Pope Brings a Message Of Peace, Hope to Mexico

Pope Brings a Message Of Peace, Hope to Mexico: Pope Benedict, making his first trip to the world's second-most-populous Catholic nation after Brazil, alluded only briefly to the violence in Mexico that has claimed more than 50000 lives in the past five years. But he told the faithful that they ...

Guarded praise for Obama's World Bank nominee

Guarded praise for Obama's World Bank nominee: ... fact that yet another American citizen will lead the global poverty-reducing ... put forward Mr Ocampo's nomination on behalf of the Dominican Republic.

Brazil's leap forward unearths a painful history

Brazil's leap forward unearths a painful history:

Today, nearly half the population of 192 million defines itself to census-takers as black or part-black, and despite anti-poverty programs that have raised their income by 56 percent on average, they still earn only 57 percent as much as whites.

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Pope's spiritual journey to Cuba a delicate balancing act

Pope's spiritual journey to Cuba a delicate balancing act: By MIMI WHITEFIELD SANTIAGO, Cuba -- Pope Benedict XVI arrives Monday in this eastern Cuban city, where spring flowers have just started to bloom, on a mission of charity and reconciliation. But the church's efforts to focus the trip on ushering in a ...

Baseballs, beer, masks: Cuba's patron saint ready for pope

Baseballs, beer, masks: Cuba's patron saint ready for pope: By Simon Gardner | EL COBRE, Cuba (Reuters) - Dressed in a billowing pink ball gown for her 15th birthday celebrations, Lisette Catanares smiles at the myriad offerings on a shrine to Cuba's patron saint, a doll-sized figurine that Pope Benedict will ...

Drug courier may be freed next year

Drug courier may be freed next year:

Sharon Armstrong has been found guilty of cocaine trafficking in a Buenos Aires court and sentenced to a four-year, 10-month jail term. Her family have vowed to appeal. Armstrong, 54, will continue to serve her sentence at the medium-security Federal ...

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Hugo Chavez Cancer: Venezuelan President Returns To Cuba For Radiation Therapy

Hugo Chavez Cancer: Venezuelan President Returns To Cuba For Radiation Therapy: By ANNE-MARIE GARCIA 03/25/12 11:29 AM ET In this photo released by state-run newspaper Juventud Rebelde, Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, welcomes Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez upon his arrival to Havana, Cuba, late Saturday March 24, 2012.

Worshippers wear hoodies in Trayvon tribute

Worshippers wear hoodies in Trayvon tribute: Worshippers in cities nationwide were wearing hoodies to church services Sunday to honor Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager shot to death last month by a neighborhood watch volunteer. Martin, 17, was wearing a hoodie when he was killed February 26 as ...

Indian Country Writer Wins Human Rights Award

Indian Country Writer Wins Human Rights Award:

The award was presented to Schilling at a March 15 event by Virginia Beach Mayor William D. Sessoms Jr., who thanked him for his efforts: “Seriously Vincent, thank you very much for what you do for Native American people and your community.

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Brazil's leap forward unearths a painful history

Brazil's leap forward unearths a painful history:

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- In a rundown part of Rio de Janeiro's harbor district, archaeologists are digging up fragments of a history many Brazilians would rather ignore. Up to a million men and women forced into bondage in Africa emerged from the bellies ...

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Chile, A Melting Pot of Flavours from South America

Chile, A Melting Pot of Flavours from South America:

After flying to LAX, we board LAN Airlines, one of the signature airlines of South America to fly straight to Chile's capital, Santiago. As it's my first experience with this international carrier, I'm impressed with the comfort and quality service of ...

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Afghans: US paid $50K per shooting spree death

Afghans: US paid $50K per shooting spree death:

US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged on Friday, March 23, 2012 with 17 counts of premeditated murder, a capital offense that could lead to the death penalty in the massacre of Afghan civilians, the US military said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, ...

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Iraqi woman beaten in Calif. dies; threat note left at scene

Iraqi woman beaten in Calif. dies; threat note left at scene: ... file For alleged Afghan shooter, death penalty unlikely Shaima Alawadi's 17-year-old daughter found her unconscious in a pool of blood Wednesday morning in the dining room of the house in El Cajon, police Lt. Steve Shakowski said.

Native Americans join bear hunt fight

Native Americans join bear hunt fight: By MARTIN GRIFFITH AP RENO — A group of Native Americans is joining the fight against Nevada's black bear hunt and criticizing what they call a wildlife official's racist remark about it. The group complained about a comment made last week at a Washoe ...

Mining tax spreads wealth to 1% but Bolivia shows different path

Mining tax spreads wealth to 1% but Bolivia shows different path: The Bolivian people know all too well what it means to lose out from the ... and wealth be used to lift the country out of poverty and underdevelopment.

