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domingo, 11 de marzo de 2012
Poverty-stricken Honduran couples given dream wedding by Minnesota church
Poverty-stricken Honduran couples given dream wedding by Minnesota church: Seven Honduran couples who could not afford to get married were given the wedding and reception of their dreams by 13 teens, adults, and seniors from Minnesota's Osseo Church of the Nazarene in February. “These couples just wanted to get married, ...
The Death Penalty and Decedent's Reputation
The Death Penalty and Decedent's Reputation: The United States is the only country in the world that continues to give official sanction to the juvenile death penalty.... [T]he Court has referred to the laws of other countries and to international authorities as instructive for its interpretation ...
Cubs sign Cuban pitcher Gerardo Concepcion to 5-year, $6M deal
Cubs sign Cuban pitcher Gerardo Concepcion to 5-year, $6M deal
By Matt Snyder | Baseball Blogger The Chicago Cubs have officially signed Cuban
pitcher Gerardo Concepcion to a five-year, $6 million major-league
contract, the club announced Sunday. Reports of his signing broke in
early February, but the deal just ...
The Polo Prince: Harry ends first tour on Queen's behalf by kissing a model at ...
The Polo Prince: Harry ends first tour on Queen's behalf by kissing a model at ...
By Rebecca English Everyone likes a winner - and this Brazilian
model certainly took a shine to Prince Harry after his polo team scored a
6-3 victory. The Prince looked somewhat out of breath when he planted a
big kiss on brunette Fernand Motta as his ...
Chavez's dream grows in 'socialist' Venezuelan city
Chavez's dream grows in 'socialist' Venezuelan city
CARACAS — After nine months in a flood victims' shelter, Daviana Padron
now lives in a free apartment, works in a cooperative bakery and her
kids attend a new school in the Venezuelan city of Caribia. The coastal town outside Caracas is a model of ...
Latinos Shouldn't Be So Keen on Obamanomics
Latinos Shouldn't Be So Keen on Obamanomics: Not only do we have higher rates of unemployment, but a Pew Hispanic poll shows that nearly 75 percent of us also feel as though our finances are in only “fair” or “poor” shape. Hispanics have also seen a larger drop in total wealth and an increased ...
Class Consciousness and Social Mobility
Class Consciousness and Social Mobility: One night in Santiago, Chile, our group of 14 split into two groups of seven. Each group went to a different local family's home for dinner. The hosts for our dinner were lovely. They were smart and funny and charming. Their English was excellent.
Venezuela's Elder Maestro, a Creator of Orchestras
Venezuela's Elder Maestro, a Creator of Orchestras:
| To many of Venezuela's young musicians, Jose Antonio Abreu is a mentor, an inspiration and a hero. The 72-year-old has revolutionized music education in Venezuela through a unique teaching program known as El Sistema that has been celebrated around the ... |  ABC News |
Captured Taliban Leaders Agree to Transfer
Captured Taliban Leaders Agree to Transfer
US military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba.
This photo, which was taken June 27, 2006, was reviewed by a US
Department of Defense official. (AP FILE PHOTO) By RAHIM FAIEZ &
ANNE GEARAN THE ...
Brazil prosecutors look into dictatorship murders
Brazil prosecutors look into dictatorship murders: RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A Brazilian newspaper is reporting that federal prosecutors are investigating cases of forced disappearances during the country's 20-year military dictatorship. In a report Sunday, prosecutors told the Estado de Sao Paulo ...
Harry visits Rio's underprivileged
Harry visits Rio's underprivileged: Heavy security flanked the Prince as he walked through the Alemao favela in the north of Rio de Janeiro. In 2010, a 3000-strong Brazilian security taskforce stormed the area as part of their war on gangs. In a place where crime, violence and poverty is ...
Brazilians flock to US, especially South Florida, to buy consumer goods
Brazilians flock to US, especially South Florida, to buy consumer goods:
| After suffering decades of hyperinflation, Brazil has ridden high commodity prices along with some of the world's biggest offshore oil discoveries to expand its economy, lift millions out of poverty and multiply the ranks of the country's deep-pocketed ... |  WPTV |
Down but not out, sick Chavez seeks re-election in Venezuela
Down but not out, sick Chavez seeks re-election in Venezuela: By Mica Rosenberg and Diego Ore | CARACAS (Reuters) - Cranes tower over new apartment blocks in Venezuela's capital where President Hugo Chavez's government plans to house 20000 poor families as part of a populist pre-election spending push.
