| Alex vehemently disagreed. "The judge analogized the death penalty to some very heinous times in our American history," Alex told the court. It's obvious, he said, that she has "very strong emotional, personal feelings against the death penalty. ... |  Dallas Observer (blog) |
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Dallas County Judge Who Ruled Death Penalty Unconstitutional Is Forced To ...
Dallas County Judge Who Ruled Death Penalty Unconstitutional Is Forced To ...:
Peru's Central Bank: Poverty Rate Could Drop to 17 Percent by 2016
Peru's Central Bank: Poverty Rate Could Drop to 17 Percent by 2016: The Central Bank estimates that Peru's poverty rate will decline to 17 percent by 2016 if the country is able to maintain its current economic growth and ...
The racial bias of the US death penalty
The racial bias of the US death penalty:
| The application of the US death penalty is unfair, arbitrary and racially biased. Whether a defendant receives a death sentence depends not on the merits of the case, so much as on his or her skin colour – and the race of the victim – and the county in ... |  The Guardian |
Gay rights in N.C. face scrutiny
Gay rights in N.C. face scrutiny: And several major Charlotte-area companies - including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Food Lion parent company Delhaize America - land high marks for workplace equality for gay and lesbian employees on an annual survey by the Human Rights Campaign, ...
Supreme Court Justice Gary Alexander will be missed
Supreme Court Justice Gary Alexander will be missed: I will not vote for any candidate for judge who is opposed to the death penalty. I don't want any more bleeding hearts on the bench who look for an “i “that isn't dotted or a “t” that isn't crossed in capital cases in an effort to delay or prevent the ...
Brazil says nearly 300 employers submitted workers to slave-like conditions
Brazil says nearly 300 employers submitted workers to slave-like conditions
Reporter Brasil's coordinator, Leonardo Sakamoto said Brazil
has come a long way since it started cracking down on slave labor in
1995, “but we still have a long way to go, especially in terms of
eradicating poverty, which is the main reason why ...
Brazil's President: Dilma Rousseff's First Year
Brazil's President: Dilma Rousseff's First Year:
| A weakened economy and lower spending could jeopardize Rousseff's commitment to anti-poverty programs, such as the Brazil Without Misery program, launched in June, which aims to lift 16 million Brazilians out of extreme poverty. ... |  AS/COA Online |
Cardinal Denounces Corruption in Honduras
Cardinal Denounces Corruption in Honduras: 03 de enero de 2012, 16:40Tegucigalpa, Jan 3 (Prensa Latina) High levels of corruption increased poverty in Honduras, denounced Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez, who urged politicians to walk in truth, seek the common good and refrain from creating more ...
Argentina expands railroad network as economy grows
Argentina expands railroad network as economy grows
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Argentina is expanding its railroad
network to cope with increasing demands for its growing export sector
plus expectations of a boost in transit trade from landlocked Paraguay
and regional commerce. ...
Pilot Project in Argentina Assists Victims in Reporting Rape
Pilot Project in Argentina Assists Victims in Reporting Rape: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - An Argentine woman, who declined to be named, says she was 23 when a stranger raped her in the full light of day in Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital. It was close to 5 pm when she boarded a bus to return home from university. ...
Activist proposes to include NGOs as complainants to OAS
Activist proposes to include NGOs as complainants to OAS: Briceño said that the inclusion of civil society and NGOs as complaining entities before the OAS "should be applied when alternations to the democratic and institutional order" in Latin America are verified. As states in a press release, the human ...
Child Poverty Tops 20 Percent In Half Of US States: Report
Child Poverty Tops 20 Percent In Half Of US States: Report: Indiana, Michigan and Nevada have seen some of the biggest gains, with each state experiencing more than a 6 percent rise in child poverty between 2007 and 2010. Georgia, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and South Carolina have also seen their rates rise ...
Puerto Rico to demand copies of tax returns from political candidates
Puerto Rico to demand copies of tax returns from political candidates
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Anyone seeking to run for mayor, legislator or governor in Puerto Rico
is now required to submit 10 years' worth of tax returns to the
elections commission. Gov. Luis Fortuno said Tuesday that he signed the
new law because he ...
Duluth Plant Announces $12.2 Million Expansion
Duluth Plant Announces $12.2 Million Expansion: This investment by the Board of Director's of ME Elecmetal, Santiago, Chile, will result in a 25% increase in production capacity in Duluth and will add 30 permanent jobs, mostly in the production ranks. According to Plant Manager Bill Grau, ...
