Ex-General Otto Perez Molina to expand drug war as Guatemala's new president

Ex-General Otto Perez Molina to expand drug war as Guatemala's new president: The Herald notes, “Perez wants military equipment to battle Mexican drug traffickers.” Although the US military has dramatically increased its presence in Guatemala over the last several years via the Mexican drug war, it has had to do so under the fig ...

Is Mexico City safe from drug cartel war -- or the next target?

Is Mexico City safe from drug cartel war -- or the next target?: "But they know that committing violence in Mexico City would cost them a lot. This is like a neutral territory." But in a drug war that has claimed more than 47000 lives, are there any sanctuaries? "There are some horrendous recent cases, ...

Dayan Viciedo trying to recruit Cuban outfielders Cespedes, Soler to Chicago ...

Dayan Viciedo trying to recruit Cuban outfielders Cespedes, Soler to Chicago ...

CHICAGO — Dayan Viciedo is looking to his native Cuba to find some help for the Chicago White Sox. The 22-year-old Viciedo said Tuesday he has talked to fellow Cuban outfielders Yoenis Cespedes and Jorge Soler to offer them advice as they try to get ...

Nicaraguans worry about Ortega's foreign friends

Nicaraguans worry about Ortega's foreign friends: By Dave Graham | MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's left-wing President Daniel Ortega has won over many critics at home with a successful drive to cut poverty and spur business-friendly policies in Central America's poorest country. ...

Canadian shot dead in Mexico originally from Iraq

Canadian shot dead in Mexico originally from Iraq

It is now argueably the most dangerous country in latin america. It has taken the place that Columbia previously occupied in the drug trade, which is why it has become increasingly unsafe. I have travelled to almost every country in latin america and I ...

Until We Have Faces: Stories of Violent Homophobia In Paradise

Until We Have Faces: Stories of Violent Homophobia In Paradise: In talking with online magazine, The Wild, Foster said, "[Jamaica has] the kind of mutilations you'd find in the old American South, where people are lynched, having their genitals cut off and stuffed in their mouths." To hear Foster describe the ...

Poverty, inequality and redistribution

Poverty, inequality and redistribution: According to a new report by the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, Chile is the group's most unequal member. It also finished second from the bottom in relative poverty, measured by the share of the population earning less than half the median ...

Illegal immigrant sentenced to prison

Illegal immigrant sentenced to prison: A US District Judge sentenced a Mexican National to 57 months in federal prison Thursday after the man, who was working in Russell County, was found to have illegally re-entered the country. The crime is a felony under federal law. ...

Argentine Corn Farmers Prepare for Heatwave as Crops Shrivel

Argentine Corn Farmers Prepare for Heatwave as Crops Shrivel:

“The outlook isn't encouraging,” Maximiliano Zavala, a forecaster at the Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange, said in a telephone interview yesterday. “A heatwave is expected over the next few days, with a peak on Saturday. Temperatures are forecast to reach ...

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Bariloche airport reopens as volcanic ash cloud clears

Bariloche airport reopens as volcanic ash cloud clears: Flight AR 1680 had departed at 8.34 am from Buenos Aires and finally landed in Bariloche at 10.20 am. Yesterday, flights to Bariloche were deviated to Esquel and Neuquén due to the presence of volcanic ash cloud. The visibility conditions improved ...

Placido Domingo to conduct NYC kids at fundraiser for program based on ...

Placido Domingo to conduct NYC kids at fundraiser for program based on ...

They're studying music five days a week under a program inspired by Venezuela's acclaimed youth orchestra system. Domingo will conduct the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at a fundraiser Wednesday for their after-school music program, called Harmony. ...

The End of the Christian Right

The End of the Christian Right

Catholicism has held its own only because the Church keeps gathering in newcomers from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, few of whom are likely to show up at a Santorum rally. To their surprise, Putnam and Campbell discovered that conservative preachers ...

Miami International Film Festival lineup boasts mariachis, slackers and zombies

Miami International Film Festival lineup boasts mariachis, slackers and zombies: Along with the return of the Ibero-American, short films and documentary competitions, the festival is introducing a new category, the Ibero-American Opera Prima, in which seven first-time filmmakers from Spain, Portugal and Latin America vie for a ...