California enforces death penalty without penalty
California enforces death penalty without penalty: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is constitutional, but there hasn't been an execution in California for six years. Death penalty opponents ...
Chinese Delegation Studies Death Penalty Representation During ...
Chinese Delegation Studies Death Penalty Representation During ...
The death penalty plays a significant role within China's
criminal sanctions system, with the nation routinely topping annual
lists that track executions.
Why are millions of Americans locked up?
Why are millions of Americans locked up?: And we continue to have a death penalty that not only costs billions, but also produces unfair and unreliable results. For every nine people we have executed in the last 40 years, we have found one person on death row who was innocent.
Venezuelan Consumers Line Up for Cheap Cars From China
Venezuelan Consumers Line Up for Cheap Cars From China:
| For the last month and a half, people have been queuing outside dealerships offering the first Chinese cars assembled in Venezuela which sell at a much lower price than other automakers operating in the country. (AFP Photo) Caracas. |  Jakarta Globe |
DeForest tied for third at Nationwide Chile Classic
DeForest tied for third at Nationwide Chile Classic: Chris DeForest, a 2007 Rondout Valley graduate, shot a 3-under-par 69 and is tied for third heading into Sunday's final round at Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago, Chile. DeForest, who finished with an eagle on the par-5, 18th hole, ...
Peru and Korea may unite to assist Arab nations
Peru and Korea may unite to assist Arab nations: Poverty in Peru has decreased by more than 19 percent since 2002, but inequality remains a challenge in the diverse but resource-rich South American nation. KOICA has assisted the country with building hospitals in the past and is continuing projects ...
Victims of war or drug trafficking? Mystery as 167 bodies discovered in Mexico ...
Victims of war or drug trafficking? Mystery as 167 bodies discovered in Mexico ...
By Daily Mail Reporter Authorities are investigating a mass grave in southern Mexico containing 167 bodies that may have been dumped there at least 50 years ago, a Mexican official said on Saturday. The remains, found in a cave near the Guatemalan ...
Death Row Inmate's Case About More Than Innocence
Death Row Inmate's Case About More Than Innocence: Ribnik defended his work, but in 2006, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals removed him from the list of approved death penalty defense lawyers. That initial appeal is the main sticking point in Will's case. Federal courts cannot consider claims an ...
Thousands rally to show support for Hugo Chavez
Thousands rally to show support for Hugo Chavez: March 10, 2012|Jorge Rueda, AP Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba. Demonstrators danced, beat drums ...
CENTRAL AMERICA: Gang Violence and Anti-Gang Death Squads ...
CENTRAL AMERICA: Gang Violence and Anti-Gang Death Squads ...: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reports that Guatemala now has the highest murder rate in all of Latin America, with 70 homicides per 100000 ...
Killing of 4 youths horrifies central Mexico city
Killing of 4 youths horrifies central Mexico city: A half dozen alleged drug gang members have been indicted in connection with those killings and are facing trial. Sicilia went on to found a nationwide movement advocating an end to Mexico's drug violence, which saw at least 47515 people killed between ...
Explosion strikes church in central Nigeria
Explosion strikes church in central Nigeria: Human Rights Watch says at least 1000 people were killed in communal clashes around Jos in 2010. Sarah returned to the top of Mt. Washington and stayed with the staff of the Observatory. She'll give us a behind the scenes look at her old stomping ...
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viernes, 9 de marzo de 2012
Drunken driver sentenced to 15 years for killing Belton mom, daughter
Drunken driver sentenced to 15 years for killing Belton mom, daughter: By MARK MORRIS A Jackson County judge sentenced a 19-year-old Mexican man Friday to 15 years in prison for driving drunk and killing a Belton woman and her 11-year-old daughter. Felix Solano-Gallardo admitted in January that he was driving the wrong ...
A step forward for women toward a life without violence
A step forward for women toward a life without violence: Florence Thomas, a psychologist and social activist for the rights of women, ensures Latinamerica Press that the application of the so-called Law against Gender Violence is a breakthrough because “the law is a much more comprehensive than those that ...
Argentina Wants Buenos Aires to Pay for Transit Subsidies
Argentina Wants Buenos Aires to Pay for Transit Subsidies: By TAOS TURNER BUENOS AIRES—Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, scrambling to reduce increasingly costly transportation subsidies, is trying to force the capital city of Buenos Aires to pay for the cost of subsidizing 33 bus lines.
