Flax seeds sub for eggs in Venezuelan corn pancakes: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers" (Da Capo), author Terry Hope Romero revises Venezuelan cachapas (fresh-corn pancakes) by replacing eggs with ground flax seeds. The sticky seeds hold the pancakes together, even though the ...
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viernes, 30 de diciembre de 2011
Marcus Carey trial: Defense attorneys have until April to argue against death ...
Marcus Carey trial: Defense attorneys have until April to argue against death ...
30 to argue against the death penalty. Officials agreed that day that additional time would be necessary for the defense to supplement its reasons against the death penalty, according to court documents. The US Attorney's office had until Jan 31, ...
Poll watcher: Republican problems with Hispanic voters larger than ever
Poll watcher: Republican problems with Hispanic voters larger than ever
Heightened unemployment among Hispanics – over 11 percent in recent government data – also might be a point of weakness for Obama. Nearly all Hispanic voters in the Pew poll said jobs are an important issue to them in the 2012 election, ...
Puerto Rico FBI agent drowns in attempted rescue
Puerto Rico FBI agent drowns in attempted rescue
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An FBI agent who tried to rescue a swimmer in distress has drowned at a beach in northeast Puerto Rico, authorities said Friday. Daniel Knapp, a 43-year-old agent who was based in San Juan, drowned on Thursday at Hidden ...
UN lists LGBT rights abuses for the first time
UN lists LGBT rights abuses for the first time: The December 15 report cited dozens of examples of failures and victories in the protection of LGBT human rights, pointing to murders and rapes in Europe and North America as readily as those in Africa and Latin America, but also noting positives in ...
A place in Venezuela that gets 40000 lightning strikes per night
A place in Venezuela that gets 40000 lightning strikes per night: Residents of Venezuela have been treated to a light show that has been going on for thousands of years. One spot on the Catatumbo River gets, regularly, forty thousand bolts every night. The lightning has helped sailors navigate, foiled attacks on the ...
Death penalty to be sought in 3 W.Va. slayings
Death penalty to be sought in 3 W.Va. slayings: If Taylor is convicted and sentenced to death, she would become the second woman to receive a federal death sentence since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Angela Johnson of Forest City, Iowa, was convicted in federal court ...
Cuban Culture Minister Predicts 2012 Year of Work, Challenge
Cuban Culture Minister Predicts 2012 Year of Work, Challenge: 30 de diciembre de 2011, 11:33Havana, Dec 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Minister of Culture Abel Prieto has foretold 2012 a year of hard work and challenges as a result of the agreements reached at the last Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. ...
Cuba relic ends mammoth pilgrimage
Cuba relic ends mammoth pilgrimage
HAVANA — Cuba's patron saint wrapped up a 16-month pilgrimage
here Friday ahead of a papal visit early next year to mark the 400th
anniversary of the relic's legendary discovery. The statue of Our Lady
of Charity, the patroness of Cuba, ...
Amazon rainforest imperiled in gold rush
Amazon rainforest imperiled in gold rush: PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru — Record gold prices are claiming an unlikely victim: the ... In a region wracked by poverty and few other economic opportunities, ...
Marching Towards the Past in Guatemala
Marching Towards the Past in Guatemala: Ever since, the case has languished in Guatemalan courts, defying rulings of the Inter American Court of Human Rights. Otto Perez Molina himself, and two other generals, were named in a second case, focusing on the commanding officers whose direct ...
Venezuela's Chavez Speculates over Coincidence of Leftwing Latin ...
Venezuela's Chavez Speculates over Coincidence of Leftwing Latin ...: Mérida - (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has expressed his “suspicions” over the number of left wing Latin American presidents who have acquired cancer recently. “It's difficult to explain, ...
How Do Americans Feel About The Death Penalty?
How Do Americans Feel About The Death Penalty?: The American public has grown slightly more uneasy about capital punishment over time, but more than 60% still support the death penalty. This infographic done in collaboration with GOOD, looks at how the perception of the death penalty ...