400 Cuban health professionals coming

400 Cuban health professionals coming: MINISTER of Health Dr Fenton Ferguson, today signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement between the ministry and the Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba. Cuban Ambassador, His Excellency Yuri Gala Lopez, signed on behalf of Cuba. ...

History through the lens of today: Native Americans

History through the lens of today: Native Americans:

Photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein is documenting sites important to America's past, with the idea that what he finds there reflects on what's important to people in the present. Introduction: About this project Above: The small town of Wounded Knee ...

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Guantanamo and the Death Penalty: Two Terrible Ideas Come Together

Guantanamo and the Death Penalty: Two Terrible Ideas Come Together:

The military commission hearing in the case of Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri (pronounced al-NAH-shiri) beginning today will once again put on the world stage two of the worst US ideas: Guantánamo and the death penalty. ...

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Supreme Court Protest: 14 People Arrested At Death Penalty Demonstration

Supreme Court Protest: 14 People Arrested At Death Penalty Demonstration: ... looking out toward the US Capitol. The protests are timed to mark the year of the 35th anniversary of the execution of Gary Gilmore, who protesters said was the first person executed under the Supreme Court's upholding of the death penalty in 1976. ...

Gay-Marriage Detractors Are Losing Because They Debate Poorly

Gay-Marriage Detractors Are Losing Because They Debate Poorly

The aforementioned arguments help explain Gallup's May 20, 2011, finding that for the first time, a majority of Americans favors legalized same-sex unions. Among 18 to 34-year-olds, 70 percent think gay marriage should be legal! ...

A call for gay marriage rights in South Carolina: 'We love each other'

A call for gay marriage rights in South Carolina: 'We love each other':

The couples will attempt to get marriage licences as part of the Campaign for Southern Equality's bid for improved LGBT rights in America. "We want to get married for the same reasons as any other couple," Weaver, a nursing student, told the Guardian. ...

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Nicaraguans worry about Ortega's foreign friends

Nicaraguans worry about Ortega's foreign friends: * Ortega's landslide in November built on battling poverty * Nicaraguans worry Ortega is makes allies in wrong places MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's left-wing President Daniel Ortega has won over many critics at home with a successful drive to cut ...

OPEC: Venezuelan oil output up 2% in 2011

OPEC: Venezuelan oil output up 2% in 2011: Venezuela's oil output rose 2% in 2011, according to data published in the monthly report released by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). According to the data, which were supplied by secondary sources that monitor the oil ...

Venezuela's bishops urge end to country's political, social divides

Venezuela's bishops urge end to country's political, social divides: By Catholic News Service CARACAS, Venezuela – As the presidential election year begins, Venezuela's bishops urged people to come together for the common good, “based on mutual respect and appreciation,” to close the country's political and social ...

Want to get ahead? Move to Denmark

Want to get ahead? Move to Denmark:

American income inequality is becoming positively third world, with some of the richest US states having the largest populations of poor people. In California, 22% live in poverty. In Florida, it's 20%. The citizens are getting restless. ...

The Guardian (blog)

Venezuela's bishops urge end to country's political, social divides

Venezuela's bishops urge end to country's political, social divides: Calling crime “a multifaceted problem that is not resolved with partial measures or the militarization of society,” they wrote, “It is necessary to attack the causes of the problem, eliminating poverty not with handouts, but with jobs and high-quality ...

Rising Middle Class Fuels Global Energy Surge: Catherine Wolfram

Rising Middle Class Fuels Global Energy Surge: Catherine Wolfram: Consider the case of Brazil, where the government embarked on an aggressive and hugely successful anti-poverty program called “Bolsa Familia.” Among Brazilian households in the lowest 25 percent of the income distribution, only half owned refrigerators ...

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Death penalty on trial over its arbitrariness

Death penalty on trial over its arbitrariness: WHILE THERE appears little prospect soon of a majority of Americans accepting the majority view of European countries that its obnoxious death penalty should be repealed, there are interesting shifts taking place in US public attitudes, not least in as ...

