Bishops denounce 'horrors' suffered by immigrants in the West

Bishops denounce 'horrors' suffered by immigrants in the West: Bishops from North, Central, South America and the Caribbean denounced the “horrors” suffered by immigrants throughout the Western hemisphere. “Poverty forces thousands of people to emigrate and seek their daily bread outside their native countries,” ...

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Senators warns of dangers of English-only schooling in PR

Senators warns of dangers of English-only schooling in PR: Luis Fortuño wants to implement could reduce the knowledge of Spanish in Puerto Rico. Hernandez Mayoral said that he is in favor of bilingualism and the teaching of English on the Caribbean island, which is a US commonwealth, but he added that the ...

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State lawmaker fails in bid to block Crete detention center

State lawmaker fails in bid to block Crete detention center: Corrections Corporation of America, one of the nation's largest private prison companies, is the same company that owns a prison in Jackson, Miss. where gangs launched a riot earlier this month that involved as many as 300 inmates.

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Scandal grows around Argentine vice president

Scandal grows around Argentine vice president:

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's second-in-command is known as a fun-loving, guitar-playing renegade who wore a leather jacket to their Election Day victory bash. Amado Boudou still leads a new generation of ...

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Large audiences view premiere of Haiti documentary in Maritime Canada

Large audiences view premiere of Haiti documentary in Maritime Canada

By Roger Annis By Roger Annis Halifax, Nova Scotia--Documentary filmmaker Michele Mitchell completed a successful series of premieres in Maritime Canada of her new film, 'Haiti: Where Did The Money Go?' in this city on May 18.

Chagas Disease: A New Global Pandemic?

Chagas Disease: A New Global Pandemic?: "The infection affects up to 20 million people in Mexico, Central America, and South America, making Chagas disease the highest impact infectious disease in Latin America," The Chagas Foudnation reported. "In addition to being a disease of poverty, ...

Brazil: slowdown won't halt ascent on world stage

Brazil: slowdown won't halt ascent on world stage: He said Brazil was using its voice in global discussions to end violence in Syria and in the run-up to a United Nations conference on sustainable development scheduled to be held in Rio de Janeiro next month. Buoyed by an export boom, Brazil parlayed ...

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US honors Mexican filmmaker

US honors Mexican filmmaker: Zuñiga, who served two years in prison, was released after Negrete and Hernandez took up his case and filed an appeal, documenting acts of corruption in the criminal justice system. "Presunto culpable" is the highest-grossing documentary in Mexico's ...

Mexico's Drug Corruption Arrests: Why Soldiers Make Bad Narco ...

Mexico's Drug Corruption Arrests: Why Soldiers Make Bad Narco ...: The monstrous cartels themselves are certainly to blame for Mexico's narco-horrors. But groups like the New York-based Human Rights Watch have also accused the military of widespread drug-war abuses, including the torture, ...

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Why older Latinos matter in election

Why older Latinos matter in election: The recession has hit Latinos very hard, with unemployment and the foreclosure crisis causing hardships that complicate voting efforts. On top of that, Republicans are rewriting state laws to make it more difficult for Latinos to vote and for ...

Tool demonstration Sunday at Poverty Point

Tool demonstration Sunday at Poverty Point: Go back In time and learn about an ancient culture, the Poverty Point inhabitants, that once lived in northeastern Louisiana more than 3500 years ago and how they developed and created tools they used in their every day lives in order to survive.

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Highway through Amazon worsens effects of climate change, provides mixed ...

Highway through Amazon worsens effects of climate change, provides mixed ...: Paving a highway across South America is providing lessons on the impact of road construction elsewhere. That's what a University of Florida researcher and his international colleagues have determined from analyzing communities along the Amazonian ...

Latest pro-Cuba campaign gets assist from people in US

Latest pro-Cuba campaign gets assist from people in US: In the case of Cuba's new found hemispheric diplomacy, the pattern is obvious even to those not used to dig behind the news. The Cuban Government has launched a multi-pronged campaign to seek improved relations with President Barack Obama's ...

Warren concedes she told Harvard and Penn about Native American ancestry

Warren concedes she told Harvard and Penn about Native American ancestry

(CBS News) After more than a month of scrutiny surrounding Elizabeth Warren's past claims to Native American lineage, the Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that she had told several employers about ...

Native American elders honored as tradition keepers

Native American elders honored as tradition keepers:

Native elders from around the state will gather at the California State Indian Museum to be honored for their efforts to preserve and share tribal traditions and culture. This special "Community Day" will feature free admission to the Indian Museum, ...

