Paco de Lucía gears up for first US tour in five years

Paco de Lucía gears up for first US tour in five years

MIAMI _ For more than 40 years, the Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia has been known for a rare combination of virtuosity, tradition and creativity. Now 64, Lucia grew up in a poor family in Algeciras, a port city in Andalucia in southern Spain, ...

Immigrants experiencing quicker job growth than native-born Americans

Immigrants experiencing quicker job growth than native-born Americans:

by Perla Trevizo Immigrants are experiencing a faster rate of job growth than native-born Americans in the economic recovery, data show. "It seems that the rate of unemployment for immigrants is slightly lower than for the native group," said Jeanne ...

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Native American Tribes Look To Extend Their Wager Game Offerings To Online ...

Native American Tribes Look To Extend Their Wager Game Offerings To Online ...: by Press Office The existence of these casinos provides employment, present revenue to advance tribal causes, and perhaps most importantly money to help raise the living standards of Native Americans through augmented income and college funding.

Louisiana editorial roundup

Louisiana editorial roundup: While most other states exempt working-poor families from the income tax, Louisiana is one of a few states that continue to levy an income tax on working families living in poverty. By reducing state income taxes for working-poor families, ...

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Spokane adventurer and doctor dies on Cuba hike

Spokane adventurer and doctor dies on Cuba hike: Dr. Richard Byrd, a Spokane pulmonary specialist and ardent traveler, died after a fall while hiking in Cuba. By Rich Landers No comments have been posted to this article. Dr. Richard Byrd, a Spokane pulmonary specialist and globe-trotting adventurer, ...

Brazil stresses need for world consensus at Rio+20 meet

Brazil stresses need for world consensus at Rio+20 meet

By Yana Marull (AFP) Brazil — The upcoming Rio conference on sustainable development must yield a commitment to manage the world economy in a way that respects the environment and fights poverty, a Brazilian official says.

South Africa: Brazilians to share experiences on beating hunger

South Africa: Brazilians to share experiences on beating hunger: The bilateral meeting between the two countries was expected to focus on Brazil's experiences of the last 10 years in eradicating poverty and inequality and Zero Hunger, which will outline productive inclusion and approaches in the rural and urban ...

Feds: 2 met underage victims on same website

Feds: 2 met underage victims on same website: CHARLES WILSON, AP This photo provided by the US Attorney's Office in Indianapolis shows Richard Leon Finkbiner, 39, of Brazil, Ind. Federal prosecutors say Finkbiner may have coerced teenage boys across the country into sexual activity that he ...

Leaders at the Summit of the Americas: Protect Your Human Rights Defenders

Leaders at the Summit of the Americas: Protect Your Human Rights Defenders: Latin America was the most dangerous region in the world to be a trade unionist in 2009 and 2010, according to the International Confederation of Trade Unionists. More than 80 percent of murders of trade unionists worldwide during those two years took ...

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The pluses of learning to surrender

The pluses of learning to surrender: There were cowboy movies, where Native Americans (called “Indians” then) usually got slaughtered by the cowboys. The World War II movies seemed to have similar plots, except it was the Germans or Japanese who got slaughtered by Americans who stood ...

Calif. American Indian tribe gets casino approval

Calif. American Indian tribe gets casino approval: A Northern California Native American tribe says federal officials have approved its plans for a casino off Interstate 5 in Yreka. The Karuk Tribe says it learned of the National Indian Gaming Commission's decision on Monday. The tribe has been working ...

In Cuba, hitchhikers bemoan a host of economic problems

In Cuba, hitchhikers bemoan a host of economic problems: ON THE CARRETERA CENTRAL, Cuba — "Subanse," climb aboard, I said repeatedly, pulling the right wheels of my eight-seat van off the dangerous two-lane highway that snakes hundreds of miles across an island considered off limits to most Americans.

Gallup poll: Mexicans more afraid to walk alone at night

Gallup poll: Mexicans more afraid to walk alone at night:  MEXICO CITY -- Mexicans' trust in their military and national police has steadily declined since 2007, the first full year of President Felipe Calderon's war against drug cartels, a new Gallup poll says. The poll released last week also ...

Local minister an apostle for social justice

Local minister an apostle for social justice: Institutionalized segregation still reigned in Florida as in the rest of the South. Times change, but the 21st-century challenges are frustratingly similar: unemployment, crime and poverty. Tabernacle, located in the city's northwest neighborhood on ...

