Baked Goods to Balance the California State Budget

Baked Goods to Balance the California State Budget: ... expose the most vulnerable people in our state to even deeper and continued poverty. The so-called "spending reductions" of the past four years have already been devastating for women. Our recently report authored by the California Budget Project, ...

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Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Don't Drink the Water

Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Don't Drink the Water:

More than half live below the poverty level. The struggle to find clean drinking water has become a way of life for the residents of East Orosi. But they're not alone. Like a growing number of California's poor people, they're paying for water that's ...

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Report wants to know how much soda is bought with food stamps

Report wants to know how much soda is bought with food stamps: By Lisa Baertlein | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A new report from a California watchdog group is calling for the government to disclose how much sugary soda and other unhealthy food is paid for with food stamps at a time when policy makers are searching ...

DC Youth Take on Global Development

DC Youth Take on Global Development: The interns will spend the summer tackling some of the world's most difficult poverty issues, supporting staff on projects that range from judicial system reform in Honduras to AIDS awareness in Guinea. "This is an experience that few students have at ...

At least 11 Haitian migrants die in capsizing

At least 11 Haitian migrants die in capsizing: | MIAMI (Reuters) - At least 11 people drowned and up to 10 others, including five children, were unaccounted for after a small boat packed with Haitian migrants seeking to enter the United States illegally capsized off the Bahamas, authorities said on ...

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Food Security In The Americas

Food Security In The Americas: 06-12-2012 Food Security In The Americas Our goal is to alleviate the chronic hunger that afflicts nearly one billion people around the world, including an estimated 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean. The United States is deeply committed ...

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European Parliament Opposes Drastic Cuts In EU Aid To Latin America

European Parliament Opposes Drastic Cuts In EU Aid To Latin America

MEPs point out that Latin America already gets less EU development aid than any other region and that one in three Latin Americans still live below the poverty line. Some of these middle-income countries are the most unequal in the world, they stress, ...

Bodies found after Haitian migrant boat sinks in Bahamas

Bodies found after Haitian migrant boat sinks in Bahamas: ... from Haiti have settled in Florida, with New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts also attracting sizable communities, the CIS report says. A fifth of Haitian immigrants and their young children residing in the United States live in poverty, it adds.

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Women Wield Community Radio in Argentina to Promote Gender Equality

Women Wield Community Radio in Argentina to Promote Gender Equality:

By Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente In the suburbs surrounding the city of Buenos Aires, three women use community radio to broadcast a weekly segment that gives voice to stories concerning women. They aim to increase the public's consciousness about topics ...

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Supreme Court Rejects Gitmo Appeals, Spelling Potential End to Prisoners ...

Supreme Court Rejects Gitmo Appeals, Spelling Potential End to Prisoners ...: He is author of the book, The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison, and is co-director of the film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. This transcript is available free of charge.

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State lawmakers will start moving budget plan through Legislature

State lawmakers will start moving budget plan through Legislature: "Budgets thrown together behind closed doors or passed in the middle of the night are one of the main reasons why California is facing chronic deficits today," said a joint statement from Senate Republican leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) and Assembly ...

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Snowstorm forces closing of main Argentina-Chile crossing

Snowstorm forces closing of main Argentina-Chile crossing: Cristo Redentor, which links Santiago, Chile, to the western Argentine city of Mendoza, is the main cargo route between the South American nations, with an average of nearly 900 trucks passing through each day. The flow of traffic through Cristo ...

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Haitian Women's Employment Stuck in Aftershock

Haitian Women's Employment Stuck in Aftershock: By Lynda Michel JÉRÉMIE, Haiti (WOMENSENEWS)–Before the ground gave way underneath her, Elda Vilmeney had a business selling Coca-Cola in bulk on Third Avenue in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. Since the earthquake more than two years ago though, ...

Older dads have children who live longer, study finds

Older dads have children who live longer, study finds: The late fatherhood may serve as a signal that mortality rates are low, Eisenberg said. The benefit was also seen in grandchildren of men who became fathers at later ages. RELATED: Ethical debate rages over how old is too old to become a mother The ...

Rio+20: The Young Can't Wait

Rio+20: The Young Can't Wait

The place was Rio de Janeiro, where heads of state, delegates and negotiators assembled to consider how humankind and the rest of the natural world could co-exist, to the everlasting benefit of both. "I am only a child," I told them.

