The Human Disaster of Unemployment

The Human Disaster of Unemployment:

Long-term unemployment is experienced disproportionately by the young, the old, the less educated, and African-American and Latino workers. While older workers are less likely to be laid off than younger workers, they are about half as likely to be ...

New York Times

Pow-Wow celebrates Native cultures

Pow-Wow celebrates Native cultures: Pow-wows offer an opportunity for Native Americans to dance and celebrate their culture in a collaborative, community space, according to Pow-Wow Co-President Christina Goodson '14. “For the Native American community at Dartmouth, the Pow-Wow is a way ...

Japan Grants US$258 Million Loan To Peru For Social Programmes

Japan Grants US$258 Million Loan To Peru For Social Programmes: The loan will be officially announced Wednesday during a meeting between Peru's President Ollanta Humala and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. This amount, which includes four loans, will be earmarked for fighting poverty through energy renewal, ...

Venezuelan intelligence agents investigate crossword puzzle plot

Venezuelan intelligence agents investigate crossword puzzle plot

The Associated Press CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Venezuelan intelligence agents have questioned the author of a newspaper crossword puzzle, and even some supporters of the government are ridiculing allegations the words he chose might be coded calls for a ...

In Venezuela's prisons, inmates are the wardens

In Venezuela's prisons, inmates are the wardens

CARACAS, Venezuela — A cloud of marijuana bounces along with the bass line from a stack of six-foot high speakers in the corner of this large hall, its smell infused with that of urine. Through the darkness, noise and the bustling crowd, ...

More than 12000 people treated as military medical mission to South's poor ...

More than 12000 people treated as military medical mission to South's poor ...: Their work is part of a program that sends guard members and reservists into some of America's poorest communities, where they learn to set up health clinics and other projects and deal with large numbers of people, just as they might do after a ...

Military stop brings health care to rural Alabama

Military stop brings health care to rural Alabama: The doctoring Wednesday was part of a military program to provide free health care in poor areas of the South and whose latest mission came to one of Alabama's most impoverished regions, where the teams have treated more than 12000 people in less than ...

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2300 dead birds found on Chilean beaches

2300 dead birds found on Chilean beaches

SANTIAGO, Chile - At least 2300 dead birds have been found on Chilean beaches this week, officials say. Most of the birds, which come from different species, are believed to have died from getting trapped in fishing nets, CNN reported ...

Win a Prize Pack for Iron Maiden's En Vivo! Live Performance in Santiago, Chile

Win a Prize Pack for Iron Maiden's En Vivo! Live Performance in Santiago, Chile:

En Vivo! was filmed on 10th April 2011 in front of over 50000 ecstatic fans at the Estadio Nacional, Santiago, during the Round the World in 66 Days leg of The Final Frontier World Tour. It captures a magnificent performance by the band, ...

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Farms in main Argentina grains province to strike

Farms in main Argentina grains province to strike: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Farmers in Argentina's main agricultural province will call a strike this week against a proposed tax increase, but the planned five-day halt in crop sales should have little impact on exports.

Privatized Torture

Privatized Torture: As everyone knows, soldiers and civilian contractors at the Abu Ghraib prison committed criminal offenses, with military officials going so far as to hide prisoners from the Red Cross. In 2004, an independent panel of civilian defense experts found ...

Report Sheds Light on Troubled Latin American Prisons

Report Sheds Light on Troubled Latin American Prisons: The report comes on the heels of an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) report that documented widespread human rights violations in the region's prisons. According to the IACHR, much of the problem has its roots in overcrowding, ...

Louisiana prisons: The bottom line

Louisiana prisons: The bottom line: Louisiana has long housed more inmates per capita than any other state in a country that ranks No. 1 in the world for incarceration. And though high poverty, poor public education and other key quality of life factors contribute to the state's world ...

Where You Live Can Make You Poor

Where You Live Can Make You Poor: Instead, Europe invests in its citizens such as the 360 approach to Finnish schools. In America, there are clear differences in economic mobility between the states. The South and Southeast are worse off than the rest of the nation.