Murder charges filed in Utah officer's death

Murder charges filed in Utah officer's death:

The suspect in a deadly shootout with Utah police used a semi-automatic pistol to methodically gun down six officers from a narcotics strike force inside his house, according to charges filed Friday that could bring the death penalty. ...

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Emirates SkyCargo boosts S. American service

Emirates SkyCargo boosts S. American service:

Following the launch of a daily passenger service from Dubai to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires on January 3, Emirates SkyCargo is now able to connect three points in South America with trade opportunities in more than 100 destinations. ...

Arab News

Teachers to Monitor Students Electronically in Anti-Obesity Drive

Teachers to Monitor Students Electronically in Anti-Obesity Drive

AP Next Slide Previous Slide Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Stories Bad eating habits to blame for obesity in Puerto Rico Childhood Obesity Figures Finally Slimming Down Cheap Obesity Steps Could Have Major Health Impact A group of ...

Energy poverty 'has millions in darkness'

Energy poverty 'has millions in darkness': The goals would be taken to a global UN conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this June. "We are hoping these three targets and objectives can become universally accepted," Dr Yumkella said. "We need to get these as universal ...

Martin Luther King, Economic Equality And The 2012 Election

Martin Luther King, Economic Equality And The 2012 Election: ... Valley district suffers from among the nation's highest unemployment rates. Sadly the GOP has done little to address these failings. Republican pandering to nativist constituencies will contain Latino willingness to hear the party's message. ...

Native Americans dance to bring snow to Tahoe

Native Americans dance to bring snow to Tahoe

Call it good timing or truly a blessings from the spirits, but either way the predicted snow comes following an elaborate Native American snow dance performed Sunday at Lake Tahoe's Sugar Pine Point California State Park on the lake's West Shore. ...

Venezuela adamantly refuses to acknowledge value of lands

Venezuela adamantly refuses to acknowledge value of lands: On January 13, during the presentation of the 2011 Report of the Venezuelan President's Office, congresswoman María Corina Machado noted that "expropriation is robbery," in default of compensation in some cases. In this regard, President Hugo Chávez ...

Alleged spy faces death for ties with US game company

Alleged spy faces death for ties with US game company

He now faces the death penalty. Mr. Hekmati is a former US Marine who received Arabic language training and did linguistic work for DARPA. These facts aren't in dispute. The strange part of the story comes in his confession, which ran in Iranian media. ...

Chile expects to be stuck in the middle of Falklands conflict

Chile expects to be stuck in the middle of Falklands conflict:

SANTIAGO:- After much conflict over the Falklands, or the Malvinas as the Argentinians say, Chile is preparing for growing pressure from Argentina to form a blockade on the Islands, by conducting a comprehensive review of rules and agreements of ...

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Venezuela quickly withdraws personnel at Miami consulate due to purported threats

Venezuela quickly withdraws personnel at Miami consulate due to purported threats

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela is withdrawing personnel from the country's consulate in Miami more quickly than planned because the personnel have been threatened by exiles with links to terrorism, the foreign ministry announced on Monday. ...

Building Bridges Conference to Focus on Native American History

Building Bridges Conference to Focus on Native American History:

This year's conference, “Unresolved Conflict: Remember Our Forgotten History,” will place a spotlight on the impact of colonization on Native American Indian history and culture in both the past and present. “In addition to being Gustavus's ...

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UN Secretary-General: 'Energy poverty must end'

UN Secretary-General: 'Energy poverty must end': Those meetings will produce a report for the UN General Assembly in September and ultimately create the underpinnings for an action agenda to come out of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in December. ...

Dr. King's Stance Against the Death Penalty

Dr. King's Stance Against the Death Penalty: King's words are just as relevant now in the twenty-first century, over four decades after his death. America has reached a turning point in its application of capital punishment. Last year, Illinois abolished the death penalty over concerns of ...

Province of Buenos Aires passes new rulings on waste disposal

Province of Buenos Aires passes new rulings on waste disposal: This trend was spearheaded by the city of Buenos Aires in 2008,(1) followed by the province of Buenos Aires in early 2011.(2) On November 2 2011 the Senate of the province of Buenos Aires passed the first law in the country establishing the principles, ...

