| According to El Comercio, the report found that 77% of Peru's population lived in urban areas, which means there are about 7 million children and teens in cities. UNICEF found that many Peruvian children suffered form anemia and chronic malnutrition. |  Peru this Week |
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miércoles, 29 de febrero de 2012
Over 300k children living in poverty in Lima, says UNICEF
Over 300k children living in poverty in Lima, says UNICEF:
Should Peru pay for its own development?
Should Peru pay for its own development?
The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist identified Peru as an
example of a country that should no longer receive aid from Spain, and
suggested that Peruvians should now spend more of their own money to
lift their people out of poverty.
'Ex-Gay' Movement on the Rise in Latin America :: EDGE Provincetown
'Ex-Gay' Movement on the Rise in Latin America :: EDGE Provincetown
A government investigation of so-called "reparative therapy" clinics in
Ecuador after allegations of kidnap and torture is placing a spotlight
on the ex-gay ...
Despite Improved US Relations With Cuba, Barriers to Progress Remain
Despite Improved US Relations With Cuba, Barriers to Progress Remain
By Catherine Cheney | In the first high-level meeting between the United States and Cuba since former US President Jimmy Carter met with Cuban President Raul Castro in 2010, Sens. Patrick Leahy and Richard Shelby traveled to the island last ...
Argentine Teachers Strike Delays School Year - Four Million Children At Home
Argentine Teachers Strike Delays School Year - Four Million Children At Home: BUENOS AIRES, Feb 29 (BERNAMA-NNN-MERCOPRESS) -- Almost 60% of Argentina's school children could not begin the new school year and had to remain at home because of a 48 hours teachers strike following the collapse of salary negotiations.
Venezuela shipping fuel to aid Syrian regime
Venezuela shipping fuel to aid Syrian regime: By FABIOLA SANCHEZ AP CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela has been sending diesel fuel to Syria and the government of President Hugo Chavez has no plans to halt the shipments, the country's energy minister said Tuesday. AP NewsAlert Energy Minister Rafael ...
Five Million Will Benefit From Early Childhood Initiative
Five Million Will Benefit From Early Childhood Initiative: The FINANCIAL -- Five million mothers, and children ages 0 to 6, are benefiting from World Bank programs developed throughout the Latin American region, under the Early Childhood Initiative: An investment for Life, the multilateral bank announcedon 28 ...
Sister of Cuban leaders Raul and Fidel Castro dies
Sister of Cuban leaders Raul and Fidel Castro dies: By GISELA SALOMON AP MIAMI (AP) -- Angela Castro, an elder sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, has died following a long illness, a sibling confirmed Wednesday. Castro died early Tuesday in the Cuban capital, Havana, after living with ...
Clinton says there has been no deal or concessions to free American imprisoned ...
Clinton says there has been no deal or concessions to free American imprisoned ...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States has made no deal or concessions with Cuba
to free imprisoned American Alan Gross. Clinton called the continued
imprisonment of Gross “deplorable” and a violation of human ...
World Bank Says Global Extreme Poverty Dropped in 2005-2008
World Bank Says Global Extreme Poverty Dropped in 2005-2008: The World Bank has also seen “a lot of progress” in Latin America in reducing poverty, which, in contrast to China, had greater levels of inequality, he said. “Brazil had the dubious distinction” of one of the highest levels of inequality but has had a ...
Students take part in fast to mark Lenten season
Students take part in fast to mark Lenten season: A popular youth activity conducted by Development and Peace, a Catholic organization working with impoverished people in Africa and South America, the student forum brought “youth leaders together to explore the causes of poverty and social injustices.
Ex-cops convicted in Pa. cover-up case lose appeal
Ex-cops convicted in Pa. cover-up case lose appeal: AP PHILADELPHIA -- A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions of two former Pennsylvania police officers accused of hindering an FBI investigation into the beating death of an illegal Mexican immigrant. The Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit ...
Recent Developments in Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America
Recent Developments in Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America: In recent years, human rights prosecutions have advanced in cases of Latin American military officials, political leaders, and heads of state charged with ...
State of Oregon signs contract with Native American group to promote ...
State of Oregon signs contract with Native American group to promote ...: Under the terms of the contract, they will continue to address issues specific to American Indian/Alaska Native participants under the Affordable Care Act. They'll also be looking into ways that the exchange could permit tribes, tribal organizations ...