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Puerto Rico resident is local Fugitive of the Week

Puerto Rico resident is local Fugitive of the Week: A man who fled Puerto Rico for Cleveland has been named Fugitive of the Week. The head of Ohio's largest county has invited other county leaders to a Monday ... An Ohio agency seeks financial review of solar panel maker whose fired .

Child Labor and Agribusiness Churn Washington's Food Fight

Child Labor and Agribusiness Churn Washington's Food Fight: Actually, the migrant children in the fields today, facing severe poverty and limited educational opportunities, starkly represent how far modern industrial farming has drifted from the bygone bucolic ideal of the family farm.

Education At All Costs

Education At All Costs: ... of his career pressing for human rights, first as a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and later as his country's ambassador to the United Nations. News of his death barely registered outside Latin American diplomatic circles.

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Noam Chomsky: Palestinian Hunger Strike a Protest Against "Violations of ...

Noam Chomsky: Palestinian Hunger Strike a Protest Against "Violations of ...:

"The hunger strikes are a protest against ... violations of the elementary human rights," Chomsky says. He is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of dozens of books, most recently, "Occupy.

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Poverty levels drop in most of developing countries: ILO

Poverty levels drop in most of developing countries: ILO: On the other hand, poverty rates increased or remained unchanged in 25 of 36 developed economies as labour markets deteriorated and austerity measures took their toll. Latin America and Asian countries have stood out. They have had great success in ...

Ramonet: Latin America Lives Best Time in Political History

Ramonet: Latin America Lives Best Time in Political History: Quito -Latin America is living the best moment of its history, while taking 80 million people out of poverty by policies carried out by progressive governments, said Ignacio Ramonet, director of the ...

Argentina's Gender Identity Bill easily passes in Senate

Argentina's Gender Identity Bill easily passes in Senate: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Since being re-elected as president of Argentina in November 2011, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has embarked upon an agressive agenda of new legislation. Much of the new laws have been controversial economic strategies, ...

Caribbean countries commit to promoting human rights, freedoms of ...

Caribbean countries commit to promoting human rights, freedoms of ...: More than 150 representatives of the member states of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) adopted last week Friday, in Costa Rica, the San José Charter on the rights of senior citizens. The document is ...

The US Drug War Comes to Honduras

The US Drug War Comes to Honduras: New York Times correspondent Thom Shanker broke the story on May 5 that the US military had established three base camps in Honduras to help that country combat the increasingly powerful Mexican drug cartels. The Obama administration authorized this ...

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New Coast Guard Grad Was Rescued at Sea as a Boy

New Coast Guard Grad Was Rescued at Sea as a Boy: Orlando Morel was 6 years old when he and his mother left Haiti on a crowded small wooden boat destined for America. Now 24, Morel remembers the blue of the ocean everywhere. And the hunger. When a piece of bread fell into the water, Morel quickly ...

Colombia: On the Path to Development

Colombia: On the Path to Development: Years of hyperinflation during the late 1980s and early 1990s created enormous hardship for the Brazilian economy. A large portion of the population was pushed into abject poverty. However, everything changed once Finance Minister Fernando Henrique ...

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Hungry kids foraging in pig scraps 'like the slums of brazil'

Hungry kids foraging in pig scraps 'like the slums of brazil': Dr O'Sullivan said such incidents were at the extreme end of the poverty spectrum he encountered. "But this shouldn't be happening in New Zealand at all. It's what you hear about in the slums of Brazil. "We shouldn't accept one incident like this, ...

Anatomy of an American Execution

Anatomy of an American Execution: In 2010, while making an episode of Fault Lines on the death penalty in the US, Josh Rushing interviewed death row inmate Michael Selsor. It was the only interview Selsor ever granted. Two years later, Rushing returned to watch Selsor die.

Daughter of Cuban president leads gay rights march

Daughter of Cuban president leads gay rights march: Mariela Castro is head of Cuba's National Center for Sex Education and was prominent in a gay rights march Saturday in Havana. She also repeated her praise for US President Barack Obama's remarks in favor of same sex marriage, saying the American ...