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Chile energy woes could hit investment rate - BHP

Chile energy woes could hit investment rate - BHP: SANTIAGO - Chile's costly energy and its fragile electric grid could hurt investment in the world's top copper producer, BHP Billiton base metals president Peter Beaven told reporters on Tuesday, but said it will not affect the global miner's current ...

Puerto Rico's Government Continues Initiative to Collect Illegal Weapons

Puerto Rico's Government Continues Initiative to Collect Illegal Weapons: By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico's illegal weapons collection programme has brought in 1056 weapons and 55044 rounds of ammunition in less than 60 days, according to Governor Luis Fortuño. Anyone bearing an illegal gun in Puerto Rico has a ...

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Connecticut becomes fifth state to axe death penalty

Connecticut becomes fifth state to axe death penalty

AMERICA'S enthusiasm for executing its own citizens is waning, with Connecticut abolishing the death penalty and the authors of the toughest death penalty laws in the nation now campaigning against them. The bill is expected to become law later this ...

Ecocide would be a crime against humanity

Ecocide would be a crime against humanity: ... the legal equal of humans, a concept already the law in Ecuador and Bolivia. ... in our posterity being born into a world of increased poverty and want.

Slavery is not over

Slavery is not over:

Among the organisations chosen by Google were International Justice Mission, a human rights agency working in 13 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America; Polaris Project, one of the largest anti-slavery organisations in the United States and Japan; ...

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University Recognizes Native Students With Awareness Week and Powwow

University Recognizes Native Students With Awareness Week and Powwow

Dancers at the 2011 American Indian Awareness Week powwow at Black Hills State University in Rapid City, South Dakota. Black Hills State University has the highest percentage of Native American students of all universities ...

Ex-Puerto Rico senator to be moved to US prison

Ex-Puerto Rico senator to be moved to US prison: AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former Puerto Rico senator who is serving five years in prison in the US Caribbean territory after pleading guilty to corruption charges is being transferred to a prison in the US mainland. The US Attorney's Office ...

Group: Mich. teacher fired for Trayvon fundraiser

Group: Mich. teacher fired for Trayvon fundraiser

AP DETROIT (AP) — A civil rights group says a Michigan teacher has been fired for encouraging her students to organize a fundraiser for the family of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer.

Trayvon Martin, 17, was fatally shot by neighborhood watch leader George ...

Trayvon Martin, 17, was fatally shot by neighborhood watch leader George ...:

Six shots were fired into an empty police cruiser early today in the Florida neighborhood where black teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed as the mayor warned that the town has become a "kindling box." No one was injured in the 4:30 am shooting ...

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Reducing Income Inequality Is the Key to Economic Growth -- Time to Pass the ...

Reducing Income Inequality Is the Key to Economic Growth -- Time to Pass the ...: Over the last 20 years, Brazil's policy of reducing economic inequality has brought 40 million people out of poverty and into the consumer economy. The Gini coefficient of inequality fell from .63 in 1989 to .53 in 2011. As a result, Brazilian Gross ...

Brazil to work with South Africa against hunger

Brazil to work with South Africa against hunger: Brazil has agreed to assist South Africa on social development issues, particularly in fighting against poverty and hunger. "It is important that we strengthen relations by sharing experiences with the view to find solutions to the similar challenges ...

Study: Majority of US Latinos accepting of gay people

Study: Majority of US Latinos accepting of gay people

With immigration from Latin American countries declining, and native-born Hispanic population on the rise, it would seem, the study suggests, that the ethnic group will move with the rest of the US in becoming more inclusive of LGBT people.

Opposition to same-sex marriage among 7 reasons Catholics leave church

Opposition to same-sex marriage among 7 reasons Catholics leave church

If it weren't for the infusion of Catholic immigrants, especially from Latin American, the American Catholic Church would be shrinking pretty fast. A recent study by two college professor tries to get at a simple question: Why are they leaving?

Drug boss's 1500 murders: Mexican cartel enforcer 'El Diego' sentenced to life ...

Drug boss's 1500 murders: Mexican cartel enforcer 'El Diego' sentenced to life ...

By David Baker A Mexican drug boss has been sentenced to life in prison after he admitted ordering more than 1500 killings. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez pleaded guilty in El Paso, Texas, to 11 charges, including conspiracy, racketeering and murder.

