The Affordable Care Act: Hope for Health Care Equality For All

The Affordable Care Act: Hope for Health Care Equality For All:

Medicaid, the most important health care program for low-income children and especially Latino children, will also expand to cover many more families by 2013. Low-income Latina mothers, who disproportionately work in jobs that offer no or inadequate ...

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Toward the conquest of world poverty

Toward the conquest of world poverty: Latin America has made sharp inroads against poverty. "For the first time since 1981," says the World Bank, "we have seen less than half the population of sub-Saharan Africa living below $1.25 a day." The start of most global trends is hard to pinpoint ...

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Sex and drugs and private cells: Behind bars in South America

Sex and drugs and private cells: Behind bars in South America

Dreadful acts of violence occur here and Lurigancho is sometimes described as one of Latin America's more ferocious jails. Recently, one Dutch inmate was found to have battered and strangled his Peruvian girlfriend to death and entombed her corpse in ...

Extreme poverty is a challenge for both India and Brazil

Extreme poverty is a challenge for both India and Brazil:

New Delhi: Ms. Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, said here today at the seminar on Brazil-India: A New Frontier for Business Opportunities that Brazil and India are main drivers of global economic growth and therefore “there was a need to revitalise ...

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The poor among you

The poor among you: "Minimum wage doesn't get a person even close to the poverty level. People ought to be able to work their way out of poverty," Sider, professor at Palmer Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa., said in an interview. But more Americans live in poverty ...

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Discovering Central America in the 1970s and 1980s

Discovering Central America in the 1970s and 1980s:

... which took the luxury of abolishing its army and created a social democratic welfare state unequalled in the hemisphere before the Cuban revolution.

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Rio Plus 20: What Prospects for the Next UN Mega-Conference?

Rio Plus 20: What Prospects for the Next UN Mega-Conference?:

by Stewart M. Patrick A boat is seen near Copacabana Beach at sunrise in Rio de Janeiro March 14, 2012. (Sergio Moraes /Courtesy Reuters) On June 20-21, the world will descend on Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable ...

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CBF initiative brings hope to nation's poorest counties

CBF initiative brings hope to nation's poorest counties: The initiative targets one county in both Alabama and Louisiana, two in both Arkansas and Kentucky, three in Mississippi, four in South Dakota and seven in Texas. In 2011, the 10th anniversary of CBF's 20-year commitment, an estimated 10500 volunteer ...

Brown signs casino compact with tribe

Brown signs casino compact with tribe: (AP) -- A Native American tribe's plans for a Las Vegas-style casino about 50 miles north of San Francisco got a big boost on Friday when the governor signed a gaming compact with the tribe. The deal between the state and the Federated Indians of ...

The American Indian Empowerment Act: Setting the Record Straight

The American Indian Empowerment Act: Setting the Record Straight: By Don Young, Congressman As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, I oversee most issues concerning Native Americans. Throughout my career, I have worked tirelessly to empower and improve the lives of America's Native ...

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How Louisiana is Luring Startups

How Louisiana is Luring Startups: "Only a sadist would insist on resurrecting this concentration of poverty, crime, and deplorable schools," wrote Slate's Jack Shafer, a week after the hurricane hit Southeast Louisiana. Nearly seven years later, not only is New Orleans' population back ...

Bad news, good news about the death penalty in the US

Bad news, good news about the death penalty in the US: By Liz Lefebvre This week we heard some good news and bad news about the death penalty in the US People usually want the bad news first, right? Well, here it is: According to a recent Amnesty International report, the US was the only Western democracy ...

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CBF initiative brings hope to nation's poorest counties

CBF initiative brings hope to nation's poorest counties: The initiative targets one county in both Alabama and Louisiana, two in both Arkansas and Kentucky, three in Mississippi, four in South Dakota and seven in Texas. In 2011, the 10th anniversary of CBF's 20-year commitment, an estimated 10500 volunteer ...

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Prison isolation cells violate human rights, charges petition

Prison isolation cells violate human rights, charges petition:

According to the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, treatment of California prisoners placed in solitary confinement constitutes a violation of human rights that should be brought before the world body. On March 20, the foundation ...

