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domingo, 4 de marzo de 2012

Shakira nominée pour récompense mondiale droits de l'homme


Shakira nominée pour récompense mondiale droits de l'homme

Chanteuse colombienne Shakira a été nominé pour un prince des Asturies Concord prix pour sa charité et son travail humanitaire, a rapporté les médias colombiens vendredi. La nomination est venu en reconnaissance de son implication avec la Fondation Barefoot, ...

APNewsBreak: Top gay rights group taps new leader


APNewsBreak: Top gay rights group taps new leader

In the closing weeks of the 2008 fight over California's gay marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, he was brought in to help spearhead the foundering effort to prevent the measure's passage. After Proposition 8 was approved with 52 percent of the vote, ...

Gay Marketing Event Planned for Cancun in September

Gay Marketing Event Planned for Cancun in September: The leading marketing event in Latin America specifically focused on the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) market is to take place from September 6 - 9, 2012 in Cancun, Mexico. Mr. Ruben Sandoval, President of the International Expo ...


The Growth of Latino Small Businesses in … 4:53 pm

The Growth of Latino Small Businesses in...: By June 2011, the city's unemployment rate was over 15 percent, above the national average and the highest in New England.[1] But a positive trend recorded before the financial crisis—when the city's Latino-owned businesses grew in number from 731 in ...

Tons of new Assassin's Creed III details leaked

Tons of new Assassin's Creed III details leaked:
New hero called Connor/Ratohnhake:ton (pronounced Ra-doon-ha-gay-doo). He has an English father and Native American mother. You will experience Conner's childhood on the American frontier as he is raised by the Mohawk. The Mohawk eventually clash with ...

VentureBeat

Colombian minorities lack congressional representation: Study


Colombian minorities lack congressional representation: Study

Colombian indigenous and afrodescendent minorities are underrepresented in the ... agenda in key issues such as education, poverty reduction, or health.

Venezuela's Chavez Confirms Lesion Was Recurrence Of Cancer

Venezuela's Chavez Confirms Lesion Was Recurrence Of Cancer: CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez confirmed Sunday that the lesion he had removed during surgery in Cuba last week was malignant and a recurrence of the cancer he was diagnosed with last year. The 57-year-old leftist leader said he ...


How to rebuild Cuba's decaying infrastructure after 50 years of neglect

How to rebuild Cuba's decaying infrastructure after 50 years of neglect: BY ANDY GOMEZ AND HELENA SOLO-GABRIELE When Pope Benedict arrives in Cuba later this month he will not only find a country in need of spiritual healing but one also in need of physical repair. As Nicolas Quintana, the late renown architect and former ...

Dissidents urge pope to 'reconsider' visit to Cuba

Dissidents urge pope to 'reconsider' visit to Cuba: HAVANA, Cuba – Almost 750 Cuban dissidents have signed a letter to Pope Benedict XVI warning that his forthcoming visit here would “send a message to the oppressors that they can continue” to abuse Catholic opponents.

Mirkarimi trial is a real-life soap opera in San Francisco

Mirkarimi trial is a real-life soap opera in San Francisco:
The alleged victim is his wife, a Venezuelan telenovela star. He says it's a 'private matter'; she says she doesn't 'have any complaint against my husband.' Stay tuned. San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi addresses reporters while leaving Superior ...

Los Angeles Times

Joe Biden To Visit Latin America Amid Drug Decriminalization Debate

Joe Biden To Visit Latin America Amid Drug Decriminalization Debate: By MARTHA MENDOZA - Vice President Joe Biden heads to Latin America Sunday amid unprecedented pressure from political and business leaders to talk about something US officials have no interest in debating: decriminalizing drugs.

Alabama Immigration Laws Become New Focus of Selma Civil Rights March


Alabama Immigration Laws Become New Focus of Selma Civil Rights March

Hispanic groups joining the march plan to tie Alabama's immigration law to the theme of voter suppression, as they call for its repeal. "It has deported a lot of potential voters, and we're pushing back against that," said Isabel Rubio, ...

CTERA confirms teachers' national strike for Tuesday

CTERA confirms teachers' national strike for Tuesday: Teachers' unions in Buenos Aires province have confirmed a national strike for next Tuesday after wage negotiations with the province's Government failed during last week. The beginning of the school year remains on hold for thousands of children.


Cuban Defector Yoenis Cespedes Joins Athletics

Cuban Defector Yoenis Cespedes Joins Athletics: Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes (Yo-EHN-ees SES-peh-des) worked out with the Oakland Athletics for the first time Sunday, taking batting practice with Manny Ramirez. Cespedes' signed a $36 million, four-year contract, the highest for a Cuban defector.