Venezuelan oil sales to the US continue to decline
Venezuelan oil sales to the US continue to decline: Venezuela's oil businesses with the United States continue to decline in terms of the volume of sales. Preliminary statistics from the US Department of Energy show that during the fourth quarter of 2011, sales of Venezuelan crude oil averaged some ...
Hugo Chavez Congratulates Cuban Medical Workers in Venezuela
Hugo Chavez Congratulates Cuban Medical Workers in Venezuela
Havana, Cuba, Dec 30.- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent a Happy New Year message congratulating the Cuban
medical personnel working in his country. “You really are honourable
children of Marti and Fidel, I wish you a happy new year, comrades! ...
Cuba School Board hoping to receive grant for wind turbine
Cuba School Board hoping to receive grant for wind turbine: 19 at the Unit Office in Cuba. President Sue McCance called the meeting to order at 6:31 pm During the meeting, it was decided to seek funding for a windmill project for educational purposes. Under the superintendent's report, Mr. Kenser presented the ...
Cuban Musicians Honor National Patron Saint with a Concert in Havana
Cuban Musicians Honor National Patron Saint with a Concert in Havana
Havana, Cuba, Dec 30.- Popular Cuban musicians like singers Omara Portuondo and Carlos Varela starred in a concert on Wednesday in honor of the Caridad del Cobre, Cuba's patron saint, when the national pilgrimage for the 400th anniversary of the find ...
At least 13 killed in Venezuela tanker truck fire
At least 13 killed in Venezuela tanker truck fire: Firemen spray water over a tanker on fire in Caracas on Dec. 29, 2011. At least 14 people were killed and 16 wounded Thursday when a truck carrying gasoline overturned and exploded on the Pan American highway connecting Caracas with ...
SD churches struggle with homosexuality, views
SD churches struggle with homosexuality, views: The gay-rights movement has taken its place in the progression of human rights in America. “First it was African Americans, then women and now the gay-lesbian issue — all movements away from marginalization,” he said. “But when it comes to gays and ...
Chile Sets Up Commission To Face International Economic Crisis
Chile Sets Up Commission To Face International Economic Crisis: SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--Chile has established a commission made up of key ministers to consider ways to deal with international economic problems, Finance Minister Felipe Larrain said late Thursday. The commission includes the interior, finance, economy, ...
A New Year's resolution for Kentucky: Lets end the death penalty in our state ...
A New Year's resolution for Kentucky: Lets end the death penalty in our state ...:
| by Keith Rouda A report released earlier this month on a two year assessment conducted by the American Bar Association [ABA] found that Kentucky's death penalty system is so broken and unfair that the state should declare a moratorium on executions. ... |  Louisville.com |
Why more Hispanic children are living in poverty: A Q&A
Why more Hispanic children are living in poverty: A Q&A:
| Many of these small businesses have been affected by the recession, which has affected employment opportunities. Nicely Colangelo: Teen unemployment has gone through the roof. Lots of retailers have closed and those are the jobs teens entering the job ... |  NJ.com (blog) |
Argentine leader's cancer forces her to delegate
Argentine leader's cancer forces her to delegate:
| Nation Newsday > News > Nation Argentine leader's cancer forces her to delegate Originally published: December 27, 2011 7:45 PM Updated: December 28, 2011 3:44 PM By The Associated Press MICHAEL WARREN (Associated Press) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - (AP) ... |  Newsday |
States have authority to legalize online gambling
States have authority to legalize online gambling
South Dakotans who want to gamble have long been able to go to casinos in Deadwood, on Native American
reservations or to one of the state's many video lottery
establishments. Now they could be on the verge of a new legal place to
gamble: online. ...