Cuba's Prisoner Pardons As Strategic Indulgence

Cuba's Prisoner Pardons As Strategic Indulgence: As is usual among Cubans, the dialogue went beyond the limits of a chat between two people to turn into a virtual forum between a bunch of strangers who were arguing, questioning and adding other anecdotes similar to the initial incident. ...

13 UI students experience Cuba following lifted restrictions

13 UI students experience Cuba following lifted restrictions: BY CONRAD SWANSON | Jake Krzeczowski watched as a small group of Cubans clothed in white chanted to the beat of drums. The University of Iowa journalism student observed the Santeria religious ceremony in El Bosque Del Rio, ...

Cuban Authorities Seize Over 9 Tons Of Drugs in 2011

Cuban Authorities Seize Over 9 Tons Of Drugs in 2011: Despite the sharp rise, Cuban authorities were able to stop two naval operations in which three Bahamians and one Jamaican was arrested, and prevented 22 operations running through the country's airports which saw the arrest of another 27 people, ...

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Ohio taking death penalty case to US Supreme Court | The ...

Ohio taking death penalty case to US Supreme Court | The ...: Ohio officials say the state is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a ruling that Ohio's protocol for carrying out the death penalty is constitutional. Gov. John Kasich and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said in a statement Sunday that the state ...

Venezuela: Consulate Officials in US Threatened

Venezuela: Consulate Officials in US Threatened: Venezuelan exiles with links to terrorism have threatened officials at the South American country's consulate in Miami, the foreign minister said Sunday. Nicolas Maduro did not offer evidence of his claims, which came shortly after President Hugo ...

Brazil & Mexico: Latin America's Two Biggest Economies Are Surprisingly Similar

Brazil & Mexico: Latin America's Two Biggest Economies Are Surprisingly Similar: Such a “brain drain” can be just as detrimental to the country's long-term growth as Brazil's lower birth rate. These are just some of the two countries' challenges. They both also have a poverty rate that is far too high, an undereducated population ...

Cuba eyes cooperation with Cambodia

Cuba eyes cooperation with Cambodia: PHNOM PENH - Cuba wants to cooperate with Cambodia in the fields of agriculture and health in order to strengthen and expand bilateral ties, said the new designated Cuban ambassador to Cambodia Jose Ramon R. Yarona on Monday. Jose Ramon R. Yarona made ...

Salisbury man among 50 suspects in alleged identity-trafficking ring

Salisbury man among 50 suspects in alleged identity-trafficking ring: AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Darcia Ramirez-Segura, a 43-year-old Salisbury man, has been arrested as part of an investigation into an identity-trafficking ring, according to The Sun in Baltimore. Fifty people have been accused of conspiring to sell the ...

Venezuelan bishops call for year of national reconciliation

Venezuelan bishops call for year of national reconciliation: Exhorting Venezuelans not to look upon one another as enemies, the bishops of Venezuela are calling for a year of national reconciliation ahead of October elections. The bishops also lamented the state of the nation's prisons, called for respect for ...

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Chile prepares for “crossed pressures” on the Falklands' conflict 30th anniversary

Chile prepares for “crossed pressures” on the Falklands' conflict 30th anniversary

According to a report in La Tercera from Santiago, the Chilean diplomatic service, based on some clear signals, anticipates that Buenos Aires this year will be launching a major offensive against the UK, given the commemoration of the 30th anniversary ...

Pérez Molina Takes the Helm in Guatemala

Pérez Molina Takes the Helm in Guatemala:

His inaugural speech urged Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and particularly the United States to step up cooperation in the fight against organized crime. Guatemala's high poverty rate and economic concerns will be crucial issues for the ...

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20-year old murdered in confusing shootout

20-year old murdered in confusing shootout: A 20-year old was killed after being shot in the head during a fight in the Alejandro Korn area, in the Greater Buenos Aires province. Three policemen have been arrested in connection to the murder, sources confirmed. Police sources indicated that the ...

Ruth Fernandez: Puerto Rico Pioneer Female Singer Dies At 92

Ruth Fernandez: Puerto Rico Pioneer Female Singer Dies At 92: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Ruth Fernandez, a pioneer Puerto Rican singer who broke racial and gender barriers and was later elected a senator for the U.S. territory, has died. She was 92.