Ambassador says Haiti is ready for international investment

Ambassador says Haiti is ready for international investment

OTTAWA — Haiti has long been synonymous in the minds of many with hardship and tragedy, poverty and corruption, instability and death. The Caribbean nation's history and recent events, particularly the devastating earthquake of January 2010, ...

Haitian president's mixed record

Haitian president's mixed record: The main reason is Haiti's chronically dysfunctional political system and Mr. Martelly's own governing style. As this is written, recently ratified Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is on his way to receiving the final vote for his government and ...

Peru, Japan To Strengthen Dialogue And Investments

Peru, Japan To Strengthen Dialogue And Investments: They also discussed about the trade relationships between both countries, in which Peru is one of the main suppliers of mineral resources for this Asian country. According to Japan's embassy in Peru, the loans will be allocated to fight poverty through ...

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CAF Applauds Peru's Path Towards Sustainable Development

CAF Applauds Peru's Path Towards Sustainable Development:

Peru's economy has been one of the fastest growing over the last decade, boosted by high commodity prices and supported by strong fiscal management. Nevertheless, still about 30 percent of the population lives in poverty, a rate that is much higher in ...

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Mexico Drug War: 49 Decapitated and Mutilated Bodies Found

Mexico Drug War: 49 Decapitated and Mutilated Bodies Found

Monterrey, Mexico – Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday along a highway connecting the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico to the US border, in what may signal an escalating war of terror among drug gangs.

Notable violence in Mexico over past year

Notable violence in Mexico over past year: MEXICO CITY – The discovery of 49 mutilated bodies dumped on a highway in northern Mexico on Sunday appears to be part of an increasingly gruesome war of intimidation among Mexican drug gangs. Here is a partial list of other notable incidents over the ...

SD officials vow to save child car seat program

SD officials vow to save child car seat program

Dennis Daugaard faces another challenge in fulfilling his pledge to reduce infant mortality in South Dakota after the federal government decided to stop funding a state program that provides car seats to needy families. The National Traffic Safety ...

Puerto Rico ruling favors Jehovah's Witness proselytes

Puerto Rico ruling favors Jehovah's Witness proselytes: AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A US court has ordered that all gated communities in Puerto Rico find a way to grant access to Jehovah's Witnesses so they can proselytize. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A US court has ordered that all gated communities in Puerto ...

Mothers in Honduras without Much to Celebrate

Mothers in Honduras without Much to Celebrate: These problems are related to poverty that holds almost 62 percent of Honduran homes below the cost of basic food, other goods and services, as reflected in the Household Survey 2011. From these families come most of the 75 000 Hondurans migrating to ...

Suppression of journalists in Honduras undermines democracy

Suppression of journalists in Honduras undermines democracy:

Hugo Llorens, then-ambassador to Honduras, called it a "great celebration of democracy." Zelaya's presidency was characterized by progressive educational reforms, increased minimum wage, and poverty reduction in a country where 70% of the population is ...

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Thousands remain in secret Libya militia prisons

Thousands remain in secret Libya militia prisons:

Martin said there was "credible information" that the deaths were caused by torture and that at least seven other people had been tortured at the same prison. The head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, or UNSMIL, said there had also been allegations ...

Middle East Online

Investments will alleviate poverty

Investments will alleviate poverty:

It has also found that in Brazil, broadband has added 1.4 percent to the employment growth rate. High capacity infrastructure like Wacs enables cheaper, more inclusive broadband access, which supports a host of products and services that have the ...

Independent Online

Alejandro Salas: On a Plane to Brazil

Alejandro Salas: On a Plane to Brazil: I found out she is a Brazilian citizen put on the plane by the Dutch immigration authorities and her passport given for custody to the crew. Paula -this is not her real name-was being deported. She is originally from one of the poorest areas in ...

Argentine province to return fields to nationalized YPF-paper

Argentine province to return fields to nationalized YPF-paper: | BUENOS AIRES - The governor of Argentina's Santa Cruz province signed a decree that key oil fields stripped from energy company YPF should be returned now that it is no longer controlled by Spain's Repsol, local media reported on ...