Argentina says YPF must reinvest to raise oil output
Argentina says YPF must reinvest to raise oil output: ... province demanding investment plan) By Karina Grazina BUENOS AIRES, March 9 (Reuters) - Argentine oil company YPF must reinvest its profits in production and should stop paying dividends during a "long period" until it reverses its slide in output, ...
South American Central Bankers Say Economic Growth Will Moderate This Year
South American Central Bankers Say Economic Growth Will Moderate This Year
The officials issued the statement after meeting in Buenos Aires
today. Expansive policies in advanced economies will continue to exert
pressure on regional currencies to strengthen, the statement said. To
contact the reporter on this story: Eliana ...
Native film series "Where Condor Meets Eagle" a collaborative project
Native film series "Where Condor Meets Eagle" a collaborative project: Every year, the Augsburg Native American Film Series (ANAFS) holds various film events that serve as a venue for Native American filmmakers and films. Past series have focused on topics such as urban homelessness, Native identity, and the lasting ...
TTU engineering students join effort to find missing pilot in Venezuela
TTU engineering students join effort to find missing pilot in Venezuela
Students in the TTU mechanical engineering capstone design course spent
the semester working on a launch and recovery system to aid in a missing
persons search in Venezuela. The search is led by TTU alumnus Bob Edwards, '89, far right.
Parents of imprisoned Canadian still trying to connect the dots
Parents of imprisoned Canadian still trying to connect the dots: Andrew Chung Quebec Bureau MONTREAL — As an inmate of the prison in Chetumal, on the Mexican border with Belize, Cynthia Vanier has to procure all of her basic needs by herself. So her spouse and her parents have brought in a hot plate and a pot, ...
Calif changes policies that spurred hunger strikes
Calif changes policies that spurred hunger strikes: The policy would generally define California's seven prison-based gangs as what would be called Level 1 security threat groups. They include the Mexican Mafia, Nuestra Familia, the Aryan Brotherhood and other gangs that grew up behind bars.
PM Douglas commends Chile's President
PM Douglas commends Chile's President:
| ... has commended Chilean President, His Excellency Sebastian Pineria Echenique and his delegation for its hospitality extended to participants from the Community during the recently concluded CARICOM-Chile Joint Commission Meeting in Santiago, Chile. |  ZIZ Live |
Puerto Rico: Online Campaign to Stop Unnecessary C-Sections ...
Puerto Rico: Online Campaign to Stop Unnecessary C-Sections ...: Unnecessary Caesarean is the name of the campaign launched on the first week of March in Puerto Rico, aiming to curb the very high percentage of caesarean births in the country: many of them programmed C-sections that don't respond to ...
Brazil's economy overtakes UK to become the sixth largest in the world
Brazil's economy overtakes UK to become the sixth largest in the world:
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| With substantial oil and gas reserves continuing to be discovered off Brazil's coast in recent years, the country is now the world's eighth largest oil producer, and it will soon enter the top five. Poverty has declined substantially in recent years, ... |  ZIZ Live |
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Cuban Amputee Cyclist Aims for Glory
Cuban Amputee Cyclist Aims for Glory: Havana – After his kite got caught in the electrical wires dangling over a street corner in Cuba, the life of then 13-year old Damian López was forever changed. When he tried to retrieve his kite, 13000 volts of electricity coursed through his body ...
Puerto Rico Yields an Investor Refuge
Puerto Rico Yields an Investor Refuge
By some measures, Puerto Rico's financial picture bears some
resemblance to the smaller European nations whose large debts have kept
finance ministers and investors awake at night. Yet when it comes to
raising new bonds, the US territory remains a ...
Central America Looks to Sustainable Development
Central America Looks to Sustainable Development: Her association won the 2011 Sasakawa Prize awarded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to initiatives that conserve biodiversity while fighting poverty. Central America and the rest of the countries bathed by the Caribbean Sea share a ...
Number of children living in high-poverty communities surges
Number of children living in high-poverty communities surges:
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| Overall, the data also revealed that children in the south and southwest, as well as those in urban and rural areas, and African-American, American Indian, and Latino children “are six to nine times more likely to live in high-poverty communities than ... |  Press TV |
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Exposing the myth that government eliminates poverty
Exposing the myth that government eliminates poverty: by Chuck Bentley America has been embroiled in a losing war far longer than any engagement in Afghanistan or Iraq. In declaring a “War on Poverty” in 1964, then President Lyndon Johnson asserted the grandiose claim that government could be the ...