2011 International LGBT Roundup: Backlash and Repression
2011 International LGBT Roundup: Backlash and Repression: Honduras finally acted on the large number of unsolved murders of LGBT people in that country, after US prompting. The rate of murders of LGBT elsewhere in Latin America — particularly in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela — drew little international ...
jueves, 29 de diciembre de 2011
Homicides soar as drug trade wracks Honduras
Homicides soar as drug trade wracks Honduras: The United States has been drawn deep into Honduras' counter-drug fight, spending at least $50 million on security assistance since 2008, according to US officials. "This is a poor country where 65 percent of the people live in poverty and the ...
More than 1 million children ages 10 to 14 still forced by poverty to work in ...
More than 1 million children ages 10 to 14 still forced by poverty to work in ...
SAO PAULO — A newspaper says that despite the economic advances achieved
by Brazil over the past few years, children from low-income families
are still forced to work in Latin America's biggest country. The Folha de S.Paulo newspaper says Wednesday ...
Former soldier gets 35 years
Former soldier gets 35 years:
| Parvin was convicted last week in the shooting deaths of Lopez and Gutierrez-Guzman, a Mexican immigrant, in Lopez's back yard in Woodfield Park. Witnesses told a jury that Parvin had paid Lopez $200 to have sex and then shot the men after Lopez backed ... |  The State |
Boy who survived recalls fatal Mexico bus attack
Boy who survived recalls fatal Mexico bus attack:
| She said she hopes there's a way he can be released early from prison to help raise his surviving children. "Little Mike loves his dad so much," Schneider said. "He's the only parent he has left." Mexico Family. |  Fort Worth Star Telegram |
Scholars want help identifying slaves' origins
Scholars want help identifying slaves' origins: Researchers using audio recordings of names found in Courts of Mixed Commission records for Havana, Cuba, and Freetown, Sierra Leone, to identify their likely ethno-linguistic origins, at Emory University in Atlanta. The recordings helped connect the ...
Cuba to consider term limits at conference
Cuba to consider term limits at conference: Cuba's Communist Party is expected to consider a strategic overhaul at its first National Conference in 50 years next month, including a radical presidential proposal to impose term limits on top leaders. President Raul Castro has said the gathering, ...
Why Brazil is the 6th largest economy in the world
Why Brazil is the 6th largest economy in the world: With a heated domestic market, the increased real purchasing power of Brazilians, improvement programs, income support and families with high economic vulnerability, taking millions of Brazilians out of poverty and the enjoying contribution of more ...
Chile judge closes Salvador Allende death probe after confirming suicide; 725 ...
Chile judge closes Salvador Allende death probe after confirming suicide; 725 ...
ANTIAGO, Chile — A judge in Chile has closed the case on
the death of President Salvador Allende after an authoritative autopsy
confirmed it was suicide. An international panel of experts convened by
Judge Mario Carroza determined that Allende he ...
Former Texas Rangers pitcher Rosman Garcia dies in car accident in Venezuela
Former Texas Rangers pitcher Rosman Garcia dies in car accident in Venezuela
By: AP CARACAS, Venezuela - Former Texas Rangers pitcher Rosman Garcia died after a car accident early Thursday in his native Venezuela. He was 32. Garcia played for the Rangers in 2003. He had been playing recently for a Venezuelan team, ...
Solar power use expands in South America
Solar power use expands in South America
Poverty-stricken Honduras is the latest home to solar energy projects in Central and South America
that are driven by US service providers but fitted out with
Chinese-made equipment. Colorado's Onyx Service and Solutions Inc. said
it will install its ...
Argentina Nov Construction Activity Up 2.8% On Yr;Down 1.3% On Month
Argentina Nov Construction Activity Up 2.8% On Yr;Down 1.3% On Month: BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Argentina's construction in November ticked up on the year but continued a slowdown from the blistering growth seen over the last year. November's construction index was up 2.8% on the year, but slipped 1.3% on the month, ...
Mentally disability should exclude Winston-Salem man from death penalty, his ...
Mentally disability should exclude Winston-Salem man from death penalty, his ...: A bill introduced in 2007 to prohibit the death penalty in such cases was not approved. The US Supreme Court has banned the execution of juveniles and people with mental retardation. Rabil and Fischer argue in the motion that federal case law ...