Drug Cartels Get More Sophisticated
Drug Cartels Get More Sophisticated:
| The drug war in Mexico is far from over and the cartels are still spending resources to increase their footprint, particularly in Northern Mexico. The United States and Mexico will be conducting Presidential elections in 2012 and this issue is one that ... |  FrumForum |
Brazil employers accused of slave-like conditions
Brazil employers accused of slave-like conditions
SAO PAULO (AP) — Nearly 300 employers in South America's biggest
country submit workers to slave-like conditions, Brazil's Labor Ministry
said Tuesday. The ministry said in a statement that its "dirty list"
increased by 52 and now has a total of 294 ...
Walmart gives $500K grant for healthy foods in Native communities
Walmart gives $500K grant for healthy foods in Native communities: 21, the First Nation Development Institute received a $500000 grant from Walmart to support the availability of health and affordable fresh foods in Native American communities. The grant will assist in developing or expanding locally controlled and ...
Building Blocks: The Bright Future of Colombia's Cement Industry
Building Blocks: The Bright Future of Colombia's Cement Industry:
| In addition, increased economic prosperity has shifted the spotlight to social welfare and affordable housing, as 45.5% of Colombia's population lives in poverty, and 75% of the population lives in cities. As Edgar Ramirez, vice president of planning ... |  Knowledge@Wharton |
Chavez's spending could boost Venezuela inflation
Chavez's spending could boost Venezuela inflation
WINCHE, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez's government is
likely to spend heavily this year to rev up the economy during his
re-election bid, and that could worsen one of Venezuela's biggest problems: 27-percent annual inflation that is already ...
Puerto Rico Sgt. killed during traffic stop
Puerto Rico Sgt. killed during traffic stop: By PoliceOne Staff CABO ROJO, Puerto Rico — A sergeant was killed during a traffic stop Sunday, authorities said. Twenty-year Puerto Rico Police Department veteran Abimael Castro-Berrocales, 40, was shot in the face two times as he approached the ...
Ricky Martin is Not Getting Hitched
Ricky Martin is Not Getting Hitched
Martin's rep based in Puerto Rico backed up Alcalá, when setting
the record straight with El Nuevo Dia. “I don't discuss Ricky's, or the
personal issues of any of the artists that I work with,” Alcalá said.
“But, at the moment, I can say that (the ...
Mexico, war crimes and a slippery slope
Mexico, war crimes and a slippery slope: The drug war in Mexico has left tens of thousands of people dead and the country in peril. What difference will a new war crimes charge brought against the government make? The drug war in Mexico has left tens of thousands of people dead and the ...
Cuba´s Child Mortality was 4.9% in 2011
Cuba´s Child Mortality was 4.9% in 2011: 03 de enero de 2012, 11:14Havana, Jan 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuba ended 2011 with an infant mortality rate of 4.9 per thousand live births and seven provinces reported figures below the national average, according to the Ministry of Public Health. ...
Pope will meet Mexican, Cuban presidents during visit in March
Pope will meet Mexican, Cuban presidents during visit in March: By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI will meet with Cuban President Raul Castro, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and bishops and Catholics from the region when he visits Mexico and Cuba March 23-28. He will also deliver a message to ...
Juries must answer death penalty question for mentally disabled
Juries must answer death penalty question for mentally disabled: Juries, not judges, will decide whether people convicted of murder but who claim they are mentally disabled will be spared the death penalty in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court has ruled. Since the US Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that executing ...
lunes, 2 de enero de 2012
Venezuelans Enjoy the Successes of Social Programs
Venezuelans Enjoy the Successes of Social Programs: The En Amor Mayor Mission was created to help elderly people living in poverty, and it has registered 76729 citizens to be benefited from governmental assistance. The Hijos de Venezuela Project included 235448 families that needed help from the ...
Church's namesake Tekakwitha to be canonized for sainthood
Church's namesake Tekakwitha to be canonized for sainthood: BY JULIE FARREN Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha — the namesake of three churches in the Pass — will become the first Native American Saint in 2012. On Dec. 19, Pope Benedict XVI approved the miracle needed for the canonization ceremony. ...
Texas gangs have evolving relationship with cartels
Texas gangs have evolving relationship with cartels: Laredo police spokesman Joe Baeza said that two criminal cases involving the Zetas and US prison gangs in the past few years, cartel members who knew gang members organized the targeted killings. Mexican drug cartels are increasingly relying on prison ...
Venezuela's PdVSA To Pay Exxon $255 Mln In Arbitration Verdict
Venezuela's PdVSA To Pay Exxon $255 Mln In Arbitration Verdict: CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuelan state oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela said Monday it will pay Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) $255 million over the next 60 days after an international arbitration court ruled against it in the US oil major's suit over ...
