| The economy grew under Calderon, but so did poverty: 47 percent of 112 million Mexicans are poor, according to figures from the government, Latin America's second biggest economy, closely tied to those of the United States and Canada in the North ... |  Jakarta Globe |
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lunes, 2 de julio de 2012
Drug violence, poverty top Pena Nieto agenda in Mexico
Drug violence, poverty top Pena Nieto agenda in Mexico:
Population unrest in Cañuelas grows after double-murder case
Population unrest in Cañuelas grows after double-murder case
Residents in the Buenos Aires province town of Cañuelas broke
into the local City Hall while making calls for justice in the case
investigating the murder of two brothers who owned a supermarket and
were killed in cold blood on Sunday.
Buenos Aires calls edge up in 2012/13 season
Buenos Aires calls edge up in 2012/13 season: Buenos Aires expects 168 cruise calls in the 2012/13 season, according to Terminales Río de la Plata, up from 158 calls in 2011/12. National Geographic Explorer is booked as the first arrival, on Oct. 21, with Splendour of the Seas to wrap the season ...
Brazilian Prisoners Can Get Out Early By Reading Books And Riding Bicycles
Brazilian Prisoners Can Get Out Early By Reading Books And Riding Bicycles:
| Brazilian prisons are rolling out programs aimed at shortening the sentences of prisoners who read books or generate electricity on stationary bikes. The government recently announced that four federal prisons — which house some of Brazil's most ... |  Business Insider |
National gov't urges BA province to solve problems on its own
National gov't urges BA province to solve problems on its own: Victory Front's Senator Aníbal Fernández and Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo today said that although the national government will collaborate with Buenos Aires province's financial problems to pay salaries, its authorities should “face and solve ...
Among developed countries, United States ranks second worst in ...
Among developed countries, United States ranks second worst in ...
The United States has the second-highest rate of childhood poverty in the developed world, according to an.
Immigrants celebrate July Fourth by combining native, American traditions
Immigrants celebrate July Fourth by combining native, American traditions: Part of the fabric of America is its history of assimilating immigrants from other cultures — a fact that many immigrants celebrate on July Fourth by combining American holiday traditions with ones from their native culture.
Romney's Hispanic Opportunity
Romney's Hispanic Opportunity: About one in five Hispanic voters rated either health care or unemployment as the most important issue to them. Only 11% said the federal budget deficit. At the same time, 56% believe the federal government should "do more to solve our country's problems.
Opinion: Romney can do better with Latino voters
Opinion: Romney can do better with Latino voters:
| For Hispanic voters, the top priorities were health care, unemployment, and economic growth (education was not a choice). Immigration ranked fifth. The results should be worrisome to Mitt Romney, because he is at odds with Latino voters on all of these ... |  NBC Latino |
Santander expresses confidence in Latin America
Santander expresses confidence in Latin America: ... has stated that the firm's intentions on the continent are to continue to grow. Zabalza made his remarks at the XI Santander-Latin America meeting, arranged by Santander and Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo (UIMP), and expressed his ...
How a Learning Management System Impacted an Economy: eLearning Fuels ...
How a Learning Management System Impacted an Economy: eLearning Fuels ...
In recent years, the Mexican government has worked to improve its economy by reducing poverty and encouraging market development. Because of its cultural expertise and large network of Latin American Government, industry and organization leaders, ...
Previous experience in Latin America ~ Poverty in the North Project
Previous experience in Latin America ~ Poverty in the North Project:
 | Despite the current global economic crisis, Latin America has low unemployment, successful ... |
Protest targets Montco prison's deal to hold illegal immigrants
Protest targets Montco prison's deal to hold illegal immigrants: Then watch America turn into Mexico. Drug gang murders everywhere, beheaded people lying in the streets, donkey shows. Could the author of this article please let us know the percentage of Mexican gang members in U.S. prisons? I'm sure it's quite large.
Brothers who supplied drugs to Michael Douglas' son get 10-years jail
Brothers who supplied drugs to Michael Douglas' son get 10-years jail: David and Eduardo Escalera, both Mexican immigrants, were busted after Cameron Douglas was caught selling crystal meth and ratted them out. Douglas, 34, is currently serving nine-and-a-half years behind bars. Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman ...
Attention, Billionaire Druglords: Mexico's People Want To End The Bloody War ...