Jamaica to miss UN maternal mortality target

Jamaica to miss UN maternal mortality target: BY PETULIA CLARKE - WASHINGTON, DC, USA — Neither Jamaica nor the rest of the countries in the Caribbean and Latin America will meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for maternal mortality, ...

Women refused legal abortions in rape cases

Women refused legal abortions in rape cases: The 2006 case involved a 20-year-old woman identified in the records as LMR, in Guernica in the province of Buenos Aires, who has a mental age of between eight and 10 as certified by her physicians. The young woman was raped by her uncle, ...


Cuba: The Concealed Sphere vs. the Public Sphere

Cuba: The Concealed Sphere vs. the Public Sphere:
HAVANA TIMES, March 4 — The “concealed sphere” irremissibly determines the public sphere in Cuba. This was corroborated by the recent barring of several individuals from the presentation of the latest edition of “Criterios” magazine at its ...

Havana Times

Beauty and design in Native American utilitarian art

Beauty and design in Native American utilitarian art: Humboldt State University's Native American Arts Gallery highlights the beauty and art of utilitarian objects in its most recent exhibit “I Am These People: Native Design Over Time.” The exhibit features work by local Native American artists selected ...

Chile's Earthquake Reconstruction Hindered by Delays and Profiteering

Chile's Earthquake Reconstruction Hindered by Delays and Profiteering:
Nuñéz lives in Iloca, a small tourist town on the Pacific Ocean coast, 300 km south of Santiago. For many years she ran a little restaurant in a house that was washed away by the sea. Thanks to her insomnia, Nuñez was awake when the earthquake began ...

Inter Press Service

Venezuela emerges as new source of 'conflict' minerals

Venezuela emerges as new source of 'conflict' minerals: In Venezuela and most of Colombia coltan mining is illegal, yet small-scale miners and buyers are plentiful. Venezuelan coltan is even hawked worldwide via the Internet. Colombian authorities and human rights activists say illicit coltan mining is ...


From prison to pastor: a minister's story against addiction

From prison to pastor: a minister's story against addiction: The building towers across the street from Hope Mexican restaurant and belongs to LAM Ministries, Loved-ones Against Meth. The ministry has dubbed the former apartment building, leased last December, a “sober living center,” a place marked for fresh ...

Museums work to return Native American remains, artifacts to their original places


Museums work to return Native American remains, artifacts to their original places

Beth Yahne, collections manager at Kingman Museum in Battle Creek, talks about the institution's Native American artifacts. She has worked to return them to where they originated. / JOHN GRAP/Battle Creek Enquirer By Andy Fitzpatrick BATTLE CREEK -- In ...

Requiring unanimity for death penalty isn't being soft on crime

Requiring unanimity for death penalty isn't being soft on crime: By RAOUL CANTERO, MARK SCHLAKMAN | Special to The Tampa Tribune When Florida's death penalty process is at issue, even the most dedicated advocates for improvements in the administration of justice tend to retreat from the challenge, claiming the ...

Recent Developments in Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America

Recent Developments in Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America: Join this discussion about justice and the state of human rights prosecutions in Latin America. Panelists: Dr. Terry Karl Professor, Stanford University ...

Amnesty AGM - A Proposed Resolution on the Rights of Street ...


Amnesty AGM - A Proposed Resolution on the Rights of Street ...

Members of the Children's Human Rights Network will be proposing a ... human rights violations against street children in Central and South America, and ...

viernes, 2 de marzo de 2012

In Bolivia, protesters with disabilities clash with police

In Bolivia, protesters with disabilities clash with police: Dozens of people with disabilities — many in wheelchairs or on crutches — fought with riot police Thursday in the Bolivian capital of La Paz at the end of a 100-day march for increased government aid money.

Cuba and Nicaragüa With Most Female MPs


Cuba and Nicaragüa With Most Female MPs

Nicaragua and Cuba are the sole countries in Latin America listed among the top ten hosting the largest percentage of female member of Parliamant, says the InterParliamentary Union (IU). In conference at the IU headquarter, its President Abdelwahad ...

Cruises in crisis around the tip of South America, as political disputes ...

Cruises in crisis around the tip of South America, as political disputes ...: SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — One of the world's most exotic and expensive cruise ship circuits is being threatened by political strife, as Argentina's dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands and social protests in Chile prevent thousands of ...

N for Native, A for American, D-minus for drama


N for Native, A for American, D-minus for drama

n older books, you might see Desire Under the Elms described as one of the first attempts at writing a “native American tragedy.” In the original – itself loosely based on the Greek myth of Phaedra and her stepson Hippolytus – oppressive patriarch ...

