzman is Mexico's top drug lord, while Forbes
magazine has included him on its list of the world's richest men,
reportedly worth more than $1 billion. He has eluded authorities since
his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck, ...
Hispanic Panic
Hispanic Panic: A recent Latino Decisions survey found that just 43 percent of respondents said they are certain to vote for Obama in 2012, compared with the 68 percent who voted for him in 2008. Hit by unemployment and the housing crisis, frustrated by the ...
Cuba to rent state-owned workshops to boost private sector growth
Cuba to rent state-owned workshops to boost private sector growth: By ISAAC RISCO HAVANA, Cuba -- Cuban authorities will rent out state-owned workshops to the country's growing private sector, the Cuban Communist Party daily Granma reported Monday. Carpenters, photographers, jewelers, and locksmiths among those who ...
Argentine media site attracts viewers and lawsuits
Argentine media site attracts viewers and lawsuits: BY KYLE YOUNKER BUENOS AIRES -- When Tomas Escobar created an online video player in his tiny college apartment, the 22-year-old Argentine never thought he'd have to go up against media giants like Turner and HBO. But Escobar's creation, Cuevana.tv, ...
Hugo Chávez pardons 141 prisoners for Christmas
Hugo Chávez pardons 141 prisoners for Christmas: Hugo Chávez has announced Christmas pardons for 141 prisoners, but ignored fresh calls to free a jailed Venezuelan judge whose 2009 imprisonment has fuelled a fierce debate over political interference in Venezuela's judicial system, and become a cause ...
Equipment seizures show Mexican drug cartels operate sophisticated ...
Equipment seizures show Mexican drug cartels operate sophisticated ...
Certainly, cartel radio equipment is a near-ubiquitous presence for Mexicans living along the front lines of the drug war. In the state of Tamaulipas, across the border from eastern Texas, many antennas are concealed in the foliage of the rockrose, ...
Peru's firefighters need financial rescue
Peru's firefighters need financial rescue: Peru's firefighters are so cash-strapped and ill-equipped that vital ... About a third of Peruvians live in poverty, down from 48 percent in 2006, ...
Latin American women fret over scandal-hit implants
Latin American women fret over scandal-hit implants: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Fear and anger are growing among women with breast implants in Latin America, a key market for the bankrupt French firm that used industrial silicone to make cheap prostheses linked to health risks. The implants at the center ...
Macri: 'We are building a national choice for 2015 elections'
Macri: 'We are building a national choice for 2015 elections': Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri said today he feels responsible “for building a choice for 2015” referring to his aspirations for that year's presidential elections. “A new era starts and I feel responsible for building an alternative for 2013 ...
State of the world: UN poverty-reduction goals on track
State of the world: UN poverty-reduction goals on track:
| 23 photo, a family walks past a residential complex under construction in Ceilandia, in Brasilia state, Brazil. Millions of Brazilians have moved out of poverty and joined the ranks of the middle class, helping to create a strong domestic market ... |  Christian Science Monitor |
Police task force focuses on Mexican Mafia gang
Police task force focuses on Mexican Mafia gang: The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Four men are awaiting trial on murder charges and more than a dozen others have been sent to prison with federal drug convictions in what court documents show is a result of a crackdown by federal, state and local ...
“Cuba holds no political prisoners,” affirms Amnesty International as ...
“Cuba holds no political prisoners,” affirms Amnesty International as ...
Rights group Amnesty International no longer includes any Cuban prisoners among its list of prisoners of conscience around the world. Paul Haven,
Fuentes Pessimistic about Mexican Politics, No Hope for Drug War ...
Fuentes Pessimistic about Mexican Politics, No Hope for Drug War ...: Fuentes Pessimistic about Mexican Politics, No Hope for Drug War Solution without U.S.. Marina Mendez Ransanz. In a recent BBC Mundo interview, noted Mexican writer and intellectual Carlos Fuentes discussed the current tumultuous ...
At least 10 die in road crashes
At least 10 die in road crashes: Another accident was reported this morning in Buenos Aires province in which five people died and ten were injured. A frontal collision between a car and a bus was registered on route 11, in General Lavalle locality, according to authorities. ...