Mom's Poverty, Diabetes Might Raise ADHD Risk in Kids
Mom's Poverty, Diabetes Might Raise ADHD Risk in Kids
The new study provides "one more piece of evidence that ADHD has
multiple causes," said Dr. Jon A. Shaw, director of child and adolescent
psychiatry at the University of Miami School of Medicine. "It is important to recognize early risk factors for ...
Pilot Project in Argentina Assists Victims in Reporting Rape
Pilot Project in Argentina Assists Victims in Reporting Rape
The protocol for reporting rape is unique in Buenos Aires,
Argentina's capital, thanks to a program that aims to provide assistance
and emotional support to victims. A specially trained team of women
psychologists and social workers travels around the ...
CUBA: Pope to Visit a Country in Flux
CUBA: Pope to Visit a Country in Flux
... changes to economic and social life for which the Cuban people are waiting. ... the "right" of the Church to look after the welfare of the people. ...
Pope's itinerary in Cuba and Mexico
Pope's itinerary in Cuba and Mexico: by Martin Barillas Pope Benedict XVI will travel to Cuba and Mexico in March of this year on an apostolic visit to the two traditionally Catholic nations. The trip will occur before Easter this year. The Pope's journey was confirmed following ...
Indian firms in talks to refine Venezuelan crude at home
Indian firms in talks to refine Venezuelan crude at home: New Delhi: In what will help improve the country's energy security, Indian firms that won two oil blocks in Venezuela as part of a global consortium are in talks with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Essar Oil Ltd to refine some of the crude in India. ...
Codelco exercises right to buy Anglo assets
Codelco exercises right to buy Anglo assets: ... by formally exercising its rights to buy 49 per cent of Anglo's best assets in Chile at a discount to market prices. On Monday Codelco told the Santiago stock market that it “has exercised its right to buy shares in Anglo American Sur”, ...
Mexican police tortured 5 suspects, human rights commission says
Mexican police tortured 5 suspects, human rights commission says: Mexican government officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Ciudad Juarez, which shares a border with El Paso, Texas, has been a hotspot in Mexico's drug war as rival cartels battle over turf.
Chile battles huge forest fires
Chile battles huge forest fires: SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Firefighters in Chile are battling three huge wildfires that have burned about 90 square miles of forest, destroyed more than 100 homes and have driven out thousands of tourists. The fires also have claimed their first victim: a ...
Chilean Peso Reaches Two-Week High on Buying by Pension Funds
Chilean Peso Reaches Two-Week High on Buying by Pension Funds: Chile's peso gained to a two-week high, outpacing the region's other currencies, on buying by local pension funds. The currency gained 0.2 percent to 518.65 per US dollar at the close in Santiago, the strongest since Dec. 16. Chile's pension funds had ...
Former Norwich policeman returns from Brazilian charity mission
Former Norwich policeman returns from Brazilian charity mission: The former bricklayer, who once worked for Carter and helped build Wayland Prison, was born and grew up in Essex but came to Norfolk in 1982, having spent time laying bricks in Germany. As a police officer he was a “career detective” spending time with ...
Many Cubans unhappy with pace of change
Many Cubans unhappy with pace of change: After a year of economic reforms, Cuba marks the 53rd anniversary of its communist revolution. The latest reforms saw carpenters, locksmiths and photographers able to operate independently of the state, but many Cubans feel that this is insufficient. ...
Activists say Washington holds key to ending drug war in Mexico
Activists say Washington holds key to ending drug war in Mexico: As Mexico's drug war enters its sixth year, activists say its time for the United States to stop the flow of dollars and guns to the drug cartels. Legalizing drugs, they argue, could save thousands of lives. As the presidency of Mexico's Felipe ...
Poverty Matters, Schools Matter | StateImpact Florida
Poverty Matters, Schools Matter | StateImpact Florida: What's the correlation between poverty and student achievement? More than 80000 children living in Florida are homeless. There are varying opinions about ...
Washington to be first state to top $9 minimum wage
Washington to be first state to top $9 minimum wage: ... in a country where nearly one-in-six live below the poverty line, according to US Census Bureau statistics. Based on a typical 2000-hour work year, the wage increases that take effect on New Year's Day in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Ohio, ...
Growth of international projects helps evolve gay rights, visibility in 2011
Growth of international projects helps evolve gay rights, visibility in 2011:
| The 'It Gets Better' project tackling bullying of LGBT teens and suicide drew large (although almost completely partisan) participation in the US but extended beyond to Finland, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Malaysia, South Africa and ... |  LGBTQ Nation |
Activist criticizes campaign's anti-gay rhetoric | Latin American ...