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Cuba Dissident Identifies Papal Mass Protester

Cuba Dissident Identifies Papal Mass Protester: A leading Cuban dissident has identified the mystery man who yelled anti-government slogans just before a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI this week before being hustled away by security agents. Jose Daniel Ferrer told The Associated Press that the ...

Trade partners rebuke Argentina over restrictions

Trade partners rebuke Argentina over restrictions: By Jude Webber in Buenos Aires A group of 14 World Trade Organisation members led by the US and the European Union have delivered a stinging rebuke to Argentina over its “problematic” and “troubling” import restrictions and urged Buenos Aires to scrap ...

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Chilean bishops condemn brutal murder of gay man

Chilean bishops condemn brutal murder of gay man: Santiago, Chile - Bishops in Chile have condemned the murder of Daniel Zamudio, a gay man who was gruesomely beaten and succumbed to his injuries on March 27 after being in a coma for nearly four weeks.

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Outpouring in Chile over gay youth's death

Outpouring in Chile over gay youth's death: By the CNN Wire Staff A girl leaves a flower this week next to messages in support of Daniel Zamudio outside a Santiago, Chile, hospital. (CNN) -- The issue of hate crime legislation has gripped Chilean leaders as one family on Friday prepared to bury ...

Trayvon Martin case stirs extremists, groups say

Trayvon Martin case stirs extremists, groups say: The case -- in which a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer killed the unarmed black teen in Sanford, Florida on February 26 -- has sparked a national controversy. It has also stoked extremist views, particularly on the internet, experts say.

Security contractor pays back wages to workers

Security contractor pays back wages to workers: Miami officials investigated a city contractor after workers said the company violated he city's “living wage” law. By Lidia Dinkova A security company has agreed to increase the pay of guards working on city contracts after Miami officials ...

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From The Streets To A Home

From The Streets To A Home:

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – More than 100 South Floridian families who were once in poverty or living on the streets now have a place to call home. Friday, the Pinnacle Housing Group launched the grand opening of its new, affordable housing complex, Vista Mar, ...

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Catholic bishops silent on issues affecting poor

Catholic bishops silent on issues affecting poor

The Catholic Church, for example, officially opposes the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment. But when is the last time you heard the bishops decry application of the death penalty? According to the Death Penalty Information Center, ...

India, Brazil agree to promote greater business interaction

India, Brazil agree to promote greater business interaction

We are both committed to creating an international order that facilitates our efforts at poverty eradication and social development. Bilateral trade and investment flows have grown by leaps and bounds. Yet, President Rousseff and I are in full ...

Race Is Too Hard to Identify

Race Is Too Hard to Identify

In Brazil, therefore, eligibility for racial quotas is always a problem. Quotas based on social class would increase the number of black students simply because poverty and blackness are connected in Brazil. It should also be said that whereas blacks ...

The Case for Gay Acceptance in the Catholic Church

The Case for Gay Acceptance in the Catholic Church:

The Church has millions of members in Africa and South America, where being gay or lesbian can lead to a death sentence. Worse, the Church's own teaching encourages bigotry and harm. Just last year, my father's memorial, the Robert F. Kennedy Center ...

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Immigration officials arrest 19 Springfield restaurant workers

Immigration officials arrest 19 Springfield restaurant workers: If convicted, the four could face up to two years in prison. Nineteen people who worked at four Mexican restaurants in Springfield were arrested this week during a worksite enforcement operation conducted by federal immigration officials, according to ...

Man's dream holiday turned into nightmare after being detained in Mexican jail

Man's dream holiday turned into nightmare after being detained in Mexican jail

Michael Stalker spent two days in prison after being accused of vandalism in Cancun, Mexico. A Scots dream holiday turned into a nightmare when he was arrested and detained in a Mexican jail. Michael Stalker spent two days in prison after being accused ...

Debate: Neoliberalism in disguise in Bolivia?

Debate: Neoliberalism in disguise in Bolivia?: Not least in importance, Bolivia has also become a prime participant in the movement for .... redistribute the nation's wealth in order to tackle poverty; ...