Haiti - Politic : Launch of Thursdays of the Public Governance

Haiti - Politic : Launch of Thursdays of the Public Governance:

The Thursdays of the Public Governance were launched this week in Port-au-Prince, at the initiative of the Centre of Cooperation Canada-Haiti, as part of the Strengthening Public Management Support Project (PARGEP). This Thursday, will address issues ...

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Poverty, ignorance leads to 1.6 million malnourished children

Poverty, ignorance leads to 1.6 million malnourished children:

Poverty and a lack of women's maternal education is resulting in 40 percent of four million Indonesian infants, or about 1.6 million children, suffering through malnutrition. According to medical experts, a lack of nutrition during pregnancy and within ...

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Venezuela: Americas Must Create Own Rights Group

Venezuela: Americas Must Create Own Rights Group: Venezuela's top diplomat said Thursday that Latin American nations should create a regional human rights commission that excludes the United States as a means of preventing Washington from meddling in their domestic affairs.

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Corruption flows freely along US-Mexico border

Corruption flows freely along US-Mexico border: "His transactions cost people [in Mexico] their lives. But then, anybody with a complete lack of moral compass, moral direction, will do anything." Blas Gutierrez, 31, a city trustee, faces up to 10 years in prison. His family and his attorney said his ...

Economy is No. 1 election issue for Florida voters

Economy is No. 1 election issue for Florida voters: Laid off in 2009 from her job as Latin America sales manager for a manufacturer of networking devices, she's still relatively fortunate, being able to work as a translator and banking consultant. "I have the advantage of being able to keep myself ...

Argentina sex-change, 'right-to-die' laws make waves

Argentina sex-change, 'right-to-die' laws make waves

By Indalecio Alvarez BUENOS AIRES: Argentina, the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, created a fresh stir this week by making sex-change operations and end-of-life decisions by relatives a legal right. The measures, a first in the ...

Cuba winning AIDS fight as homophobia gives way to tolerance

Cuba winning AIDS fight as homophobia gives way to tolerance:

HAVANA: Yudelsy Garcia O'Connor, the first baby known to have been born with AIDS in Cuba, is not merely still alive. She is vibrant, funny and, at age 25, recently divorced but hoping to remarry and have children. Her father died of AIDS when she was ...

Sydney Morning Herald

In world of prisons, some rural parishes' economies hinge on keeping their ...

In world of prisons, some rural parishes' economies hinge on keeping their ...:

He described "tear gas, Mace, fighting and rioting" while "the sheriff acted like he knew nothing about it." Prison meals are approved by a dietitian, McDonald said. He added that while fights do happen, nothing on the scale of a riot has ever occurred ...

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Rights groups hail stance

Rights groups hail stance: Gay marriage is legal in several countries; most are in Europe but others include Canada and South Africa. In 2010, Argentina became Latin America's first country to approve gay marriage. In France, outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy opposes gay ...

Mexico grants social security benefits to gay couples

Mexico grants social security benefits to gay couples: As a Latin country, Mexico sometimes suffers from homophobia inherent its Catholic and machismo-centric culture. However, the country joins neighboring regions throughout Latin America that are recently stepping-up the advancement of gay civil rights.

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Colombia: Partner of gay Catholic priest wins pension rights

Colombia: Partner of gay Catholic priest wins pension rights:

The Constitutional Court of Colombia found in favor of the partner, who lived with the priest for 28 years before his death in 2009, in landmark ruling, unprecedented in the history of Colombia and possibly Latin America.

PinkNews.co.uk

Mexico catches suspect in killing of 4 marines

Mexico catches suspect in killing of 4 marines: More >> By The Associated Press Former New England Mafia boss Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio was sentenced Friday to 5 1/2 years in prison for his role in the shakedown of Providence, RI, strip clubs. AP takes a...More >> By The Associated Press Former ...

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Growth seen in NM white supremacist prison gangs - The Santa Fe ...

Growth seen in NM white supremacist prison gangs - The Santa Fe ...: ALBUQUERQUE -- New Mexico's prisons have seen a rise in white supremacist gang membership as some inmates seek protection against largely Hispanic ...