KIDS distributes 4000 Gerber Childrenswear items to Miami's needy children at ...

KIDS distributes 4000 Gerber Childrenswear items to Miami's needy children at ...

Miami — Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc. (KIDS), a global charity that provides new products to needy children, has begun to implement its 2012 national "Clothes 4 KIDS" campaign in Florida, a state in which it has invested significantly over the ...

Report: Arts classes at elementary schools reduced

Report: Arts classes at elementary schools reduced

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO AP Education Writer MIAMI -- Elementary schools without drama classes. High schools with large numbers of poor students that do not offer music. Those are two of the bleaker pictures that emerged Monday from a report by the US ...

Poll: Should California Voters Abolish the Death Penalty to Save Money?

Poll: Should California Voters Abolish the Death Penalty to Save Money?

In 1978, a state ballot initiative written by Donald Heller, a former prosecutor, gave California one of the strongest death penalty laws in America. Now he and others are working to ban capital punishment via a November vote.

10-year-old girl gives birth to baby daughter in Colombia

10-year-old girl gives birth to baby daughter in Colombia

10-year-old mother pregnant (Credit: Primer Impacto) (CBS News) A 10-year-old girl from Colombia gave birth to a baby girl via cesarean section, Univision's Primer Impacto, reported. The girl hails from an indigenous tribe in the town of Manaure, ...

Pemex May Seek Crude Project Offshore Cuba, La Jornada Says

Pemex May Seek Crude Project Offshore Cuba, La Jornada Says

Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned company known as Pemex, is seeking to explore and produce oil in Cuban waters in the Gulf of Mexico, La Jornada reported. Mexico is in talks with Cuba to sign an accord between Cuba Petroleos and Pemex, ...

'Spring' delayed as Cuba follows China's model

'Spring' delayed as Cuba follows China's model

Pope Benedict XVI's call for 'authentic freedom' during his recent visit to Cuba is unlikely to spur democracy. But other factors suggest economic changes are under way, patterned after the Chinese example, namely creating a market economy under an ...

The United States and Brazil: Trilateral Cooperation

The United States and Brazil: Trilateral Cooperation

Current initiatives improve health and food security in Africa, combat and prevent child labor in Haiti, partner with Bolivia on counternarcotics cooperation, and promote biofuels in Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Puerto Rico Opens New Rehabilitation Centre to Combat Drug Addiction

Puerto Rico Opens New Rehabilitation Centre to Combat Drug Addiction

By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño has inaugurated the island's new Pitirre Rehabilitation Centre, part of an initiative aimed at combating drug addiction in the territory. The $2 million plan, which is a partnership ...

Miami Cuban exile group calls for protest and boycott of Marlins

Miami Cuban exile group calls for protest and boycott of Marlins

By Melissa Sanchez The Cuban exile group Vigilia Mambisa has called for a protest at noon Tuesday against the Marlins stadium in Little Havana, in response to recent statements by the team manager, Venezuela-born Oswaldo "Ozzie" Guillen, ...

Bolivia 1952 - a glimpse of workers' power

Bolivia 1952 - a glimpse of workers' power

This month, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Bolivia's revolution of 1952. Despite brutal repression, poverty and a low level of development, ...

Brazil: Contemporary Slavery and Proposals to Fight the Practice

Brazil: Contemporary Slavery and Proposals to Fight the Practice

In our first few years at school, we learn that slavery in Brazil was abolished with the signing of the Golden Law by the princess Isabel on 13th May 1888. In theory, it became illegal on that day to exercise ownership over another human being in ...

Embracing a Brazilian mission

Embracing a Brazilian mission

By DAVID MOORE - The Arab Tribune A first-time international youth mission trip from Gilliam Baptist Church sent 13 teen-aged members to Brazil during spring break. From a world of poverty to lizards in the showers and unusual hotdog toppings, ...

Private equity chances in Brazil's mid-market

Private equity chances in Brazil's mid-market

By Alvaro Goncalves Overtaking the UK as the world's sixth-largest economy in 2011, Brazil has a surface area more than twice as big as Europe and a population over three times that of the UK. Since 1990, poverty levels have halved, with 40m people ...

Brazil's Amazon boom pits economic growth versus forest

Brazil's Amazon boom pits economic growth versus forest

By Sarah Grainger BBC News, Manaus Marcelo Gordo is standing in the back garden of a small house in a suburb of Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state, hoping to catch sight of a pied tamarin. These small primates, with white upper bodies and ...