Three face federal prison for series of bank robberies in Texas and Missouri
Three face federal prison for series of bank robberies in Texas and Missouri
According to court records, from May 18, 2011, until September 5, 2011,
the trio conspired to commit several bank robberies in Missouri and
Texas before fleeing to Mexico to avoid capture. Court documents further reveal that Norris and Baker, ...
Florida shows charters put all schools at-risk
Florida shows charters put all schools at-risk: Experiences in other states show that once a law is passed, charter schools pop up everywhere, from the wealthy suburbs to poverty stricken inner-city locations, even in some rural counties. If an Alabama charter school law is passed, there is a good ...
Colombia seeks corporate assistance to battle poverty
Colombia seeks corporate assistance to battle poverty
Colombia, which has one of Latin America's highest poverty rates at 37 percent, will propose that international and domestic companies get more involved in ...
Native American Author Talks at Museum
Native American Author Talks at Museum: A gallery talk led by a local Indian author is scheduled for the Temecula Valley Museum. By Peter Surowski Gordon Johnson is the author of "Fast Cars and Frybread" and "Rez Dogs Eat Beans." Temecula Museum Gordon Johnson, a Cahuilla-Cupeno Indian from ...
The Environmental Impact of Urban Poverty
The Environmental Impact of Urban Poverty:
| Urban poverty poses a great health and environmental risk for everyone, not just those forced to live in it. Because people are marginalized they are forced to live in areas where nobody else will live and they do not face the possibility of being ... |  Subversify |
Golfers in Santiago for Chile Classic
Golfers in Santiago for Chile Classic: SANTIAGO – Mark Tullo, Santiago Russi and Christian Espinoza all scored 69 strokes, three below the par for the course, obtaining 23rd place in the Nationwide Tour Chile Classic at the Principe de Gales (Prince of Wales) Country Club.
Chilean Peso Is Little Changed as Euro Counters Copper Gains
Chilean Peso Is Little Changed as Euro Counters Copper Gains: Copper accounts for more than half of Chile's exports. “The US jobs figures were good,” said Eugenio Cortes, head of currency forwards at EuroAmerica Corredores de Bolsa SA in Santiago. “Stock futures turned positive, the dollar appreciated versus the ...
Cubans deny Cambridge again
Cubans deny Cambridge again: By Matt Gardner MONROE - Last year, the Cambridge boys' basketball team was out-muscled in the second half in a season-ending 68-46 loss to Cuba City in a WIAA Division 4 Sectional semifinal matchup. Add on a year's worth of experience and maturity to ...
jueves, 8 de marzo de 2012
US Unemployment Rate Does Not Tell Full Story, Says Report
US Unemployment Rate Does Not Tell Full Story, Says Report
About 9 percent of all black men in the labor force, compared to 7 percent of black women, 5 percent of Latino women and 4 percent of Latino men had been unemployed for six months or longer in 2011. “The recovery, which officially started in the summer ...
Honduras suffocating in grip of drug violence and poverty
Honduras suffocating in grip of drug violence and poverty
Poverty, crime and corruption have overwhelmed Honduras, a
fledgling democracy engulfed in political chaos and designated the
murder capital of Latin America. Little has improved under President Porfirio Lobo, who took over after his predecessor was ...
Number of US Hate Groups Is Rising, Report Says
Number of US Hate Groups Is Rising, Report Says
“They represent both a kind of right-wing populist rage and a left-wing
populist rage that has gotten all mixed up in anger toward the
government,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the author of the report.
Forbes list of billionaires due out soon
Forbes list of billionaires due out soon
While Slim has become involved in combating poverty, illiteracy and poor healthcare in Latin America and in promoting sports projects for the poor, he has never voiced plans to give away large chunks of his wealth to charity.
How the US Can Aid Police Reform in Latin America
How the US Can Aid Police Reform in Latin America
Anticipate that citizen security will continue to surpass traditional defense threats in many Latin American countries, making the need to address societal issues (education, poverty, underemployment) of pressing concern if a fertile environment for ...
California enforces death penalty without penalty
California enforces death penalty without penalty
Brown at a Chronicle editorial board meeting Tuesday if California's death penalty
is working. "It's working according to the Constitution of the United
States, I can tell you that," Brown answered. No, it's not working. The US Supreme Court has ruled ...