Center: Four hate groups in New Mexico

Center: Four hate groups in New Mexico: The state with the most hate groups is California with 84, followed by Georgia with 65, Florida with 55 and Texas with 45. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala.-based civil-rights nonprofit founded in 1971, has listed the Westboro Baptist ...

Venezuela's Chavez returns to Cuba for more treatment

Venezuela's Chavez returns to Cuba for more treatment: By the CNN Wire Staff Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez blows a kiss to supporters from the presidential palace in Caracas on March 17, 2012. (CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected to begin radiation treatment Sunday in Cuba, ...

Former Venezuelan governor wounded in shooting

Former Venezuelan governor wounded in shooting: CARACAS, Venezuela—A former state governor in Venezuela has been wounded in a shooting at a restaurant. Prosecutors say former Apure state Gov. Jesus Aguilarte was attacked by a man who walked into the restaurant and opened fire.

Criolo: from favelas to the world with love

Criolo: from favelas to the world with love: Soon he'll be jetting off to carry out his European tour, but beforehand will make a stopover in Buenos Aires taking to the porteño stage for the first time. “It is so weird. Up to a year ago, I didn't know if I was going to play in the next ...

Church's good works, Cuban cardinal's bad calls

Church's good works, Cuban cardinal's bad calls: So says the pope about changing Cuba's 53-year-old Marxist dictatorship. No problem, responds Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez from Havana. Cuba, he maintains, “is a democratic social project . . . which is constantly perfecting itself.

Obama Visits US Troops at DMZ

Obama Visits US Troops at DMZ: Mr. Obama told about 50 American soldiers that South Korean President Lee Myung-bak had once confided that he was able to rise from poverty as a child, to a successful career thanks in large part to America's military aid and support.

Pope should urge greater freedom in Cuba

Pope should urge greater freedom in Cuba: Pope Benedict XVI should use his trip to Cuba to try to persuade President Raul Castro to show more respect for human rights. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Mexico Friday. He will also visit Cuba. (Hector Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images / March 23, ...

Women celebrated in Santa Ana

Women celebrated in Santa Ana: The festival was organized by Comite Prodemocracia En Mexico – a non-profit group that advocates for human rights in Mexico, Latin America and across the globe – in recognition of International Women's Day, March 8. (It was initially slated for March ...

Miami churches to air pope's Mass in Cuba

Miami churches to air pope's Mass in Cuba: BY DANIEL SHOER ROTH The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuban starting Monday will generate multiple religious activities in South Florida that will allow Catholics here to connect with the celebration on the island. “Through these activities, we will ...

Archbishop, Papal Pilgrims Prepare For Cuba Trip « CBS Miami

Archbishop, Papal Pilgrims Prepare For Cuba Trip « CBS Miami: Just hours away from his departure to Cuba as leader of religious pilgrims bound to see Pope Benedict the 16th, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski helped the faithful prepare Saturday with a Mass. "Lord be the companion of our journey," ...

Native media enterpreneur given human rights award

Native media enterpreneur given human rights award:  Last week, Native American Journalist, Author, Radio Host and Business Owner Vincent Schilling was presented with a Human Rights Award from the City of Virginia Beach Human Rights Commission for the development, advocacy and ...

Native American Students Singled Out For Testing

Native American Students Singled Out For Testing:

Native American Students Singled Out For Testing: Washington state school districts are singling out Native American students for language proficiency tests. KUOW's Ann Dornfeld reports. Flying The Leaded Skies — Part II: Nearly 40 years after US ...

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Mexican police kill lieutenant for Zetas drug cartel

Mexican police kill lieutenant for Zetas drug cartel

MEXICO CITY — Mexican police say they have killed a leader of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel in the border state of Tamaulipas during a gun battle in the neighboring state of Veracruz. Federal police say suspect Enrique Delgado Fraire and one of ...

2 convicted in Memphis drug trafficking case

2 convicted in Memphis drug trafficking case: The two showed no reaction when the verdict was read. Each faces up to life in prison. Several former gang members testified that the Lewises were enforcers for a Memphis-based ring that imported drugs from Mexico and sold them in five states.

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Why the pope wants stronger ties with Mexico and Cuba

Why the pope wants stronger ties with Mexico and Cuba: Though Latin American populations are largely associated with Catholicism (Mexico has the second-largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, and the region is home to almost 40 percent of the world's Catholics), there is a history of ...

Chile: Lesbian judge whose sexuality 'put daughters at risk' wins legal battle

Chile: Lesbian judge whose sexuality 'put daughters at risk' wins legal battle:

by Stephen Gray for PinkNews.co.uk A gay judge has won a custody case against the Chilean courts which had taken away her three daughters in 2004 believing her sexuality to put their development 'at risk'. As the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is ...

