Argentine farmers call one-week national strike

Argentine farmers call one-week national strike: | BUENOS AIRES, June 5 (Reuters) - Argentina's main farm groups on Tuesday announced a one-week national freeze on grains sales starting on Wednesday in protest of a tax hike in the key agricultural province of Buenos Aires.

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Lawyer: Officials meet slain Mexican boy's parents

Lawyer: Officials meet slain Mexican boy's parents: A former mortgage broker was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for being the middleman in a $37 million insider trading scheme that federal authorities said was one of the longest-running ever uncovered. A former mortgage broker was sentenced ...

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Lawyer: Officials meet slain Mexican boy's parents

Lawyer: Officials meet slain Mexican boy's parents: A former mortgage broker was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for being the middleman in a $37 million insider trading scheme that federal authorities said was one of the longest-running ever uncovered. A former mortgage broker was sentenced ...

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Jobs Report: Unemployment Hits Latinos Hard

Jobs Report: Unemployment Hits Latinos Hard:

By Sugey Palomares | The Bureau of Labor and Statistics has released a new jobs report, which showcases that Latino unemployment rates increased from 10.3% to 11% in April. The economic recession has also affect the African ...

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Alcatraz interpreter prompts discussion on prisons

Alcatraz interpreter prompts discussion on prisons: I was horrified by what I read about the boom in prison construction in the 1980s. Then I came across an article in the New Yorker about solitary confinement. That piece radicalized me about prisons, and I became convinced that America's prisons are ...

UNASUR Defense Council Studies Haiti Situation

UNASUR Defense Council Studies Haiti Situation: 05 de junio de 2012, 15:35Asuncion, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) The South American Defense Council of UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) addressed today in Asuncion, Paraguay, the situation of cooperation with Haiti and the Fiscal Defense Expenses.

In Pawtucket, more children living in poverty, being abused

In Pawtucket, more children living in poverty, being abused: While Pawtucket's median family income has decreased, poverty has increased among the city's children. In 2011, the poverty level was $18123 for a family of three with two children and $22811 for a family of four with two children.

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Child poverty accord unlikely - Labour

Child poverty accord unlikely - Labour: The Labour Party says the Greens stand little chance of getting the Government to agree to a cross-party accord on lifting children out of poverty. The Green Party says unless there is cross-party consensus children will remain trapped in poverty.

Reforms in Cuba: Cubans now can have a phone line at their beach ...

Reforms in Cuba: Cubans now can have a phone line at their beach ...: In another example of the reforms instituted by the Cuban dictatorship that will surely usher in freedom and respect for human rights, the Castro regime has.

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Mexican marines free 13 people being held by Gulf cartel

Mexican marines free 13 people being held by Gulf cartel: Marines rescued 13 people apparently being held hostage and arrested 10 suspected members of the Gulf drug cartel in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the Navy Secretariat said. The operation took place on ...

Poll Shows Independents Care About Warren's Native Fiasco

Poll Shows Independents Care About Warren's Native Fiasco

“For people who understand that there's been no evidence presented that she's a Native American and that she has misrepresented that, they are overwhelmingly in favor of Scott Brown,” Barnett added. The Brown campaign in recent days has called on ...

Political prisoners of Brazil's dictatorship get apologies | National ...

Political prisoners of Brazil's dictatorship get apologies | National ...

Some 120 Brazilians who were political prisoners during the country's military dictatorship received official apologies from the state of Rio de Janeiro Monday.

Index shows Argentina heading into recession

Index shows Argentina heading into recession: By MarketWatch BUENOS AIRES --Argentina is on track to slip into recession later this year, according to the closely followed monthly leading indicator published by Torcuato Di Tella University, or UTDT. "It's very probable that the Argentine economy ...

Castro's Birthday Marks Urgent Need | Stuff.co.nz

Castro's Birthday Marks Urgent Need | Stuff.co.nz: Cuban President Raul Castro turns 81 today, another year on in his race against time to reform Cuba's economy and try to assure the survival of communism ...

Central America and EU Sign Trade Agreement

Central America and EU Sign Trade Agreement: Half of Central America's 43 million people live in poverty, which is concentrated in rural areas. Because of this, the region should also aim at other markets, such as South Africa, Russia, China or India. By Danilo Valladares The poverty-stricken ...