Cuban-Americans traveling to homeland see hope in future

Cuban-Americans traveling to homeland see hope in future: The most populous island nation in the Caribbean, Cuba has long been an alluring tourist destination. Now with the easing of travel restriction for Americans, it is easy to see some of the wonders of the country. Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cuba drew ...

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Venezuelan soldiers die in helicopter crash

Venezuelan soldiers die in helicopter crash: Seven Venezuelan soldiers have died in a helicopter crash near the Colombian border, military officials have announced. State news agency AVN reports that it is still unclear what caused the Superpuma helicopter to crash. The soldiers were deployed on ...

Chavez back in Venezuela after 1st radiation round

Chavez back in Venezuela after 1st radiation round:

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and says the cancer treatments are going well. Chavez appeared on state television early Thursday at a meeting with aides, ...

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Native American Youth & Family Center to host honorary tree planting in ...

Native American Youth & Family Center to host honorary tree planting in ...:

By Larry Bingham, The Oregonian The Native American Youth & Family Center will plant a red cedar Friday morning in Northeast Portland to honor elders and veterans who have passed into the spirit world.

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Latinos Could Swing Election, But Turnout Might Disappoint

Latinos Could Swing Election, But Turnout Might Disappoint: Some possible reasons for this decline, the group stated, are “a spike in residential mobility” coupled with “intensive downward economic mobility due to the combined effect of significant (and disproportionate) unemployment and mortgage foreclosures” ...

Leading US human rights group urges Cuba to halt repression ...

Leading US human rights group urges Cuba to halt repression ...: WASHINGTON – A leading human rights group in the United States has urged the Cuban government to “immediately halt repression” aimed at ...

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'Land of Eternal Spring' Blesses Volunteers

'Land of Eternal Spring' Blesses Volunteers: They aim to empower the Mayans to overcome their poverty. Meanwhile, the Methodists benefit as well. For Ricciardello, working in Guatemala in December gives her a break from the consumer madness of the Christmas season. “The reason I go in December is ...

Washington's Loss of Control Over World Bank Is a Big Historic Change

Washington's Loss of Control Over World Bank Is a Big Historic Change: In Latin America especially (but also in many other countries) these policies coincided with a collapse of economic growth and therefore a drop-off in poverty reduction. The World Bank has been part of a "creditors' cartel" with the IMF, ...

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Citizen of the Week: Sarah Nylund

Citizen of the Week: Sarah Nylund: Not long ago, a university supported program led to spending 15 days in Central America with 27 fellow students, where they delivered clothing and shoes, helped in a medical clinic and installed a ceramic floor in a church.

Fighting poverty in the courts

Fighting poverty in the courts: In Brazil, which mostly hears individual provisions cases, the figure is 36%—ie, it is mildly regressive—as is the case in Indonesia. And in Nigeria, the figure is only 25% because legal cases mostly concern areas which are the preserves of richer ...

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Neglected Tropical Disease Control is a Key to Fighting Poverty in ...

Neglected Tropical Disease Control is a Key to Fighting Poverty in ...

“Our partnerships have the potential to improve the lives of more than 100 million people living in poverty in Texas and further south in Latin America.” According ...

Texas accuses anti-death penalty charity of fomenting violence ...

Texas accuses anti-death penalty charity of fomenting violence ...: Texas, America's most prolific practitioner of the death penalty, has launched an extraordinary attack on the international anti-death penalty charity Reprieve, ...

Amnesty: US ranks 5th on global execution scale

Amnesty: US ranks 5th on global execution scale: America's 43 executions in 2011 ranked it fifth in the world in capital punishment, the rights group said in its annual review of worldwide death penalty trends. US executions were down from 46 a year earlier. "If you look at the company we're in ...

Death penalty, early release, forgiveness

Death penalty, early release, forgiveness: A suggestion for overcrowding in prison, take those on death role ... line them up and give each a appointment by the hour! — Patty G. • This is dumb politics. Take the prisoners and have them pick up trash, cut weeds along our roads.

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Chronically ill Central American immigrants struggle to pay for health care

Chronically ill Central American immigrants struggle to pay for health care

"Remittance payments from relatives living in the United States are a major source of income for chronically ill people in Latin America," says lead study author John D. Piette, Ph.D., professor of internal medicine at the UM Medical School, ...