Chilean Peso Gains Fifth Day on Europe Measures, U.S. Growth
Chilean Peso Gains Fifth Day on Europe Measures, U.S. Growth: Chile's largest export, copper, slid as did the euro and global stocks. “All the optimism that had been in the market earlier today ended,” said Andres de la Cerda, a money markets trader at Bice Inversiones in Santiago. “Stocks fell, futures fell, ...
World's Extreme Poverty Cut in Half Since 1990
World's Extreme Poverty Cut in Half Since 1990: South Asia: The $1.25 a day poverty rate fell to less than 33% in 2008 from 61% in 1981. Latin America and the Caribbean: After peaking at 14% in 1984, the extreme poverty rate reached 6.5% in 2008. Middle East and North Africa: About 2.7% of the ...
Record-low poverty levels in developing countries: report
Record-low poverty levels in developing countries: report:
| A homeless man sleeps in front of a closed shop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in January 2012. The number of poor people in developing countries dropped to record low levels between 2005 and 2008, the World Bank said in a report out Wednesday. |  FRANCE 24 |
Native American tribe suing Urban Outfitters
Native American tribe suing Urban Outfitters:
| "The Native American-inspired trend and specifically the term 'Navajo' have been cycling thru fashion, fine art and design for the last few years." He later declined further comment, saying the matter was in the hands of legal counsel. |  6abc.com |
Efforts under way to change Soap Lake's name
Efforts under way to change Soap Lake's name: Soap Lake's name might change to Lake Smokiam in an effort to bridge relations with Native Americans. SOAP LAKE — Soap Lake's name might change to Lake Smokiam in an effort to bridge relations with Native Americans. A state committee is considering ...
US Aims to Empower World's Women Farmers
US Aims to Empower World's Women Farmers: But we found a more complex story,” says Sabina Alkire, director of Oxford's Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Alkire says in Guatemala, for example, three-quarters of the women in the highest wealth category were disempowered.
Cuba Youth: Hanging Out at the Book Fair
Cuba Youth: Hanging Out at the Book Fair: Then he called me to the side and said to me in an extremely serious manner: 'Don't you ever leave Cuba, because this is a beautiful country'.” That was what a girl said about her conversation with a foreigner at the International Book Fair held ...
Queer Bronzeville: African American LGBTs on Chicago's South Side, 1900-1985
Queer Bronzeville: African American LGBTs on Chicago's South Side, 1900-1985
Like the millions of African Americans who left the poverty and racism in the South,
Black queers traveled to urban centers to find better-paying jobs, but
also to take advantage of the opportunities for same-sex encounters.
Blues pianist Antony ( Tony ...
The Death Penalty: Flawed Justice | London Progressive Journal
The Death Penalty: Flawed Justice | London Progressive Journal: Legal in all but 14 US states, the death penalty has enjoyed a morbid popularity amongst citizens over the years. At its peak in 1994, 80 per cent of the ...
MPs fear global economic crisis will hamper Rio+20 progress
MPs fear global economic crisis will hamper Rio+20 progress:
| ... to give it its proper name, will take place in Rio de Janeiro, ... in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and create the ... | Energy and Environmental Management (EAEM) Magazine |
Victory, and defeat, in the war on drugs
Victory, and defeat, in the war on drugs: As the flow of drugs increased, so did pressure to raise that commission to 30%, then 35%, 40% and more, until the Colombians said: "No mas." No more. The go-to guy in Mexico for both of Colombia's cartel giants — Pablo Escobar's Medellin organization ...
martes, 28 de febrero de 2012
Peru to invest 100 million soles for agriculture projects in country's poorest ...
Peru to invest 100 million soles for agriculture projects in country's poorest ...
By Manuel Vigo On Tuesday the Peruvian government announced it
would spend 100 million soles in the construction of small water
reservoirs throughout the poorest areas in the country. "Hopefully, from
small infrastructure projects or water reservoirs, ...
In Cuba, life goes on, almost unchanged
In Cuba, life goes on, almost unchanged:
| By Frank Barnako Little appears to have changed in Cuba's capital since Fidel Castro took power in January, 1959. The city's gorgeous Spanish-influenced colonial architecture casts shade on the streets of Old Havana. General Motors dinosaurs of the ... |  MarketWatch |
Puerto Rican Politico Says Authorities Cooked Up His Arrest
Puerto Rican Politico Says Authorities Cooked Up His Arrest: EFE San Juan – Lawmaker Hector Ferrer, deputy leader of Puerto Rico's main opposition PPD and candidate for mayor of San Juan, said his arrest last week during a verbal altercation with a former girlfriend was an example of police misconduct.