Low-carbon farming takes root in Brazil's Amazon

Low-carbon farming takes root in Brazil's Amazon

By Yana Marull (AFP) - ANAPU, Brazil — Manoel Jose Leite, a small-scale organic farmer, is set to pioneer low-carbon agriculture in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, which for decades has been destroyed by expanding agribusiness.

Illegal Child Labour Remains Unchecked

Illegal Child Labour Remains Unchecked: Naturally, in such a situation it is the children who suffer most. Poverty levels have reached an alarming proportion in rural areas in the wake of famine, especially in the central and southern regions, prompting children to migrate to towns and ...

Child poverty warning

Child poverty warning: CONTROVERSIAL changes to the council tax benefit system will plunge more Hartlepool children into poverty according to Mayor Stuart Drummond. The town's leader said proposals to give councils the powers to administer the benefit – but with a 10 per ...

Argentine protesters burn British flag outside YPF

Argentine protesters burn British flag outside YPF: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A small group of leftist protesters have burned a British flag outside the headquarters of Argentina's oil company, saying YPF should stop using oil tankers that fly flags from the British commonwealth.

Falklanders to hold referendum

Falklanders to hold referendum: Three decades after Margaret Thatcher sent 27000 troops and more than 100 ships to repel the Argentinian invaders, Buenos Aires continues to set its sights on claiming the territory it calls Las Malvinas. But the Falkland Islands government said it ...

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Performance of Small Tourism Businesses Highlighted in Nicaragua

Performance of Small Tourism Businesses Highlighted in Nicaragua: The president's economic adviser, Bayardo Arce, congratulated the small and medium businesses for their contribution to economic growth, employment generation and poverty reduction, which are government's priority in Nicaragua.

20-year-old reconnects with Cuban roots

20-year-old reconnects with Cuban roots

Since the United States initiated an economic embargo on Cuba in the 1960s, more than a million people have fled their homeland. Many have settled in Florida, leaving behind property and relatives. Bitter divisions developed over time between those ...

New twist in Mexican drug war as Mexican presidential candidates back away ...

New twist in Mexican drug war as Mexican presidential candidates back away ...

Mexico goes to the polls July 1 to select its next president. The three leading candidates to replace President Felipe CalderÓn all generally agree on at least one issue: no more cow-towing to the US when it comes to a very bloody drug war that has ...

Ignoring poverty issues hurts us all

Ignoring poverty issues hurts us all: Other examples are the settlement of South and North America and the marked difference between contemporary North and South Korea. But, the differences also played out within our own country. The settlement experience in the Northeast, Midwest and West ...

Mexico candidates plan to shift drug war focus

Mexico candidates plan to shift drug war focus: Enrique Pena Nieto, a candidate in Mexico's upcoming presidential elections, during an interview in Mexico City. The top three contenders for Mexico's presidency have all promised a major shift in the country's drug war strategy, placing a higher ...

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"Today's Food System Is Failing Small Farmers"

"Today's Food System Is Failing Small Farmers": RIO DE JANEIRO - With heads of state from more than 120 nations and tens of thousands of civil society and international development experts gathering for the UN Summit on Sustainable Development next week, it is accepted ...

Telford police chief travels to Guatemala on mission trip

Telford police chief travels to Guatemala on mission trip: A great experience everybody should have is to go to a country like that to see what poverty really is, and see how good we have it here,” said Floyd, who was the team leader of a group of 28 plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, dentists, ...

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Telford police chief travels to Guatemala on mission trip

Telford police chief travels to Guatemala on mission trip: A great experience everybody should have is to go to a country like that to see what poverty really is, and see how good we have it here,” said Floyd, who was the team leader of a group of 28 plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, dentists, ...

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Obama makes appeal to Latino voters

Obama makes appeal to Latino voters: A pro-Obama Super PAC is teaming up with a leading public employees union to launch a four million dollar Spanish language ad campaign to hurt Mitt Romney's connection with the Hispanic community. Bill Burton and John Brabender discuss.

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Native Americans left out of economic recovery, as always

Native Americans left out of economic recovery, as always: To cite an example of who does not get the jobs: In early March, the mainstream media was touting apparent job gains, but noted that Latinos were being bypassed. The national jobless rate dropped to about 8.1 percent, but the Latino unemployment rate ...