Brazilian teenagers handcuffed to jail cells while sleeping

Brazilian teenagers handcuffed to jail cells while sleeping

Pictures have been released of teenagers waiting to be processed in Brazilian juvenile court handcuffed to cells while 86 sleep in a space meant for 30.

'Sextortion' case may be biggest in the U.S.

'Sextortion' case may be biggest in the U.S.

Rickard Finkbiner, 39, from Brazil Ind., was arrested Friday for sexual exploitation of children. / Photo provided by United States Attorney-Indianapo A media advisory issued this morning says US Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett will have a press conference ...

In Chile's slums, a lesson in how to make apps for social good

In Chile's slums, a lesson in how to make apps for social good

How many of the hundreds of thousands of mobile phone applications seek to do truly great things, such as lift people out of poverty or improve health care for the poor? The App Economy, to date, has largely touched the lives of those living in the ...

Medellín emerges as a Latin American trailblazer for local economic growth

Medellín emerges as a Latin American trailblazer for local economic growth

Latin America has until very recently been marked out by high levels of poverty, inequality, exclusion, informality, social injustice and, not surprisingly, violence. Unfortunately, the neoliberal policies adopted in the region from about 1970 to 2000 ...

Colombia's child soldiers lack government help – report

Colombia's child soldiers lack government help – report

Sofia's is one of several testimonies from former child soldiers in Colombia published in a recent report by Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, a network of international non-government organisations, following its two field visits to Colombia ...

Time To Kill Capital Punishment In America

Time To Kill Capital Punishment In America

Additionally, the use of the death penalty reflects the racial biases which continue to plague the American justice system. Repeated studies have found that the race of the victim is a primary predictor of whether the death penalty will be applied.

3 Reasons Not to Kill Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

3 Reasons Not to Kill Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

By Richard Miniter The Obama administration a recently announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3000 people, would face the death penalty in a military tribunal to be held in Guantanamo Bay, ...

Cubans arrested in North Sound, boat seized - Cayman Islands News

Cubans arrested in North Sound, boat seized - Cayman Islands News

(CNS): Four Cuban men were arrested by police at the weekend and their boat seized as officials believe it may have been stolen in the United States.

Waiting A Lifetime To End Death Penalty

Waiting A Lifetime To End Death Penalty: The first judicial execution in Connecticut, according to Lawrence Goodheart's excellent history of our death penalty, was a native American, but the first white guy to be hanged was the tragic George Spencer, a swineherd executed for bestiality ...

Venezuela's Chavez Announces Increase Of Minimum Wage

Venezuela's Chavez Announces Increase Of Minimum Wage: CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela President Hugo Chavez announced Saturday an increase of the country's minimum wage that will be implemented in two 15% hikes. The adjustments will take place in May and September, bringing the minimum monthly salary to ...

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Spring Break Trip Brings Life Lessons

Spring Break Trip Brings Life Lessons: Our families were trusting us to spend the break running around a foreign country and survive—and not end up in a Mexican prison. Thanks for the keeping the faith, mom and dad! The trip was beyond amazing. We traipsed through Mayan ruins in the jungle ...

Letter: Families of Gore's victims deserve justice to come with his execution

Letter: Families of Gore's victims deserve justice to come with his execution: It's the blood thirst of those in this country that drive the World's Christian Communities to denounce the USA's Death Penalty. The USA has the infamous shame of being the only nation in the Industrialized Western Wolrd, that even allows some states ...

Thousands without power in Buenos Aires after storm

Thousands without power in Buenos Aires after storm: BUENOS AIRES: Thousands of people were still in the dark Sunday days after a major storm killed 17 people and knocked out electric service in many areas of Buenos Aires, authorities said. The storm hit late Wednesday and flooded many neighborhoods in ...

New hope for poor children with autism

New hope for poor children with autism: Last month, US District Judge Joan Lenard of Miami wisely ordered the state's Medicaid program to start paying for these essential services. Under the ruling, poverty will no longer condemn autistic children to more serious cognitive and social ...

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Drug Lords & Vicious Criminals put Mexico on its War Footing

Drug Lords & Vicious Criminals put Mexico on its War Footing: By Jerry Brewer Although the Mexican government refuses to acknowledge the similarities with Colombia's criminal violence and deaths of 20 years ago, the threat to both nation's national security and democracy were virtually isotropic.