Turning Latinos against Obama

Turning Latinos against Obama: Using that measure, unemployment climbed steadily during Obama's first year, to 10.0 percent in December 2009. Then started dropping -- and has steadily ever since! Until this latest month, when it ticked up a notch from 8.1 to 8.2. As for the Hispanic ...

Poverty in Brazil - A Democracy in the Making

Poverty in Brazil - A Democracy in the Making: If extreme poverty in Brazil remains widespread, the social policies introduced recently are having a great impact. Even if they do not solve everything…

Ala. law could reduce prison overcrowding

Ala. law could reduce prison overcrowding: This came after authorities received a complaint aboutMore >> If you've found yourself recently joining the now stabilizing unemployed of America, merging social media with traditional job hunt tactics could be your ticket to employment.

"Virtual" Chavez campaigns for re-election in Venezuela

"Virtual" Chavez campaigns for re-election in Venezuela: By Andrew Cawthorne | CARACAS (Reuters) - Hugo Chavez's voice booms out from loudspeakers singing the Venezuelan national anthem. A life-sized puppet of the socialist president dances on stage. His face looms from hundreds of shirts and hats on ...

Mapuche: Children Educated Through Music

Mapuche: Children Educated Through Music:

Amidst widespread poverty, the Papageno Music Foundation is working to support children's development through music, a step that has brought real change to many Mapuche families. A decade ago, retired Austrian opera singer Christian Boesc decided to ...

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Schiavi undergoes questioning over Once Tragedy

Schiavi undergoes questioning over Once Tragedy: Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi is in Comodoro Py and is expected to be questioned soon by Federal judge Claudio Bonadio over the government's responsibility on Once's train tragedy that has caused 51 deaths in February in Buenos Aires City.

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Argentina sues British firms for oil exploration off Falklands

Argentina sues British firms for oil exploration off Falklands: Buenos Aires, Argentina (4E) – Argentina on Monday declared the oil exploration by British companies off the contested Falklands as “illegal” and sued five companies for carrying out activities around them. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said ...

Poor and fat: The real class war

Poor and fat: The real class war: The rise of Type 2 diabetes in children coincides with the rise of child obesity and childhood poverty. I'm sure to some that is just another coincidence. But to me that is as strong of an example as any of class warfare and what ails our economy.

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Janet Jackson Will Produce Transgender Documentary

Janet Jackson Will Produce Transgender Documentary:

... which will feature stories throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Latin America. Jackson, who has won five Grammys and starred in several films, recently came out in support of President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage.

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FULL-LENGTH EDITION: Castro & Krugman

FULL-LENGTH EDITION: Castro & Krugman: Amanpour pointed to a Human Rights Watch description of Cuba as "the only country in Latin America that represses virtually all forms of political dissent." But Castro said the rights group "does not represent the opinion of the Cuban people.

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Cuban salaries rise to $19 a month

Cuban salaries rise to $19 a month: The average monthly salary in Cuba rose 17 per cent between 2006-2011 to the equivalent of $US19 ($A19.67), the state statistics office say. That meant the average monthly wage of workers in Cuba - where the Communist-ruled state controls more than 90 ...

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Argentina's gender ID law takes effect

Argentina's gender ID law takes effect:

By MICHAEL WARREN AP BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Transsexuals have been lining up in Buenos Aires to be the first to take advantage of Argentina's groundbreaking gender-identity law. It allows people to change their names and sexes on official documents ...

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Latin America Weighs OAS Human Rights Reform

Latin America Weighs OAS Human Rights Reform:

A number of Latin American countries are pushing to restrict the power of one of the Western Hemisphere's oldest human rights bodies at a regional summit this week. The forty-second General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) opened ...

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Green economy: Does it include us?

Green economy: Does it include us?: Today is World Environment Day (WED), and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development will be held in Rio de Janeiro from June 20-22. A day for positive environmental action, the origin of WED can be traced to 1972 when members of the UN ...

Escape Europe And The US With This Low-Risk, High-Return Market

Escape Europe And The US With This Low-Risk, High-Return Market: Colombia and Chile have agreements in force with the European Free Trade Association as well. Meanwhile, domestic consumption is growing at an exceptional rate and poverty rates are declining, putting more disposable income toward retail spending.