Man tried to take 247 animals on plane
Man tried to take 247 animals on plane
BUENOS AIRES — A Czech national was nabbed in Argentina for
trying to board a transatlantic flight with 247 live animals including
poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles packed in a bulging suitcase,
reports said Monday. The man identified as Karel ...
Venezuela: Marked Reduction in Unemployment Rate
Venezuela: Marked Reduction in Unemployment Rate: By Prensa Latina Venezuela has had the largest reduction in unemployment in the continent, which currently sits at 6.2 percent, revealed Elias Eljuri, president of the Venezuelan National Institute of Statistics (INE). During an interview on the ...
13 found dead in truck in Mexico drug war
13 found dead in truck in Mexico drug war: Troops made a grisly Christmas discovery in northeastern Mexico when they found 13 bodies in a truck, in the latest violence between warring drug cartels. Soldiers found two messages at the scene in Tamaulipas state "alluding to the rivalry between ...
Two killed, one injured in Fire at Dock Sud
Two killed, one injured in Fire at Dock Sud: A woman and her daughter died this morning in fire at a house located at Dock Sud, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires City, informed officials. A man was injured. Flames burned most of the property located at 1640, Irala Street. The man injured had burns on 90% ...
100 Injured by Christmas Fireworks in Buenos Aires
100 Injured by Christmas Fireworks in Buenos Aires:
| As per reports, the Buenos Aires Burn Hospital treated almost 27 patients suffering from burns sustained by them due to firecrackers and fireworks used by them during celebrations of the Christmas carnival in the largest city of Argentina, ... |  TopNews United States |
domingo, 25 de diciembre de 2011
Dominican Republic working to eradicate child labor
Dominican Republic working to eradicate child labor
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The number of children working in dangerous or ... who had dropped out of school and focusing more on reducing poverty. ...
Bolivia extradites Argentine 'Dirty War' suspect
Bolivia extradites Argentine 'Dirty War' suspect
LA PAZ: Bolivia on Sunday extradited an ex-military officer wanted for human rights
violations to his native Argentina, officials said one day after
announcing his arrest. Luis Enrique Baraldini, linked to crimes
committed during his country's "Dirty ...
Professor Grayson On Mexico's Drug War – Interview
Professor Grayson On Mexico's Drug War – Interview
In view of the beginning of the “spill over” effect of the Mexican drug war
into the US, do grounds exist for a review of NAFTA, including its
clauses banning unfettered ground transportation? That's been
decided—the trucks are now moving. ...
Paraguay, stuck in siesta mode, awaits Lugo's exit
Paraguay, stuck in siesta mode, awaits Lugo's exit
It's modeled on the welfare policies that keep kids in school and vaccinated across much of Latin America.
But the payments reach just 93000 of the nation's 6.8 million people.
Lawmakers said expanding the program would be a waste of money. ...
Venezuela Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Syria
Venezuela Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Syria
by the Foreign Ministry of Venezuela The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Comandante Hugo Chávez, in the name of the Venezuelan people and its government, energetically condemns the terrorist attacks perpetrated today in Damascus in ...
Opposition politician with prostate cancer granted parole after 4 years in ...
Opposition politician with prostate cancer granted parole after 4 years in ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — A Venezuelan opposition politician
who has prostate cancer has been freed after four years in prison. A
court granted parole to Jose Sanchez Montiel for humanitarian reasons
because of his advanced prostate cancer, defense lawyer ...
Cuban amnesty does not include Alan Gross
Cuban amnesty does not include Alan Gross
(JTA) -- Cuba said it will release nearly 3000 prisoners on
humanitarian grounds, but did not include Jewish-American Alan Gross on
the list. Gross, a US subcontractor jailed in Cuba for the last two years for "crimes against the state," is in ill ...
Paraguay, stuck in siesta mode, awaits Lugo's exit
Paraguay, stuck in siesta mode, awaits Lugo's exit
"We won't defeat extreme poverty if we don't change the economic
matrix," Lugo said. "In Paraguay the tax burden is only 13 percent, and
it's the only country without a personal income tax. We need more
resources to bring forward plans to eliminate ...