Ocampo Sees His World Bank Bid as Necessary Challenge to U.S.

Ocampo Sees His World Bank Bid as Necessary Challenge to U.S.: Jose Antonio Ocampo, a former Colombian finance minister and one of three candidates to become the next World Bank president, said challenging the US monopoly on the job will force changes to future selections. A 59-year-old professor at Columbia ...

Racism robs Black youth of their dreams

Racism robs Black youth of their dreams:

It would seem that the specific provisions of the Florida “Stand Your Ground” law would contravene the decision of the Sanford Police Department to allow Zimmerman to walk free, citing his right to self-defense. However, this is US society, ...

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Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76

Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76

In "A Childhood," published in 1997, Crews wrote about growing up in poverty and without books, except for the Bible. He remembered the shame of having to move around. "Ever since I reached manhood, I have looked back upon that time when I was a boy ...

Officials fear health-care act will boost Medicaid costs

Officials fear health-care act will boost Medicaid costs: The 2010 health-care overhaul would reduce this by opening Medicaid to adults whose incomes are up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level – in Florida, up to $29326 for a family of four. The federal government would cover 100 percent of the cost ...

Separatist black group stands by bounty offer for man who killed Florida teen

Separatist black group stands by bounty offer for man who killed Florida teen: The group -- which is distinct from the better known Black Panther Party, founded in the late 1960s -- is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group and a "virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization." On Saturday, the party put ...

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Candlelight vigil to be held in Montgomery for slain Florida teen

Candlelight vigil to be held in Montgomery for slain Florida teen:

The center, sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is located at 400 Washington Ave. Martin, 17, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by a neighborhood watch volunteer in a Sanford, Fla., gated community. The unarmed teen was returning from a convenience ...

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Hands on Tzedakah and Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service help Florida seniors

Hands on Tzedakah and Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service help Florida seniors

Hands on Tzadekah (HOT) recently helped senior citizens living below the poverty line near Boca Raton, Florida, by providing $55000 in the form of gift cards through the Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service (JFS), as the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.

Semana Latina: Hispanics Invested In Everything American

Semana Latina: Hispanics Invested In Everything American: When unemployment and foreclosure numbers rise, Latinos suffer; when the economy's numbers improve they rejoice. And when civil rights cases jump to the front pages, they listen with rapt attention as the issue is always close to home.

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10 dead in shootout among gunmen in north Mexico

10 dead in shootout among gunmen in north Mexico: CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican authorities say 10 people have been killed during a shootout among gunmen in the country's north. Prosecutors in the border state of Chihuahua say the gunbattle happened early Monday in the town of Temosachi.

State Board of Education takes up digital learning

State Board of Education takes up digital learning: By CHRISTINE ARMARIO AP Education Writer MIAMI -- As college presidents and school superintendents enthusiastically told state Board of Education members Tuesday about how technology is revolutionizing their classrooms, the superintendent of one of ...

Need for health reform not going away

Need for health reform not going away: Millions of Americans will be eligible for exemptions. These include members of certain religions groups, Native American tribes, undocumented immigrants, and the very poor.

Half of the Church of England's dioceses reject unity covenant

Half of the Church of England's dioceses reject unity covenant:

The arguments centred on the appointment of bishops in non-celibate gay relationships, and the blessing of same-sex unions, in Anglican churches in the US and Canada. Some provinces in Africa, Latin America and Asia vehemently condemned these ...

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West focuses on inspiring youth during FAU visit

West focuses on inspiring youth during FAU visit:

Instead, Cornel West kept it real, telling an audience of mostly black South Florida teens to keep their eyes on the prize and a larger world view. "We want you to be highly successful, but have your focus on something beside yourself," he told a rapt ...

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Dozier channels Holiday for tribute to iconic singer

Dozier channels Holiday for tribute to iconic singer: Holiday may have had a poverty stricken childhood in Baltimore, but she's known today as Lady Day, the premier jazz singer of her time with Big Bands and major recording contracts. "I was born in North Florida and I had a normal childhood," said Dozier ...