Can Gary, Ind., be saved? A new mayor's bid to revive Rust Belt city

Can Gary, Ind., be saved? A new mayor's bid to revive Rust Belt city:
The city that steel built is today hollowed out by poverty, lack of opportunity, and despair. Gary, Ind., sits on the south shore of Lake Michigan, dominated by US Steel's sprawling Gary Works. It's swamped by problems familiar to many old industrial ...

Christian Science Monitor

Lawyer releases letter Cuban agent sent to brother

Lawyer releases letter Cuban agent sent to brother: By PAUL HAVEN - AP HAVANA -- A Cuban agent on probation in the US after serving a 13-year prison term has told his gravely ill brother in a letter that he hopes they can see each other again, according to a letter the man's lawyer released Thursday.

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he's recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he's recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba: Article by: AP CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba. Chavez says doctors have put him on a special diet, and that he's taking daily walks and spending time with close relatives.

Cuba, Venezuela to add generators in Haiti

Cuba, Venezuela to add generators in Haiti: Venezuela and Cuba will double electricity generation capacity at two power plants they have already installed in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake, Haitian Foreign Minister Laurent Lamothe announced after meeting with the Cuban and Venezuelan ambassador ...

Local authors take on some of the Argentine legends that survive across the ages

Local authors take on some of the Argentine legends that survive across the ages: Buenos Aires is in the throes of an outbreak of yellow fever, an epidemic with a sky-high death toll. The governor and the archbishop have fled to other cities, and the only people in the city's cathedral are a woman gateskeeper and a painter who is ...


Thirteen dead in Mexico shootout

Thirteen dead in Mexico shootout: The army is carrying out Operation Northeast in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and San Luis Potosi states in an effort to weaken the drug cartels that operate in the region. The Gulf drug cartel has been waging a war in northeastern Mexico against ...

Monterrey is now Mexico's drug death capital

Monterrey is now Mexico's drug death capital:
(AFP PHOTO/Julio Cesar Aguilar) Are Mexico's narco-war graveyards half empty or half full? Grupo Reforma, (subscription required) which publishes Monterrey's El Norte and Mexico City's Reforma newspapers, reports that Nuevo Leon state, which basically ...

Houston Chronicle (blog)

Why the World Bank Needs Jeff Sachs at the Helm

Why the World Bank Needs Jeff Sachs at the Helm: Too many political leaders pontificating from here to the EU have pledged and promised to help reduce poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. And yet, these pledges remain unfulfilled. In fact, when these leaders gather, they often simply reshuffle ...

BD to work with US in activating new index

BD to work with US in activating new index: Besides Bangladesh, the new index was launched recently in two other countries in Africa and Latin America following extensive field works in past years. "As the index is expected to be an effective tool to fight poverty across the world, ...

Venezuela's Chavez tells state TV he's doing well


Venezuela's Chavez tells state TV he's doing well

Chavez said in a several-minute phone conversation broadcast on state television that he is doing well and recovering from the operation in Cuba. “Since the day before yesterday I am walking, roaming the hallways. I am on a good diet,'' he said from ...

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Ohio's Demographic Changes and ...

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Ohio's Demographic Changes and ...:
Even though Ohio's white population has decreased since 2000, its Hispanic and African American populations have increased. By Vanessa Cárdenas, Angela Maria Kelley | March 2, 2012 Ohio experienced slow population growth over the past decade, ...

Center For American Progress

6 cities bid to host 2018 Youth Olympic Games

6 cities bid to host 2018 Youth Olympic Games: The International Olympic Committee says it received applications from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Glasgow, Scotland; Guadalajara, Mexico; Medellin, Colombia; Poznan, Poland; and Rotterdam, Netherlands. IOC President Jacques Rogge says "we are delighted ...

Extreme Poverty Declined

Extreme Poverty Declined: The proportion of the population living in extreme poverty is now the lowest since 1981. Latin America and the Caribbean: From a peak of 14 percent living below $1.25 a day in 1984, the poverty rate reached its lowest value so far of 6.5 percent in ...

Don and Bobbi Hopkins Honored for Humanitarian Work in Honduras

Don and Bobbi Hopkins Honored for Humanitarian Work in Honduras:
Despite the poverty and hardships they witnessed, they fell in love with the Honduran people and the country. Their passion was infectious. Volunteers have followed the Hopkins on their annual missions, providing medical treatment for villagers.

Honduras Weekly

Legalization gains support in Central America

Legalization gains support in Central America: By Mike McDonald - GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Guatemalan President Otto Perez has invigorated the drug legalization debate in Central America, where leaders are under pressure to contain staggering crime rates and battle violent ...