Buenos Aires - a luxurious city with the best luxury corporate housing
Buenos Aires - a luxurious city with the best luxury corporate housing
Luxury corporate housing in Buenos Aires is a popular option with very many people. Although home to some of the most dazzling and luxurious hotels in the ...
Cubans celebrate Christmas ahead of pope's visit
Cubans celebrate Christmas ahead of pope's visit
PAUL HAVEN, AP Antonio Alarcon opens the door to a shrine for the Virgin
of Charity outside his home decorated in Christmas lights on Christmas
Eve in Havana, Cuba, late Saturday Dec. 24, 2011. Cuban faithful celebrating Christmas say they have plenty ...
Holiday Giving: Indian and Native Elders Need Your Help!
Holiday Giving: Indian and Native Elders Need Your Help!
The Alaska Native Corporations and other Native American
Contractors Association members should also be contributing to our
elders. NICOA is the premier national advocacy group for the needs of
Indian country elders (55 years and older). ...
Drug cash seizures grow in Puerto Rico
Drug cash seizures grow in Puerto Rico
Law enforcement agencies have seized sharply increased amounts of suspicious cash in Puerto Rico over the past year, an apparent sign that more drug ...
Former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet presents report on Social ...
Former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet presents report on Social ...
... of social floors - the program Brazil without Poverty constitutes an example of such a policy. Mrs. Bachelet, the former President of Chile also heads the Advisory Group on Social Protection Floor, which prepared the report, published by the ILO. ...
38 Haitians found dead in shipwreck off Cuban coast
38 Haitians found dead in shipwreck off Cuban coast
HAVANA — The Cuban military searched for survivors after at least
38 Haitian migrants died as a boat in which they fled their country
started taking in water and got stranded at sea. The gruesome discovery
was made Saturday when the Cuban Coast Guard ...
Cuba to pardon nearly 3000 prisoners | The Raw Story
Cuba to pardon nearly 3000 prisoners | The Raw Story
Cuban President Raul Castro has unveiled plans to pardon some
3000 prisoners for “humanitarian reasons,” a group amnesty of
unprecedented size, and “gradually” reform onerous laws restricting
foreign travel. The pardons include 86 ...
Battle for Jim Thorpe's remains continues in court
Battle for Jim Thorpe's remains continues in court
Thorpe, the star of the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, was born in 1887 of both Native American
and white ancestry. He was raised on the Sac and Fox reservation in
what was then Oklahoma Territory. He had no connection to Pennsylvania
before he came to the ...
Cuba wraps up dramatic year of economic change
Cuba wraps up dramatic year of economic change
(AP) HAVANA — A year at the vanguard of Cuba's economic revival
has not brought Julio Cesar Hidalgo riches. The fledgling pizzeria owner
has had his good months, but the restaurant he opened with his
girlfriend often runs at a loss. ...
Haiti migrants found dead off Cuba's coast
Haiti migrants found dead off Cuba's coast
At least 38 migrants from Haiti have been found dead after their boat sank just off the eastern tip of Cuba, officials in Havana say. Another 87 people from the boat were rescued, Cuban TV reported quoting civil defence officials. ...
viernes, 23 de diciembre de 2011
Southern California's Broken Economic Ladder
Southern California's Broken Economic Ladder
Joblessness has more than doubled during the recession and it is extremely high for black and Latino males. In addition to unemployment, the report reveals, for example, that in September 2011 in Los Angeles County 25% of Latinos and 34% of African ...
Trinity Christian students learn about Native American homes
Trinity Christian students learn about Native American homes
Third graders at Trinity Christian School on Changebridge Road created models of Native American homes once found in five different regions of North America. The project showcased Native American ingenuity in the tribes' use of resources and ability to ...
Energy products, and troubled Central America
Energy products, and troubled Central America
However, the troubled governments and violent societies of Central America now shift around immense natural resources, foreign influence, and poverty. These are emerging countries with troubled pasts and economic futures to be studied and carefully ...