Seniors to aid Honduras during break
Seniors to aid Honduras during break: Honduras is their most established location, where extreme poverty means there are typically no doctors available within a 20 mile radius, 80 percent of people do not have access to a dentist, and 70 percent have no access to public sanitary services.
Correa pardons newspaper in libel case
Correa pardons newspaper in libel case: The legal attack on El Universo had prompted allegations by international press freedom and human rights groups that the leftist president is using a judiciary of dubious independence to silence critics. Correa said in a brief televised address that he ...
The original Native Americans: stone age Europeans discovered the New World
The original Native Americans: stone age Europeans discovered the New World:
| The Siberian migrants came to America for longer and in greater numbers, and were either wiped out or absorbed by the European tribes. But it does explain the long-standing mystery of the genetic code and language of some Native American tribes that ... |  RT |
Central America's women at war
Central America's women at war:
| 1 in the world for murders by the United Nations, and temporarily deserted by the Peace Corps, that two dozen prominent Canadian and American lawyers, analysts, businesswomen, activists, artists and journalists—led by a Nobel Peace Prize ... |  Macleans.ca |
The Lingering Global Crisis and the New Poor
The Lingering Global Crisis and the New Poor: The lingering global crisis, especially its European victims, is forcing us to rethink the objectives and the tools of social policy. Past meltdowns in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin-America provide us with some good hints on what to expect and how to ...
Why is the US lead the world in school shootings?
Why is the US lead the world in school shootings?
it occurs to me that you are the one looking down your nose at Americans, not the other way around. I am really curoius about how the NRA will respond. Why is America No. 1 in school shootings, NRA? Because there aren't enough guns in schools?
Death sentence critic to lecture at Brockport
Death sentence critic to lecture at Brockport: Noted anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean will visit the College at Brockport Wednesday, Feb. 29. The Roman Catholic nun will speak to students and staff about her experiences as an advocate against the death penalty, and as a religious ...
Cuban police arrest 100 to stop protests
Cuban police arrest 100 to stop protests: 28 (UPI) -- Protests in Cuba, meant to commemorate the deaths of five anti-Castro advocates, were curtailed with more than 100 arrests, activists said The arrests of anti-government dissidents was seen as a crackdown to reduce public demonstrations of ...
Cuba sets a global example for the achievements of socialism
Cuba sets a global example for the achievements of socialism: Castro's main message was clear. Cuban socialism is an international example of a humanitarian economy in the world. "We have over 80000 doctors," he said. "We are currently training 830 Pakistani medical students and many others from around the world.
Corpbanca Plans Capital Increases In Colombia, Chile -Report
Corpbanca Plans Capital Increases In Colombia, Chile -Report: SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--Chilean bank Corpbanca SA (BCA, CORPBANCA.SN) is planning capital increases both in Chile and Colombia this year, Valor Futuro newswire reported Tuesday citing general manager Fernando Massu. The bank sees a $450 million capital ...
Smokin': Cubans say cigar sales on the rise
Smokin': Cubans say cigar sales on the rise: HAVANA — Cuban cigar sales jumped 9 percent to $401 million in 2011 as spending on luxury items increased in countries with stronger economies, Cuban cigar executives said. Only on msnbc.com TODAY Meet the team behind 'The Artist' Joe Klamar / AFP ...
Cuba's national orchestra plans Tampa Bay concerts for fall
Cuba's national orchestra plans Tampa Bay concerts for fall: BY JOHN FLEMING Cuba's symphony orchestra will begin its stay in the area with a chamber music concert, including members of the Florida Orchestra, on Nov. 5 at the Cuban Club in Tampa's Ybor City, the old cigar factory district that has deep historic ...
Interpol swoop nets 25 suspected 'Anonymous' hackers
Interpol swoop nets 25 suspected 'Anonymous' hackers: Interpol has arrested 25 suspected members of the 'Anonymous' hackers group in a swoop on over a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, the global police body said Tuesday. "Operation Unmask was launched in mid-February following a series of ...
Israel Apartheid Week: Native America and Palestine: Indigeneity and Settler ...