Health in Colombia: The chronic disease burden

Health in Colombia: The chronic disease burden:
In a country oft-defined by poverty and war, where it's been estimated that at least 10% of the population are undernourished, obesity among the affluent might seem to be a marginal problem. But as many developing countries are discovering, ...

CMAJ

Legalization gains support in Central America

Legalization gains support in Central America: In recent comments Perez said he would propose decriminalizing drugs during April's Summit of the Americas in Colombia as a strategy to combat powerful traffickers that use Central America as a warehouse and transit point for South American cocaine ...


State gets tougher on private prisons

State gets tougher on private prisons: New Mexico's corrections agency has slapped Florida-based GEO Group Inc. with nearly $300000 in penalties on top of $1.1 million in fines assessed last year for the company's continued failure to adequately staff a prison in Hobbs.


Global poverty on the decline

Global poverty on the decline: Individually, all regions except Africa and Latin America have halved their poverty rates. The deadline to reach the goal is 2015. "The developing world has made remarkable progress in fighting extreme poverty, and it has proved resilient to recent ...

Catholic diocese sorry after punishing girl for speaking native ...

Catholic diocese sorry after punishing girl for speaking native ...: The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has apologized after punishing a 12-year-old girl for speaking her Native American language at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Shawano, Wisconsin. Miranda Washinawatok explained to WGBA that she ...

Shrinking Community Grants Put Cities In A Crunch

Shrinking Community Grants Put Cities In A Crunch: "We feed over 1000 people a day," says Angela Vazquez, who is with Southwest Social Services in Miami, which gets community development block grant funds. "These are our grandparents, the people who built the community." She told city commissioners ...


jueves, 1 de marzo de 2012

30 percent of Chilean schools not in condition to start new year

30 percent of Chilean schools not in condition to start new year: Both Liceo del Aplicación and Liceo Javier Carrera are within the Municipality of Santiago and are completely dependent on funding from the state. Private schools in Chile also receive subsidies from the government, the difference being these schools ...


LCSC Celebrates 25 Years of Native American Awareness Week

LCSC Celebrates 25 Years of Native American Awareness Week: March 1, 2012 - For the 25th consecutive year, Lewis-Clark State College will be the site of Native American Awareness Week. The week of activities and explorations of Native American culture kicks off Monday, March 5 and continues through Friday, ...


Record-low poverty levels in developing countries: report


Record-low poverty levels in developing countries: report

In South Asia, the poverty rate fell from 61 percent to 39 percent between 1981 and 2005, and dropped a further 3.0 percentage points between 2005 and 2008. In Latin America and the Caribbean, while 14 percent of the population was poor in 1984, ...

A new month, and lots of events at Davidson College

A new month, and lots of events at Davidson College: A variety of conferences are scheduled – one on reformed theology and ethics, another on music, the annual Women's Leadership Conference, one on new media, and a Latin American Studies conference on the region's colonial history.


Building a Deeper Partnership With Brazil

Building a Deeper Partnership With Brazil: For Brazil is a society that has not just embraced democracy, but draws on and celebrates its diversity as a source of strength, a tool for overcoming inequality and expanding opportunity. It is an economy that has brought millions out of poverty and ...

Group seeking to repeal California death penalty to turn in signatures

Group seeking to repeal California death penalty to turn in signatures: By Torey Van Oot Supporters of a proposed initiative to repeal the death penalty in California plan to begin turning in more than 750000 voter signatures today in hopes of qualifying for the November ballot. The initiative, which is backed by a group ...

Death penalty opponents say voters will decide whether to abolish punishment

Death penalty opponents say voters will decide whether to abolish punishment: "It means the SAFE California Act will be on the November 2012 ballot," Natasha Minsker, death penalty policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said at a press conference at the Secretary of State's office in ...

Guatemala's Anger Over Drug War Rises

Guatemala's Anger Over Drug War Rises:
So the geniuses of the US Drug war give resources to Colombia and Mexico, but very little to Guatemala. Result: Guatemala will soon have more narcos then chickens. But who cares. Geopolitically Guatemala is disposable." The conclusion is radical, ...

TheFix.com

UN ethics guru has mysterious ethics lapse in his past

UN ethics guru has mysterious ethics lapse in his past: Bernardo Kliksberg is one of the most famed anti-poverty intellectuals in Latin America and a tireless cheerleader for government-led anti-poverty efforts. He has been a consultant for a wide variety of United Nations agencies.