Alleged Colombian gang leader seized in Venezuela

Alleged Colombian gang leader seized in Venezuela: CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER, AP, FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan soldiers captured an alleged Colombian drug trafficker Sunday who authorities say ruthlessly ran the neighboring country's biggest right-wing criminal gang ...

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US Patriot Act hasdenied Americans their freedom

US Patriot Act hasdenied Americans their freedom: The Patriot Act unaware to Americans have made them prisoners inside their own country brainwashed by media into thinking the US Governments are protecting their interests against “terrorists”. The US Govt is certainly protecting ”their” interests but ...

Haiti More Prepared for Hurricane Season says Minister Mayard Paul

Haiti More Prepared for Hurricane Season says Minister Mayard Paul

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - "Our national system of disaster and risk management for the 2012 hurricane season is more enhanced compared to previous years in five areas: communication, information, coordination, operation, training/awareness," ...

Elders in Peruvian Andes Help Interpret Climate Changes

Elders in Peruvian Andes Help Interpret Climate Changes:

(IPS) - A unique response to the challenge of global warming is happening in rural areas of Peru, where a network of indigenous elders is working out how to adjust weather forecasts in the light of climate change, while taking measures to safeguard ...

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Dance to the Music: National Youth Orchestras of Chile

Dance to the Music: National Youth Orchestras of Chile:

by Toba Singer While in Chile in late May, I was able to observe rehearsals and a performance of Taming of the Shrew by Ballet de Santiago, under the direction of the world-famous dancer Marcia Haydée, and coached by Richard Cragun, who had from its ...

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13th Annual Cuban Day Parade celebrates Cuban heritage with a touch of controversy

13th Annual Cuban Day Parade celebrates Cuban heritage with a touch of controversy:

Albio Sires pose for a photo at the beginning of the Cuban Day Parade in North Hudson County on Sunday, June 3, 2012. Doug Bauman/The Jersey Journal Cuban Day Parade 2012 gallery (51 photos) Hudson County's 13th Annual Cuban Day Parade made its way ...

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Puerto Rico bail referendum sparks rights debate

Puerto Rico bail referendum sparks rights debate

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A day after his teenage son was killed in a drive-by shooting, Luis Arvelo found some comfort in the arrest of a body shop worker suspected in the slaying. But that quickly evaporated ...

President Castro's daughter wants Obama to win reelection

President Castro's daughter wants Obama to win reelection: Castro, the head of Cuba's National Center for Sex Education and a proponent of gay marriage in Cuba, visited the US to attend a panel of the Latin American Studies Association in San Francisco last week. Unlike Castro, regular Cubans are usually ...

Chile in the Streets

Chile in the Streets: Chile is one of South America's most advanced and, until now, most stable countries. But, over the past 20 years, its people have achieved a mature political sensibility; they demand new rights and refuse to accept the restrictions lingering from the ...

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Former Smithsonian Native American bird artifact may fly to $600K

Former Smithsonian Native American bird artifact may fly to $600K:

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Dan Ripley presents the second auction of prehistoric North American artifacts from the collection of the late Earl Townsend Jr., on June 23, 2012, at Antique Helper Auctions in Indianapolis, Ind. The first auction from the ...

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Summer jobs for teens soar to highest level in six years

Summer jobs for teens soar to highest level in six years: In 2010, employers hired on just 6000 teens in May, kicking off the worst summer for youth employment since 1949. Minority teens have had an especially tough time finding summer employment, with just 34.6% of black youth and 42.9% of Latino youth ...

Peru court: Dutchman's extradition after sentence

Peru court: Dutchman's extradition after sentence: LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Joran van der Sloot's lawyer says Peru's Supreme Court has approved the confessed murderer's extradition to the United States, but only once he has served out his 28-year prison sentence in the South American nation.

Inmate dies in riot at youth prison in Guatemala

Inmate dies in riot at youth prison in Guatemala: ... they criticized for not being fashionable, prison officials said. The majority of the inmates at Las Gaviotas belong to the Mara Salvatrucha and Mara 18 gangs. Street gangs are blamed for much of the violence plaguing this Central American nation.