Chilean Student Protests Claim Second Ministerial Victim as Bulnes Resigns
Chilean Student Protests Claim Second Ministerial Victim as Bulnes Resigns
Protest leaders have suspended demonstrations as Chile enters its summer vacation period. Students last week abandoned a seven-month occupation of the University of Chile's central campus in downtown Santiago, vowing to resume protests in 2012 for ...
Chile unemployment rate falls to 7.1%
Chile unemployment rate falls to 7.1%: By Carolina Pica SANTIAGO (MarketWatch) -- Unemployment in Chile fell to 7.1% in the September through November period, from 7.2% in August through October, the government statistics agency reported Thursday. When compared with the same three-month ...
Argentine dictator convicted of 1976 torture in hospital
Argentine dictator convicted of 1976 torture in hospital:
| BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Argentina's last dictator was convicted Thursday of more crimes against humanity, this time getting 15 years in prison for setting up a secret torture center inside a hospital during the 1976 military coup. ... |  USA TODAY |
District 196 program helps Native American students
District 196 program helps Native American students: At its most basic level, the Independent School District 196 Native American Parent Advisory Committee exists to give parents of the district's American Indian students an opportunity to have some on the needs of their children. ...
Mexican Drug Cartels Recruit Young Latinos In Southern California
Mexican Drug Cartels Recruit Young Latinos In Southern California: He was convicted of homicide in July and sentenced to three years in prison in Mexico, according to MSNBC. The San Diego native was captured in December 2010 as he was boarding a plane to Tijuana. He was believed to work for the Beltran Leyva brothers' ...
Chavez muses on US causing leaders' cancers
Chavez muses on US causing leaders' cancers:
| Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was diagnosed with lymphoma last year. ... the left of the political spectrum, with policies aimed at reducing poverty. ... | CBC.ca |
Venezuela offers surgery to remove breast implants
Venezuela offers surgery to remove breast implants: Venezuela's top health official says free operations will be provided to women to remove faulty French-made breast implants. Health Minister Eugenia Sader says women with implants made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese may go to ...
First pictures of jailed American in Cuba
First pictures of jailed American in Cuba: An American jailed in Cuba is in good spirits and fine health, but disappointed he was not included in a massive prisoner amnesty announced last week, a Jewish leader who saw him said. (Dec. 28) (/The Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: ...
Ahmadinejad to visit Latin American nations
Ahmadinejad to visit Latin American nations: Ahmadinejad will be visiting Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Ecuador during the second week of January, Iranian officials told state news agency IRNA on Wednesday. According to the officials, he will meet personally with Venezuela's president, ...
Poverty declining in Latin America - AllVoices
Poverty declining in Latin America - AllVoices: Poverty is falling in Latin America, and so is inequality a rare cause for celebration in a world otherwise plagued by financial woes and yet another sign that the ...
08:47 Peru-Cuba bilateral relations to keep strengthening in 2012
Peru-Cuba bilateral relations to keep strengthening in 2012: Peru and Cuba expect to keep strengthening their bilateral relations in 2012 with the carrying out of several projects related to health, education and cultural exchange, according to Cuban Ambassador in Lima, Juana Martinez. ...
Can Bolivia become a green energy superpower?
Can Bolivia become a green energy superpower?:
| But just next door, Latin America's regional superpower, Brazil, is already using ethanol-powered cars. As biofuels compete with food production, Brazil may have to seek new sources of energy to fuel rising car ownership among its burgeoning middle ... |  The Guardian |
Green economy, sustainable develoment and poverty eradication
Green economy, sustainable develoment and poverty eradication
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will convene in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
in June 2012. As mandated by UN General Assembly Resolution 64/236, the
principal objective of the Conference is to secure renewed political ...
miércoles, 28 de diciembre de 2011
Iranian Firms to Build Houses for Venezuelans
Iranian Firms to Build Houses for Venezuelans:
| In September, Venezuelan housing officials announced that they had signed a $2.5 billion contract with Iran for the construction of 17000 housing units in the Latin American country. Managing-Director of Iran's Keyson Company Mohammad Reza Ansari said ... |  Fars News Agency |
Sisters to use talents to aid destitute Nicaraguans
Sisters to use talents to aid destitute Nicaraguans: Instead, she'll be volunteering her time to examine hundreds and hundreds of children who live in abject poverty in two small cities in Nicaragua: Masachapa and Tipitapa, where the poorest of the poor dwell in bathroom-sized shanties loosely ...