Central Romana Corporation Donates Land to the Maestro Cares Foundation
Central Romana Corporation Donates Land to the Maestro Cares Foundation
According to the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA), between 1990 and 2010, the poverty rate in Latin America dropped by 17 percentage points (from 48.4% to 31.4%). In 2007, 49.3% of children in the Dominican Republic lived in poverty, ...
Ridge students lend a hand to poor village
Ridge students lend a hand to poor village
... in health and school supplies for a poor village in the Dominican Republic. ... by the level of poverty they were exposed to in the Dominican Republic.
Florida Attempts to Slash Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers
Florida Attempts to Slash Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers
Raising the minimum wage, including the tipped minimum wage, would help to pull women and their families out of poverty and close the wage gap. Instead, proposals to lower the tipped minimum wage, like those put forward in Florida and Arizona, ...
Group Issues HIV Policy Priorities for 2012
Group Issues HIV Policy Priorities for 2012
People purchasing health insurance under these exchanges would be
eligible for subsidies if their income was between 133 and 400 percent
of the federal poverty level ($14484 to $43560 for single person, or $19564 to $58840 for a couple). Florida ranks ...
Overton the clubhouse leader in Puerto Rico
Overton the clubhouse leader in Puerto Rico
Jeff Overton spun a 4-under-par 37-31=68 in his opening round of the Puerto Rico
Open to establish the early clubhouse lead. Overton finally broke free
of his malaise with last week's T18 at PGA National, and he took that
game with him to the island.
Cuba To Test Dengue Fever Vaccine On Humans
Cuba To Test Dengue Fever Vaccine On Humans
AP On Wednesday at the International Biotechnology Congress in Havana,Cuba,
leaders of a clinical trial announced their project for a vaccine
against dengue fever. The research director at the Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology Center, or Cigb, ...
Latin America seen very dependent on commodities
Latin America seen very dependent on commodities
By Matthew Cowley SAO PAULO -- Latin America must take steps to
defend itself from a growing reliance on commodities and China, while
currency appreciation is warranted given the economic improvements
relative to developed markets, the Institute of ...
US Hate and Extremist Groups Hit Record Levels, New Report Says
US Hate and Extremist Groups Hit Record Levels, New Report Says
The number of domestic hate and extremist groups in the United States
grew to record levels in 2011, led by a surge in anti-government
radicalism, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent civil rights ...
Britain's economy falls behind Brazil's to become just seventh-largest in the ...
Britain's economy falls behind Brazil's to become just seventh-largest in the ...
However, they acknowledged that taxpayers' money is still going in aid to Brazil, in the form of a £730000 'large emerging economies programme' to 'develop a shared agenda and promote global poverty reduction objectives.' This project, DFID said, ...
On 20th anniversary of Argentina bombing, ad campaign centering on survivors
On 20th anniversary of Argentina bombing, ad campaign centering on survivors
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) -- The Israeli Embassy in Argentina
is launching a public campaign about survivors of the 1992 attack
there. “Today I turn 20” will feature advertisements starting next week
in the media, as well as on subways and in the ...
Arizona to Execute Second Inmate in 8 Days
Arizona to Execute Second Inmate in 8 Days
Given Barker's lenient sentence, putting Towery to death
would be grossly disproportionate, the attorneys argued. The court
turned them down less than two hours after receiving the filing. The US Supreme Court also denied a review of the case and a ...
Mexican woman sentenced in drugs-for-military weapons conspiracy
Mexican woman sentenced in drugs-for-military weapons conspiracy
A federal judge sentenced Emilia Palomino-Robles to ten years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to trade drugs for a slew of military grade weapons she intended to help ship to drug cartels in Mexico. On March 5, Palomino–Robles, 42 a Sonora, ...
Iran: the court canceled the death penalty for alleged U.S. spies
Iran: the court canceled the death penalty for alleged U.S. spies
The Iranian Supreme Court on Monday canceled the death penalty for Iranian Americans, who according to the authorities in Tehran cooperated with the CIA ...
Cuba to Test New Aids Vaccine On Humans
Cuba to Test New Aids Vaccine On Humans
Cuba has unveiled a new HIV vaccine which has successfully been
tested on mice, and the country is ready to begin human testing soon, a
local newspaper said. The Teravac-HIV-1 vaccine designed to fight HIV is
the result of cutting edge genetic ...