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Unionizing Prison Guards in an Age of Mass Incarceration

Unionizing Prison Guards in an Age of Mass Incarceration: But these protesters – many of them mothers of incarcerated men at the prison – were directing the repurposed slogan in part against the very same union that represented those African-American strikers as they marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Midwives Play Key Social Role in Guatemala

Midwives Play Key Social Role in Guatemala: The National Survey on Living Conditions carried out last year reported that 54 percent of Guatemala's 14 million people live in poverty and 13 percent in extreme poverty. The worst poverty and lack of public services, healthcare and education are ...

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Haiti - Health : Deplorable situation in the area of mental health

Haiti - Health : Deplorable situation in the area of mental health:

Antonal Mortimé, the Executive Secretary of the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations (POHOH) regrets that the problem of the mental health in Haiti is neglected, not to say ignored in our society. "Mental illness is a phenomenon that is not ...

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São Paulo and the world's biggest gay Pride

São Paulo and the world's biggest gay Pride:

Greater Sampa has nearly 30million inhabitants and is the economic and cultural heart and centre of South America. Best of all it is a really gay friendly city, having been voted the fourth most LGBT-friendly destination, coming on top of London and ...

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Pollution, Poverty, People of Color: The Factory on the Hill

Pollution, Poverty, People of Color: The Factory on the Hill: During World War II, African Americans like Clark's family moved to homes in the shadow of this refinery because they had nowhere else to go. Coming to California looking for opportunity, they quickly learned that white neighborhoods and subdivisions ...

Chile in the Streets

Chile in the Streets: Chile is one of South America's most advanced and, until now, most stable countries. But, over the past 20 years, its people have achieved a mature political sensibility; they demand new rights and refuse to accept the restrictions lingering from the ...

World Environment Day

World Environment Day: According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report titled “Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication,” Brazil, which among the world's fastest growing economies, is in the forefront of ...

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We simply won't look at poverty

We simply won't look at poverty: Folks who are homeless, living in extreme poverty. Many line up at 3 in the morning to get a shower when the doors eventually open at 6:30. Four recently died on the streets in a single week. Just down the road at Greensboro Urban Ministries, ...

Life in Bali jail for SA drug mule

Life in Bali jail for SA drug mule:

Most of them are young people arrested in Brazil. Two years ago, Patricia Gerber, from the NGO Locked Up Abroad, lost a high court battle to compel the SA government to sign prisoner exchange treaties with other countries. Her own son, Johan, ...

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Brazil police kill 6 suspected gang members

Brazil police kill 6 suspected gang members: Police spokesman Marcelo Gonzales - as quoted by Agencia Estado, Brazil's largest news agency - said that the suspects were crafting a plan to rescue a prisoner who was going to be transferred from a police lockup to a prison in Sao Paulo.

Five bodies found in charred car near US-Mexico border

Five bodies found in charred car near US-Mexico border

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said he suspected the incident that took place off Interstate 8, a popular route for smuggling migrants and drugs into the United States from Mexico, was likely linked to the Mexican drug war.

Venezuela says Colombian drug-trafficking suspect arrested with 3 associates ...

Venezuela says Colombian drug-trafficking suspect arrested with 3 associates ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's top security official says a prominent Colombian drug-trafficking suspect has been captured. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami says the government of President Hugo Chavez plans to turn Diego Perez Henao over to ...

Venezuelan candidate's shirts a boon for business

Venezuelan candidate's shirts a boon for business: By FABIOLA SANCHEZ « World AP LEGON, Venezuela (AP) - In a home with bare brick walls and a zinc roof, a 58-year-old seamstress with short, curly hair is sewing shirts for a young politician who she thinks has a good shot at unseating Hugo Chavez as ...

Mo. bill targets parents facing 'poverty trap'

Mo. bill targets parents facing 'poverty trap'

"But they have to decline it because 25 cents isn't enough to cover the loss of their child care. So not only do they keep themselves in that cycle, but then they set themselves up for failure down the road as well. "This is trapping women in poverty.