Attention, Billionaire Druglords: Mexico's People Want To End The Bloody War ...
Mexican Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka El Chapo, at La Palma prison in Juarez in 1993. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife). Mexico's people spoke loud and clear on Sunday: they are tired of the nation's bloody war on drugs. Although Sunday's vote ...
Armando Montano, AP intern, dies in Mexico City
Armando Montano, AP intern, dies in Mexico City: Armando Montano, an aspiring journalist who was working this summer as a news intern for The Associated Press in the Mexican capital, was found dead early Saturday. He was 22 years old. ... Man in Calif. prison charged with 1986 Vt. killing · Man in Calif.
36 members of drug cartel sent to jail
36 members of drug cartel sent to jail: A GUATEMALAN court has sentenced 36 alleged members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel to prison for various crimes, including dismembering a state prosecutor who was investigating the gang.
Fernando Lugo's exit after Paraguay 'coup' a setback for development
Fernando Lugo's exit after Paraguay 'coup' a setback for development
Jonathan Glennie and Cristiano Morsolin: The ousting of
the elected president, Fernando Lugo, by a rightwing parliament could
stall human rights, democracy and social progress in Paraguay for a generation.
Venezuela election: Chavez and Capriles launch campaigns
Venezuela election: Chavez and Capriles launch campaigns:
| Venezuelan candidates officially start campaigning for Ocotober's presidential election, with rival rallies by Hugo Chavez and Henrique Capriles. |  BBC News |
Venezuela's Presidential Campaign Officially Begins
Venezuela's Presidential Campaign Officially Begins: President Hugo Chávez and opposition leader Henrique Capriles are hitting the campaign trail.
Time for US to talk about poverty
Time for US to talk about poverty: Generally speaking, Americans recognise that there are advantages to ... In the US, some of the highest rates of poverty are in the former Confederate South, ...
Suburban families suffer through poverty
Suburban families suffer through poverty: But with population growth in America's suburbs came an increase in poverty. ... both residents of the town and smaller communities in south Tulsa County.
State Government: Ruling May Help Scott Limit Florida's Burgeoning Medicaid ...
State Government: Ruling May Help Scott Limit Florida's Burgeoning Medicaid ...: The law said the states had to expand their programs to cover people at 133 percent of the federal poverty level — more than 1 million people in Florida – or face the loss of Medicaid funding. The 3 million Floridians currently in the Medicaid program ...
New Voices: Look beyond the stereotypes of homeless to make an impact
New Voices: Look beyond the stereotypes of homeless to make an impact: In Central Florida, and across this nation, families find themselves struggling in poverty and unable to sustain themselves in record numbers. The sad truth is that thousands of families in our community have no option left but to live day to day in ...
Governor says Florida likely won't expand Medicaid under health care law
Governor says Florida likely won't expand Medicaid under health care law
President Barack Obama's health care law called for states in 2014 to
expand eligibility of Medicaid to those making up to 133 percent of the poverty level, or $29326 for a family of four. While estimates vary, the Florida Agency for Health Care ...
domingo, 1 de julio de 2012
Polish Senator's Startling New Allegations about the CIA Torture Prison in Poland
Polish Senator's Startling New Allegations about the CIA Torture Prison in Poland:
| ... Department, and the courts. The only hope lies elsewhere in the world, specifically Poland, one of three European countries that hosted secret CIA prisons where 'high-value detainees' were tortured. ... the establishment of the prison. ABC News ... |  OpEdNews |
Latino Voter Diversity Challenges Political Parties ahead of 2012 Elections
Latino Voter Diversity Challenges Political Parties ahead of 2012 Elections
Republicans have noted that under Obama, the Hispanic unemployment
rate is higher than the national average. And Hispanics' median
household income fell 7 percent between 2000 and 2010, from $43100 to
$40000, according to the Pew Hispanic ...
Chile's Codelo to build molybdenum processing plant-paper
Chile's Codelo to build molybdenum processing plant-paper: SANTIAGO, July 1 (Reuters) - Chile's state-owned Codelcoplans to invest $400 million in a molybdenum processing plantand intends to maximize its value in a legal bout with globalminer Anglo American.