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Global cuts 'will reverse progress on child poverty'

Global cuts 'will reverse progress on child poverty':

By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Government spending cuts will reverse progress made on tackling child poverty, a report for children's charity Unicef warns. The report on 35 wealthy countries says the UK did better than many others at ...

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US Has Second-Highest Rate Of Childhood Poverty In Developed World, Only ...

US Has Second-Highest Rate Of Childhood Poverty In Developed World, Only ...: By Ashley Portero The United States has the second-highest rate of childhood poverty in the developed world, according to a new report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which concluded that nations with comprehensive government programs ...

Chile Peso Weakens to Lowest Level of 2012 on U.S. Growth Report

Chile Peso Weakens to Lowest Level of 2012 on U.S. Growth Report: Chile's peso dropped to its weakest level this year as copper fell and a report showed the US economy grew less than a prior estimate. The currency fell 0.6 percent to 520.86 per US dollar as of 10:20 am in Santiago, from 517.55 yesterday.

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US journalist says Chavez's cancer in last stage

US journalist says Chavez's cancer in last stage: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's cancer is now in the "end stage" and it is "doubtful" he will live to see the results of the Oct. 7 elections, US journalist Dan Rather said. According to Rather, who cited "a highly respected source close to Chavez ...

Jamie Dimon and the Fall of Nations

Jamie Dimon and the Fall of Nations: By SIMON JOHNSON “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty,” by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, is a brilliant and sometimes breathtaking survey of country-level governance over history and around the world.

One baby, two moms equals controversy in Ecuador

One baby, two moms equals controversy in Ecuador

The women were considering taking the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an arm of the Organization of American States (OAS). They met met 16 years ago in Kenya, where they worked as volunteers. They entered into a civil ...

Native Americans occupy wind project

Native Americans occupy wind project: “We have to do something for their spirits,” he said referring to Native Americans who are thought to be cremated in the vicinity. To read the rest of this article see today's print or E-Edition of the Imperial Valley Press.

Microsoft Strengthens Commitment to Addressing Youth Unemployment in Latin ...

Microsoft Strengthens Commitment to Addressing Youth Unemployment in Latin ...

At its annual Government Leaders Forum - Americas, Microsoft Corp. today strengthened its commitment to creating opportunities for young people in Latin America and the Caribbean in an effort to ...

Nicaragua's 'revolutionary' drug war

Nicaragua's 'revolutionary' drug war:

Nicaragua's poverty may also help explain its nominally left-wing government's support for a reactionary war: it means money. Almost immediately after returning to the presidency just over five years ago, Ortega called on the US government to provide ...

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Caribbean Roundtable puts spotlight on poverty in the region

Caribbean Roundtable puts spotlight on poverty in the region: She said across the Caribbean, Central and Latin America, poverty levels range from 15 to more than 60 per cent, and the percentage of non-certified persons ...

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A Cuban March Against Homophobia

A Cuban March Against Homophobia: The MEDICC medical consultant, Maricela Torres Esperón, added “There is a tradition of machismo not just in Cuba but in all of Latin America. People should not be defined by their sexual orientation. I am glad that the government was in favor of the ...

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Gay rights are changing Latin America

Gay rights are changing Latin America:

Gay, bi and trans communities in Latin America have always existed, albeit quietly. With gay rights issues gaining prominence around the world, LGBT communities in Latin America are making themselves known to their neighbors, politicians and the world.

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Brazil Indigenous Still Waiting for Compensation

Brazil Indigenous Still Waiting for Compensation: Raposa Serra do Sul is one of scores of cases involving indigenous people that have been heard by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in recent years. And although Latin American governments sometimes drag their feet on implementing rulings, ...

U.S. condemns corruption

U.S. condemns corruption: The United States has condemned abuses of power resulting in human rights violations by Honduran police. The United States on Thursday condemned abuses of power across Latin America, highlighting serious human rights violations committed by Honduran ...

Canada fails to release human rights report on Colombia following FTA

Canada fails to release human rights report on Colombia following FTA: Opposition party member Scott Brison, who used his close ties to Colombian officials to propose the joint report, assured Canadians that the South American nation was committed to improving its shoddy human rights record, which has seen 17 trade ...