Christ is reaching Brazilian Prisoners Through MBC
Christ is reaching Brazilian Prisoners Through MBC: Christ is reaching Brazilian Prisoners Through MBC. The Mini Bible College materials have been used by over 5000 prisioners in 81 prisons throughout Brazil. ...
Idaho contracting company plans to hire workers
Idaho contracting company plans to hire workers: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho-based government contracting company owned by an Alaska Native American group plans to hire 100 workers in 2012 as demand rises for its demolition, construction and hazardous-waste cleanup services. ...
Okla. tribe defends casino plan, says it has no other viable economic ...
Okla. tribe defends casino plan, says it has no other viable economic ...: The leader of a Native American tribe says he's disappointed an Oklahoma congressman has decided to express concern about a proposal to build a casino in Broken Arrow. Kialegee Tribal Town town king Tiger Hobia said in a statement the tribe has kept ...
Report: Navajo Nation fails to provide disability access
Report: Navajo Nation fails to provide disability access: Statistics like these are at the root of a report released this fall by the Native American Disability Law Center that found none of the Navajo Nation's government buildings are fully accessible to individuals with disabilities, though some facilities ...
Cuban Jewish leaders celebrate Hanukkah with jailed American Alan Gross
Cuban Jewish leaders celebrate Hanukkah with jailed American Alan Gross
HAVANA — An American government contractor jailed in Cuba is in
good spirits and fine health, but anxious to get home to his family and
disappointed he was not included in a massive prisoner amnesty announced
by President Raul Castro last week, ...
2991 inmates benefit from Cuba's pardons
2991 inmates benefit from Cuba's pardons
Among the pardons were those of seven political prisoners, according to monitoring lists of the Cuban
Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, led by Elizardo
Sanchez. Castro announced the pending pardons in an address to the
National ...
Guantanamo leader signs order opposed by lawyers
Guantanamo leader signs order opposed by lawyers
Rear Adm. David Woods considered the arguments of defense lawyers and
made some modifications, said Navy Cmdr. Tamsen Reese, a spokeswoman for
the detention center on the US base in Cuba. Critics said the changes were minor and did not address the ...
Cuba well into process of freeing 2900 pardoned prisoners
Cuba well into process of freeing 2900 pardoned prisoners
HAVANA — Cuba appeared to be making quick progress in meeting a
pledge to free 2900 pardoned prisoners, most of them convicted of minor
crimes, even as a top human rights official on the island criticized the
year-end amnesty as a “media show. ...
Argentine leader's cancer forces her to delegate
Argentine leader's cancer forces her to delegate
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's president cracked
jokes and sounded optimistic Wednesday after her thyroid cancer
diagnosis was announced, but she's clearly struggling with the need to
delegate power while she recovers from next week's ...
Venezuelan Economy among the Strongest, Says Chavez
Venezuelan Economy among the Strongest, Says Chavez: 28 de diciembre de 2011, 16:09Caracas, Dec 28 (Prensa Latina) President Hugo Chavez described Venezuela''s economy as one of the strongest worldwide, despite the opposition''s criticism that denies real achievements over the past 13 years. ...
Ex-soldier sentenced to 35 years for double murder
Ex-soldier sentenced to 35 years for double murder: Newman had the option of sending Parvin to prison between 30 years to life. In July 2010, Parvin shot and killed Edgar Lopez, a Guatemalan immigrant, and Pablo Gutierrez-Guzman, a Mexican immigrant, in the yard of Lopez's home. ...