Pope Benedict declares Cuban-born Felix Varela as venerable

Pope Benedict declares Cuban-born Felix Varela as venerable:

By MIAMI HERALD STAFF Pope Benedict XVI, fresh from a visit to Cuba and Mexico, has given his approval for Father Felix Varela to be given the status of “venerable” — bringing the Cuban-born priest a step closer to sainthood.

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RI's minority youth living in concentrated poverty

RI's minority youth living in concentrated poverty: By: ERIKA NIEDOWSKI | PROVIDENCE, RI : Rhode Island's growing numbers of young racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately living in poverty, with the vast majority residing in cities with rates of child impoverishment well above the ...

Recap: Louisiana school reform

Recap: Louisiana school reform: Parents of children enrolled in public schools graded C, D or F and whose family income is no more than 250 percent of the federal poverty level — about $55700 for a family of four — could qualify. Because of an amendment attached to the teacher ...

Tiny Mexican newspaper leads the fight for truth amid the drugs war

Tiny Mexican newspaper leads the fight for truth amid the drugs war:

Run on a shoestring from a few rooms above a dentist's office in Culiacán, Río Doce is one of the last redoubts of investigative journalism on the frontline of Mexico's drug wars that have killed more than 50000 people since President Felipe Calderón ...

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For Mexican police, splashy arrests trump criminal convictions

For Mexican police, splashy arrests trump criminal convictions: After eight months in a Mexican prison, he developed a facial tic and flinches at the sound of sirens. Granada finally went free. But he's one of many victims of Mexican law enforcement officials' practice of parading detainees in public "perp walks" ...

Death penalty a bad option

Death penalty a bad option: The same week Connecticut's Senate voted to repeal the death penalty, a Monroe County jury agreed to impose that ultimate penalty on convicted murderer Michael Parrish. That death penalty shouldn't have been recommended — but not because of the jury's ...

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Governor Luis Fortuno on How Puerto Rico Avoided Becoming "America's Greece"

Governor Luis Fortuno on How Puerto Rico Avoided Becoming "America's Greece": "Things were so bad that I had to fly up to New York to meet with ratings agencies before being sworn in, to avoid a guaranteed downgrade to 'junk' status," says Puerto Rico's governor Luis Fortuño. "We should have been America's Greece.

Communities stymied by poverty, politics

Communities stymied by poverty, politics: These four California communities share a common predicament: They are low-income, primarily Latino and in unincorporated county areas that lack clean water, sewers and other basic services. "These are the kinds of conditions that we often don't see ...

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10 years after DNA cleared York County man, death penalty still debated

10 years after DNA cleared York County man, death penalty still debated: Pennsylvania has been singled out for problems with the death penalty, Lucas said. The American Bar Association cited numerous areas for reform in a 2007 report. Studies have revealed, for example, that 98.6 percent of jurors in capital cases in ...

End the drug wars by decriminalization

End the drug wars by decriminalization: The irrationality of the war on drugs is clear from the other article. It reports plans by US and Canadian defence ministers to support the war on drugs in Mexico. Making drugs illegal creates an illicit, profitable market which supports ruthless ...

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Julio Iglesias kicks off concert tour in Chile

Julio Iglesias kicks off concert tour in Chile:

Santiago: Spanish singer Julio Iglesias will give four concerts in Chile to promote his latest album `1`, part of a tour that will take him later this month to Argentina and Paraguay. The 68-year-old artist took to the stage Saturday at a well-known ...

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Brazil's Surge in Violence Against Gays Is Just Getting Worse

Brazil's Surge in Violence Against Gays Is Just Getting Worse

Brazil has never been hotter. Tourists and entrepreneurs are flocking to the country for its natural beauty and its booming business climate. Portuguese professionals are seeking work in the former colony. And the country's legendary party scene is at ...

Chávez to Raise Wages, Return for Treatment

Chávez to Raise Wages, Return for Treatment: By EZEQUIEL MINAYA CARACAS—Venezuela President Hugo Chávez announced Saturday an increase of the country's minimum wage that will be implemented in two 15% increases. The adjustments will take place in May and September, bringing the minimum monthly ...

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The Vatican's silence amid Cuba's atrocities

The Vatican's silence amid Cuba's atrocities:

BY MARIA C. WERLAU During his recent visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI said nothing about the Castro brothers' victims. This is not surprising. For decades, the Catholic Church has remained silent about most of the Castro regime´s worst crimes in its ...