Raul Castro's daugher calls for release of Cuban Five and Alan Gross

Raul Castro's daugher calls for release of Cuban Five and Alan Gross

(JTA) -- The daughter of Cuban head of state Raul Castro said that jailed American Alan Gross "has been granted everything that he's asked for." In an interview on CNN's AMANPOUR to be aired Monday, June 4, Mariela Castro told host Christiane Amanpour: ...

Website offers Native Americans diabetes forums

Website offers Native Americans diabetes forums: (AP) — Two Native American professors living in Kansas say Type 2 diabetes has ravaged their race for so many years they felt compelled to help spread information and hope for those battling the disease. Rhonda LeValdo and Teresa Trumbly Lamsam said ...

Chile cenbank could act if global slowdown bites

Chile cenbank could act if global slowdown bites: * Most economists expect rates to stay on hold for now * Deputy cenbank governor says bank ready to act if needed SANTIAGO, June 3 (Reuters) - Chile's central bank could act aggressively if the global economic slowdown hurts the local economy, ...

HIV-positive women in Argentina mainly infected by stable partners

HIV-positive women in Argentina mainly infected by stable partners: This national organization and the Buenos Aires Network of People Living with HIV jointly surveyed 465 women in that situation around the country for the “Study of Recently Diagnosed Women”. The women interviewed were all diagnosed since Jan. 1, 2009.

Disused power plant in Argentina transformed into art hub

Disused power plant in Argentina transformed into art hub: BUENOS AIRES--An abandoned power plant in Buenos Aires dating back to the early 20th century has been transformed into a cultural center, a key part of plans to revitalize the “poor” south of Argentina's capital. The old brick factory topped with a ...

Scandal grows around Argentine vice president

Scandal grows around Argentine vice president: FILE - In this April 25, 2012 file photo, Argentina's Vice President and Senate President Amado Boudou attends the debate of an oil nationalization bill, proposed by Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, at Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Venezuela's Chavez makes first media appearance in 6 weeks

Venezuela's Chavez makes first media appearance in 6 weeks: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first media appearance since his May 11 return from Cuba after finishing his radiation therapy sessions, and he looked lively and was walking around, although he only appeared in public briefly and did not take ...

Police silent on drug bust

Police silent on drug bust: The south Okanagan village of Keremeos is abuzz with reports that a trio of well-known locals, including a former top municipal employee, are languishing in a South Pacific prison after a high seas raid on an unregistered sailboat netted a ...

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The Boulé Foundation of Sigma Pi Phi presents $50000 to the Haiti Missionary ...

The Boulé Foundation of Sigma Pi Phi presents $50000 to the Haiti Missionary ...: The Boulé Foundation of Sigma Pi Phi presents the Haiti Missionary Support Group $50000 towards their goal of offering humanitarian services to the country of Haiti. (Beaumont, Texas) The Delta Zeta member boulé of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated ...

Fathers play key role in healthy child development

Fathers play key role in healthy child development

When caring fathers are involved in raising their children, incidences of child abuse and neglect are greatly reduced, as is the number of children who grow up living in poverty. Active and involved dads help improve prenatal and infant health and ...

Amid turmoil, a day of triumph

Amid turmoil, a day of triumph: Massachusetts Democratic Convention delegates were virtually unanimous in their support for a woman whacked for five weeks now over suspect claims of Native American heritage. Now Warren, a relentless foe of predatory banking and unfair foreclosures, ...

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Buenos Aires province farmers on 9 days commercial strike against higher taxes

Buenos Aires province farmers on 9 days commercial strike against higher taxes:

Farmers Argentina's top agricultural province of Buenos Aires will halt sales of grains and livestock for nine days to protest against a tax hike passed by the local Congress on Thursday, threatening corn and soy shipments from a leading global ...

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How Romney Can Win the Hispanic Vote

How Romney Can Win the Hispanic Vote:

Since the last report, the Hispanic unemployment rate has jumped from 10.3 percent to 11.0 percent. Overall, the American economy added 69000 jobs in May, far below the expectations of most economists and analysts, who had expected over 150000 new jobs ...

The Fiscal Times

Demand for halal foods in Oklahoma prisons increasing

Demand for halal foods in Oklahoma prisons increasing

Photo By David McDaniel/The Oklahoman David McDaniel - The Oklahoman 06/03/2012 Individual meals cost three to four times as much as general population meals, according to prison officials. Other costs include extra time needed to.