Israel Apartheid Week: Native America and Palestine: Indigeneity and Settler ...: As part of Boston University's 3rd Israel Apartheid Week, we will be having an event on the relationship of colonial settler occupation in Native America, Hawaii and Palestine. Professor Kauanui will talk on the nature and effects of colonization on ...
Pinera Seeks to Develop Renewable Energy in Chile, DF Reports
Pinera Seeks to Develop Renewable Energy in Chile, DF Reports: Chile's government will also seek ways to reduce power consumption in a plan unveiled by the president at Pacific Hydro Pty's Chacayes plant in central Chile, the Santiago-based newspaper reported on its website. To contact the reporter on this story: ...
Central America's women at war
Central America's women at war:
| 1 in the world for murders by the United Nations, and temporarily deserted by the Peace Corps, that two dozen prominent Canadian and American lawyers, analysts, businesswomen, activists, artists and journalists—led by a Nobel Peace Prize ... | Macleans.ca |
Should Central America Legalize Drugs?
Should Central America Legalize Drugs?:
| The drug war has been a disaster for the Latin American countries fighting it, especially Mexico, and Central Americans' suspicion that legalization could be less painful and costly is reasonable. Whether or not legalization would in fact be a good ... |  The Atlantic |
Arizona's Demographic Changes
Arizona's Demographic Changes:
| That same year 15.3 percent of African Americans and 27.4 percent of Hispanics in the state lacked health insurance, compared to only 10.9 percent of non-Hispanic whites. 6. Unemployment hits communities of color harder than non-Hispanic whites. |  Center For American Progress |
Chile jobless steady at low of 6.6 pct, rate hold eyed
Chile jobless steady at low of 6.6 pct, rate hold eyed: * Agricultural sector boosts job growth * Rate on par with 5-yr record-low 6.6 pct in Oct-Dec * Cbank seen holding rate again at 5 pct in March (Adds Finance Minister comment) By Antonio De la Jara SANTIAGO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Chile's jobless rate in ...
Families of Buenos Aires Bombing Victims to Mark 20th Anniversary
Families of Buenos Aires Bombing Victims to Mark 20th Anniversary: Twenty one trees and seven branches stand in memory of the victims of the 1992 Israel embassy bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Relatives of victims of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires will fly to Argentina in two weeks to mark ...
US Catholics make plans to see the pope in Cuba
US Catholics make plans to see the pope in Cuba: MIAMI _ The Archdiocese of Miami flights that will carry some 300 pilgrims to Cuba for Pope Benedict XVI's visit next month are a study in logistics. Organized for the archdiocese by Airline Brokers, a Coral Gables company that is a veteran in the Cuba ...
In Peru, one of the world's worst polluters is set to reopen
In Peru, one of the world's worst polluters is set to reopen: But that has not stopped Doe Run Peru from pleading poverty and failing to pay a series of multi-million dollar debts, including to the Peruvian taxman. Recently, the company even asked the Peruvian government to subsidize the costs of its clean-up.
lunes, 27 de febrero de 2012
Marriage Equality Brings Gay Tourists to Argentina
Marriage Equality Brings Gay Tourists to Argentina: Argentina, the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, is becoming a popular tourist destination for gay travelers. More than 3500 gay nuptials have taken place in Argentina over the past 18 months. The country is now a top 5 destination ...
The Disturbing Rise of 'Ex-Gay' Programs in South America
The Disturbing Rise of 'Ex-Gay' Programs in South America: Edge Boston reporter, Peter Cassels, wrote an excellent story today detailing the rise of “ex-gay” clinics in South America. According to his thorough and informative report: A government investigation of so-called “reparative therapy” clinics in ...
Bill risks energy assistance
Bill risks energy assistance: The US Census Bureau reports an estimated 825000 Louisiana residents live in poverty. Seven of the 12 northeastern Louisiana parishes have poverty levels of 24.2 to 50.1 percent, and in Ouachita Parish, the numbers are only slightly better, ...
Mexico's Drug War and Femicide
Mexico's Drug War and Femicide: In January 2012, the Nobel Women's Initiative brought together an international delegation including the leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, and ...
Mexican journalist on drug lords: "If they're going to kill you, they're going ...
Mexican journalist on drug lords: "If they're going to kill you, they're going ...