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LEUSD's Poor, Latino, And African-American Students Outperform, Reports Find

LEUSD's Poor, Latino, And African-American Students Outperform, Reports Find

(File Photo) Out of 147 of California's largest unified school districts, the Lake Elsinore Unified School District is outperforming all others when it comes to how well it serves its low-income, Latino and African-American students, according to new ...

Sustainable development efforts of 25 grassroots groups win UN-backed prize

Sustainable development efforts of 25 grassroots groups win UN-backed prize: Twenty-five local community projects – ranging from a wildlife sanctuary in Bangladesh to a medicinal plants farm in Brazil, a land and water conservation group in Morocco to a reforestation and farming initiative in Ethiopia – are the winners of a ...

New fall/winter styles on the runway at Buenos Aires fashion week

New fall/winter styles on the runway at Buenos Aires fashion week

Green was the theme at Masanori Morikawa's Japan fashion week runway show who drew inspiration from nuclear disasters and environmental concerns. Alberta dentist Dr. Michael Zuk says he was offered more money after dropping $10000 for a dental crown ...

Red Cross, Salvation Army not affiliated with organization led my embattled man

Red Cross, Salvation Army not affiliated with organization led my embattled man: Flint led a non-profit that he claimed dispatched volunteers all over the country and parts of the world to help victims of natural disasters and poverty. The website's address is listed in Brazil, Indiana. In YouTube videos, Flint appears to be ...

Dartmouth President Is Obama's Pick for World Bank

Dartmouth President Is Obama's Pick for World Bank:

“I can think of no one more able to help families, communities and entire nations break out of poverty.” During his short tenure at Dartmouth, Dr. Kim won a reputation as a level-headed technocrat who frequently encouraged students to think globally.

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States should uphold the right to water and sanitation for all

States should uphold the right to water and sanitation for all

.. on Sustainable Development (Rio-20) taking place in Rio de Janeiro in June, at which world leaders as well as members from the private sector and civil society will come together to discuss ways to encourage green economies and eradicate poverty.

Pope warns of Mexico drug war, wants change in Cuba

Pope warns of Mexico drug war, wants change in Cuba

"I share Mexicans' joy and hope but also their anguish and grief," he said. The war on drug trafficking in Mexico has killed 50000 people in five years, and the pope warned that young people in particular are prey to the cartels, some of whom claim to ...

Pope visits Mexico town where ending pregnancy means prison ...

Pope visits Mexico town where ending pregnancy means prison ...: Pope Benedict XVI visits Mexico town where ending pregnancy means prison. In Leon, Guanajuato, dozens of women are under investigation for questionable ...

Businessmen consider recruiting Native Americans to build casino near ...

Businessmen consider recruiting Native Americans to build casino near ...: Several Steamboat Springs businessmen are considering recruiting a Native American tribe to help them build a casino, hotel and entertainment center near the Yampa Valley airport. Steamboat Springs Olympian Johnny Spillane says meetings have been held ...

Harvest of Souls: Cuba's Church Stages Comeback

Harvest of Souls: Cuba's Church Stages Comeback: By Chuck Holton HAVANA -- When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, communism gained a foothold in the western hemisphere. The United States responded with an embargo, effectively cutting off the island nation from American goods and services.

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Doing Business with Cuba, Despite Embargo

Doing Business with Cuba, Despite Embargo:

That country is, of course, Cuba and the beans being sent there are grown in North Dakota, according to WestStar Food President Pat Wallesen. He not only can, he has. For the past nine years, Wallesen has been filling entire container ships with 10000 ...

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Is Latin America losing its faith Inside Story Americas Al Jazeera ...

Is Latin America losing its faith Inside Story Americas Al Jazeera ...: The Catholic church in Latin America is what I call an old lazy monopoly like ... both abortion and gay marriage is now legal in some parts of Latin America ...

It Gets Better launches in Latin America

It Gets Better launches in Latin America: ... has launched a Spanish-language version in Latin America called Todo Mejora. Chile is taking the lead on the project and regional coordinator Julio Cezar Dantas says it appeals to Chile's concern for others. He said: 'It looks to show LGBT teens ...

Bringing perspective to South America

Bringing perspective to South America: While going from the winter cold of Alberta to the tropics was a bit of a shock, the real culture shock came when she saw the poverty many in Guyana live with. “I have never been anywhere in South America so the poverty was kind of surprising.

Louisiana House of Representatives Passes Expansive School Voucher Program

Louisiana House of Representatives Passes Expansive School Voucher Program: Under the legislation, children from families making less than 250 percent of the federal poverty guideline will qualify to receive a voucher to attend the participating private school of their parents' choice. The legislation also creates a "parent ...

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Amnesty: Repression on the rise in Cuba

Amnesty: Repression on the rise in Cuba: Amnesty International, in a report, says there were close to 3000 cases of human rights abuses documented in Cuba from January-September 2011, up dramatically from the 700 reported in 2010. "Short-term detentions of political and human rights activists ...