Argentina officially indicts civilians for role in 'dirty war'

Argentina officially indicts civilians for role in 'dirty war': In total, 254 convictions for crimes against humanity have been handed down by Argentine courts, including 23 civilians, according to Argentina's Center for Legal and Social Studies, an organization at the center of the push for human rights trials.

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Where the jobs are: Brazil

Where the jobs are: Brazil: This year, Brazil overtook the United Kingdom as the world's sixth largest economy, fueled in part by big growth in domestic consumption as millions of people climbed out of poverty into the middle class. Faced with record high unemployment at home, ...

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Obama campaign launches third Spanish-language ad campaign

Obama campaign launches third Spanish-language ad campaign: Latinos across the country know that the President does not have an economic record to run on. This ad will not cover up the fact that Latinos are facing an unemployment rate two points above the national average, struggling to ...

Iran to Sign $2 Billion Venezuela Oil Deal, Tehran Times Says

Iran to Sign $2 Billion Venezuela Oil Deal, Tehran Times Says: National Iranian Oil Co. and Petroleos de Venezuela SA plan to sign a $2 billion contract to develop the Dobokubi oil field in the Latin American nation, Tehran Times reported without citing anyone.

In Alabama, strict immigration law sows discord

In Alabama, strict immigration law sows discord: The crew he awaits is picking the Florida harvest. "I had to cut back my planting not knowing if the labor is going to be available," said Copeland, 47, who planted just two-thirds of his 30 acres on the far side of Straight Mountain in northeastern ...

Cuba Seeks to Diversify Exports to Boost Economy

Cuba Seeks to Diversify Exports to Boost Economy:

Cuba is mulling plans to promote exports of technology products as well as health and tourism services under an export diversification program aimed at boosting the economy, local media reported Saturday. The Cuban government has in the past two years ...

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British ship in Cuba to mark battle anniversary

British ship in Cuba to mark battle anniversary: HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- A British fleet-support ship has docked in Havana's harbor as Cuba and the UK prepare to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Havana. The gray RFA Fort Rosalie arrived Wednesday morning with more than 100 crewmembers aboard.

Escaping poverty on the back of a chicken

Escaping poverty on the back of a chicken

Poverty and traditional values dictate the lives of many young girls who will be forced to become child brides. 40 per cent of girls in Nigeria are married by the age of 15, and marriage puts an end to education. Once wedded, she will be subject to a ...

'We must all focus on child poverty'

'We must all focus on child poverty':

By Craig Lewis A new report drawn up by the Milton Keynes Child Poverty Commission suggests a series of measures aimed at 'reducing poverty now, with a strong focus on employment' and making sure 'today's poor children do not become tomorrow's poor ...

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USF Students in Peru

USF Students in Peru: ... seven students from the University of South Florida will be traveling to Peru to help build a medical clinic. The students are members of a USF chapter of an organization called Nourish International, a group that seeks to help end global poverty.

Trade pact with Peru and Colombia: Trade MEPs want stronger labour protection

Trade pact with Peru and Colombia: Trade MEPs want stronger labour protection: The trade committee praises the Colombian and Peruvian governments' "vast efforts" and fundamental improvements in law enforcement but says substantial work is still needed to "solve old problems", such as poverty, corruption, violence and particularly ...

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Haiti - Diplomacy : Canada is ready to support the actions of Haiti

Haiti - Diplomacy : Canada is ready to support the actions of Haiti:

Tuesday, the Canadian Ambassador Henri-Paul Normandin, stated that the new government inspired confidence, that Canada was ready to support Haiti, but that it was now time to take action. " [...] We're still here, working with our Haitian friends, ...

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Americans face jail for helping Haiti soldiers

Americans face jail for helping Haiti soldiers: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  – Two Americans being held for allegedly assisting a band of rogue soldiers during a demonstration in Haiti's capital face up to three years in jail if convicted on conspiracy charges.

Lower ABAG numbers hurt low-income families

Lower ABAG numbers hurt low-income families

Through 2011, less than 10 units of housing affordable to low-income families have been built in the city and not a single one has been built in the county. The 1250 lower income families who are still waiting for an affordable place to live include ...

Growing out of Poverty

Growing out of Poverty: As she faces the ceiling of the Guatemalan children's clinic, her cheeks bulge with oedema fluid normally seen amongst the elderly or pregnant. In the cot three feet away from her, lies little Gricelda. Her small, frail frame and severe difficulties ...