CPJ's survey found the increase in crimes against media workers began with the start of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's escalated war against narcotics traffickers, a crusade which has led rival cartels to fight for control of the profitable drug ...
Chile has sixth highest level of child obesity in the OECD
Chile has sixth highest level of child obesity in the OECD: Fast food is a contributing factor in Chile being ranked 6th highest for childhood obesity in the OECD. (Photo by Jacob Biba/The Santiago Times) A recent study conducted by the Encuesta National de Salud (National Health Poll) found that 39 percent of ...
Venezuela defense min. vows soldiers will never again be deployed against ...
Venezuela defense min. vows soldiers will never again be deployed against ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's military chief promised
Monday that soldiers will never again be deployed against civilians as
the country marked the anniversary of a bloody crackdown that helped
spur President Hugo Chavez's early aspirations for ...
Venezuela's New Price Controls Order Cuts Of Up To 25%
Venezuela's New Price Controls Order Cuts Of Up To 25%: CARACAS -(Dow Jones)- The Venezuelan government will cut prices on a slate of basic goods up to an average of 25% as part of a long-awaited first wave of broadly expanded price controls that officials say will combat the country's soaring inflation, ...
Violence Exposes Crisis In Latin American Prisons
Violence Exposes Crisis In Latin American Prisons: The fire at Comayagua prison on Feb. 14 killed more than 300 inmates. A series of fatal riots inside Mexican prisons last week and a deadly blaze at a penitentiary in Honduras are prompting calls for major penal reform in Central America.
Argentina stops British-linked ship from docking
Argentina stops British-linked ship from docking: Buenos Aires: Provincial Argentine authorities stopped a cruise liner flying the Bermudan flag from docking in one of the country's ports on Monday, upping the ante in the country's spat with Britain over the Falklands. Britain and Argentina fought a ...
Violence Exposes Crisis In Latin American Prisons
Violence Exposes Crisis In Latin American Prisons: "For at least two decades, governments in the region have virtually abandoned the prison system," says Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division. He says prisons throughout Latin America are underfunded, overcrowded and ...
Spanish Judge Batasar Garzon Acquitted
Spanish Judge Batasar Garzon Acquitted: As an investigating magistrate on Spain's National Court, Garzón secured convictions of Al Qaeda and ETA terrorists and pioneered prosecutions of former agents of Latin American military regimes. Human rights organizations, both in Spain and abroad, ...
America's history: Interior department tries to better tell history of all ...
America's history: Interior department tries to better tell history of all ...
Just roughly 3 percent of America's historic landmarks document the history of women, African-Americans and Native Americans. But an effort is underway as part of the Obama administration to broaden that historical reach, and include more locations ...
Smokin'! Cuba sees cigar sales rise 9%
Smokin'! Cuba sees cigar sales rise 9%:
| By Andrea Rodriguez, AP HAVANA – Sales of Cuba's famed cigars are sizzling, despite continued recession fears in Europe and a US embargo that bars American aficionados from legally lighting up. By Gene Sloan, USA TODAY Among the stalls in the Artisan's ... |  USA TODAY |
Ecuador's Correa pardons newspaper in criminal libel case
Ecuador's Correa pardons newspaper in criminal libel case
Human Rights Watch's director for Latin America, Jose
Miguel Vivanco, said Correa the case “will certainly contribute to an
environment of self-censorship” and follows a pattern of government
officials using a legal system they “pretty much control” ...
Cuban spy wants temporary return home
Cuban spy wants temporary return home: AP MIAMI -- A convicted Cuban spy still serving probation in the US wants to return home temporarily to visit a critically ill brother. Rene Gonzalez is asking a Miami federal judge to allow him a two-week visit to Cuba. Gonzalez's attorney says in ...
90000 4th Graders Receive Books for Read Across America Day
90000 4th Graders Receive Books for Read Across America Day: “Can anyone imagine the impact of 90000 children reading with their families, discovering the contributions of Arizona Native Americans, learning we are all the same & volunteering every year?” Superintendent of Education John Huppenthal will join Hon ...
Peru, Brazil share strategies on social inclusion, development and safety
Peru, Brazil share strategies on social inclusion, development and safety
The relationship between Peru and Brazil has social inclusion and fight against poverty
as its “main aspect” within a range of topics involving economic
development, production, military security and welfare of the population
living in border areas, ...