Guatemalan president leads drug legalization debate

Guatemalan president leads drug legalization debate: Such aid has been cut off for decades due to human rights abuses committed during the Central American nation's civil war. Guatemalan Defense Minister Ulises Noe Anzueto told CNN en Español Thursday that he was meeting with officials in Washington to ...

Pope warns of Mexico drug war wants change in Cuba | Bangkok Post news

Pope warns of Mexico drug war wants change in Cuba | Bangkok Post news: Pope Benedict XVI urged Mexican youths Friday to reject lies told by drug traffickers to entice them to join cartels as he set off on his first trip to ...

Pope to skip Mexico City on Latin America trip

Pope to skip Mexico City on Latin America trip: Others say the real reasons are laws that make abortion and gay marriage legal in Mexico City. Among the festivities, the Pope is expected to reiterate his devotion to Mexico, the world's second-largest Catholic country, behind Brazil.

Charges filed against Chevron in Brazil

Charges filed against Chevron in Brazil: ... face as much as 31 years in prison. A judge will now decide if the executives will face trial, which would be a lengthy process given the number of defendants, the complexity of the case and the Brazilian legal system's room for numerous appeals.

Zakaria: Incarceration nation

Zakaria: Incarceration nation: Mexico has 208 prisoners per 100000 citizens, and Brazil has 242. As Robertson pointed out on his TV show, The 700 Club, “We here in America make up 5% of the world's population but we make up 25% of the [world's] jailed prisoners.

Quinn and Stringer tout a measure to punish employers for excluding unemployed ...

Quinn and Stringer tout a measure to punish employers for excluding unemployed ...

According to one of Hirsch's Law Project colleagues, the practice tends to more heavily impact black and Latino job applicants, who suffer from higher unemployment rates. People who have been disqualified from jobs on the basis of unemployment could, ...

Colombian police say rebel captured in Venezuela

Colombian police say rebel captured in Venezuela: BOGOTA – Colombian police say a member of the country's main rebel group has been captured in neighboring Venezuela. Gen. Carlos Mena, the director of Colombia's judicial police, says the 62-year-old man was captured while on the road between Caracas ...

Venezuela Central Bank Transfers Another $500 Million to Fonden

Venezuela Central Bank Transfers Another $500 Million to Fonden: Venezuela's central bank transferred $500 million of international reserves to off-budget development fund Fonden on March 20, bringing the total in 2012 to $2.5 billion, according to data on the bank's website. Central bank reserves have fallen 9 ...

Venezuela: Home of the World's Weirdest Ice Cream Flavors

Venezuela: Home of the World's Weirdest Ice Cream Flavors:

Several decades later, a Venezuelan ice cream shop puts that number to shame with enough flavors for two and a half years! Located in the university town of Mérida, Heladeria Coromoto made the Guinness Book of World Records for having nearly 900 kinds ...

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Report cites controversial mining firms

Report cites controversial mining firms

SANTIAGO, Chile, March 22 (UPI) -- The world's most controversial mining companies are named -- and shamed -- in a report comparing their performance against UN and other environmental, social and governance principles.

Carlos Fierro faces new charges from prison

Carlos Fierro faces new charges from prison: New Mexico Department of Corrections officials say improper phone calls, emails and use of a fax machine from behind prison walls to media, family and a lawyer will keep former Santa Fe attorney Carlos Fierro in prison at least until September.

Don't cut an educational lifeline for low-income kids

Don't cut an educational lifeline for low-income kids: Under the Education and Secondary Education Act (better known as No Child Left Behind), low-income families whose children attend low-performing schools are eligible to receive supplemental educational services outside of the regular school day.

South Dakota researchers look at whether sages used by Native Americans can ...

South Dakota researchers look at whether sages used by Native Americans can ...: KRISTI EATON AP SIOUX FALLS, SD (AP) — Researchers at Black Hills State University are looking at whether plants used in traditional Native American medicine could be used to help treat malaria.Chemistry professor John Dixson and a group of students ...

Native American recording artist brings spirited show to Steel City

Native American recording artist brings spirited show to Steel City

By Rob Nagy For recording artist Bill Miller, the hurdles he has faced as a multitalented Native American recording artist have been challenging. Long admired for his award-winning songwriting, recordings and live performances, Miller's artistry as a ...

Latinos represent a 'mega force' in housing

Latinos represent a 'mega force' in housing: “Latinos were disproportionately affected by the housing crisis primarily because Latinos all too often were steered to sub-prime mortgages to purchase or refinance their home,” according to the NAHREP report. “Since 2007, Latino unemployment has ...