Chile clashes over Pinochet tribute documentary

Chile clashes over Pinochet tribute documentary

By Paulina Abramovich (AFP) – Hundreds of protesters clashed violently with police in the Chilean capital as they demonstrated against the screening of a new documentary honoring the late dictator Augusto Pinochet. "Murderer!

Local students bound for Peru

Local students bound for Peru: A group of seven New Orleans students and their spanish instructor are bound for Peru to help families in poverty stricken neighborhoods. The students with the New Orleans Science and Math Charter school will depart June 13th and will stay through June ...

President of Peru to Fight Poverty with Decent Jobs

President of Peru to Fight Poverty with Decent Jobs: 11 de junio de 2012, 15:00Geneva, Switzerland, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) The government of Peru proposes fighting poverty by fomenting honest jobs, said President Ollanta Humala at the International Labor Organization General Assembly as part of his ...

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America's health chasm: why life is not so sweet in the US sugar capital

America's health chasm: why life is not so sweet in the US sugar capital:

The money allows Collier to help fund daycare and kids' clubs and other programmes to keep children healthy. The county has an infant mortality rate of six per 1000 live births, which is good for the US as a whole. And the charitable Women's Health ...

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Native Americans left out of economic recovery, as always

Native Americans left out of economic recovery, as always: But that statistic can look good, considering that the Native American unemployment rate would be 10x greater than the white jobless rate. Indeed, as is well known in Native circles, on reservations across the nation the unemployment for Native ...

Haiti - Social : Michaëlle Jean will participate in the World Day against ...

Haiti - Social : Michaëlle Jean will participate in the World Day against ...

As part of World Day against Child Labour, June 12, Michaëlle Jean, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, will add her voice to those calling for the elimination of child exploitation and the respect for the rights of hundreds of thousands of Haitian ...

Cuban-born bishop willed $60000 to diocese in Cuba

Cuban-born bishop willed $60000 to diocese in Cuba: The late Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman, one of the spiritual leaders of South Florida's Cuban exile community, left $60000 in his will to the Matanzas diocese in Cuba, the Miami archdiocese said Monday. Throughout his life, Roman, the first Cuban to ...

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The Perverse Cuban-American Mythology

The Perverse Cuban-American Mythology: James Bovard on our latest local excursion into fascism: the TSA. by BENJAMIN WILLIS For the past two months there scarcely has passed more than a day that Cuba hasn't been in the news. The highly covered visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the island the ...

Report: Cuban dissident 'brutally beaten' after testifying before Congress

Report: Cuban dissident 'brutally beaten' after testifying before Congress

By Julian Pecquet - A Cuban dissident who testified before Congress last week via video about repression by the island's communist regime has been arrested and “brutally beaten,” according to reports from the US-based Cuban exile ...

Hapless or futile war on drugs policy to get a makeover

Hapless or futile war on drugs policy to get a makeover: The report openly admits America's insatiable demand for illicit drugs (the US is the largest consumer) is destroying our youth and directly responsible for the Mexican drug cartel violence that has claimed more than 50000 lives in the past few years.

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Money, Sex and Power

Money, Sex and Power: Its mix of global policy actors with extensive experience gives us insight into how other countries especially in Africa but also in Asia and Latin America are wrestling with similar problems. It connects us to other networks and gives us a sense of ...

Bolivia's Morales promotes quinoa against food crisis

Bolivia's Morales promotes quinoa against food crisis: Bolivian President Evo Morales praised the quinoa plant popular among ... grain" as a way of boosting food security, nutrition and poverty eradication.

Venezuelan opposition rallies in challenge to Chavez

Venezuelan opposition rallies in challenge to Chavez:

CARACAS (AFP) - Thousands of Venezuelans marched in the streets of the capital to show support for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles as he formally registered to run against President Hugo Chavez. "I'm happy that I'll be walking these 10 ...

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Carlos Lamadrid's Family Seeks Justice After Border Patrol Shooting

Carlos Lamadrid's Family Seeks Justice After Border Patrol Shooting: In a similar case in 2006, two border agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, were sentenced to prison terms of 11 and 12 years for shooting a marijuana-smuggling suspect in the buttocks as he fled across the US-Mexico border in Texas.