Asteroid named for 'disappeared' Argentine student
Asteroid named for 'disappeared' Argentine student
Evidence of these "Death Flights" was recently provided to Argentina's justice system by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The long-secret archives included more than 100 photos of bodies that washed up on the Uruguayan coast bearing signs ...
Bipartisan Taskforce Will Study Death Penalty
Bipartisan Taskforce Will Study Death Penalty
Senator Daylin Leach, a Democrat from Delaware and Montgomery Counties who has sponsored legislation that would repeal the death penalty, welcomed the study as a way to ascertain exactly how much the policy costs taxpayers and whether it is effective ...
Another face of the US recession: homeless children
Another face of the US recession: homeless children
Based on new or experimental methodology aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty, the data showed that about 48 percent of Americans are living in poverty or on low incomes. Under the bureau's so-called Supplemental Poverty Measure for 2010, ...
After Multiple Illegally Entries from Mexico Man Jailed and Barred from Every ...
After Multiple Illegally Entries from Mexico Man Jailed and Barred from Every ...
A 30-year-old Mexican male, apprehended by Nogales Border Patrol agents in March, was sentenced to 82 months in prison
on December 16 and barred from ever becoming a US citizen. The US
Attorney's Office prosecuted Federico LOPEZ-Torres for attempting ...
Roots of Homophobia in Cuba during the Revolution
Roots of Homophobia in Cuba during the Revolution
By SAMUEL FARBER HAVANA TIMES, Dec 23 — The widespread sexism that has existed in revolutionary Cuba, particularly against gays, has long been an uncomfortable issue for supporters of the Cuban regime, particularly in countries such as the United ...
Another face of the U.S. recession: homeless children
Another face of the U.S. recession: homeless children
Based on new or experimental methodology aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty, the data showed that about 48 percent of Americans are living in poverty or on low incomes. Under the bureau's so-called Supplemental Poverty Measure for 2010, ...
A year of drift in US-Latin American relations
A year of drift in US-Latin American relations
But it just flared again, with Obama sharply criticizing the state of human rights
in Venezuela and the country's relationship with Iran. “We're concerned
about the government's actions, which have restricted the universal
rights of the Venezuelan ...
Now Only Two States Without Openly-Gay Elected Officials Remain...
Now Only Two States Without Openly-Gay Elected Officials Remain...
Only two US states without publicly out gay officials remain: South Dakota and Alaska. The final two could of course still include an LGBT official who remains publicly closeted, but the Victory Institute reminds us why being out is so important. ...
USDA reminds Native American farmers of deadline to file claims
USDA reminds Native American farmers of deadline to file claims
Keepseagle v Vilsack was a lawsuit alleging that USDA discriminated against Native American
farmers and ranchers in the way it operated the Farm Loan Program. The
lawsuit was settled late last year, and the settlement has been approved
by the court. ...
Cuban legislators meet for year-end session, but details scant
Cuban legislators meet for year-end session, but details scant
HAVANA — Cuba's parliament met Friday in one of its twice-yearly
sessions to get an update from President Raul Castro on the island's
economic situation after a year of free-market reforms including the
legalization of a real estate market and the ...
Cuban-Americans going home for Christmas
Cuban-Americans going home for Christmas
Liesneivy Cortinas, left, and Jose Betancourt of West Palm Beach, Fla.,
fill out travel documents at Miami International Airport before
traveling to Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. HAVANA - Twenty-nine flights from the US landed Thursday at ...
Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011
Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011
A story published May 17 by ICTMN notes how language preservationists in Oklahoma are scrambling to revitalize endangered Native American languages including Cherokee, Osage, Euchee and Sauk. Where can you go to hear 32 Native American languages spoken ...
Nurse reminisces about visit to Cuba
Nurse reminisces about visit to Cuba
Renee Comee, a nurse who visited Havana, Cuba, recently with a group of American nurses studying the Cuban health care system, is pictured at her home in Salinas. Travis Geske An American Ford from the 1950s is not an uncommon sight. ...