Brazil's poor get free beauty treatment

Brazil's poor get free beauty treatment: By JENNY BARCHFIELD AP RIO DE JANEIRO — A machine purrs as it delivers electrical pulses deep into the saggy skin on Barbara Penha's jawline, a high-tech treatment used first to tighten her jowls and then to sculpt her tummy.

Aldersgate Methodists Confront a Mountain

Aldersgate Methodists Confront a Mountain: A little girl of Chikisis, a San Antonio Mountain village in Guatemala. “It's a level of poverty we wouldn't find here in the States,” said the Rev. Jason Micheli, Aldersgate's 34-year-old associate pastor. The Mayans living there were pushed off more ...

Explainer: An Alphabet Soup of Regional Integration Organizations

Explainer: An Alphabet Soup of Regional Integration Organizations: When following current events in Latin America, it's easy to confuse the jumble of acronyms and abbreviations of the region's multilateral organizations. AS/COA Online has put together a list of integration organizations in Latin America, ...

Cuba replaces 88-year-old revolutionary veteran as vice president

Cuba replaces 88-year-old revolutionary veteran as vice president

HAVANA — Cuba replaced the oldest official in Raul Castro's Cabinet on Thursday, an 88-year-old ex-general who helped mold the communist country's new army and commanded defenses at the Bay of Pigs invasion. Jose Ramon Fernandez, a longtime member of ...

Vatican: Pope's Cuba trip should help democracy

Vatican: Pope's Cuba trip should help democracy: Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Latin America takes him to the region's most Catholic country; Mexico, and then Cuba, where churches are mostly empty and until the 1990s, believers were barred from the Communist Party. Photo: Javier Galeano / AP A vintage ...

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Venezuela Captures One of FARC's Founders

Venezuela Captures One of FARC's Founders: Venezuela has captured a guerrilla known by the nickname "Marquetaliano," one of two remaining survivors from the founding of the FARC rebel group almost 50 years ago. William Alberto Chitiva Asprilla, alias "Fernando Bustos" or "Marquetaliano," had ...

Mexican drug cartel homicides slow in growth

Mexican drug cartel homicides slow in growth: Local police and prison reform is also needed, the report adds. A suggestion among some in Washington, DC that Mexico is undergoing a domestic insurgency, or that cartels are narco-terrorists, is incorrect, the report also says.

Prosecutors: Teen planned to rob British tourists

Prosecutors: Teen planned to rob British tourists: (AP) -- Prosecutors say a Florida teen accused of killing two British tourists told a friend that he saw the victims walking in his neighborhood and that he intended to rob them. Prosecutors said Thursday in their opening statements that the men didn't ...

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Lesbian judge wins custody of children

Lesbian judge wins custody of children: SANTIAGO, Chile, March 22 (UPI) -- Karen Atala, an openly gay judge in Chile, has finally won back custody of her three daughters after a nearly eight-year court fight, officials say. Atala, 48, was stripped of custody of her children in 2004 when she ...

Napolitano defends US drug war in face of legalization debate

Napolitano defends US drug war in face of legalization debate: By Ioan Grillo and David Alire Garcia | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano defended Washington's drug war strategy on Monday despite calls by some Latin American leaders to consider decriminalizing narcotics.

CMU to host Pow wow to share Native American culture

CMU to host Pow wow to share Native American culture: Central Michigan University freshman Lauren Grotkowski had no idea what a Pow wow was until she came to campus and met her roommate who is Native American. “I had never heard of it before,” she said. This weekend Grotkowski will be attending one for ...

Why Native American Women Are Battling for Plan B

Why Native American Women Are Battling for Plan B: A staggering one in three Native American women will be raped in their lifetime—three and a half times the national average. The law Iyotte testified about was designed to cut through the jurisdictional red tape that too often allowed rapists to go ...

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Proposals to Remake Education System Hit Louisiana Legislature

Proposals to Remake Education System Hit Louisiana Legislature: Louisiana is currently home to the New Orleans Scholarship Program, which allows students under 250 percent of the poverty line and attending “D-” or “F-” graded schools to attend private schools using state funds. House Bill 976 would expand that ...

Nicaragua to Cover 50 Percent of Energy Demand with Renewable Energy

Nicaragua to Cover 50 Percent of Energy Demand with Renewable Energy: The Nicaraguan government hopes to cover 50 percent of the average energy ... engine to foster production, economic development and the decrease of poverty.

Yes, Impunity Reigns in Honduras

Yes, Impunity Reigns in Honduras:

It is also a good thing to insist that Honduras do more to eliminate poverty. George Bernard Shaw said, "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty." He was right. "Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit," wrote Eli ...

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Native Americans Walk for a Cause

Native Americans Walk for a Cause: Walk for Human Rights is drawing attention to the imprisonment of activist Leonard Peltier, a Native American who is serving two consecutive life terms for the deaths of two FBI agents in a conflict at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975.