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Central America still grappling with sexual violence

Central America still grappling with sexual violence: These difficulties and observations are outlined in the report Access to Justice for Women Victims of Sexual Violence in Mesoamerica 2011, published by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which puts a special emphasis on the cases of ...

Health chief calls teenage pregnancy the country's worst epidemic

Health chief calls teenage pregnancy the country's worst epidemic

Public Health minister Bautista Rojas on Monday called teenage pregnancy Dominican Republic's worst epidemic, which he said will increase maternal mortality, and called it an illness in which poverty plays a role. He said the problem must be dealt with ...

Haitian doctors share stories, gratitude in Lincoln

Haitian doctors share stories, gratitude in Lincoln

Growing up in the poverty-stricken Haitian countryside, he never dreamed he'd get the chance to go to medical school — and especially never thought he'd be telling his story to Nebraskans someday. But that was before he escaped an abusive household ...

Unemployment is 11 percent among Latinos

Unemployment is 11 percent among Latinos: The national unemployment rate has been making news ever since the economic downturn of 2008.

Young Iqaluit man wants to help build school in Nicaragua

Young Iqaluit man wants to help build school in Nicaragua:

Nuqinga Joey Korgak of Iqaluit plans travel to Nicaragua next month to build a school. Right now he's fundraising to help defray his expenses. (PHOTO BY SAMANTHA DAWSON) Nuqinga Joey Korgak of Iqaluit witnessed people living in poverty on two dollars a ...

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AMERICA/HAITI - More than 500 thousand children without school

AMERICA/HAITI - More than 500 thousand children without school: Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 thousand children in Haiti are without a school education, the overall illiteracy rate is over 50% and the right to ...

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The bullies lost — thanks to my inner strength

The bullies lost — thanks to my inner strength:

Three years ago, I shared my experiences as a survivor of bullying on the Show de Cristina, then broadcast by Univision to millions of viewers in the United States and Latin America. I soon received a flood of e-mails from gay young adults in several ...

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If The Heat Lose, Who Might Not Be Wearing a Heat Jersey Next Year?

If The Heat Lose, Who Might Not Be Wearing a Heat Jersey Next Year?: The Heat will of course stage a magnificent comeback tonight and go on to emerge victorious in the finals, because whatever powers that rule the universe will decide to give Miami, this muggy land of Hurricanes, poverty, foreclosures and zombie attacks ...

Sting conference call to promote TNA's Slammiversary

Sting conference call to promote TNA's Slammiversary: I think this next generation they watched and they saw so many of us make stupid mistakes -- drugs, alcohol, a lifestyle on the road that brings you to poverty most of the time. A lot of guys we've lost that died. “Now you've got some of the younger ...

Cities' homeless crackdown: Could it be compassion fatigue?

Cities' homeless crackdown: Could it be compassion fatigue?:

... list goes on: Atlanta, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, Oklahoma City and more than 50 other cities have previously adopted some kind of anti-camping or anti-food-sharing laws, according to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.

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In small-town USA, business as usual for Mexican cartels

In small-town USA, business as usual for Mexican cartels: Target communities often have an existing Hispanic population and a nearby interstate for ferrying drugs and money to and fro, said author Charles Bowden, whose books on the Mexican drug war include "Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's ...

Mexican activist gets US support for planned peace caravan

Mexican activist gets US support for planned peace caravan: Mexican poet-turned-activist Javier Sicilia has received the US government's backing for his planned month-long peace caravan in that country aimed at drawing attention to drug-related violence and communicating his anti-drug war message.

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Depression among children on rise

Depression among children on rise: Pediatric Neurologist and Psychiatric at National Institute of Child Health (NICH) Dr Atif Saeed Anjum, while talking to PPI, said that during the last 10 years mental diseases among children are on rising trend because of poverty, hunger and other ...

Opening Doors for Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America

Opening Doors for Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America:

Portrayed as a land of drug violence, poverty, and human rights abuses, Latin America struggles with much the same social issues as the older, “enlightened” democracies of North America and Western Europe. Exemplified by growing efforts to establish ...

Honduras Weekly

Family of FHP trooper killed in Haiti "in shock"

Family of FHP trooper killed in Haiti "in shock": By Mike Clary, Sun Sentinel On leave from the Florida Highway Patrol and in his native Haiti to tend to his ailing wife, Trooper Jean Barthelus was the kind of man who lived to serve. So when at least two men reportedly flagged him down on the roadside ...