Cuba's Flourishing Private Capitalism
Cuba's Flourishing Private Capitalism
HAVANA TIMES — Under the “updating” reforms being instituted in Cuba
we are witnessing a broad flowering of private capitalism. This is
taking place with the systematic increase in the exploitation of wage
labor by business operations that are ...
Cuban Parliament to Discuss Economic Plan and Budget for 2012
Cuban Parliament to Discuss Economic Plan and Budget for 2012
Pedraza said that social sectors will continue being a priority in Cuba,
such as health, education, and culture, in which the Caribbean country
has reached achievements recognized worldwide. Apart from the plans for
2012, the plenary of deputies will ...
Guatemalan women earn a living turning trash into treasure
Guatemalan women earn a living turning trash into treasure
However, for the women of Creamos, old magazines and cardboard boxes are an opportunity to escape their lives of poverty in Guatemala City. Creamos, which means "let's believe" and "we create" in Spanish, started out as a small crafts workshop teaching ...
Putting (Mothers') Faces to the Violence
Putting (Mothers') Faces to the Violence
... like the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, ... Morro da Providencia "favela" or shanty town in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ...
Dictators in the dock
Dictators in the dock
But one large area, Latin America, shows no support for that
claim. "It's a region that's seen the most prosecutions and almost
complete transition to democracy. And it helped that Uruguay, Chile, and
Argentina had earlier enjoyed periods of democracy ...
Death sentence is upheld in Diener shooting
Death sentence is upheld in Diener shooting
The ruling means jurors will have to unanimously agree that a defendant qualifies to avoid execution under a 9-year-old US Supreme Court case known as Atkins v. Virginia, which determined the imposition of the death penalty on a person suffering from ...
Argentine Government Takes Control Of Newsprint
Argentine Government Takes Control Of Newsprint
By SHANE ROMIG BUENOS AIRES–Argentina's senate passed a
controversial bill Thursday that gives the government control over
newsprint, boosting the power of President Cristina Kirchner's
administration in its battle against the opposition media. ...
Effects of Global Crises on Poor Countries, Sustainable ...
Effects of Global Crises on Poor Countries, Sustainable ...
Also speaking today were representatives of Dominican Republic, Venezuela, .... Taking up the report on eradication of poverty and other development issues ...
Socialism results in poverty, rioting
Socialism results in poverty, rioting
I personally don't think it is appropriate to keep raising taxes on
everyday citizens so that the select few can retire at 50 and take their
money to Florida. Nowhere in history has socialism succeeded. Socialism takes away exactly what provides ...
jueves, 22 de diciembre de 2011
Chilean copper production to increase in 2012
Chilean copper production to increase in 2012:
| SANTIAGO — Alberto Salas, president of Chile's organization of private mining companies, SONAMI, has announced Chile is projected to produce 5.5 million tons of copper in 2012. This year Chilean mines produced 5.4 million tons, a similar amount to ... |  I Love Chile News |
Electoral reform adds millions of young voters in Chile, could affect elections
Electoral reform adds millions of young voters in Chile, could affect elections
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile's democracy is in for a major
shake-up, with millions of citizens now added as registered voters. The
nation's Senate passed a reform that increases Chile's voting rolls by
more than half, from 8.1 million to 12.6 million ...
Argentine government wins control of newsprint
Argentine government wins control of newsprint
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The paper used to produce
newspapers came under government control in Argentina on Thursday, in a
long-sought victory for President Cristina Fernandez in her dispute with
the country's opposition media. ...
Viviana Hurtado: US Youths Made to Pay for Actions of Their Parents
Viviana Hurtado: US Youths Made to Pay for Actions of Their Parents
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a class-action suit in October on behalf of these applicants, arguing that Florida education officials violated their rights by treating them as illegal immigrants and non-residents because their parents are ...
Hazing investigation is sour note for Georgia marching bands
Hazing investigation is sour note for Georgia marching bands:
| Such opportunities are cherished in DeKalb County, a suburb that is home to a burgeoning black professional class and others who hope to reach that level soon — including the 15% of families living below the poverty level. ... |  Los Angeles Times |
Florida Teen Talks About New Faces Of Poverty « CBS Miami
Florida Teen Talks About New Faces Of Poverty « CBS Miami: The new faces of poverty in America are turning up and some are in Florida. Homeless children spoke out Thursday in front of a congressional committee to talk about their life in poverty. One of them, Destiny Raynor, spoke about her ...