US Has Most Women Prisoners
US Has Most Women Prisoners
The US houses a third of all women prisoners in the world - 201200. Countries that follow America in female prisoner count are China (84600), the Russian Federation (59 200), Brazil (35956) and Thailand (29175). Countries where the strength of women ...
Lessons for the US on Inequality
Lessons for the US on Inequality
Income inequality has become a preoccupation of voters in America and Europe, where the poverty line is more than 10 times higher than the $1.25-a-day standard used by international organizations. Governments in the US and UK have proposed a range of ...
Ore. board considers Native American nicknames
Ore. board considers Native American nicknames
(WTW) — The State Board of Education is planning to hear testimony Thursday on Native American
mascots and nicknames in Oregon's public high schools. The board could
eventually vote to ban those names. Board officials say 15 public high
schools in ...
Cuba Gov. Replaces Culture Minister
Cuba Gov. Replaces Culture Minister
HAVANA TIMES, March 8 — The Cuban government
“released from his post” of minister of Culture, Abel Prieto Jimenez,
and in his place named Rafael Bernal Alemany, who until two days ago
held the position of first deputy minister ...
Through good news and bad, poverty rates keep falling | Global ...
Through good news and bad, poverty rates keep falling | Global ...
These stats show that GDP per capita actually fell in 2009, perhaps helping to flesh out the incomplete story told by the poverty statistics. Latin America and ...
miércoles, 7 de marzo de 2012
Everglades Foundation CEO Kirk Fordham quits to run Gill Action gay political fund
Everglades Foundation CEO Kirk Fordham quits to run Gill Action gay political fund:
| BY STEVE ROTHAUS Kirk Fordham, CEO of the Everglades Foundation in South Florida since 2008, has resigned to become executive director of Gill Action, a Colorado-based organization that provides funding for pro-gay political campaigns across the nation ... |  MiamiHerald.com |
Honduras suffocating in grip of drug violence and poverty
Honduras suffocating in grip of drug violence and poverty: Lobo was welcomed at the White House in the fall, and Honduras passed Guatemala as the top coffee producer in Central America. But gang and drug violence has risen sharply in Central America, and Honduras is one of the countries struggling to combat it ...
Students Perform to Raise Donations for Guatemalan Charity
Students Perform to Raise Donations for Guatemalan Charity:
| The students' goal is to raise $2500 for Safe Passage, a nonprofit that provides education, social services and meals to children and families living in extreme poverty next to the Guatemala City dump, according to Maya Little '15. |  Bowdoin News |
Rep. Adam Schiff seeks new penalties for gun traffickers
Rep. Adam Schiff seeks new penalties for gun traffickers:
| ... legislation Thursday to create a two-year prison sentence for so-called "straw purchasers" who currently receive probation or very little jail time for acquiring weapons under false pretenses and then selling them to Mexican gun smugglers. |  Los Angeles Times |
More than 625000 women and girls in prison
More than 625000 women and girls in prison: It shows that almost a third of women and girls in prison are in the USA (201200) and the next three countries in terms of numbers are China (84600), the Russian Federation (59200), Brazil (35596) and Thailand (29175). The next highest is India (15400) ...
Dire poverty falls despite global slump, report finds
Dire poverty falls despite global slump, report finds: The report shows that for the first time the proportion of people living in extreme poverty - on less than US$1.25 (S$1.60) a day - fell in every developing region from 2005 to 2008. And the biggest recession since the Great Depression seems not to ...
Senate Democrats: Latinos Will Gain More From Our Economic Policies
Senate Democrats: Latinos Will Gain More From Our Economic Policies: WASHINGTON -- Ahead of the 2012 election, Senate Democrats on Wednesday pushed a reminder of sorts that they see their economic policies as those most likely to reduce high unemployment among Latinos. Democrats have an advantage in making that point, ...
Titus makes play for Hispanic vote in House race
Titus makes play for Hispanic vote in House race
"She had to be careful in the issues she supported, still having said that, she was very supportive of our Latino issues," he said. Titus said she would focus on unemployment and foreclosures if returned to Congress, issues that she previously ...
Is The Death Penalty In California At A Crossroads?
Is The Death Penalty In California At A Crossroads?: The death penalty in California has traveled a bumpy road. The US Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1972. There were no executions for 20 years, until the 1992 execution of San Diego murderer Robert Alton Harris. In the years since, ...