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Twofold dilemma of DWI: State wrangles with repeat offenders; some focus on ...

Twofold dilemma of DWI: State wrangles with repeat offenders; some focus on ...: A first offender, for example, rarely gets the maximum of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. "It's never done," said Linda Atkinson, co-founder and director of the DWI Resource Center in Albuquerque. Cynthia Delgado of the New Mexico Underage Drinking ...

State casino campaigns face difficult challenge

State casino campaigns face difficult challenge

AP • BIG BUSINESS: Michigan has 25 casinos, including 22 owned by Native American tribes. They form a nearly $3 billion industry in the state. • VOTER VOICE: In 2004, Michigan voters approved a measure that requires most types of gambling expansion to ...

Colombia Prepares To Welcome The Americas To Cartagena For Next Week's OAS ...

Colombia Prepares To Welcome The Americas To Cartagena For Next Week's OAS ...

Thirty-three heads of government, representing all of the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) except Cuba and the newly-abstentious Ecuador, will be arriving in Colombia next week to partake in the forum, which bears this year's ...

Falklands: Government Condemns Attack On Buenos Aires British ...

Falklands: Government Condemns Attack On Buenos Aires British ...: The government has condemned violent protesters who attacked the British Embassy in Buenos Aires on the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War. Several ...

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World poverty in retreat

World poverty in retreat: 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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Best American historical towns you never heard of

Best American historical towns you never heard of: The Cherokee County Historical Museum in Murphy is filled with Native-American artifacts, including photos and a 1800's log Cherokee dwelling.Cherokee County Historical Museum Grain building in Castolon, Tex.Texas Traveler Next Slide Previous Slide The ...

Seattle flautist keeping Native American music alive

Seattle flautist keeping Native American music alive: I was co-producing behind the scenes for Montana-based Native American educator and producer/director, Julie Cajune, by bringing my Indian friends to the screen. As for the audio sound production, I was the producer in New Mexico at Santa Fe Studios, ...

Native American Casinos Considering Online Gambling

Native American Casinos Considering Online Gambling:

Yet, this presents a great threat to many land-based casinos run by Native American tribes throughout the nation. The worry is that many valuable poker and blackjack players may be able to play online blackjack rather than doing it at Indian ...

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Job web sites targets Native Americans

Job web sites targets Native Americans: The Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association has created a new web site called Nativehire.org, which aims to link Native American job seekers with prospective employers in the San Diego region. The web site was unveiled this week at a meeting ...

Death penalty trial due for 5 accused of planning 9/11

Death penalty trial due for 5 accused of planning 9/11

By Carol Rosenberg MIAMI — The Pentagon on Wednesday cleared the way for a death penalty trial for five Guantanamo Bay captives charged with engineering the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Retired Vice Adm. Bruce E. MacDonald, who is in charge of ...

Conn. repeal vote adds anti-death penalty momentum

Conn. repeal vote adds anti-death penalty momentum: Connecticut would be the 17th state without a death penalty. Although executions are rare in Connecticut, state Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield said the legislation deserves support in part because it bring the US closer to having a majority of states oppose ...

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Tupperware Built A Beauty Empire In Venezuela, Where The Most Vain Women In ...

Tupperware Built A Beauty Empire In Venezuela, Where The Most Vain Women In ...:

Using a "vanity index," which surveyed consumers around the world, Tupperware determined that women in Venezuela are the most obsessed with appearance. So it decided to capitalize on this by creating a new beauty division to its business, ...

Business Insider

Howe speaks on culture, spirituality of Lakota tribe

Howe speaks on culture, spirituality of Lakota tribe: Howe, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, discussed the importance that sacred land holds for the Lakota people in a lecture titled “Sacred Places, Public Policy and American Indians” Thursday in the ...

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Gay and lesbian foreigners may soon be allowed to marry in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gay and lesbian foreigners may soon be allowed to marry in Buenos Aires, Argentina:

This comes as welcome news to the LGBT travel industry in this very gay-friendly metropolis of Buenos Aires. Roy Heale, a freelance writer who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is SDGLN's South America contributor. He writes about LGBT issues from the ...