Author attributes Native Americans as important players in North American fur ...

Author attributes Native Americans as important players in North American fur ...

Native American women were important in the ancient continental Indian trading systems. The authors highlighted how they sewed moccasins, constructed buffalo hide and wooden lodges and cleaned pelts and hides into condition for sale.

Argentina courts trouble over unpaid debts

Argentina courts trouble over unpaid debts: BUENOS AIRES, March 28 (UPI) -- Argentina is courting trouble again in its dealings with the United States over unpaid debts dating to its infamous sovereign default a decade ago. US President Barack Obama suspended Argentina from the Generalized ...

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Apple Valley doctor, nurse bring medical aid to Peru

Apple Valley doctor, nurse bring medical aid to Peru:

Seline, a nurse, and Dr. Katie Klingberg, both of the Apple Valley Medical Clinic, recently spent a week providing medical care to the poverty-stricken residents of Chimbote, Peru. The mission trip through Los Amigos Medical Aid, a group of medical ...

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Texas Students Bring Relief to Haiti, Honduras, and Peru

Texas Students Bring Relief to Haiti, Honduras, and Peru: This year funds will be sent to three needy areas of the world: Haiti, Honduras, and Peru. As in years past, everything the students and faculty raise will be given to charities working to improve living conditions and bring relief to the problems ...

Puerto Rican company builds island's 3rd rum distillery

Puerto Rican company builds island's 3rd rum distillery

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Construction of Puerto Rico's third rum distillery has begun in the island's mountainous region. The Club Caribe LLC distillery in Cidra is expected to open later this year at the site of a former pharmaceutical plant.

Income Tax Filings and Civil Disobedience

Income Tax Filings and Civil Disobedience: Thoreau would know: in 1846 he spent one lonely night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes, in protest of the Mexican-American War. This one act revolutionized the very act of revolution, inspiring independence in India and the civil rights movement ...

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Changing partners in commerce

Changing partners in commerce:

The calls to boycott American goods and services in the wake of the recent resolution at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) have highlighted the fact that Sri Lanka's export trade is heavily dependent on a narrow slew of countries.

Ceylon Daily News

Pope meets Fidel Castro in Cuba

Pope meets Fidel Castro in Cuba

By NICOLE WINFIELD, AP – 1 minute ago HAVANA (AP) — A Vatican spokesman says Pope Benedict XVI has begun his meeting with Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. The encounter follows the pontiff's unusually political speech before throngs at the ...

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski gets standing ovation for sermon at Havana ...

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski gets standing ovation for sermon at Havana ...

HAVANA — In a sermon at the Cathedral in Havana, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski called for Cuba to move away from the “spent ideology” of Marxism without embracing the materialism of the West. Wenski spoke Tuesday to a packed audience of more than 300 ...

Ex-Brazil leader Silva's tumor is gone

Ex-Brazil leader Silva's tumor is gone: SAO PAULO (AP) -- A Brazilian hospital says former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's cancerous tumor has been successfully treated and has disappeared. Doctors found the tumor in Silva's throat late last year. He has since undergone chemotherapy ...

Puerto Rico gang members face drug, murder charges

Puerto Rico gang members face drug, murder charges: AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- US agents in Puerto Rico are serving 32 arrest warrants against members of two drug-trafficking gangs accused of several killings including that of a police helicopter co-pilot. US Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez said that at ...

Senate panel hears testimony on ABA's death penalty task force proposal

Senate panel hears testimony on ABA's death penalty task force proposal: The Senate Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony on a proposal by a Lexington lawmaker to create a task force to consider implementing recommendations of an American Bar Association study on the death penalty. Democratic Rep.

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Texas accuses anti-death penalty charity Reprieve of fomenting violence

Texas accuses anti-death penalty charity Reprieve of fomenting violence:

Texas, America's most prolific practitioner of the death penalty, has launched an extraordinary attack on the international anti-death penalty charity Reprieve, accusing it of intimidating and harassing drug companies and likening the group to violent ...