California pushing more welfare recipients to work

California pushing more welfare recipients to work

"CalWORKs recipients are living on a shoestring as it is," said Frank Mecca, executive director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California. "This is going to plunge many children into poverty and likely increase homelessness.

Five Jamaicans Receive Medical Scholarships from Cuba

Five Jamaicans Receive Medical Scholarships from Cuba:

Five Jamaican students will be heading to Cuba in September to pursue medical degrees, having been awarded full scholarships under the Cuba/Jamaica Bilateral Programme. The recipients are: Delli-Ann Green, Donya-Gaye Chin, Jamie Lindsay, ...

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Sao Paulo celebrates gay pride with huge parade

Sao Paulo celebrates gay pride with huge parade

SAO PAULO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians are streaming onto the streets of South America's biggest city to celebrate gay pride and urge an end to homophobia. Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and their supporters are participating in Sao Paulo's ...

Puerto Rican Day Parade Fills Manhattan With Latino Pride

Puerto Rican Day Parade Fills Manhattan With Latino Pride

Puerto Ricans are celebrating their culture in Manhattan today at the 55th annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, but this year's event has an added political element as some marchers are protesting racial profiling. NAACP President Benjamin Jealous is ...

Ethics for an 'Ecological Civilisation'

Ethics for an 'Ecological Civilisation': By Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Jun 10 (IPS) - Leading Japanese ecologists are pushing for the concept of environmental "ethics" to influence the upcoming Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, an approach they contend will foster accountability towards ...

Hugo Chavez: Cuban Cancer Tests Went Very Well

Hugo Chavez: Cuban Cancer Tests Went Very Well: CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose health is in the spotlight ahead of a re-election bid, said Saturday that tests taken after cancer radiation treatment in Cuba went very well. In May, Chavez sought treatment in Cuba, ...

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A Cuban trio risks all in 'A Bicycle Country'

A Cuban trio risks all in 'A Bicycle Country': BY CHRISTINE DOLEN Passion, poetic language and vivid imagery infuse the work of Nilo Cruz, the Cuban-American playwright who brought honor to Miami and New Theatre in 2003 when he became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Dollar curbs squeeze Argentine economy

Dollar curbs squeeze Argentine economy: By Jude Webber in Buenos Aires Emilia Torres González, a cleaner in Buenos Aires, needed $10000 to cover the gap between the sale price of her old home and the cost of a new property. So her family took out a loan – in the local currency, pesos.

Chavez foe leads march of thousands in Venezuela

Chavez foe leads march of thousands in Venezuela: AP CARACAS, Venezuela -- Opposition leader Henrique Capriles is marching through Venezuela's capital accompanied by thousands of supporters as he prepares to formally register his candidacy for the presidency on Sunday. Capriles' supporters waved red, ...

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7 Murdered in northwest Mexico

7 Murdered in northwest Mexico: Sinaloa is home to the drug cartel led by Guzman, who was arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and pulled off a Hollywood-style jailbreak when he escaped from the Puente Grande maximum-security prison in the western state of Jalisco on Jan. 19, 2001.

'Help female farmers' with foreign aid

'Help female farmers' with foreign aid: Oxfam Australia has called on the government to use the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro to push for greater investment in small-scale women farmers. The summit will be held later this month. Oxfam says although women ...

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Guantánamo: for inmates, only escape is watching Harry Potter

Guantánamo: for inmates, only escape is watching Harry Potter

It is currently home to around 130 of Gitmo's 169 inmates – strictly speaking, 164 detainees and five prisoners, those who have been found guilty of a crime by the military tribunal system America set up a decade ago. Camp VI inmates are housed in ...

Buenos Aires, Argentina is a World Destination for Tango Dancing

Buenos Aires, Argentina is a World Destination for Tango Dancing:

Present day tango is inextricably connected to Buenos Aires, Argentina where is it believed to have developed in the working class neighborhoods of the city. Tango is everywhere in the city. Taxis play tango music on their radios, and billboard ...

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Special help starts as early as grade school — but only for select students

Special help starts as early as grade school — but only for select students

Meanwhile, not one child in some of the region's poorest, high-minority districts has benefited from the program, raising concerns that schools have created opportunities for the privileged while ignoring the disadvantaged, according to the data.