Suspect in 3 killings extradited to Puerto Rico
Suspect in 3 killings extradited to Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A Puerto Rican man accused of killing three people in the US Caribbean territory has been extradited from Massachusetts. Puerto Rico's Justice Department says Luis Emmanuel Sostre Piccinnini was extradited Sunday from a lockup in ...
Ministers at UN meeting pledge to ensure action on sustainable development
Ministers at UN meeting pledge to ensure action on sustainable development:
| The ministers, who make up the Governing Council of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which is marking its 40th anniversary this year, said the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held in Rio de Janeiro will be “a unique ... |  UN News Centre |
Ecuador's presidential election set for February 2013
Ecuador's presidential election set for February 2013: The South American OPEC nation's vote had been set for January 2013, but was put back a month to allow a full year to elapse after the reform of election rules. Correa says his family and party must decide if he seeks re-election, but he has dropped ...
New report on children living in high-poverty areas
New report on children living in high-poverty areas:
| The data also highlight the children most likely to live in areas of concentrated poverty. These include youth in the south and southwest, as well as those in urban and rural areas. African-American, American Indian and Latino children are six to nine ... |  WPTV |
A New Approach to Aid
A New Approach to Aid: ... to spend more than $26 million on building capacities of communities around mining areas by funding joint poverty reduction projects between NGOs and Canada's mining companies in Africa and South America has attracted both criticism and praise.
How A Tiny South American Country Is Getting Rich And Saving The Environment
How A Tiny South American Country Is Getting Rich And Saving The Environment:
| A review published by the United Nations University suggests Costa Rica's example can pave the way elsewhere for initiatives such as payments for environmental services (PES) as a tool for poverty reduction, achieving carbon neutrality by 2021, ... |  Co.Exist |
Rural Women in Latin America Face Myriad Hurdles
Rural Women in Latin America Face Myriad Hurdles: FAO studies on the link between the rural labour market and poverty, conducted in 13 Latin American countries, show "a lack of public policies, institutions, and oversight of compliance with existing standards and laws," Soto said.
Praying for rain in Paraguay
Praying for rain in Paraguay
For a country with almost half the population in poverty, and ranked among the poorest in Latin America
by the United Nations, such a figure is a huge blow. "We definitely
need some rain now, or we won't have anything to eat," says Rosa at her
small ...
domingo, 26 de febrero de 2012
Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since 1996
Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since 1996: Detroit leads the nation in this category, with 67 percent of children residing in high-poverty neighborhoods. Some 57 percent of Cleveland's children live in such conditions, along with 49 percent of children in Miami, 48 percent in Milwaukee and 43 ...
More US kids living in high-poverty areas: study
More US kids living in high-poverty areas: study: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Years of economic setbacks have taken their toll on the nation's youngest residents, with another 1.6 million children living in high-poverty neighborhoods, according to one study that shows nearly 8 million children residing in ...
Feds Forced To Release Hundreds Of Haitain Detainees
Feds Forced To Release Hundreds Of Haitain Detainees:
| MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Nearly 700 Haitians slated to be sent back to their homeland were released from US holding facilities in 2010 because of a year-long moratorium on deportations. The moratorium was put in place by the Obama administration after a ... |  CBS Local |
Chavez surgery gives rival an opening before vote
Chavez surgery gives rival an opening before vote: Chavez bid an emotional goodbye to soldiers and supporters and waved to crowded streets in Caracas on his way to Cuba for urgent surgery to remove a tumor ...
Michael O'Flaherty
Michael O'Flaherty:
| ... discovering the Brazil hideout of escaped Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs; he went on to be a travel writer, but in 2008 he decided to give up the good life and move to a poverty-stricken township in South Africa to work as a volunteer teacher. |  Telegraph.co.uk |
Campaign Battleground: Montana's Native Americans
Campaign Battleground: Montana's Native Americans: "If you look at the Native American reservations, they are very rural areas of the state and they tend to vote Democratic," Bennion said. However, in an unprecedented wave of Republican sentiment, conservatives won two legislative districts (House ...
Raul Castro tells US senators: Gross 'was no spy'
Raul Castro tells US senators: Gross 'was no spy': (JTA) -- Jailed American Jewish contractor Alan Gross "was no spy," Cuban President Raul Castro agreed in a meeting with two visiting US senators, Patrick Leahy and Richard Shelby. Leahy (D-Vt.) told The Associated Press that Castro made the remark ...
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