The Guardian

'72-year old, other 456 Nigerians languishing in Brazilian prisons'

'72-year old, other 456 Nigerians languishing in Brazilian prisons': Abuja - Rep Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, says 457 Nigerians, including a 72-year-old woman, Fausat Abosede are languishing in various prisons in Brazil. Dabiri-Erewa in Abuja on ...

Mexican officials criticized for 'raping' ancient mass burial site

Mexican officials criticized for 'raping' ancient mass burial site

More than 100 skeletal remains were recently found in a cave in Southern Mexico. (Photo courtesy of the Chiapas state attorney general's office.) In Mexico this month, a cave was found with the remains of more than 160 people. As Mexico's drug war ...

Inmates at Brazilian prison throw party with beer, barbecue and music... and ...

Inmates at Brazilian prison throw party with beer, barbecue and music... and ...

By Emma Reynolds But it has proved more like a lock-in at a bar for these inmates at a Brazilian jail, who were pictured on Facebook partying with kegs of beer, music and a barbecue. Warders at the high-security facility were laid open to censure when ...

Peru's Humala Struggles to Balance Mining-Based Growth, Social Development

Peru's Humala Struggles to Balance Mining-Based Growth, Social Development

Humala, elected on a platform of social change, has made no secret of his desire to use mining as a tool to reduce poverty and inequality in Peru. And yet mining is also at the root of more than 100 social conflicts across the country.

Department of Labor Announces $60M in Grants Available for Native Employment ...

Department of Labor Announces $60M in Grants Available for Native Employment ...

The monies will be available to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities to develop academic, occupational, and literacy skills of individuals for the purpose of making them more competitive in the workforce.

Latinos and Asians dominate jobs recovery - Univision News Tumblr

Latinos and Asians dominate jobs recovery - Univision News Tumblr: While all groups have experienced slow but steady growth in employment, the economic rebound has been kinder to Latinos and Asians, whose employment ...

Feds to investigate discrimination of black students in Jefferson Parish

Feds to investigate discrimination of black students in Jefferson Parish: "We have received numerous complaints of discriminatory treatment of African-American students in Jefferson Parish schools for many years," said Katie Schwartzmann, managing attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Louisiana office.

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Pope should urge greater freedom in Cuba

Pope should urge greater freedom in Cuba: Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the island's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, it is timed to help revive interest in Catholicism in one of Latin America's less devout countries and to draw followers to the church.

Nielsen Identifies Attributes of the Global, Socially-Conscious Consumer

Nielsen Identifies Attributes of the Global, Socially-Conscious Consumer

Consumers in Asia Pacific (55%), the Middle East and Africa (53%) and Latin America (49%) are more willing to pay extra for products and services from socially-responsible companies than consumers in North America (35%) and Europe (32%).

Evangelicals rise in Latin America

Evangelicals rise in Latin America:

"The Vatican is extremely concerned about competition with evangelicals," Daniel Levine, a professor at the University of Michigan who studies religious movements in Latin America, told Al Jazeera. "They are worried about losing their position as 'the' ...

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Putting the brakes on road injuries is one of development's greatest tests

Putting the brakes on road injuries is one of development's greatest tests

While car numbers in rich countries are static, sales are booming across Asia and Latin America and rising sharply in Africa. By 2015, India will overtake Germany as the world's fourth largest market for vehicles. According to the World Health ...

Plant-Based Molecules Show Cancer-Fighting Potential

Plant-Based Molecules Show Cancer-Fighting Potential: The program targets plants of the Great Plains used by Native American tribes and uses modern science to examine their chemical structures to discover the compounds responsible for their healing properties and determine which might have wound-healing, ...

World Bank nominee taking heat for criticizing corporate growth

World Bank nominee taking heat for criticizing corporate growth: In a sign of the importance of such support, Kim headed to Africa, Asia and Latin America on Tuesday on a nearly two-week "listening tour," the Treasury Department said. Kim will meet with heads of state, finance ministers and others in Ethiopia, ...

Chavez leads rival in latest poll

Chavez leads rival in latest poll: Chavez, 57, who is undergoing radiation therapy in Cuba after cancer surgery, remains popular into his 14th year in power due to his strong personal connection with the poor and heavy, oil-financed spending on welfare policies.