Unemployment likely to remain at current levels

Unemployment likely to remain at current levels: He finds that the 25 states where African Americans are experiencing unemployment rates of 10% or higher will continue to do so through 2012, as will the 14 states where the Latino unemployment rate is 10% or higher. The African American unemployment ...

Global poverty

Global poverty:
But in 2008 it fell by 12m, or five percentage points, to 47%—the first time less than half of Africans have been below the poverty line. The number of poor people had also been rising (from much lower levels) in Latin America and in eastern Europe ...

The Economist

Cuba Celebrates Habano Cigar Festival

Cuba Celebrates Habano Cigar Festival:
Cuba held its now traditional Habano Cigar Festival, a luxury event that brings together business, the art of cigar production and exclusive clients. Best Pix of the Week Cuba's Shadow Economy Follow us on twitter.com/foxnewslatino Like us at ...

Fox News

Cuba holds potential for Florida industry

Cuba holds potential for Florida industry: Beyond immediate export opportunities, Florida growers continue to look at the enticing prospects of Cuba's agricultural future. “When you look at Cuba's traditional agricultural crops and compare then to Florida's they are almost identical,” William ...

Argentine grains ports hit by dock workers' strike

Argentine grains ports hit by dock workers' strike: ... and Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES, March 1 (Reuters) - Argentine dock workers went on strike for better conditions on Thursday, slowing the country's ports just ahead of corn and soybean harvests key to world grains markets and the local economy.

Two men sentenced for defacing Native American pictographs

Two men sentenced for defacing Native American pictographs: by AP BOISE -- Two Lewiston men are headed to federal prison for defacing Native American pictographs near a western Idaho state park last year. A federal judge sentenced 21-year-old Michael Bernal and 23-year-old Tyler Carlson on Wednesday.

Former Puerto Rico senator sentenced to 4 years in prison for bribery


Former Puerto Rico senator sentenced to 4 years in prison for bribery

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A judge has sentenced a former Puerto Rico senator to four years in prison for bribery. Hector Martinez also faces a $17500 fine and three years of supervised release. Federal prosecutors who won last year's conviction had ...

Report: State's minimum wage good for the economy, but not enough to slow down ...


Report: State's minimum wage good for the economy, but not enough to slow down ...

According to the report, “poverty levels have steadily been on the rise all across the state and the nation,” despite the fact that ”Florida's minimum wage is the 12th highest in the country,” and the state has been “pro-active in improving wages for ...

Immigration: How It Could Cost Republicans the Latino Vote and the 2012 Election

Immigration: How It Could Cost Republicans the Latino Vote and the 2012 Election:
The US economy is also paramount for many Latino voters. Hispanics have suffered disproportionately from soaring home-foreclosure rates and double-digit unemployment, providing another source of anger and disappointment with the Obama administration.

International Business Times

Life After Executions: Abolishing the Death Penalty in America ...

Life After Executions: Abolishing the Death Penalty in America ...: Analyzing the flaws with the death penalty in America, how innocent people are sentenced and executed, and how to help in the fight against capital punishment ...

Genocide on Trial in Guatemala

Genocide on Trial in Guatemala: Victims and human rights activists cheered when, on January 26, a Guatemalan court charged Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt with genocide and crimes against humanity. The decision to bring the 85-year-old former dictator to trial is the latest stage in a long ...


Cuban Church more public in a changing culture

Cuban Church more public in a changing culture: Since Pope John Paul II's visit in 1998, the Church is more unified, more public, more likely to work with the government in accomplishing specific goals, more involved in providing assistance to the Cuban people, more comfortable in its place in ...

Assassin's Creed III set during American Revolution confirm leaks

Assassin's Creed III set during American Revolution confirm leaks:
The setting and time period for this year's Assassin's Creed III has been accidently leaked online, with more than one source providing artwork of the game's new Native American hero. Assassin's Creed III will take place during the American Revolution, ...

Metro

Bronx collegians to bring healthcare help to Dominican poor


Bronx collegians to bring healthcare help to Dominican poor

Sabrina Smith, Shanice Anderson and Rolando Alvarez, students at Monroe College in the Bronx, are preparing to spend spring break in the Dominican Republic. They're really excited about it. But they're not packing bathing suits and heading to Punta ...

Cuba and Nation Continue to Enjoy Fruitful Relations

Cuba and Nation Continue to Enjoy Fruitful Relations: The cooperation between Cuba and The Gambia has had a satisfactory course during these long years of hard work, in favour of the Gambian people's health, sports and agriculture. The Cuban medical staff, as well as the sports and agriculture cooperation ...


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:
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

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, VenezuelaVenezuela 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 ...

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