Cuba to use sugar cane in new electricity plant
Cuba to use sugar cane in new electricity plant
HAVANA — Cuba will open its first electricity plant using sugar
cane as a biofuel hoping eventually to meet 30 percent of its energy
needs from the fuel source, the official Granma daily said Thursday. The
plant, being built in Ciego de Avila province ...
What to Do as the Drug Cartel War Moves into the US
What to Do as the Drug Cartel War Moves into the US
Meanwhile, even as the drug cartel war is spreading across the Mexican border into the US, our federal government is actually expanding the federal war on drugs, with very predictable consequences. For example, the manufacturer of a portable water ...
What to Do as the Drug Cartel War Moves into the US
What to Do as the Drug Cartel War Moves into the US: Meanwhile, even as the drug cartel war is spreading across the Mexican border into the US, our federal government is actually expanding the federal war on drugs, with very predictable consequences. For example, the manufacturer of a portable water ...
China and the US: World Leaders in Executions
China and the US: World Leaders in Executions: Meanwhile, as America touts its human rights record, it is hard to preach to others, especially China, as it continues to execute its citizens. The death penalty remains America's moral blind spot. It will take a movement, not to mention Europe cutting ...
The Criminal Justice Year in Review - 2011
The Criminal Justice Year in Review - 2011
This year, we continued to see a steep decline in death sentences and
executions in the United States, a trend we've observed over the last
few years. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low, as more people recognize safe sentencing ...
11 Killed In Attacks On Mexican Buses, Town
11 Killed In Attacks On Mexican Buses, Town: Coombs said the government needs “a reality check” for bringing such serious charges, which carry combined maximum penalties of more than 150 years in prison. “Thirty years is more than sufficient” as a maximum punishment, Coombs said, asking Almanza ...
Poverty in Forsyth County
Poverty in Forsyth County: Reality Bikes Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported that nearly 1 in 2 Americans have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. Studies show that 1 in 5 American children live in poverty. ...
Venezuela prosecutor opposes extradition of rebel
Venezuela prosecutor opposes extradition of rebel
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's top prosecutor said
Thursday that she doesn't think Colombia has provided a proper request
for the extradition of a Colombian rebel commander who was captured in Venezuela. Attorney General Luisa Ortega said she ...
Remembering Poverty Before the Safety Net
Remembering Poverty Before the Safety Net: That was poverty in America in the early 1960s: stark, vivid and desperate. What I wrote then is a reminder, in this time of retrenchment, of what America was like before presidents from both parties backed a vast expansion of the nation's economic ...
Mark Weisbrot: Independence of Latin nations pays off in more democracy
Mark Weisbrot: Independence of Latin nations pays off in more democracy: And it is no coincidence that Latin America's worst long-term growth failure in more than a century – from 1980-2000 – took place during the era of the “Washington Consensus,” when economic policy in the region was heavily influenced by ...
Students study Native Americans
Students study Native Americans: Students at Parkview Elementary School made these crafts as part of a unit on Native American culture. | Supplied Photo Fifth-grade students at Parkview Elementary School in Steger recently studied Native American culture. Students completed Native ...
More than 180000 Cubans could gain Spanish citizenship
More than 180000 Cubans could gain Spanish citizenship: Spain has issued a total of 66000 passports to Cubans who qualify under its so-called "grandchildren's law" and more than 180000 people on the island could eventually gain citizenship once all the applications have been processed, sources at the ...
Cuba's Literacy Campaign 50 Years Later, an Experience that Has Been Shared
Cuba's Literacy Campaign 50 Years Later, an Experience that Has Been Shared
When Cuba was officially proclaimed an illiteracy-free territory
on December 22nd, 1961 at a throng Havana's Revolution Square, the
nation was just setting the foundations for an educational system that
has always been guided by Jose Marti's principle ...