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Full Access to Justice Elusive for Women in Latin America

Full Access to Justice Elusive for Women in Latin America: By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES - Only a small proportion of women in the region whose rights are undermined achieve full access to justice, says a collective of women's organisations from eight countries of Latin America.

Bogota tourism sector aims to convert boom to local prosperity

Bogota tourism sector aims to convert boom to local prosperity: Now it has some of the highest levels of income inequality, poverty and unemployment in Colombia. Candelaria's many restaurants, hostels, hotels, artisanal stores, jewelers, and other businesses work together in a group called the Tourism Cluster of ...

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Colombian Competes for World Bank Presidency

Colombian Competes for World Bank Presidency: The bank works to ease global poverty by spurring economic development and has always been headed by an American. The candidates have job interviews beginning April 10 in Washington. International experience Jose Antonio Ocampo won praise as the head ...

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Falklands bravado won't ensure Britain's security

Falklands bravado won't ensure Britain's security:

Intelligence indicates that Buenos Aires has neither the means nor the real will to launch another war. The president's main aim is to deflect voters' attention from economic embarrassments. Rather than fight, she is more likely to sustain a ...

Financial Times

Dog helps send man to prison

Dog helps send man to prison

A 40-year-old Mexican man who was caught by a Nogales Police Department K-9 officer and his dog with more than 22 pounds of methamphetamine hidden on his pickup has been sentenced to four years in prison. Court records show that Judge James A. Soto of ...

Royal Caribbean cruise ship rescues 23 Cuban migrants found at sea

Royal Caribbean cruise ship rescues 23 Cuban migrants found at sea

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A cruise ship departing from Jamaica has rescued 23 Cuban migrants after someone aboard spotted their small boat. A spokeswoman for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. says officials on the Oasis of the Seas brought the Cubans aboard ...

102-year-old Paula Perez on growing up in Puerto Rico

102-year-old Paula Perez on growing up in Puerto Rico: When Paula Perez talks about her favorite television show, her face brightens and she smiles. "I love to watch those people; they are so nice and have beautiful voices," Perez said. Perez, who turned 102 on Tuesday, said her hearing is slightly ...

The Angels' Cuban import is back from injury and ready to hammer away

The Angels' Cuban import is back from injury and ready to hammer away: Morales was born in Cuba and was one of the country's best players when still just a teenager, hitting home runs at the plate and occasionally striking out batters on the mound. He was the first teenager to make the national team in the previous 20 ...

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Dilma fights accusations of selling out, risks losing party support

Dilma fights accusations of selling out, risks losing party support

From the assassinations of land rights activists, to an LGBT rights public relations fiasco, it was just one mess after another for the Workers' Party leader. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech during the launching of PRONACAMPO -- a ...

Growing Cracks in the BRICS

Growing Cracks in the BRICS: For example, while China and Russia have used their Security Council veto with frequency, aspiring permanent Security Council members Brazil, India, and South Africa are still finding their footing on the global stage, and appear hesitant to blatantly ...

Catholic fund heightens scrutiny of recipients' ties

Catholic fund heightens scrutiny of recipients' ties: But in February, the group was informed by a representative from the Diocese of Pueblo that its financing from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, an arm of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops devoted to ending poverty, was in danger.

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Latin American Nations Rallying Behind Cuba's Bid to Join Organization of ...

Latin American Nations Rallying Behind Cuba's Bid to Join Organization of ...

As the Obama administration holds fast to this exclusion, other Latin American nations are rallying—or in the case of Ecuador, boycotting—on Cuba's behalf, possibly forcing Havana's tense relationship with Washington to the forefront of next week's ...

Baguettes, cappuccino in Guatemala City: unlikely project revitalizes violence ...

Baguettes, cappuccino in Guatemala City: unlikely project revitalizes violence ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala's capital is a bleak and violent place, a city of dark, claustrophobic streets choked with abandoned cars. The wealthy hide behind barbed wire and concrete walls, hiring rifle-toting guards to fend off armed robbers.

Picatinny engineer strives to reverse shortage of women in science

Picatinny engineer strives to reverse shortage of women in science: Picatinny Arsenal engineer Lauren Armstrong atop Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the fifth day of a science exchange aimed at increasing the participation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Chile Abortion Laws: Senate Blocks Bills Lifting Ban On Abortions

Chile Abortion Laws: Senate Blocks Bills Lifting Ban On Abortions

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera delivers a speech before students at the University of Tokyo on March 28, 2012. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images) SANTIAGO, Chile -- The Chilean Senate has rejected three bills that would have eased the country's ...