Chile hopes to grow above 4pc this year

Chile hopes to grow above 4pc this year:

SANTIAGO: Chile hopes to grow above 4 percent this year, as euro zone debt woes hurt prices for top export copper, industrial demand and liquidity and credit in the financial system, Finance Minister Felipe Larrain told a local paper's Sunday edition. ...

Business Recorder

There's no way to make the death penalty fair

There's no way to make the death penalty fair: A 2003 study found that a defendant is six times more likely to receive the death penalty when the victim is white. Since the victim in this case, Officer David McGuinn, was African-American, it seems statistically unlikely this case will result in the ...

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Russia: US violates international law by holding detainees without trial at ...

Russia: US violates international law by holding detainees without trial at ...

In a statement posted on its website Sunday, the ministry said the prison at the US Navy base in eastern Cuba represents a “flagrant violation of international law.” The Foreign Ministry also criticized the National Defense Authorization Act, ...

Salvadorians Grateful for Cuban Contribution

Salvadorians Grateful for Cuban Contribution: San Salvador - (Prensa Latina) Vice President Salvador Sanchez Ceren thanked Cuba for its contribution to the signing of the peace agreements that ended the war in El Salvador in 1992. Sanchez Ceren's statements came at ...

Venezuela: Consulate Officials in US Threatened

Venezuela: Consulate Officials in US Threatened: By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER AP Venezuelan exiles with links to terrorism have threatened officials at the South American country's consulate in Miami, the foreign minister said Sunday. Nicolas Maduro did not offer evidence of his claims, ...

Anti-immigration tone alienating Hispanics

Anti-immigration tone alienating Hispanics

... emphasizing the unemployment rate among Hispanics is at 11 percent, almost two points higher than the national average. "We need to address it," Inclan said. "We need to talk about it. But poll after poll shows the No. 1 issue for Latinos in this ...

Cuban Vice President Meets with Collaborators in Guatemala

Cuban Vice President Meets with Collaborators in Guatemala: 15 de enero de 2012, 10:26Guatemala, Jan 15 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Council of State Vice President Gladys Bejerano on Sunday reaffirmed her country''s decision to improve the system chosen by the people and to change everything that needs to be changed, ...

Exhibit will transform perceptions of Native Americans and their art

Exhibit will transform perceptions of Native Americans and their art

But the Masked Man, his fans and most anyone who learned about Indians watching television and movies might discover something profoundly new about Native American life, culture and art. Juxtaposing rare artifacts of remarkable craftsmanship with ...

The Many forms of Racism

The Many forms of Racism: In the view of the US Human rights Network, discrimination permeates all aspects of life in the United States, and extends to all communities of color. “Discrimination against African Americans, Latin Americans, and Muslims is widely acknowledged. ...

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Africa: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue

Africa: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue:

Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the promise of sustainable development will be revisited again at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development next June. Joining heads of state and other ...

AllAfrica.com

The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions

The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions: The teenager, called "El Ponchis" - the Cloak - was found guilty of torturing and beheading and sentenced to three years in a Mexican prison. For more than a decade, the United States' focus has been terrorism, an exhausting battle reliant on covert ...

Framingham photographer captures faces of rural Peru

Framingham photographer captures faces of rural Peru

Married in 2000 to Nelly Tupy, a Peru native he met on a trip, ... Despite their poverty and ragged clothes, Tupy never treats his subjects as curiosities ...

School voucher program gets fresh look in Louisiana

School voucher program gets fresh look in Louisiana:

In Louisiana, Black Alliance for Educational Options leaders said they would support an expansion of New Orleans' current model statewide, since vouchers are available only to families' whose income does not exceed 250 percent of the federal poverty ...

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Former general sworn in as Guatemala's president

Former general sworn in as Guatemala's president: Concerns stem from the fact that the Guatemalan military committed multiple atrocities during the civil war, although Perez Molina has never been directly implicated in any of them. Poverty is endemic in Guatemala, and the country has one of the worst ...

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Argentine dictator guilty of torture in hospital

Argentine dictator guilty of 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. ...

Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors

Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors

By Brenda Norrell TUCSON -- Outrage was the response on Saturday to the news that Tucson schools banned books by the nation's award winning Chicano, Latino and Native American authors. The books banned by Tucson schools this week include "Rethinking ...

Salisbury man among 50 arrested for Puerto Rico-based identity trafficking

Salisbury man among 50 arrested for Puerto Rico-based identity trafficking: By Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun A Salisbury man was arrested Wednesday as part of a nationwide, coordinated seizure of 50 individuals prosecutors say are involved in a Puerto Rico-based identity trafficking ring, according to the federal immigration ...

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Biting back against child poverty begins in school cafeterias

Biting back against child poverty begins in school cafeterias: School cafeterias could hold the winning ingredients in the struggle to break down the cycle of inter-generationally transmitted poverty, a research report ...

On education, money counts

On education, money counts: Even taking into account extra federal funds that go toward helping states teach students in living in high-poverty regions, the disabled or those learning a second language, Florida just scored a “D+” in revenue spent per student, ranking 39 out of 50 ...

Traffic intense as people return home from holidays

Traffic intense as people return home from holidays: Sources said that 1600 cars travel per hour on route Two, causing ten minute delays in the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway. Most cars traveling that highway are en route to Mar del Plata and other touristic spots along the Atlantic Coast. ...

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New Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina takes office

New Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina takes office:

He has also promised to reduce poverty and child malnutrition. Mr Perez Molina, 61, is the first military figure to lead Guatemala since the return to democracy in 1986. He took over from the Social Democrat Alvaro Colom, who was prohibited by the ...

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Catholic pilgrims from Miami archdiocese to join Pope in Cuba

Catholic pilgrims from Miami archdiocese to join Pope in Cuba:

12, 2012 press conference on the upcoming visit to Cuba. Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Miami Miami, Fla., Jan 14, 2012 / 06:42 pm (CNA).- The Archdiocese of Miami is organizing a pilgrimage to Cuba for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Thomas ...

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Ahmadinejad Warmly Greeted in Latin America

Ahmadinejad Warmly Greeted in Latin America:

The US shares responsibility in the emerging order in Latin America. Within the last ten years, it has hardly shared common objectives in the region. Many Latin Americans celebrate this lack of attention because it has given them the right to exercise ...

Honduras Weekly

Cholera epidemic continues unabated in Haiti

Cholera epidemic continues unabated in Haiti

The Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF and the US CDC have announced a partnership with the governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to try and improve sanitation and access to drinking water in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. ...

Venezuelan fuel exports to Colombia boosted

Venezuelan fuel exports to Colombia boosted:

The Ministry for Petroleum and Mining informed that more than 105 million litres of fuel were sent from Venezuela to Colombia in 2011, under the Fuel Export Scheme for the Norte de Santander department of Colombia. Analysts believe that the hike ...

Press TV

Peruvian President Humala strengthens ties With Venezuela's Chavez

Peruvian President Humala strengthens ties With Venezuela's Chavez:

“We are at your service. We say this modestly, but we are here to assist with these great ideas that President Humala has. And we can help Peru eradicate poverty, as we are doing here in Venezuela”, he stated.

Axis of Logic

Chile's emblematic student leader launches her first book

Chile's emblematic student leader launches her first book: The celebrated leader of Chile's 2011 student movement launched her first book, entitled “Podemos Cambiar el Mundo,” or “We can Change the World,” on Sunday at the Festival of Hugs, an annual event hosted in Santiago by the Communist Party of Chile ...

Agents discover tunnel below Mexican prison

Agents discover tunnel below Mexican prison: Mexican investigators have found a 40-yard (meter) tunnel that inmates chiseled underneath a prison in the northern city of Chihuahua in an apparent effort to escape. The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. ...

Biofuels Land Grab: Guatemala's Farmers Lose Plots and Prosperity to "Energy ...

Biofuels Land Grab: Guatemala's Farmers Lose Plots and Prosperity to "Energy ...:

"To fight poverty and the food crisis, we are going to create here 2000 [jobs], directly and indirectly, thanks to a $50-million investment in this little valley," says Carlos Widmann, the agribusiness leader. "Otherwise, the contrary is condemning ...

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