Northern Michigan Native American tribe considering same-sex marriages on ...

Northern Michigan Native American tribe considering same-sex marriages on ...: I talked to a Native American historian who looks back 400 years and says gay and lesbians were once celebrated in the culture, considered “two-spirited” individuals. Annette VanDeCar, one who proposed this statute, had this to say: "'Two-spirit' ...

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Unemployed Is Bad Enough; 'Unbanked' Can Be Worse

Unemployed Is Bad Enough; 'Unbanked' Can Be Worse:

To pay his bills, Mr. Macias, a 45-year-old San Francisco resident, waits for his unemployment check to arrive in the mail and then cashes it at a Market Street branch of Money Mart, the international money-lending and check-cashing chain.

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Colorado's Latino voters could be key in run to the White House

Colorado's Latino voters could be key in run to the White House: By Scot Kersgaard In Colorado and a handful of other swing states, the Hispanic vote is expected to be a key factor in this year's presidential election. As Republican campaign rhetoric around immigration has continued to turn off many Latino voters, ...

NBC Latino — Employers are more optimistic about hiring ...

NBC Latino — Employers are more optimistic about hiring ...: The unemployment rate is at 8.3 percent, and for Latinos it is higher, at 10.7 percent. While the recovery is slow, the study acknowledges, there is a positive trend ...

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Ten Facts About Puerto Rico and its Citizens

Ten Facts About Puerto Rico and its Citizens: The unemployment rate in Puerto Rico is 15.1 percent (US Department of Labor, 2012). • More than half - 51.6 percent - of Puerto Ricans have private insurance coverage (US Census Bureau, 2010). • More than 20 percent of Puerto Ricans have a bachelor's ...

Aide To Venezuelan Presidential Hopeful Dismisses Murder Plot Talk

Aide To Venezuelan Presidential Hopeful Dismisses Murder Plot Talk: "We are in a battle every day against whatever phenomenon or threat that affects or could affect the tranquility (of Venezuela)," Chavez said. "But it's a shame that...the opposition's laboratories of dirty war are launching campaigns like this, ...

The Air Force's 'March Madness'

The Air Force's 'March Madness': A week later, the US military began its air war over Libya by enforcing a no-fly zone, consuming a large amount of resources and effort by America's Air Force. Also last March, President Obama visited South America—a trip that required significant ...

'Abundance of proof' found against mother of murdered child, prosecutor

'Abundance of proof' found against mother of murdered child, prosecutor

The prosecutor investigating the death of a 6-year-old boy found murdered in a gated community in the Buenos Aires province, said that he was “almost certain” that the mother was the perpertrator of the crime. He also confirmed that in February the ...

Striking Argentine grains truckers to meet gov't

Striking Argentine grains truckers to meet gov't: * Truck owners started strike on Monday over tariffs * Most of Argentina's grains crops taken to port by truck * Protest disrupts transport as soy, corn harvests pick up BUENOS AIRES, March 21 (Reuters) - Argentine grains truckers will meet government ...

Bringing the Light of Freedom to Cuba

Bringing the Light of Freedom to Cuba: But in terms of GDP per capita and other markers it led Latin America. This was definitely the case with media. Again, the numbers tell the story. Pre-Castro Cuba had 58 daily newspapers and was eighth in the world in number of radio stations, ...

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Venezuela police may have killed consul's daughter - World news ...

Venezuela police may have killed consul's daughter - World news ...: Venezuelan authorities said 11 members of an investigative police unit were suspected in the fatal shooting of a Chilean diplomat's teenage daughter.

Lanka faces uphill task amidst last minute diplomatic drama

Lanka faces uphill task amidst last minute diplomatic drama

... resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Sri Lanka faces an Alpine task amidst reports that the goal now appears to be not a victory but how small should the margin of defeat be. Many Asian, African and Latin American diplomats at the ...

Iran Moving In on Latin American Television Market

Iran Moving In on Latin American Television Market:

In Latin America, however, Iran has made friends with other hard-line regimes that will support its propaganda machine, friendly ears from leaders found in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba. "I would not be at all surprised at the ...

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Pope Benedict XVI comes to Mexico, Cuba at time of change

Pope Benedict XVI comes to Mexico, Cuba at time of change

But nobody in Latin America really believes this. In Mexico, the pope is expected to bolster a close ally, Mexico's president, the devout Catholic Felipe Calderon, and his beleaguered ruling party, running behind in the polls for upcoming elections.

Stubborn drought expected to tax Mexico for years

Stubborn drought expected to tax Mexico for years: ... 21 (Reuters) - A severe drought in Mexico that has cost farmers more than a billion dollars in crop losses alone and set back the national cattle herd for years, is just a foretaste of the drier future facing Latin America's second largest economy.