Journalist detained by FARC criticizes Colombian government

Journalist detained by FARC criticizes Colombian government:

In a wealthy country, populated by more than 45 million people, half of them live in poverty and 20 percent in extreme poverty. These contradictions have resulted in great inequalities and violence in the country. Colombians are also victims of state ...

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Guantánamo Bay: the most dangerous prisoners in the world in chains

Guantánamo Bay: the most dangerous prisoners in the world in chains

By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, in Guantánamo Bay American military authorities allowed a reporter and photographer into the prison to see everyday life for the detainees, who are said to include bomb-makers, terrorist masterminds and ...

Bodies of Innocents Used as Props in Mexico's Drug War

Bodies of Innocents Used as Props in Mexico's Drug War: The victims of some of the biggest recent massacres in Mexico's drug war appear to have been innocents, selected at random and used as props by criminal groups in order to "send a message." Borderland Beat sets out the evidence. It was September 2011, ...

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Cuba's Catholic primate meets with dissidents

Cuba's Catholic primate meets with dissidents: Leaders of the dissident group Ladies in White spent nearly four hours Thursday with Cuba's Catholic primate, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, asking him to mediate with the communist government to stop its repression of them. The meeting, held at the Havana ...

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Judges agree to extradite alleged drug queen to US

Judges agree to extradite alleged drug queen to US: The defendant remains in a prison in the Mexican state of Nayarit, pending trial for a separate money-laundering charge. It was not immediately clear how Mexican prosecutors would proceed with that charge. Avila, who was arrested in 2007 sipping coffee ...

Arizona's prisons deadlier than most

Arizona's prisons deadlier than most: While the Corrections Department has not released other details, the inmate's mother, Kini Seawright, says her son, who was Black, was murdered by a Black prison gang because he failed to carry out their order to attack a Mexican inmate.

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Summer food program for kids set to expand

Summer food program for kids set to expand: By Kate Santich, Orlando Sentinel With a growing number of Florida's children now living below the poverty line, the state is expecting its busiest summer food program ever. "We anticipate dramatic increases," said Debra Susie, executive director of ...

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Massachusetts Has the 4th Largest Income Gap in the Country - cbl

Massachusetts Has the 4th Largest Income Gap in the Country - cbl: Twelve percent of its population lived below the poverty line, up from 10.3 percent in 2009, whereas 9 percent earned over $200000 annually. Its median income was $62072. Florida, with a Gini coefficient of 0.474, had the fifth highest income ...

America needs a farm bill that works

America needs a farm bill that works: ... under the poverty line. Unemployment in Fresno County, the nation's top agricultural producing county, stood at 17.4% in March of this year. Industrial agriculture has become a leading cause of soil and water pollution. In California, for example, ...

Larry Drury: Child care essential for low-income families

Larry Drury: Child care essential for low-income families: What would you do if you were a low-income parent and had to choose between keeping your job and keeping your child in a safe environment? For families struggling to pull themselves out of poverty, state-subsidized child care provides a crucial support ...

Contract awarded for prison health care

Contract awarded for prison health care: The company will continue providing medical, dental, psychiatric and dental services at all prisons in the state -- including those run by private corporations, Sanchez said. "Corizon has a presence in New Mexico," Sanchez said.

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How the War on Drugs Hurts Women

How the War on Drugs Hurts Women:

The report argues that the US-backed military and police in Honduras, Mexico, and Guatemala, which are ostensibly being funded to fight drug cartels, are actually part of the problem, “committing abuses and stirring up more violence.

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Southwest needs tourism, roads to climb out of poverty

Southwest needs tourism, roads to climb out of poverty: BARAHONA, Dominican Republic. - Tourism is the future and hope of Barahona and other southwestern provinces submerged in poverty, for which Danilo Medina's Administration must dictate policy to materialize the region's development.

Mexicans Want New Approach To Bloody Drug War

Mexicans Want New Approach To Bloody Drug War: The murders were one of the latest episodes in Mexico's brutal and unrelenting drug war. A Mexican federal policeman guards the area where dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, were found on a highway outside the northern Mexican city of Monterrey ...