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Honduras Needs More Than Bullets
Honduras Needs More Than Bullets:
| By Marco Cáceres It now seems clear that the United States will be expanding its "War on Drugs" in Latin America to include Central America, and specifically Honduras. The first leg of the war in Colombia. The second leg was in Mexico. |  Honduras Weekly |
Green Economy Seeks to Maintain Growth Threatened by Disasters
Green Economy Seeks to Maintain Growth Threatened by Disasters: By Mario Osava * RIO DE JANEIRO, (Tierramérica) - There is every indication that major disasters could be the new midwives of history. Seeking to prevent them, the green economy aims to reduce "environmental risks" and "ecological ...
Impoverished Huancavelica Aims To Decrease Poverty Rate
Impoverished Huancavelica Aims To Decrease Poverty Rate:
| One of Peru's poorest regions, Huancavelica, is aiming to reduce its poverty level from 46.5 percent to 14.9 percent by 2014, according to the department's president, Maciste Diaz. Diaz disclosed the figure at a UNDP presentation, while announcing a ... |  Andean Airmail & PERUVIAN TIMES |
Peru's native communities come out against illegal mining
Peru's native communities come out against illegal mining:
| "Indigenous communities in several regions of the Amazon reject illegal mining because it generates poverty, trafficking, crime, and pollutes the environment, so the state must act," Barbaran said to Andina. Illegal miners have been protesting in Madre ... |  Peru this Week |
Little roses, big dreams
Little roses, big dreams: Away from the main house, though, in a small, unassuming cottage, is a line reaching out to another world, a line connecting the scenic seclusion of Somerset with the harshest realities of poverty in Honduras. “This is our international headquarters,” ...
Colombian President Santos, Cuba's Raul Castro to meet on Americas summit dispute
Colombian President Santos, Cuba's Raul Castro to meet on Americas summit dispute
HAVANA — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos flew to Cuba on
Wednesday to meet with counterpart Raul Castro about an upcoming
regional summit amid talk of a possible boycott that would be a
challenge to US foreign policy. Santos said on arrival ...
USDA Announces Investments in Nutrition Education for Native American Families
USDA Announces Investments in Nutrition Education for Native American Families: WASHINGTON – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today joined tribal leaders from across the nation at the National Congress of American Indians to announce investments in positive nutrition education and physical activity habits that can ...
NCAI Announces 2012 Indian Country Leadership Awards
NCAI Announces 2012 Indian Country Leadership Awards: Congressman Don Young (R – AK) Chair of the House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, Larry Echo Hawk - Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, the American University's Washington Internships for Native Students (WINS) program, ...
Argentina says can rebuild reserves used to pay debt
Argentina says can rebuild reserves used to pay debt: * Bank charter reform will allow gov't to use more reserves * Reserves down nearly $6 billion since January 2011 * Critics say reform risks further stoking high inflation By Magdalena Morales and Hilary Burke BUENOS AIRES, March 7 (Reuters) - Argentina ...
Native Americans disrupt Keystone XL Pipeline construction
Native Americans disrupt Keystone XL Pipeline construction:
| (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts) Dozens of Native Americans made a human blockade to keep trucks transporting materials for the Keystone XL Pipeline from entering their land this week. The peaceful protest ended with at least five arrests. |  RT |
Muslim and African nations walk out of UN panel on gay rights
Muslim and African nations walk out of UN panel on gay rights:
| Muslim and African countries have walked out of a Human Rights Council panel set up to tackle the issue of murder and violence against gays and lesbians around the world. Speaking before the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation exited the ... |  The Guardian |
Denver authorities: Dead inmate was serial killer
Denver authorities: Dead inmate was serial killer: DENVER (AP) -- Denver authorities say a man convicted of three murders who died in prison in 1996 killed four other women and might be responsible for as many as 20 homicides. Vincent Groves was convicted of killing Tammy Sue Woodrum in 1982 and was ...
Daniel Zamudio in a coma after brutal anti-gay attack in Chile
Daniel Zamudio in a coma after brutal anti-gay attack in Chile:
| Zamudio is being treated at Santiago's Posta Central Hospital, where he remains in critical condition in ICU after being put under a medically induced coma and on mechanical ventilation by doctors. However, the hospital's director, Dr Emilio Villalon ... |  DigitalJournal.com |
Impoverished Huancavelica Aims To Decrease Poverty Rate Peruvian Times
Impoverished Huancavelica Aims To Decrease Poverty Rate Peruvian Times: One of Peru's poorest regions, Huancavelica, is aiming to reduce its poverty level from 46.5 percent to 14.9 percent by 2014, according to the department's.