Activist criticizes campaign's anti-gay rhetoric | Latin American ...: The leader of Jamaica's sole gay rights group said Tuesday that some ruling- party candidates have aggressively played to anti-gay constituents by resorting to ...
Poverty and Unemployment, Challenges for Honduras in 2012
Poverty and Unemployment, Challenges for Honduras in 2012
Poverty and unemployment will be Honduras' core challenges for 2012, warned Ramon Espinoza, head of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights
Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights:
| South Africa took the lead in sponsoring the first-ever UN resolution on the rights of LGBT persons in 2011; that measure passed with support from dozens of countries, including many in Latin America. The Organization of American States has also ... |  Caribarena Antigua |
Both lesbian moms have parental rights, Daytona court rules in custody dispute
Both lesbian moms have parental rights, Daytona court rules in custody dispute: Still, it's an important decision with a wider implication, said Nancy Polikoff, a law professor at American University Washington College of Law and expert on gay-and-lesbian family law. "Any ruling that supports the right of a same-sex couple … is ...
New prison guard charged in watch theft
New prison guard charged in watch theft: Armijo bonded out of jail that evening coming up with $50 cash to get out. Armijo had just finished the academy to become a corrections officer. He is now on paid leave and likely to lose his job. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Armijo had been on ...
Mexican civil servant gets 48 years for time theft
Mexican civil servant gets 48 years for time theft: Mexico City, Jan 1, 2012 (EFE via COMTEX) -- A civil servant has been sentenced to 48 years in prison for presenting fake documents to get paid for time away from the office, the Mexican Attorney General's Office said. The AG's office did not identify ...
domingo, 1 de enero de 2012
Texas still top state for the death penalty
Texas still top state for the death penalty
Texas, home to what has long been dubbed the "conveyor belt of death," has executed more people than any other state -- 477 since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. The states closest to Texas in total number of executions are ...
Chile says part of big forest fire contained
Chile says part of big forest fire contained
AP SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's government says firefighters
are making progress against a major blaze in one of the nation's most
important national parks. Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter says three
of the six areas of the fire at the Torres del ...
A Cuban African Odyssey with Egypt's Jihan El-Tahri
A Cuban African Odyssey with Egypt's Jihan El-Tahri
The outspoken filmmaker was in Cairo to present "Cuba: Une
Odyssée Africaine" (2007), a documentary made up of two parts. The first
part narrates the events surrounding the Congolese people's initiative
to overthrow the colonizing powers that ...
2012, Another Year of Work and Challenges for Cuba
2012, Another Year of Work and Challenges for Cuba
Miguel Barnet, president of the National Union of Writers and Artists
(UNEAC) added that the creativeness that characterizes the Cuban people, its spirit and sense of commitment will always be the driving engine behind every achievement. ...
Over 120 injured by fireworks on New Year Eve
Over 120 injured by fireworks on New Year Eve
The worst scenario was seen at the Santa Lucía Hospital in Buenos Aires
City, where a total of 41 individuals were treated for firecrackers'
eye wounds, while 6 of them needed surgical intervention due the gravity
of their injuries. ...
Fox apologizes for poll
Fox apologizes for poll
The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Buenos Aires reportedly slammed
the poll. It pointed out that the Vatican annulled the idea that Jews
killed Jesus in 1965. Click to login and write a letter to the editor or
sign up for the Daily Briefing. ...
Mexico arrests drug dealer linked to boss Guzman - World news ...
Mexico arrests drug dealer linked to boss Guzman - World news ...
Javier Oliva, a drug war expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM), said Michoachan-based cartel La Familia was the most likely intended ...
Carlos Soria, governor of Argentina's Rio Negro province
Carlos Soria, governor of Argentina's Rio Negro province
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Carlos Soria, governor of the southern
Argentine province of Rio Negro, died Sunday of a shot to the head,
according to the provincial spokesman. Soria, 62, had just taken office
on Dec. 9. Spokesman Julian Goinhex said Soria ...
Mexico Violence Threatens All Sectors of Civil Society
Mexico Violence Threatens All Sectors of Civil Society
No sector has been spared: environmentalists, human rights
activists, indigenous leaders, journalists, students, and university
professors have all been targeted. The Mexican situation coming into
2012 is unique in the history of Latin America. ...
Argentine Governor Dies Of Shot To Head
Argentine Governor Dies Of Shot To Head
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The spokesman for a southern
Argentine state says its governor has died of a shot to the head. Julian
Goinhex says Rio Negro Gov. Carlos Soria was celebrating the new year
near the city of General Roca when he was killed ...
viernes, 30 de diciembre de 2011
Flax seeds sub for eggs in Venezuelan corn pancakes
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 ...
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 |
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