California felon sentenced to prison in Arizona

California felon sentenced to prison in Arizona: A Mexican man who's a convicted felon in California has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison in southern Arizona. Federal prosecutors said Friday that 38-year-old Salvador Gomez-Lopez was given a 71-month prison term in US District ...

5 Things to Know About Single Mothers in Poverty

5 Things to Know About Single Mothers in Poverty:

Unfortunately, the number of families with children in poverty has risen since reform, but TANF caseloads have mostly stagnated or declined. This means that many poor families eligible for TANF, the majority of which are headed by single mothers, ...

Center For American Progress

North Carolina: Social Issues Bellwether 2012

North Carolina: Social Issues Bellwether 2012: Associated Press Today, 47% of the state's adult residents were born elsewhere, and more than 650000 are immigrants—some highly educated and working in the state's knowledge economy, but the majority being recent arrivals from Latin America.

In Latin America, Only Argentine Leader Stands with Obama on Gay Marriage (La ...

In Latin America, Only Argentine Leader Stands with Obama on Gay Marriage (La ...:

BOGOTA: President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is the only Latin American leader to openly support gay marriage – an issue that raises passions and has the potential to significantly add or subtract votes. In 2010, a year before her ...

Worldmeets.us

US Is 25th Best Place To Be a Mom

US Is 25th Best Place To Be a Mom:

While the US moved from 31st place to 25th, it still performs below average overall and quite poorly on a number of measures, including mortality rates. The best place in the world to be a mother is Norway, a report by Save the Children says.

Sci-Tech Today

Spanish expert sees snags for bilingual education in Puerto Rico

Spanish expert sees snags for bilingual education in Puerto Rico: San Juan – The academic director of Spain's Cervantes Institute noted here the problems involved in establishing public bilingual education in Puerto Rico, where Spanish is the mother tongue of the vast majority. Francisco Moreno, on a visit to Puerto ...

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Ex-Lion Boyd gets prison in sex case with minor

Ex-Lion Boyd gets prison in sex case with minor: FBI agents have spent three days in Brazil helping train local police officers to respond in case of terrorist attacks during the 2014 World Cup. FBI agents have spent three days in Brazil training local police officers to deal with terrorist attacks ...

Prospectors ready to tap Haiti's buried gold

Prospectors ready to tap Haiti's buried gold: Haiti's land may yet hold the solution to centuries of poverty: there is gold hidden in its hills, and silver and copper too. Now, two mining companies are drilling around the clock to determine how to get those metals out, and how much it might cost.

Americans Love a Good Killer

Americans Love a Good Killer: From vengeance to sanitation: Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian on How they argue now for the death penalty. Why the world price of food is going up: Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero on how speculators are starving the world's poor. Take your bank and shove it: ...

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American Idol finalist to visit Georgia hometown

American Idol finalist to visit Georgia hometown: The man convicted in the capital murder of a Lee County sheriff's deputy learned he will be eligible for the death penalty. Classes at Elba High School have been canceled for the day according to school officials. Elba City Schools says Elba High ...

Alan Gross, in Cuban prison, asks to see his ailing mother

Alan Gross, in Cuban prison, asks to see his ailing mother: By Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun Alan Gross, the Maryland man who is serving 15 years in a Cuban prison after taking communications equipment into the communist nation, is asking authorities there to let him return to the United States to visit ...

Stop the Drug War: Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Condemns US Role in Widening ...

Stop the Drug War: Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Condemns US Role in Widening ...:

Last year, his 24 year-old son, Juan Francisco, was murdered by drug traffickers in Cuernavaca, Mexico. In his son's memory, Sicilia created the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity to urge an end to the drug war. Sicilia is here in the United ...

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Ecuador Plans To Boost Car Exports To Venezuela By 85% In 2012

Ecuador Plans To Boost Car Exports To Venezuela By 85% In 2012: QUITO (Dow Jones)--Ecuador plans to increase car exports to Venezuela by about 85% to 12700 units this year, the country's deputy minister of industry and productivity said Friday. In a press conference, Juan Francisco Ballen said the exports will ...

Black Employment and Unemployment in April 2012

Black Employment and Unemployment in April 2012: unchanged from March when the national unemployment rate stood at 8.2%. Among whites, unemployment was 7.4%; among Latinos, unemployment was ...