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Regional Enterprise Development Portfolio Coordinator

Regional Enterprise Development Portfolio Coordinator: ... tools they need to help themselves out of poverty. Investing in small, sustainable businesses, our Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) has a huge social and economic impact. Lead its growth in Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC) and so will you.

Muslim activists say Democratic party is taking their vote for granted

Muslim activists say Democratic party is taking their vote for granted: Florida is also home to United West, a group that has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. United West is known for targeting Muslims in public life and was started with help from Adam Hasner, a Florida Republican who ran ...

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The Supreme Court's other monumental health-care hearing

The Supreme Court's other monumental health-care hearing

Working parents of dependent children in Florida are ineligible for Medicaid if their incomes exceed 58 percent of the federal poverty level, or $11072 in annual income for a family of three; in Texas, the cutoff is 26 percent of poverty, or $4964.

Rediscovered Native American remedy kills poxvirus

Rediscovered Native American remedy kills poxvirus:

An old herbal remedy for treating smallpox that is thought to have been used by native Americans in the late 1800s has been rediscovered and found to kill the poxvirus. Smallpox has been eradicated, but the finding offers a possible treatment for ...

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Peru to Seek Private Investors for $10.4 Billion Projects

Peru to Seek Private Investors for $10.4 Billion Projects: By John Quigley on March 21, 2012 Peru will auction concessions for $10.4 billion in infrastructure projects by the end of next year as it seeks to benefit from an upturn in investor confidence, Finance Minister Miguel Castilla said.

Regional court condemns Chile in case of lesbian judge denied custody of daughter

Regional court condemns Chile in case of lesbian judge denied custody of daughter

SANTIAGO, Chile — The Interamerican Court of Human Rights has condemned the Chilean government for denying a judge custody of her three daughters because she is a lesbian. The Feb. 24 decision was made public Wednesday by local media that cited the ...

Miami judge allows Castro spy to visit dying brother in Cuba

Miami judge allows Castro spy to visit dying brother in Cuba

By Jay Weaver / McClatchy Newspapers MIAMI — A Miami federal judge's decision to allow a convicted Cuban spy to visit his dying brother in Cuba for two weeks has raised hopes that an American man jailed on the island might be released temporarily to ...

Remains of 53 unearthed Native Americans to be reburied

Remains of 53 unearthed Native Americans to be reburied:

The first set of Native American bones was found almost five years ago by crews building the Jackson Flat Dam Water Supply Storage Facility near Kanab. Over a year's time, a total of 54 sets of bones were found. One set was left undisturbed.

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Why Gay People Should Get Behind Ricky Martin's Attempt To Reconquer America

Why Gay People Should Get Behind Ricky Martin's Attempt To Reconquer America: But while any other gay foreign superstars' attempt to reconquer America would be received fabulously, gay people tend to be divided on the subject on Ricky Martin. You'll inevitably meet the queen who knew Ricky was so totally gay when “Livin' La Vida ...

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Pregnant Briton wins appeal against extradition to Argentina

Pregnant Briton wins appeal against extradition to Argentina: A pregnant British woman who was arrested on suspicion of smuggling cocaine through a South American airport, has won her high court battle against extradition to Argentina on human rights grounds. The highly unusual decision to allow the appeal by ...

Corporate accountability and protecting human rights

Corporate accountability and protecting human rights

We heard specific testimonials of the disastrous effects of the extraction process used by Canadian companies from Latin America to Africa to the Philippines and Southeast Asia - all underscoring the dire need for some sort of legal framework to hold ...

Bruce Springsteen Backs Anti-Death Penalty Group

Bruce Springsteen Backs Anti-Death Penalty Group

Back in 1995, Springsteen provided the titular track for the Sean Penn flick Dead Man Walking, a film which explored the death penalty in America. In addition to recent charity work, Springsteen has made headlines as the keynote speaker at the South By ...

Justices mull whether life without parole sentence appropriate for underage ...

Justices mull whether life without parole sentence appropriate for underage ...: The high court in 2005 banned the death penalty for those under 18 who commit aggravated murder. Then, five years later, the justices said juveniles found guilty of non-homicides could not receive life without parole. Now the spotlight turns on the ...

DRUG WAR: Car bomb explodes near newspaper offices in Mexico

DRUG WAR: Car bomb explodes near newspaper offices in Mexico: By AP CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico - Authorities say a car exploded near the offices of a newspaper in a northern border state where two drug cartels are fighting for control. The Tamaulipas state government says in a statement an explosive device aboard a ...

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Venezuela opposition leader shrugs off assassination talk

Venezuela opposition leader shrugs off assassination talk

By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition leader Henrique Capriles dismissed as irresponsible on Tuesday a government warning of an assassination plot against him that has further stirred up an already volatile election campaign.