Native Student Association Concerned About NCLB Waivers

Native Student Association Concerned About NCLB Waivers

Advocates for Native American students fear the state No Child Left Behind Act waivers may end up allowing schools and districts to ignore Native students and lead to a loss of information on their progress.

Black and Latino Businesses can Help Close the Racial ...

Black and Latino Businesses can Help Close the Racial ...: The unemployment rate now stands at 8.3%. However, black unemployment is 14.1% and Latino unemployment is 10.7%. In comparison, white unemployment ...

The Hispanic Gap

The Hispanic Gap: The unintended consequence is a dampening of Latino voter turnout." Minorities have been harder-hit by the recession than whites. While the national unemployment rate stands at 8.3 percent, it's much higher for blacks (15.6 percent) and Hispanics (12.5 ...

Banks Fail To Maintain Foreclosed Homes In Minority Neighborhoods: Report

Banks Fail To Maintain Foreclosed Homes In Minority Neighborhoods: Report

The findings constitute a violation of federal civil rights law and show that blacks and Latinos are unfairly burdened with one of the worst aspects of the nation's housing crisis, alliance officials said. “This is not about income. It is about race.

Argentine Dictatorship's Torture Continued in Malvinas/Falklands

Argentine Dictatorship's Torture Continued in Malvinas/Falklands: By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES - Former combatants in Argentina who took part in the 1982 Malvinas/Falkland Islands war are waging their final battle: they are trying to get the Supreme Court to classify the brutal mistreatment to ...

Argentina Near-Term Recession Odds Soar To 85% -UTDT Survey

Argentina Near-Term Recession Odds Soar To 85% -UTDT Survey: By Ken Parks BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--The chances that Argentina's economy will enter a recession in the near term jumped above 85% in the closely followed monthly leading indicator published by Torcuato Di Tella University. The odds of a recession in ...

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Argentine court orders raid on vice president's apartment

Argentine court orders raid on vice president's apartment: * Boudou was economy minister before vice president * Investigation cut short his honeymoon in power BUENOS AIRES, April 4 (Reuters) - Argentine investigators raided an apartment owned by Vice President Amado Boudou on Wednesday as part of a court ...

Venezuelan horse race preserves cowboy customs

Venezuelan horse race preserves cowboy customs: In this March 31, 2012 photo, a girl watches horse races across the Apure River in San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela. Competitors on canoes race across the Apure River as their horses swim to commemorate a 1819 battle in which soldiers led by ...

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Dominican Republic and Haiti continue plans against malaria

Dominican Republic and Haiti continue plans against malaria

Efforts to eliminate two mosquito-borne diseases –malaria and lymphatic filariasis– in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are ongoing, with the first of four binational meetings on the issue to take place in 2012, held in Santo Domingo on March 29 - 30 ...

Louisiana Legislature Approves Historic Statewide School Choice Expansion

Louisiana Legislature Approves Historic Statewide School Choice Expansion

With significant bipartisan support, the Louisiana legislature today passed a comprehensive statewide school choice bill creating a vast expansion of the publicly funded private school choice program in New Orleans as well as one of the most expansive ...

"Music Lifting Women out of Poverty in Brazil" - The World Bank ...

"Music Lifting Women out of Poverty in Brazil" - The World Bank ...:

The World Bank is working on gender equality. Women's rights are becoming more and more ...

Re: Violence Exposes Crisis in Latin American Prisons » Council on ...

Re: Violence Exposes Crisis in Latin American Prisons » Council on ...: Written by James Beaubien, this article discusses how the violence and a series of riots have broken out inside Mexican prisons and the recent riot and prison ...

Best Bites explores Native food at the Pueblo Harvest Cafe

Best Bites explores Native food at the Pueblo Harvest Cafe: Chef Burt Wilson is cooking Native fusion cuisine, with menu items like the crab stuffed trout smoke on a cedar plank. He explains to us the belief that cedar ashes are actually considered to be medicinal by several Native American tribes.

Why Latin America is looking to legalize cocaine

Why Latin America is looking to legalize cocaine: Basic human rights protections have been weakened or abandoned altogether. Law-abiding folk have fled or now dwell in fear. Thousands of people have simply disappeared. And the cocaine trade? It marches on, as insidious and profitable as ever.

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