Only Catholic Social Teaching can save capitalism from itself

Only Catholic Social Teaching can save capitalism from itself: Marxism failed, as Pope Benedict XVI remarked in Cuba not long ago. ..... good can never discount the dignity, welfare and thriving of any person or group.

Haiti - Cholera : Reassuring speeches that do not correspond to reality

Haiti - Cholera : Reassuring speeches that do not correspond to reality:

One can also note that the fatality rate is rising: it was 2.23 per 100 cases in 2010, it is more than 3 this year said Thierry Goffeau, head of mission of MSF France in Haiti. In many areas, health facilities of the Ministry of Health and Population ...

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Young quilters send creations to Haiti

Young quilters send creations to Haiti: The quilts will be sent to the Little Children of Jesus orphanage in Haiti through the Helping Hands for Haiti program. Clare Crescimanno (left) a member of the St. Michael's Church Generation of Faith program, attended the National Quilting Day ...

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Forest Grove nonprofit opens micro-business 'kitchen incubator' for Latino ...

Forest Grove nonprofit opens micro-business 'kitchen incubator' for Latino ...:

Adelante Mujeres, a nonprofit serving low-income Latino families in Washington County, started its Sabor Color project thanks to $42000 in funding from the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB) and the US Department of ...

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Cuba to invest $450 mn to boost rice production

Cuba to invest $450 mn to boost rice production: Havana – Cuba said it plans to invest up to $450 million over the next few years in a program to increase domestic rice production, which remains insufficient to meet the demand on the island, state television reported. The investment, which for this ...

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Critics: Biggest UN summit heading toward failure

Critics: Biggest UN summit heading toward failure: A former Los Angeles police detective faces 27 years to life in prison when she's scheduled to be sentenced Friday for murdering the wife of her former lover in 1986. A former Los Angeles police detective was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in ...

Brazil doctors to aid boat scalping victims

Brazil doctors to aid boat scalping victims: SAO PAULO (AP) -- Doctors are performing free reconstructive surgeries on people who have been scalped in freak boating accidents in Brazil's Amazon region. The vice president of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgeons tells the government's Agencia ...

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Argentine Senate approves

Argentine Senate approves: Now Argentine families won't have to struggle to find judges to order doctors to end life-support for people who are dying or in a permanent vegetative state. Getting such approval can be very difficult in many countries, particularly in Latin America, ...

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11th suspect arrested in alleged attack plot by white supremacists

11th suspect arrested in alleged attack plot by white supremacists: Melbourne, Florida (FL Today) -- A dozen alleged white supremacists, including six current and former Brevard County residents, face hate crime and criminal conspiracy charges stemming from an alleged plot to attack a rival, anti-racism group at a ...

Members of white supremacist group arrested in Florida

Members of white supremacist group arrested in Florida

Railroad ties, cement pilings and other debris reportedly mark the entrance to Marcus and Partricia Faella's rural Florida compound, situated on the edge of a wildlife management area marketed by tourism officials as a good spot for hikers, ...

Brazil: Land Fights up, but Fewer Activists Dead

Brazil: Land Fights up, but Fewer Activists Dead:

Conflicts over land issues in Brazil increased last year, although the number of rural activists killed nationally went down slightly, according to a report released by a watchdog group that tallies land-related threats and murders.

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Political corruption provides platform for the Gospel in Brazil

Political corruption provides platform for the Gospel in Brazil:

Most recently, several Brazilian politicians have been accused of engaging in illegal financial transactions with Carlos Augusto Ramos, a Brazilian businessman better known as Carlinhos Cachoeira, or "Charlie Waterfall." Cachoeira has been in prison ...

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Haitian who alleges abuse testifies in Uruguay

Haitian who alleges abuse testifies in Uruguay

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A 19-year-old Haitian man who has accused six Uruguayan peacekeepers for the UN of sexually abusing him in the poor Caribbean country was in court Thursday to testify to the judge investigating the case.