Children bring joy to prison powwows

Children bring joy to prison powwows: Under a new state policy, Native-American prison inmates can now request that children be allowed to participate in yearly religious and cultural gatherings behind bars. By Sara Jean Green Powwow visitors — including children for the first time in ...

FBI, US Attorney take over prison riot probe

FBI, US Attorney take over prison riot probe: The statement, released by Adams County Sheriff Chuck Mayfield on the department's website, said recent meetings with the Corrections Corporations of America officials and FBI agents, the decision was made that the FBI should lead the investigation ...

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Should Elderly Prisoners be Released Early?

Should Elderly Prisoners be Released Early?:

With America's prison population getting grayer by the year, the question arises: Should the US continue to incarcerate inmates in their sixties, seventies and older? Over the past two decades, the percentage of older prisoners has increased ...

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Studies show land rights reform key to saving forests, fighting climate change

Studies show land rights reform key to saving forests, fighting climate change

The report by the Washington-based NGO Rights and Resources Initiative is aimed at encouraging next month's UN summit in Rio de Janeiro to tackle the politically contentious issue of land reforms. RRI says studies in China, India and Brazil show local ...

New study reports rise in community land rights in tropical forests; most laws ...

New study reports rise in community land rights in tropical forests; most laws ...: The research also finds, however, that more than one-third of the rules governing land rights in most of the forests of Africa, Asia and Latin America significantly limit a community's ability to exercise those rights. The new report provides the most ...

Violence-Wracked Honduras

Violence-Wracked Honduras: Political and human rights activists, unionists and independent journalists are especially at risk. Conditions are exacerbated by Washington's complicity. On May 11, a US helicopter attack killed four Hondurans, including two pregnant women.

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Violence will not sway Colombia's priorities: Santos

Violence will not sway Colombia's priorities: Santos: Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday his country will continue to pursue government priorities on security and poverty reduction despite recent violence. "There are extremes to the left and right, who want to deviate the course.

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Native American children now permitted at Washington prisons

Native American children now permitted at Washington prisons: (AP) -- Children are now permitted at powwows held in Washington state prisons to participate in the religious ceremonies for Native American inmates. A powwow last week at the Washington state Penitentiary at Walla Walla was the first time in years ...

First Female Native American Earns PhD in Engineering at UB

First Female Native American Earns PhD in Engineering at UB: Shannon Seneca is the first female Native American to earn a doctoral degree from UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. BUFFALO, NY -- Seeing the Rocky Mountains usually tops the list of things to do when visiting Colorado.

Barberton man jailed in Haiti, local family concerned for his health & safety

Barberton man jailed in Haiti, local family concerned for his health & safety

BARBERTON, Ohio - A man was jailed in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, charged with conspiracy, as his family in northeast Ohio worries about his health and safety. Jason William Petrie, 39, is one of dozens of of people facing a ...

Women on the rise in Mexican drug cartels

Women on the rise in Mexican drug cartels: Pictures of victims of violence hang on the facades and walls of houses in Mexico. Females in the country are rising in the ranks in the drug cartel world. The high mortality rate in Mexico's drug war has seen women progress quickly in the shadowy ...

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Three Percent of US Executions Since 1900 Were Botched

Three Percent of US Executions Since 1900 Were Botched: There was very little criticism of the process or questioning of the death penalty itself. The stories were used to sell newspapers and nothing else." Sarat also noted that the group's analysis revealed that while the American penal system has gotten ...

Relatives of Mexico drug-war victims call for national unity pact

Relatives of Mexico drug-war victims call for national unity pact

Family members and activists representing more than 50000 victims of drug-related violence in Mexico in recent years held a testy meeting with the four presidential hopefuls and called for a "national unity" pact to restore peace.

'In the Life' documentary to celebrate LGBT Latino pride, culture

'In the Life' documentary to celebrate LGBT Latino pride, culture: NEW YORK — Award-winning news magazine “In the Life” will celebrate Latin pride in June with “Orgullo Latino,” a look at the complexity of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Latinos in the United States. Latinos are the fastest growing minority in ...

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Argentinian psychiatric patients find balance on the airwaves

Argentinian psychiatric patients find balance on the airwaves

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – At 2:30 pm every Saturday, patients descend to the garden of Hospital Psicoasistencial Interdisciplinario José Tiburcio Borda, Argentina's largest psychiatric hospital, to participate in the live ...

US becoming a failed prison state

US becoming a failed prison state:

There are 2.3 million people behind bars in America, the largest prison population anywhere seen in the world. No country in the history of humanity has locked up that many of its citizens at any given time as the United States.