Hard Hit By Recession Latino Voters Optimistic About Future Poll ...
Hard Hit By Recession Latino Voters Optimistic About Future Poll ...
But other Republicans see GOP mishandling of the issue of immigration as
an obstacle to telling the economic story to Latino votersLatino unemployment could ...
Fundraiser aids Guatemala via multiple charities
Fundraiser aids Guatemala via multiple charities
In the Valley, Advance Guatemala collaborates with other US-based charities to provide aid to poverty-stricken
Guatemalans through the "four pillars" of the organization: education,
housing, entrepreneurship/economic development and health care.
martes, 6 de marzo de 2012
In Central America, Biden shoots down talk of drug legalization
In Central America, Biden shoots down talk of drug legalization: It's a settled matter' — that won't fly anymore," said John Walsh, drug policy program coordinator at the Washington Office on Latin America, a social justice and human rights advocacy group. Demands to address failures in US-designed counter-drug ...
The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the 'welfare queen'
The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the 'welfare queen': In many countries in the world, including most of Latin America, Africa and the Middle East abortion remains illegal except in very proscribed circumstances. Prohibition does not deter women from seeking abortions, but forces them submit to more unsafe ...
Professor correlates perceptions of sexual orientations with relationships
Professor correlates perceptions of sexual orientations with relationships: By Kelsey Cipolla The more exposure a person has to gays and lesbians, the more positive their views become about gays and lesbians. Political science has supported that idea for a decade, but that claim might be misleading, according to Patrick Egan, ...
Intense protests rock Patagonian Chile
Intense protests rock Patagonian Chile: Indigenous people ("Mapuche" in Chile) protesting extreme poverty and corporate takeovers of ancestral land ended up in jail, a few of them on hunger ...
Vietnam eager to boost cooperation with Colombia
Vietnam eager to boost cooperation with Colombia:
| Minister Holguin congratulated Vietnam on its recent achievements, adding that the two countries have great potential for cooperation, especially in trade, agriculture, oil and gas, culture, education, and poverty reduction. Holguin said Colombia is ... |  VietNamNet Bridge |
Argentine dock strike halts grains shipments
Argentine dock strike halts grains shipments: * Dockworkers' union says strike continues, Rosario hit * Port managers chamber had said the strike ended Friday * Union demands fuller staffing of work shifts * Argentina a top world supplier of soy By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES, March 6 (Reuters) ...
Teachers go on national strike
Teachers go on national strike: Buenos Aires province teachers' union ratified the 48-hours national strike scheduled for today and Wednesday to demand a wage hike above from the one offered by the provincial government ($2800 pesos). The measure was confirmed after a collective ...
Brazil May Become World's Biggest Coffee Consumer in Three Years
Brazil May Become World's Biggest Coffee Consumer in Three Years: Brazil welcomes increasing sustainability actions in coffee markets, Gama said. “Producers need to get adequate returns to fight poverty and increase productivity in the context of rising demand and limited stocks,” he said. To contact the reporter on ...
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Leave poor people's food
Leave poor people's food:
| Now with a Jamaican state known for its abysmal implementation deficit, inefficiency, and underperformance, what faith do you have in our designing a system to directly target the high percentage of our population at the poverty level? |  Jamaica Gleaner |
World Bank Reports Reduction in Global Poverty
World Bank Reports Reduction in Global Poverty: In a statement issued today, the World Bank declared that the number of people in the world living on less than $1.25 a day declined between 2005 and 2008, so meeting a United Nations goal to reduce poverty in the poorest nations.
Mexico Sets Stage for Suspense Thriller: Art Hansl's Sunstroke Comes Out of 5 ...
Mexico Sets Stage for Suspense Thriller: Art Hansl's Sunstroke Comes Out of 5 ...
This one involves some rather gruesome torture sequences in a Mexican prison,
below first chapter of Sunstroke. Hansl's novels, with such titles as
To Kill For, Call from LA, All for the Money, Storm Warning, have proven
extremely popular and now all ...
Chilean leaders condemn brutal beating of gay man amid calls for hate crime ...
Chilean leaders condemn brutal beating of gay man amid calls for hate crime ...
SANTIAGO, Chile — A brutal attack on a gay Chilean man
drew strong condemnation from political leaders and entertainer Ricky
Martin on Tuesday. Doctors in Santiago said 24-year-old Daniel Zamudio
had been put in an induced coma while being treated for ...
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