Carters return to Haiti to building projects

Carters return to Haiti to building projects: By Shelia M. Poole The 29th Annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project will return to Léogâne, Haiti for the second year in a row to help families left homeless by the 2010 earthquake. The 2012 build will take place Nov. 25 through Dec. 1.

Argentina gender rights law: A new world standard

Argentina gender rights law: A new world standard: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Activists say Argentina now leads the world in transgender rights after it granted people the right to change their legal and physical gender identity simply because they want to, without having to undergo judicial, ...

Conservative government doubles maximum penalty to 10 years jail for masked ...

Conservative government doubles maximum penalty to 10 years jail for masked ...

A 10-year maximum jail term would apply in the case of a “riot,” but in the case of an “unlawful assembly” the maximum penalty would be five years in jail, said Robert Goguen, parliamentary secretary for Justice. Goguen said in an interview that with ...

Brazil police detain American tourist in Rio

Brazil police detain American tourist in Rio: RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Police in Brazil say an American tourist was detained for several hours after trying to leave Rio de Janeiro without paying his hotel bill of more than $7000, including $3000 for "caipirinhas" -- Brazil's national cocktail of ...

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Valle Nevado Set To Open First Gondola In Chile

Valle Nevado Set To Open First Gondola In Chile: By Ben Gavelda Santiago, Chile, May 2012 – Valle Nevado ski resort, a visionary leader in resort development in South America, will launch the country's first ski resort gondola on opening day of the 2012 season on June 29. The gondola will feature 70 ...

SFU bolsters partnerships with Chile

SFU bolsters partnerships with Chile: SFU education grad student Marco Espinoza was in Chile May 2-9 with VP External Relations Philip Steenkamp to help strengthen the university's ties with South America's southernmost country. Chilean president Sebastián Piñera has pledged that his ...

Census Bureau Reports Foreign-Born Households are Larger, Include More ...

Census Bureau Reports Foreign-Born Households are Larger, Include More ...

Among the regions of birth, family households with a householder born in Latin America and the Caribbean were the most likely to include children under 18 (70 percent), followed by Africa (67 percent), Oceania (60 percent) and Asia (56 percent).

6 charged in Puerto Rico drug trafficking ring

6 charged in Puerto Rico drug trafficking ring: AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted six men on charges of running a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking ring to import cocaine into Puerto Rico. US Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez says the suspects are charged with ...

Bronx ministry lures addicts from Puerto Rico aloft promise of salvation

Bronx ministry lures addicts from Puerto Rico aloft promise of salvation

Photo: Alexander Hotz Eduardo Rosa was homeless at 50, on the streets of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, after his brother kicked him out of his house for smoking crack. But what Rosa did have was a name from 1500 miles away.

'New poor' flood Legal Aid as offices cut back

'New poor' flood Legal Aid as offices cut back: By Mike Clary, Sun Sentinel A cross-section of South Florida's new poor gathers each weekday morning in the lobby of the Legal Aid Society of Broward County, bringing with them a wealth of woes and a little bit of hope. "We thought maybe a lawyer could ...

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Transitions: Venezuela's Growing Drug Problem

Transitions: Venezuela's Growing Drug Problem: Another day, another deeply damaging whistle-blowing by a former Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal magistrate. Soon after Magistrate Eladio Aponte fled the country last month and aired a terrifying amount of dirty chavista laundry on TV, his one-time ...

Eighteen people beheaded in Mexico, drug gang suspected ...

Eighteen people beheaded in Mexico, drug gang suspected ...: The officer said a note by the bodies was signed by the Zetas cartel, a criminal militia led by former Mexican soldiers and blamed for some of the worst atrocities in Mexico's drug war. Guadalajara, known for its high-tech industry, mariachi ...

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Gay marriage a distant dream around the world

Gay marriage a distant dream around the world: “They can practice this in America if they want, since it's their right, but we are still very concerned, because whatever America practices, it often wants other countries to follow suit,” he said. The Vatican, a strident opponent of gay marriage, ...

Countries where same-sex marriage is legal

Countries where same-sex marriage is legal

The Swedish parliament voted to legalize gay marriage in 2009, making Sweden the seventh country in the world to allow same-sex couples to get married. Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage, after President ...