CCA riot: Waiting on the outside

CCA riot: Waiting on the outside: Henderson said her brother told her the guards had been “kind of rough” with the prisoners lately. In the wake of the incident, a spokesman with Corrections Corporation of America — the parent company of the privately owned ACCC, which houses federal ...

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Deadly kissing bug disease may threaten US

Deadly kissing bug disease may threaten US: Experts worry that may be the case with a disease now affecting millions in Latin America. Dr. Peter Hoetz with the Baylor College of Medicine is working on the front lines of the disease in Texas. "I like to call Chagas disease arguably the most ...

We need meaningful jail, prison reform

We need meaningful jail, prison reform: Bruce gives us the perfect opportunity to talk about something we don't talk about enough, and that's the need for jail and prison reform in America. Now, much of his griping about the Denver city and county jail can be taken for what it's worth.

Mexico suspends, probes judges who released son of drug capo, mayors accused ...

Mexico suspends, probes judges who released son of drug capo, mayors accused ...

Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar had been sentenced by a lower court to five years in prison for money laundering, but the appellate judge ruled that there was no proof the money he used to open two bank accounts came from drug trafficking and that being ...

KidsCare II open to Arizona's uninsured children

KidsCare II open to Arizona's uninsured children: Arizona remains the only state with a waiting list for its children's health program. KidsCare II will apply to families with incomes below 175 percent of poverty, or about $33400 for a family of three. It's funded through a new agreement that will ...

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Free expression in Americas goes beyond left or right

Free expression in Americas goes beyond left or right: The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the human rights commission for the Organization of American States condemned his murder, and expressed "concern over the lack of significant progress in clarifying the murders of [by ...

America's High Incarceration Rate Puts Justice at Risk

America's High Incarceration Rate Puts Justice at Risk: As of 2009, more than half of all the people in federal prisons were incarcerated for drug crimes. Less than 8 percent were locked up for committing a crime of violence. The American criminal justice system used to be focused on rehabilitating the ...

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,” ...

Tackling climate change in coastal communities

Tackling climate change in coastal communities

Central America contributes only about 0.3 percent of world's annual net carbon emissions, but widespread poverty, lack of infrastructure and high concentrations of people in vulnerable areas like coastlines mean the region stands to suffer ...

Homophobic in Brazil? You may soon be on wrong side of law

Homophobic in Brazil? You may soon be on wrong side of law: BY NATASHA BARSOTTI – Progress on the queer rights front in Latin America got another boost May 25 when a Brazilian Senate committee gave a thumbs-up to an anti-homophobia bill that could see discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender ...

Gay Games Blog: Outreach to Latin American academics in San ...

Gay Games Blog: Outreach to Latin American academics in San ...: FGG Honorary Life Member Derek Liecty and FGG Officer of Marketing Doug Litwin attended part of the 2012 conference of the Latin American ...

Revisiting the US-Honduran Relationship

Revisiting the US-Honduran Relationship: With the cessation of US aid, the flow of drugs from Central America to Mexico and the US could very well increase, potentially leading to a spike in rates of drug abuse and crime throughout the region. An astounding 84 percent of South American ...

Chile's solar market gains international interest

Chile's solar market gains international interest: Chile is emerging as a possible hub for solar energy development. Green Power Conferences will host its first Chilean renewable energy congress in Santiago this fall in order to bring solar businesses and investors together in a country with growing ...

Time to put children high on everybody's agenda

Time to put children high on everybody's agenda: More than a quarter of families with children in Georgia continue to live in poverty. This, in turn, perpetuates the cycle of poverty across generations. Child poverty often persists throughout the life cycle, meaning that a child born into poverty ...

In dismal jobs report, unemployment rate of minority workers rises

In dismal jobs report, unemployment rate of minority workers rises: Black unemployment now stands at 13.6%, up from 13% the month before; for Latinos, the unemployment rate rose to 11% from 10.3% in April. Employers added just 69000 jobs last month, less than half of what analysts were predicting.