Catholics in Cuba no longer shunned, seek new role

Catholics in Cuba no longer shunned, seek new role

Once shunned, Catholics in Cuba now openly practice their religion, as the church here and the visiting pope pursue their soft power politics, gently pushing for change. Here at the Jesus de Monte church, lay clergy and volunteers have launched an ...

Cuba rules out political change after papal appeal

Cuba rules out political change after papal appeal: HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict is stressing themes of freedom and change on the second day of his visit to Cuba. This morning, he visited the shrine of the nation's patron saint, and spent moments in prayer before the small wooden statue.

Pope arrives in Havana; Cuban officials disavow political reform

Pope arrives in Havana; Cuban officials disavow political reform: Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Havana, where he was greeted with performances by Cuba's national ballet and orchestra. Earlier, Cuba's economics minister said there will be no political reform on the island. BY DANIEL CHANG AND NANCY SAN MARTIN Arriving ...

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The Call: America's drug war partners are speaking their minds

The Call: America's drug war partners are speaking their minds:

The former presidents of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico generated headlines in 2009 by jointly declaring that "the war on drugs has failed" and calling for decriminalization of marijuana, but the commentary was dismissed in some quarters as an easy ...

Foreign Policy (blog)

7 Ways the Affordable Care Act Helps Latinos

7 Ways the Affordable Care Act Helps Latinos:

All Latinos will save on important preventive services available free of cost and senior Latinos will save through lower Medicare Advantage premiums and lower prescription drug costs. Further, as many as 9 million low-income Latinos will gain coverage ...

Center For American Progress

Puerto Rico to recount votes cast in local primary

Puerto Rico to recount votes cast in local primary

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Puerto Rico's election commission says it will for the first time in history recount thousands of votes cast during the island's local primary last week following allegations of irregularities. Commission President Hector Conty ...

Goodbye Sarasota, Symbol of Hope

Goodbye Sarasota, Symbol of Hope: Well, like much larger and more important problems of poverty in our country, try telling that to someone that wakes up every morning living in blight. So it was with the Baltimore Orioles for the better part of the past 30 years.

Two sentenced to prison for participating in cocaine distribution ring

Two sentenced to prison for participating in cocaine distribution ring

Two men received prison sentences for their involvement in a large cocaine distribution organization, according to the US States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Jose Murillo, 43, a Mexican citizen, and Edwin Fernando-Montejo, 25, ...

Angolan community in Brazil briefed on Government concerns

Angolan community in Brazil briefed on Government concerns

Sao Paulo - The ambassador of Angola to Brazil, Nelson Cosme, Tuesday in Sao Paulo expressed the concerns of his country's Executive to pay a greater attention to the Angolan community in the South American nation. At a meeting with the Angolan ...

Attempted Native American Tribal Filing Raises Bankruptcy Law Questions

Attempted Native American Tribal Filing Raises Bankruptcy Law Questions: The Wall Street Journal reported this week on the fascinating case of an attempted bankruptcy filing by the Western Mohegan Tribe, a New York group that failed to earn official recognition as a Native American tribe by the federal government when it ...

31 Scholarships Awarded to Help Native Americans Attend Online University

31 Scholarships Awarded to Help Native Americans Attend Online University

The AT&T Foundation funded the first 30 of these scholarships with a $150000 contribution in October 2010 to help members of Native American tribes, their spouses, and people living and working in Native American communities earn a college degree.

The Mexican penitentiary system how prisons became tools for the ...

The Mexican penitentiary system how prisons became tools for the ...

Far from being an instrument aimed at fighting crime and reintegrating former inmates in society Mexican prisons act as a recruiting ground for the cartels ...

BRIC and the Multi-Polar Power Structure

BRIC and the Multi-Polar Power Structure:

Brazil, with its close to 200 million people and inhabiting the largest land mass in South America has been known for its Samba, Pele and soccer, the Carnaval which attracts millions to Rio each year, the Amazon region which holds the global eco system ...