Argentina's senate votes for "dignified death" law

Argentina's senate votes for "dignified death" law:

(CBS/AP) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a "dignified death" law giving terminally ill patients and their families more power to make end-of-life decisions. 92-year-old retired school teacher faces ...

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Macri attacks on rubbish, defensive on hospitals

Macri attacks on rubbish, defensive on hospitals: Buenos Aires Mayor Maurico Macri continued yesterday with his row against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, stating that the President sought to “generate divisions between Argentines” on different issues, including the rubbish disposal system ...

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The Future of Mexico's Drug Strategy

The Future of Mexico's Drug Strategy: Latin American nations displayed unalloyed unity, indicating a deeply felt disdain for Washington's normal agenda in the region. Several Latin American countries have demonstrated a desire to approach drug policy in a sharply different manner from the ...

Military Trial of the "Gitmo Five" Underway at Guantanamo Bay

Military Trial of the "Gitmo Five" Underway at Guantanamo Bay: Mohammed, 46, was charged in 2008 by an American military commission with war crimes and murder and faces the death penalty if convicted. The other four detainees have also been in custody at the Guantanamo facility since 2006 after having been ...

Young females in Haiti receive World Bank training for the job market

Young females in Haiti receive World Bank training for the job market: In Haiti young women from poor homes have greater difficulties to find a first employment than boys. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 10, 2012 - A World Bank programme aimed at fostering economic independence among young girls and young women will result in ...

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Chavez rival struggles to close gap in Venezuela race

Chavez rival struggles to close gap in Venezuela race

By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - On a heady night in mid-February, Henrique Capriles roared himself hoarse with optimism at his victory rally in Caracas after trouncing rivals to win the Venezuelan opposition's presidential ticket.

Policeman detained for killing a teenager in ... - Buenos Aires Herald

Policeman detained for killing a teenager in ... - Buenos Aires Herald: Policeman detained for killing a teenager in Mendoza. A policeman was detained today in connection to the shooting of a nineteen-year-old man, after he was ...

"Women's Leadership is Key to Ensuring Sustainable Development"

"Women's Leadership is Key to Ensuring Sustainable Development": ... and eradication of poverty. Women's contributions are essential for environmental management, food production and social reproduction, as well as the transition to a green economy, Rebecca Tavares, regional director of UN Women for Brazil and the ...

Honduras: Exit Peace Corps, enter war corps

Honduras: Exit Peace Corps, enter war corps: Honduras has had to endure a similar predicament as its neighbors in Central America. The isthmus of countries is squeezed between South American nations that churn out the world's cocaine and Mexico, a prime pathway to the traffickers' end goal, USA.

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Cuba to increase hotel capacity

Cuba to increase hotel capacity: Havana – Cuba is intending to increase its hotel capacity on its offshore keys and islets to take advantage of the economic opportunities offered by tourism, according to leaders in the sector attending the 32nd International Fitur Fair.

Argentine law aims to provide 'dignified deaths'

Argentine law aims to provide 'dignified deaths':

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Terminally ill patients and their families would have more power to decide how they die in Argentina under a "dignified death" law being debated Wednesday in the Senate. By Natacha Pisarenko, AP A patient sits in the ...

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Death penalty is not justice

Death penalty is not justice:

Our Blessed Pope John Paul II, had it right: only use this when it is absolutely necessary, of which in the US, this means NEVER. +JMJ+ Agreed. The death penalty in 99% of the cases is unnecessary. I do take issue with the good Bishop's suggestion that ...

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New collaboration helps advance research for Chagas disease

New collaboration helps advance research for Chagas disease: ... a tropical disease spread by insects that is an important cause of heart disease in South and Central America. This therapeutic vaccine would work to treat individuals already affected by this disease, which is common in those living in poverty.

Most Puerto Ricans agree with current US relationship

Most Puerto Ricans agree with current US relationship: San Juan – Fifty-one percent of Puerto Ricans want to maintain the island's current relationship with the United States, according to poll results published Tuesday in San Juan's El Nuevo Dia. A non-binding question on the island's future status will ...