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Govt: 766000 More Women Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office

Govt: 766000 More Women Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office: By Anthony Sokol The number of unemployed American women grew by 766000 in May since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, CNSNews.com reported. There were approximately 5005000 unemployed women in the United States in January 2009, ...

White House Releases Plan to Reduce Asthma Rates Among Latinos

White House Releases Plan to Reduce Asthma Rates Among Latinos: Minority and low-income children suffer from the disease most, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control. About 16 percent of African American children have asthma, while the rate for Hispanics is 8 percent. Of Latinos, Puerto Ricans ...

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'Chagas Disease' to become a potential global pandemic

'Chagas Disease' to become a potential global pandemic: According to the foundation, "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. In addition to being a disease of poverty, ...

OAS dragged into Argentina-Falklands row

OAS dragged into Argentina-Falklands row: Instead, organizers say they fear the talks will be dominated by an Argentine-led diplomatic effort to garner wider Latin American backing for its sovereignty claim over the British territory. Argentina's campaign has gained momentum with increased ...

Homeland Insecurity

Homeland Insecurity:

While Texas may have one of the highest child-fatality rates in America, as a nation, we do a miserable job compared to other developed nations in protecting our kids. According to this report from Every Child Matters, “the US child abuse death rate is ...

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New book claims Fidel Castro knew about Kennedy assassination

New book claims Fidel Castro knew about Kennedy assassination

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro knew that US President John F. Kennedy was going to be shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, former CIA analyst Brian Latell says in his new book, "Castro's Secrets. The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine.

China to stress poverty at climate summit

China to stress poverty at climate summit

The comments added to signs that the June 20-22 meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, might face political obstacles to any significant agreements. President Barack Obama, in the midst of a re-election campaign, and European leaders have withdrawn from ...

How America's Largest Private Prison Operator Plans to Beat Corporate Income Tax

How America's Largest Private Prison Operator Plans to Beat Corporate Income Tax

Less than a month ago, the nation's largest private prison owner and operator, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), first announced its plan to assess the feasibility of a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) conversion.

Unemployment Jumps to 11 Percent Among Latinos, Report Says

Unemployment Jumps to 11 Percent Among Latinos, Report Says: Since the last report, the Hispanic unemployment rate increased from 10.3 Percent to 11.0 Percent. The American economy added just 69000 jobs overall last month which is well below expectations made by many leading economists and analysts who expected ...

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Southcom's Engagement Program Promotes Human Rights

Southcom's Engagement Program Promotes Human Rights:

The Western Hemisphere Institute of Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Ga., integrates human rights into every course it provides to Latin American mid-level officers and noncommissioned officers every year, Bresnahan said. Meanwhile, the Center for ...

Department of Defense

Latin American leftists fear Libya-style endgame in Syria

Latin American leftists fear Libya-style endgame in Syria: By Andrew Cawthorne | CARACAS (Reuters) - A bloc of left-wing Latin American governments accused Western nations on Friday of planning to intervene in Syria as they did in Libya and praised President Bashar al-Assad's government despite widespread ...

Cuban Readjustment Act reforms get a hearing

Cuban Readjustment Act reforms get a hearing: David Rivera, R-Fla., had a hearing Thursday on his proposed changes to the Cuban Adjustment Act. The Miami lawmaker wants to change the law to prohibit Cubans who claim political asylum in the United States from returning to the island nation.

Ecuador's poverty benefit motivated by politics, not social welfare, claim critics

Ecuador's poverty benefit motivated by politics, not social welfare, claim critics: Beneficiaries – households, rather than individuals – have increased by more than a third since 2007, making it a trademark instrument in Correa's efforts to temper poverty. Yet the payment has also become highly politicised. In January, Chaluisa lost ...

Top four meet as Pekerman steps out

Top four meet as Pekerman steps out:

The top-of-the-table encounters between Argentina and Ecuador and Uruguay and Venezuela are the main attractions on Matchday 5 of the South American qualifying competition for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, not to mention Jose Pekerman's first ...

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Colombia's Social Inclusion Policy Targets Extreme Poverty

Colombia's Social Inclusion Policy Targets Extreme Poverty:

The program seeks to build 100000 homes for those living in extreme poverty over the next two years, based on similar initiatives in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Families will receive a government subsidy that covers the total cost of the home, ...

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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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