The Death Penalty in America; A Costly, Flawed, and Prejudiced ...
The Death Penalty in America; A Costly, Flawed, and Prejudiced ...: With 35 states plus the U.S. Government and U.S. Military having the death penalty, one can only imagine the money that is wasted carrying out a punishment ...
Latin American Airline Launches Gay Site
Latin American Airline Launches Gay Site: LAN's new LGBT microsite features a host of information and resources for the prospective traveler to South America. It includes detailed descriptions of key South American destinations with information of interest to gay and lesbian travelers. ...
A strong breeze of change in Shakopee
A strong breeze of change in Shakopee: Not long after he was elected mayor of Shakopee, Brad Tabke decided it was time to begin to heal the city's relationship with the wealthy Native American tribe that has been exasperating his predecessors for years. "I simply called and said, ...
An honor song at halftime highlights Native American Awarness Day
An honor song at halftime highlights Native American Awarness Day
A rough guess placed the Native American attendance at 80% or
higher. Shoni and Jude are from the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon,
about a three hour drive from Pullman and WSU, and many friends and
relatives made the drive to see the game. ...
Argentine who dedicated 50 years to Indian dances
Argentine who dedicated 50 years to Indian dances:
| The Argentine woman has learnt Sanskrit, is a vegetarian, avoids alcohol, and leads a 'disciplined Indian life' in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: An Argentine woman who started as a ballet dancer and later learnt Bharatnatyam, Odissi and Kuchipudi from ... |  gulfnews.com |
Year-end review: Counting the growth of international projects
Year-end review: Counting the growth of international projects: This huge fund for MSM/gay HIV/Aids projects that will help isolated communities, mainly in Africa. In a development which will have long term implications, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which covers Latin America and the ...
More than 1 million children ages 10 to 14 still forced by poverty to work in ...
More than 1 million children ages 10 to 14 still forced by poverty to work in ...
SAO PAULO — A newspaper says that despite the economic advances achieved by Brazil
over the past few years, children from low-income families are still
forced to work in Latin America's biggest country. The Folha de S.Paulo
newspaper says Wednesday ...
Brazil overtakes Britain as world's sixth largest economy
Brazil overtakes Britain as world's sixth largest economy: Brazil's economy has grown steadily in the past eight years. The Brazilian government's anti-poverty measures further helped in lifting more than 40 million people into a new middle class. Initial numbers indicate sales for holiday shopping among ...
Cuba, Cooperation and Transformations
Cuba, Cooperation and Transformations: The answer has special relevance for Cuba, and also for the world's urgently needed advance to post-capitalism. The development of agriculture and animal husbandry around eight thousand years ago made it possible for laboring individuals to produce ...
Leniency is sought for jailed father of 2 Cleburne kids who survived Mexico attack
Leniency is sought for jailed father of 2 Cleburne kids who survived Mexico attack:
| Because he's in prison, [his wife] wants some family time ... [and] goes to Mexico and gets killed." Enlow has been working to contact the Johnson County district attorney and state criminal justice officials, seeking probation or early parole that ... |  Fort Worth Star Telegram |
Poverty comes to suburbia
Poverty comes to suburbia: The movement of peoples is the underlying story of America. To the frontier, going west, from south to north, to the suburbs, and to the sunbelt, the reoccurring narrative of America has been people on the move to make a better life for themselves and ...
Shorewood man performs mission work in Navajo Nation
Shorewood man performs mission work in Navajo Nation:
| Persistent poverty, lack of education, jobs and infrastructure within ... Bolivia, the Philippines, Kenya and selected US communities in the | TribLocal |
martes, 27 de diciembre de 2011
Roots of Homophobia in Cuba during the Revolution
Roots of Homophobia in Cuba during the Revolution: Revolutionary social hygiene is what this is called. 196 Starting in the early sixties, then, the most representative figures of the Cuban state proceeded ...