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Colombian drug lord gets 16+ years in US prison

Colombian drug lord gets 16+ years in US prison: Marin-Zamora initially backed out of a plea deal because a life sentence was still possible. He was captured on an island off Venezuela in September 2010. The US has arrested and convicted several top leaders of the North Valley cartel.

Chicano Latino Affairs Council unveils initiatives for Latinos Special

Chicano Latino Affairs Council unveils initiatives for Latinos Special: Chicano Latino Affairs Council serves as a liaison between local, state and federal governments to better understand Minnesota's Chicano Latino community. The Chicano Latino Affairs Council (CLAC), a Minnesota statewide government agency created by the ...

Native American inmates challenging tobacco ban

Native American inmates challenging tobacco ban: SIOUX FALLS, SD (AP) - Opening arguments are scheduled Tuesday in a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Native American inmates saying a state prison policy that bans the use of tobacco during religious ceremonies is discriminatory.

President Santos: Graduation for the Extreme Poor a Hallmark of Government's ...

President Santos: Graduation for the Extreme Poor a Hallmark of Government's ...: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos speaks about the need for programs, among them Fundación Capital's Graduation Project, directed at the country's poorest citizens at a social innovation forum in Bogotá, Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia, March 22, ...

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What is the causes of poverty in the global south

What is the causes of poverty in the global south: Poverty in South America is primarily perceived as an urban phenomenon as 70% of the population live in cities But in the rural areas poverty has become a ...

Sustainability Is the Sensible Alternative

Sustainability Is the Sensible Alternative: The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was one of those defining moments when the world had a choice of paths to pursue. The Earth Summit marked a milestone with agreement by more than 178 countries on Agenda 21, the visionary blueprint for ...

Conference explores life transformation through microfinance

Conference explores life transformation through microfinance: “Poverty is the central issue. Microfinance is the means to an end. ... support to the extremely poor across countries like Mali, India and Nicaragua.

Body of woman brutally beaten in her California home to be flown to her native ..

Body of woman brutally beaten in her California home to be flown to her native ..

Iraq's foreign minister said Monday that the body of an Iraqi-American woman who was found brutally beaten next to a note saying “go back to your country, you terrorist” will be flown to Baghdad as lawmakers in her native country demanded a thorough ...

Native Americans join fight vs. Nevada bear hunt

Native Americans join fight vs. Nevada bear hunt: AP 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 at a Washoe County wildlife advisory board ...

Architects of Our Own Destiny

Architects of Our Own Destiny: Congressional representation isn't the only area where Hispanic employment suffers. Today, the Hispanic community suffers some of the country's worst unemployment as the rate stubbornly hovers at close 11%. Hispanic businesses are also facing ...

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Poverty, low education attainment lead to teen pregnancy, study finds

Poverty, low education attainment lead to teen pregnancy, study finds: The southern region as defined by the demographers includes Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Margaret Chapman Pomonio, director of West Virginia Free, ...

Search of Mexican Prison in Tabasco Finds Drugs, Knives, Alcohol

Search of Mexican Prison in Tabasco Finds Drugs, Knives, Alcohol

According to Spanish-language news source El Excelsior, Mexico's federal police performed a surprise search of a Tabasco Prison a facility and found a number of alarming items. Upon searching the prison's State Center for Social Rehabilitation last ...

Mexican national sentenced for offering bribe to Border Patrol officer

Mexican national sentenced for offering bribe to Border Patrol officer

LAS CRUCES Ð This morning, a federal judge in Las Cruces sentenced Gabriela Quintana-Hernandez, 25, of Gomez Farias, Chihuahua, Mexico, to four months in prison for a bribery conviction. Quintana-Hernandez has been in federal custody since her arrest ...

Pope Heads for Cuba in Closely Watched Visit

Pope Heads for Cuba in Closely Watched Visit:

The Cuban government will expect him to denounce the four-decade-long American embargo of Cuba, which they blame for much of their economic misery, contrary to what a range of independent economists say about the situation. Human rights groups are ...

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Pope Arrives in Cuba

Pope Arrives in Cuba: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom put Cuba on its annual “Watch List,” which was released March 21. Although it noted some improvements in the regime's willingness to allow churches to conduct social-welfare programs, it criticized ...

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