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Cuba Soldiers and Sailors Reunion continues

Cuba Soldiers and Sailors Reunion continues: the North Fulton Dance Team performed for the first time this season Thursday evening in front of the crowd at the 102nd annual Soldier's and Sailor's Reunion, which is being held in Cuba. By MICHELLE MARTIN for the Daily Ledger Little kids and big ...

Remarks on the 35th Anniversary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor

Remarks on the 35th Anniversary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor: The Cold War dominated US global security interests, including authoritarian regimes in Latin America that were critical US partners. Elliott argued that if the United States was to be credible in denouncing human rights violations by Communist ...

Dillon approved for adoption of children from Colombia

Dillon approved for adoption of children from Colombia: Licensing also means the opportunity for Dillon to provide humanitarian aid services to the children of Colombia—a country where 64 percent of families live in poverty, with 31 percent facing extreme poverty, according to a 2009 UNICEF report.

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Puerto Rico probes election fraud allegations

Puerto Rico probes election fraud allegations: AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor of Puerto Rico is asking the territory's justice department to investigate allegations that dozens of voters may have committed fraud to support one of his party's candidates. The announcement by Luis ...

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Argentina invites British diplomat to Buenos Aires

Argentina invites British diplomat to Buenos Aires: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina is inviting a British diplomat to make a stop in Buenos Aires while traveling to the Falkland Islands next week. Jeremy Browne is Britain's top diplomat for Latin America, and he's flying to the Falklands next week ...

'Twilight' actor urges Natives to vote

'Twilight' actor urges Natives to vote: BY STAFF REPORTS WASHINGTON – A new video titled “Native Vote” has been released featuring Lakota Sioux actor Chaske Spencer, known for his role in the “Twilight” saga, in an effort to inspire Native Americans to vote in upcoming elections.

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Eight Native American Organizations Receive $1.3 Million for Renewable Energy ...

Eight Native American Organizations Receive $1.3 Million for Renewable Energy ...

The agencies that oversee the Arizona Renewable Energy Investment Fund (REIF) have awarded eight Native American organizations with $1.3 million to build renewable energy systems in their communities. The projects include wind and solar facilities for ...

'Incredible memories' from Native American visit

'Incredible memories' from Native American visit:

CULTURAL EXCHANGE: Students from the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque entertain during their visit to Hamilton. Students from an American Indian high school on a 10-day cultural exchange to New Zealand will take incredible memories, ...

Waikato Times

Youth boxing hits the streets in Venezuela program

Youth boxing hits the streets in Venezuela program: CARACAS, Venezuela -- Migadalia Flores was worried about raising her 13-year-old son in a poor Caracas neighborhood where teenage boys often drift into crime. Her son, Miguel Uzcategui, is now a standout among the youths who line up ...

For the Future of Our Planet, a Dialogue Between Generations

For the Future of Our Planet, a Dialogue Between Generations: Escalating poverty is eating away at our social fabric, our dwindling ecosystems are crying out for protection, the grave threat of climate change is well-documented and yet so inadequately addressed, as though it's tomorrow's problem!

Argentina central bank eases reserve requirements

Argentina central bank eases reserve requirements

By Ken Parks BUENOS AIRES--The Central Bank of Argentina has temporarily suspended reserve requirements for foreign currency deposits held in the banking system in a move seen as helping banks cope with significant outflows of US dollar deposits in ...

Argentina central bank eases reserve requirements

Argentina central bank eases reserve requirements: By Ken Parks BUENOS AIRES--The Central Bank of Argentina has temporarily suspended reserve requirements for foreign currency deposits held in the banking system in a move seen as helping banks cope with significant outflows of US dollar deposits in ...

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Coast Guard and CBIG authorities nab 6 smugglers, seize vessel, $8 million ...

Coast Guard and CBIG authorities nab 6 smugglers, seize vessel, $8 million ...

Drew W. Pearson, Sector San Juan commander, addresses reporters at Coast Guard Base San Juan Thursday, along with heads of federal and state law enforcement agencies in Puerto Rico, to discuss the interdiction and seizure of 330 kilograms of cocaine ...

Honduras: The Bloodiest Nation In The World

Honduras: The Bloodiest Nation In The World:

Earlier this year, the Honduran navy stopped a submarine off the coast carrying five tons of cocaine that was destined for American noses. But the socials ills Honduras suffers from -- narcotics trafficking, widespread poverty, the easy availability of ...

International Business Times