Latin America goes its way
Latin America goes its way: ... and is predicted to grow by four per cent compared to three per cent for US and two per cent for the embattled European Union. In fact, the latest UN report reveals that in the last one decade, poverty in Latin America dropped by 17 per cent, ...
Women Share First Lesbian Kiss at US Navy Ship's Return
Women Share First Lesbian Kiss at US Navy Ship's Return:
| The ship returned to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story following an 80-day deployment to Central America. The crew of more than 300 participated in exercises involving the militaries of Honduras, Guatemala Colombia and Panama as part of ... |  Terra.com |
More Louisiana families turning to food stamps
More Louisiana families turning to food stamps
The face of Louisianians on food stamps has changed and broadened with the worsened economy in a state mired in poverty and repeatedly hit by disasters. For hundreds of thousands in Louisiana this year, the cost of holiday meals will be at least partly ...
Young Europeans flock to Argentina for job opportunities
Young Europeans flock to Argentina for job opportunities:
| Rajoy's claim was probably exaggerated, but the mass arrival of young Europeans is nonetheless clearly evident in the streets of Buenos Aires today. Most of them come from Spain and Italy but some are from Britain. "There've been evenings in Buenos ... |  The Guardian |
In the shadows of globalisation: drug violence in Mexico and Central America
In the shadows of globalisation: drug violence in Mexico and Central America
Mexico and the northern triangle of Central America (Honduras, Guatemala
and El Salvador) are currently experiencing a wave of violence that has
taken on the dimensions of a humanitarian catastrophe. The number of
deaths in Mexico's drug war may reach ...
Chile eases monetary conditions
Chile eases monetary conditions:
| SANTIAGO: Chile's central bank on Thursday moved to ease monetary conditions as a global economic slowdown and Europe's financial crisis deters bank lending. The move meant an expected interest rate cut was now more likely, Finance Minister Felipe ... |  Business Recorder |
miércoles, 21 de diciembre de 2011
Being the kind of Canadians who work to change the world
Being the kind of Canadians who work to change the world: As a 25-year-old Vancouverite with a commerce degree from McGill, I was thrilled to apply my business savvy to reducing rural poverty in Bolivia. ...
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 ...
Peru is a peaceful country, wants to live in harmony with Chile, says PM
Peru is a peaceful country, wants to live in harmony with Chile, says PM: It is a neighboring country and we believe we must work together –as well as with Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil- to deal with common issues such as poverty,” said the minister. This way, Minister Valdes ruled out some news that pointed out that Peru ...
Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis
Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis: Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world. But as the EU faces what Angela Merkel has called its toughest hour since the second world war, ...
Brazil is Rich in Resources but Beset with Poverty ... - PITHOCRATES
Brazil is Rich in Resources but Beset with Poverty ... - PITHOCRATES: In Brazil, the last decade of economic growth has brought tens of millions of Brazilians out of poverty, powered by commodities exports, consumer credit growth ...
Poverty reduction grants human rights, says minister — internacional
Poverty reduction grants human rights, says minister — internacional: The best human rights policy is that based on the reduction of poverty, inequality and discrimination among populations, regions and gender, said minister Maria ...
Brazil's national poverty alleviation plan exceeds six month ...
Brazil's national poverty alleviation plan exceeds six month ...
The federal government of Brazil has announced today that in its first six months, the comprehensive national poverty alleviation plan - "Brasil Sem Miséria" - has ...
Venezuelan beauty queen dies at 28 from breast cancer (Photos, Video)
Venezuelan beauty queen dies at 28 from breast cancer (Photos, Video)
VENEZUELA – She was only 17-years-old when crowned Miss Venezuela in
2000 and 18-years-old when being awarded as third runner-up in the Miss
Universe pageant in Puerto Rico. After competing successfully in beauty pageants, Eva Ekvall went on to become ...
Death penalty decline in US may keep more black inmates alive
Death penalty decline in US may keep more black inmates alive: theGRIO REPORT - For the first time death sentences dropped to below a 100 in a single year, which is the lowest since capital punishment was reinstated in ...
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