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Bradley Manning, America's martyr for open government

Bradley Manning, America's martyr for open government

Two years out of his 24 years is a long time in military prison. His treatment has been highly controversial, every step of the way. Following every bit of information available during the first few months of his ordeal made it clear that the US ...

Child poverty at a time of crisis

Child poverty at a time of crisis:

A first-ever analysis of new figures from the European Union's Statistics on Income and Living Conditions household surveys reveals the extent of child poverty and child deprivation in the world's advanced economies. Some 13 million children in the EU, ...

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Ecuador: Never a Banana Republic

Ecuador: Never a Banana Republic: Unlike other countries, bananas were developed not only on large plantations but also on many small and medium-size farms, thereby opening new opportunities for hundreds of thousands trapped in poverty. This was virtually unprecedented in Latin America ...

U.S. military takes on Honduras

U.S. military takes on Honduras: Social catastrophe - 70 percent poverty and 40 percent unemployed - and terror likewise seem to be acceptable. Honduras' is the highest murder rate in the world - 6723 murders in 2011. Political repression has taken the lives of 25 journalists during ...

Canadian poverty has 'child's face:' UNICEF report finds Canada lags others

Canadian poverty has 'child's face:' UNICEF report finds Canada lags others

The report by the United Nations child advocacy agency ranks Canada 18th out of 35 industrialized countries when child-poverty rates are compared with overall poverty rates. In addition, Canada is in the bottom third — at 13.3 per cent — when it ...

Half-million pigs to be slaughtered in Chile health emergency

Half-million pigs to be slaughtered in Chile health emergency: A half-million pigs on a Chilean farm will be destroyed after the facility was closed for several days during a dispute with local residents. Jose Guzman, chief executive of Agrosuper, which owns the farm, said the animals would be killed rather than ...

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Drowning still a leading cause of child death

Drowning still a leading cause of child death:

The report, by the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention, estimated 5789 were treated in US hospital emergency rooms each year for non-fatal drowning. "Death rates and non-fatal injury rates were highest among children age 4 and younger; ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)

Obama's lead in California stays solid, poll shows

Obama's lead in California stays solid, poll shows: By huge margins, women, independents, moderates and Latinos are arrayed against the presumptive Republican nominee, according to a University of Southern California Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll of registered voters that found Obama leading overall ...

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Native American song

Native American song: Jason Kingbird performs at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in England earlier this month. The photo shows the view from the arena's big screen. 1 Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.

Obama's Remarkable Silence on Latin American Press Abuses

Obama's Remarkable Silence on Latin American Press Abuses

Freedom of the press is a cardinal American right—a pillar of our democracy, a guarantor of our freedom and our free institutions. Cherished by all Americans, it is perhaps especially sacred to American liberals and the left. Without it, the ...

Quiet Guatemalan prosecutor takes on dictator, drug gangs

Quiet Guatemalan prosecutor takes on dictator, drug gangs: But by putting him under house arrest, Paz y Paz has sent a message that Guatemala will prosecute human rights atrocities from a 1960-1996 civil war that killed a quarter million people and left deep scars in the Central American nation.

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Ohio becomes first American state to sell prison - Current TV

Ohio becomes first American state to sell prison - Current TV: Ohio becomes first American state to sell prison to private company. A prison in Ohio became the first state prison in the nation to be sold to a private company.

Lessons to be learned on prison life

Lessons to be learned on prison life: More than 89% of Norway's jail sentences are less than a year, whereas, America's incarcerated receive longer prison sentences. Ryan King, with DC-based Pew Charitable has recently said that it's difficult to compare recidivism rates from country to ...

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Pinpointing TB Treatment in Cities

Pinpointing TB Treatment in Cities:

“We looked at the city of Rio de Janeiro that has a population of about 6 million individuals and identified three geographic areas that have populations between about 50000 and 250000 where TB incidence was higher. So a hotspot is a geographically ...

Voice of America

Time to fight for a minimum wage increase

Time to fight for a minimum wage increase: As Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and New York's bishops concluded, this leaves workers “on the brink of homelessness, with not enough in their paychecks to pay for the most basic of necessities, like food, medicine or clothing for their children.” Poverty ...

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Argentina overtakes Venezuela as South America's biggest default risk

Argentina overtakes Venezuela as South America's biggest default risk

Bloomberg News Camila Russo BUENOS AIRES — Argentina's risk of default is the highest versus Venezuela in three years as the nationalization of the country's biggest oil company heightens capital flight and drives the peso to a record low in the ...