Puerto Rico Governor Signs 4 Laws To Fight Crime
Puerto Rico Governor Signs 4 Laws To Fight Crime: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor of Puerto Rico signed four laws on Tuesday that he says will help track suspects and provide aid to crime victims as the island struggles with a record number of killings. One law requires those accused of ...
The Graham Leader
The Graham Leader:
| Brandi Hale may look nothing like the famous clown, but the Graham native spends her professional like working to make the Ronald McDonald House available for families in crisis in Puerto Rico. (Photo by Julianne Murrah) by Gay Storms Brandi Hale tells ... |  Graham Leader |
Rappers Dyland & Lenny march against violence in Puerto Rico
Rappers Dyland & Lenny march against violence in Puerto Rico: San Juan - Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Dyland & Lenny led a protest march Tuesday against domestic violence and also against shooting guns in the air, so typical of the Caribbean island's New Year's festivities. ...
Ten thousand dead and counting: Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city that's ...
Ten thousand dead and counting: Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city that's ...
Once largely spectators to the deaths of hitmen, police and innocent
bystanders, children are increasingly in the firing line of Mexico's drug war. In his recent speech, President Calderon conceded the army has gone too far in some cases. ...
Airport X-ray suitcase surprise: Poisonous snakes
Airport X-ray suitcase surprise: Poisonous snakes
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Surprised airport workers in
Argentina found hundreds of wriggling poisonous snakes and endangered
reptiles inside the baggage of a Czech man who was about to board a
flight to Spain. Karel Abelovsky, 51, was made to ...
Family seeks to free father of slain Cleburne wife and daughters from prison
Family seeks to free father of slain Cleburne wife and daughters from prison: Shortly after he went to prison, Hartsell's wife, Maria, decided to take their children to Mexico to visit her family during the holidays. "He knew they were going and he tried to persuade Maria not to go to Mexico, that it was too dangerous," said ...
New Mexico's first 100 years: Lots of history ... and more to come
New Mexico's first 100 years: Lots of history ... and more to come: July 11, 1988 - Three inmates escape from the Penitentiary of New Mexico in a helicopter. The girlfriend of one prisoner hired an unsuspecting pilot, then pulled a pistol and ordered him to fly into the prison yard. The prisoners were soon caught. ...
Guantanamo seeks to tighten rules for lawyers, sparking standoff with lawyers ...
Guantanamo seeks to tighten rules for lawyers, sparking standoff with lawyers ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison
is seeking to impose significant changes to communications allowed
between lawyers and prisoners facing war- crimes charges at the US base
in Cuba, The Associated Press has learned ...
Cuba Releases Nearly 3000 Prisoners
Cuba Releases Nearly 3000 Prisoners: December 27, 2011 Cuba Releases Nearly 3000 Prisoners VOA News A human rights group in Cuba says Havana has included five political prisoners among more than 2500 prisoners who were released in a humanitarian gesture ahead of a visit by the pope. ...
COURSEY: Condemning the death penalty
COURSEY: Condemning the death penalty
... the rest of us can think about whether our state —
you, me, our neighbors and our children — should be in the business of
killing people. We might get that chance next year; death penalty opponents are trying to qualify an initiative ending the ...
Venezuela's 2011 Drug Seizures Drop 34% From Previous Year
Venezuela's 2011 Drug Seizures Drop 34% From Previous Year: CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuelan authorities seized more than 42 metric tons of illegal drugs during 2011, representing a drop of nearly 34% from the previous year, Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami said Tuesday. In recent years, officials have looked ...
Bolivian Minister Highlights Economic Growth
Bolivian Minister Highlights Economic Growth: 27 de diciembre de 2011, 16:12La Paz, Dec 27 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia''s economic ... the poverty rate decreased from 60 to 49 percent, while extreme poverty ...
More than 2500 freed in Cuba amnesty: rights group
More than 2500 freed in Cuba amnesty: rights group: HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 2500 Cuban prisoners have been released in recent days under a New Year's amnesty announced before a visit next spring by Pope Benedict XVI, a local human rights group said on Tuesday. Cuban President Raul Castro said last ...
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