Cuba: Leveraging Technology to Support Free Access to Information

Cuba: Leveraging Technology to Support Free Access to Information: Havana's repressive regime wishes to shift censorship's traditional fault lines to the electronic sphere, severely restricting its population's ability to chart its own destiny and violating its most basic human rights. The regime's strategy is to ...

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Time to Spring into National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness ...

Time to Spring into National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness ...

Its the spring equinoxa time for change a time for renewal and a time to remember the different cycles of life And for many Indigenous people this includes living a life with HIVAIDS andor helping to raise awareness end the stigma and p.

Jeffrey Sachs' Grab for the World Bank

Jeffrey Sachs' Grab for the World Bank: Last week, John Cavanaugh of the Institute for Policy Studies and American University development professor Robin Broad laid out a raft of concerns to which Sachs responded thus: “I would be the first-ever development practitioner and anti-poverty ...

Govt defends poverty estimates

Govt defends poverty estimates: Faced with criticism from opposition parties and civil society on its poverty estimates, the Planning Commission on Tuesday defended its calculations, albeit pointing to “serious” discrepancy in data on consumption expenditure.

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Honduras and the US: When Engagement Becomes Complicity

Honduras and the US: When Engagement Becomes Complicity: Porfirio Lobo came to power, and a nation pummeled by poverty splintered into an ungoverned free-for-all characterized by political polarization, a surge in crime, and widespread land grabs. Honduras is not a failed state. It's a violated state.

Report sees rise in Maine child poverty

Report sees rise in Maine child poverty: AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- A new report on Maine's child health says the percentage of young children living in poverty rose by 2 percentage points between 2009 and 2010. The Kids Count Data Book released Tuesday says 15752 Maine children under 5 years old ...

The Forgotten Struggles of America's Soldiers

The Forgotten Struggles of America's Soldiers: America 's response was quick and calculated: He will be tried for murder and will receive the death penalty when proven to have committed the acts. Afghanistan officials want him tried in their country but either way, the soldier has been slated to ...

From poverty, springs perseverance: a man's journey to business ownership

From poverty, springs perseverance: a man's journey to business ownership: He finished his studies at North Louisiana University in his hometown of Monroe, La. He attended day and night classes and graduated in three years with a business degree, he beamed. “It's amazing because while I was in high school, ...

DRUG WAR: 12 police officers searching for bodies ambushed and killed in Mexico

DRUG WAR: 12 police officers searching for bodies ambushed and killed in Mexico: By AP Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler Blue Demon Jr., front center, leads a march for peace in downtown Mexico City, Sunday March 18, 2012. Marchers are advocating an end to Mexico's drug violence, which has killed thousands of people since President ...

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Pope Benedict May Meet Castro in Cuba

Pope Benedict May Meet Castro in Cuba: According to its 2011 report on Cuba, Human Rights Watch says the communist nation is the only one of its kind in Latin America “that represses virtually all forms of political dissent.” It added that in 2011 Raúl Castro's government “continued to ...

The coming fight over violence against women

The coming fight over violence against women:

Chuck Grassley has accused Democrats of adding specialized provisions about same-sex partner violence, immigration and Native American jurisdictional issues that are “not consensus items,” to make Republicans look pro-domestic violence.

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Time to Spring into National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day!

Time to Spring into National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day!

By Jessica Danforth (Yee) March 20, 2012 Jessica Danforth (Yee) is the founder and executive director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, the first and only organization of its kind in North America by and for Indigenous youth working within the ...

Argentine grains truckers strike drags without deal

Argentine grains truckers strike drags without deal: * Work stoppage called just as soy, corn harvesting starts * Most of Argentina's grains are taken by truck to port * Truckers not expected to meet gov't officials Tuesday BUENOS AIRES, March 20 (Reuters) - A strike by Argentine truckers disrupted the ...

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Pregnant woman's extradition to Argentina blocked

Pregnant woman's extradition to Argentina blocked:

Ms Wright, 29, originally from Bolton but now living in London, was arrested in Buenos Aires in 2007 while carrying more than 6kg of cocaine. Her successful appeal is a rare example of the courts blocking an extradition. Ms Wright was detained in March ...

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Chilean Community Wins First Round Against Brazilian Billionaire

Chilean Community Wins First Round Against Brazilian Billionaire: By Marianela Jarroud * SANTIAGO, Mar 20, 2012 (Tierramérica) - Plans to build a massive thermoelectric power plant complex near an area of rich marine biodiversity has sparked fierce opposition from the small northern Chilean farming town of Totoral, ...

Venezuelan police kill diplomat's daughter

Venezuelan police kill diplomat's daughter

CARACAS, Venezuela • The killing of a Chilean diplomat's teenage daughter by police is reigniting concerns among Venezuelans about excessive force by officers and their alleged involvement in rampant violent crime. Karen Berendique, 19, was riding in a ...