Brazil's social welfare program extended to 700000 families

Brazil's social welfare program extended to 700000 families

By the end of last year, nearly 13 million families were receiving federal aid as part of Rousseff's Brazil Without Poverty program, one of the largest welfare schemes in the world. But authorities found hundreds of thousands of additional families ...

500000 pigs in Chile to be slaughtered

500000 pigs in Chile to be slaughtered

SANTIAGO — Nearly half a million hogs and sows at the largest pig farm in Chile are to be slaughtered after the government closed the meat processing plant there due to health concerns. "They are going to be slaughtered. They are not going to another ...

Brazil readies 15000 security forces for Rio summit

Brazil readies 15000 security forces for Rio summit

Rio+20, the fourth major summit on sustainable development since 1972, will seek to chart a course toward a "green" and social economy that can balance economic growth with poverty eradication and protection of the environment. Brazil Defense Minister ...

Minority numbers in the military grow, but minority vets face a complex set of ...

Minority numbers in the military grow, but minority vets face a complex set of ...:

Immigrant and Latino vets have to navigate another level of complexity. East LA native Ruben Treviso came back from the Vietnam War in 1971 “all messed up,” he says. But his mental health was a top priority for his Veterans Administration doctors, ...

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Argentina imposes more controls on purchase of US dollars for travel abroad

Argentina imposes more controls on purchase of US dollars for travel abroad

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina is making it harder for people to buy US dollars to pay for travel abroad. A new rule published Monday says anyone wanting to buy dollars for travel must first prove their money was obtained legally, and provide the ...

Making Farming Better in Developing Countries

Making Farming Better in Developing Countries:

“The poor billions in Africa, Asia and Latin America, who spend 80, 90 percent of their income on food - if the food price goes up 10, 20 percent that has an immediate impact. Those people are more vulnerable. Just the recent food price spike from ...

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Poverty-stricken kids resort to scavenging

Poverty-stricken kids resort to scavenging: Children living in poverty are taking desperate measures to feed and clothe themselves at Waikato schools as families struggle to provide for their most basic needs. In one case, a young boy without a winter jersey was told to steal one from the lost ...

US Deportation and Narcotrafficking Policies Collide in Honduras

US Deportation and Narcotrafficking Policies Collide in Honduras:

When there is so much miserable poverty in Honduras and very little hope that the government will make things better or that the wealthy will shared their wealth and become more involved in addressing the social inequities of the society, ...

Honduras Weekly

Caught in the cycle of poverty: Choices, challenges, chaos keep undermining a ...

Caught in the cycle of poverty: Choices, challenges, chaos keep undermining a ...: But if Cole doesn't find a better way, chances are her children won't finish school, hold steady jobs or stay healthy. "Poverty is bad for kids," said Harvard Kennedy School professor Kathryn Edin, who studies poverty policy. "It just makes everything ...

No vacation from hunger for local children

No vacation from hunger for local children

But for thousands of kids in Kings County, summer break literally means hunger, anti-poverty advocates say. In order to prevent child hunger, Kings Community Action Organization is once again providing free meals to children this summer.

Study: Cumberland worst at caring for children

Study: Cumberland worst at caring for children: The compilation of data was released as part of the ongoing Kids Count effort conducted by Advocates for Children of New Jersey. The report, issued annually, compares the state's 21 counties in 15 categories, including child poverty, health, ...

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Government Involves Psychologists to Rescue Street Children

Government Involves Psychologists to Rescue Street Children: So far, there are 25 centers across the country where street kids are gathered all totaling 1074 as of March this year, revealed Jean Claude Hagumimana, the deputy coordinator in charge of street children at NCC. Poverty, conflicts and lack of family ...

How Fairtrade bananas are failing migrant workers

How Fairtrade bananas are failing migrant workers:

Although their stories are wildly different, both Federico and Jan Luis have together helped fuel the Dominican Republic's banana boom. The country is the UK's biggest supplier in value terms, with more than half of all their bananas exported to our ...

The Guardian

Brazil's historically poor northeast finally gets its boom

Brazil's historically poor northeast finally gets its boom:

For later generations, escaping the widespread poverty of the northeast customarily meant moving to livelier southeastern cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, though many migrants still ended up living in favelas, or slums.

Los Angeles Times