Battleground Florida: Growing Puerto Rican population near Disney critical in 2012
Battleground Florida: Growing Puerto Rican population near Disney critical in 2012
For Florida political news today, the Buzz blog is your can't-miss-it
source. St. Petersburg Times writers offer the latest in Florida
politics, the Florida Legislature and the Rick Scott administration.
Keep in mind: This is a public forum sponsored ...
Black Hawk monument revealed
Black Hawk monument revealed: Shanta Ista, a Fairfield healer who also goes by his Native American name of Rising Sun, blessed the stone earlier in the morning. He then joined the Standing Bear Council out of Keokuk as they gathered around a large drum and played the Native ...
Venezuela accepted as full member of South American bloc
Venezuela accepted as full member of South American bloc: Venezuela was accepted as a full member of Mercosur, a political and economic consortium of South American countries that has free trade agreements with Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Haiti - Social : 7% decrease in the camp population
Haiti - Social : 7% decrease in the camp population:
| On a three-day visit to Haiti, IOM Director General William Lacy Swing called for a final push to end the displacement crisis « Now we need to get these remaining camps [575] finally closed... |  Haitilibre.com |
Mexico's New President Unlikely to Deviate from US's Drug War
Mexico's New President Unlikely to Deviate from US's Drug War:
| The presumptive winner of Mexico's presidential election on Sunday, Enrique Peña Nieto, is not likely to make any substantive change away from the US-dominated, militaristic approach to the drug war, as many hoped. Central America has become the most ... |  Antiwar.com |
Judge won't toss death penalty in Trumann case
Judge won't toss death penalty in Trumann case: PARAGOULD, Ark. - Defense attorneys for a man accused of killing a Trumann police officer sought to remove the death penalty from consideration because of a recent state Supreme Court ruling.
Palfrey ends bid for record Cuba-Florida swim
Palfrey ends bid for record Cuba-Florida swim:
| Endurance swimmer Penny Palfrey has ended her effort to become the first woman to swim unassisted from Cuba to the Florida Keys. |  USA TODAY |
Poverty strikes a smaller percentage in southeast Louisiana in ...
Poverty strikes a smaller percentage in southeast Louisiana in ...: The post-Hurricane Katrina diaspora forced many poor families to find housing outside the region.
Amid catastrophic loss, two people find themselves as Haiti bounces back from ...
Amid catastrophic loss, two people find themselves as Haiti bounces back from ...
Two and a half years ago a devastating earthquake left more than 200000 dead in Haiti.
While the pace of reconstruction has been slow, aid workers say the
country is finally turning a corner. This is the story of two people —
one American and one ...
Thorpe to Eaton: Century of World's Greatest Athletes
Thorpe to Eaton: Century of World's Greatest Athletes: Thorpe, a Native American from Oklahoma's Sac and Fox nation, was a 24-year-old student at the Carlisle, Pa., Indian School in 1912 when he won the first decathlon ever held at an Olympic Games. Eaton is also 24 years old. Just six days before Thorpe ...
BREAKING: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC ...
BREAKING: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC ...
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) passed a
resolution today at its 83rd Annual Convention in favor of same sex
unions. The resolution supports marriage equality for all Americans,
including those in the Lesbian, Gay, ...
Poll: Hispanic voters care more about other issues than immigration
Poll: Hispanic voters care more about other issues than immigration: Poll: Hispanic voters care more about other issues than immigration : The Denver Post's political and editorial writers give a daily dish of Colorado political news, analysis and commentary on local, state and national issues. Colorado. ... WASHINGTON ...
Ecuador quits former School of the Americas
Ecuador quits former School of the Americas: p><p>Opponents of the school, currently located at Fort Benning, Georgia, blame it for human rights abuses in Latin America by foreign military officers trained there. Defense Minister Miguel Carvajal's announcement came after President Rafael ...
Brazilian Prisoners Can Now Bike Their Way to Freedom
Brazilian Prisoners Can Now Bike Their Way to Freedom: Apparently, prison can be pretty boring. That's on top of it being, well, prison. Plus you've got all that potential labor just sitting around doing nothing terribly productive. Why not utilize it? That's what Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison in Brazil is ...
For Brazilian prisoners, turning pages will shorten sentences ...
For Brazilian prisoners, turning pages will shorten sentences ...: Every high schooler has to read them, and now, their works might be a way for Brazilian prisoners to get their hands on a “get out of jail early” card. According to a Reuters.com article, the Brazilian government announced earlier this week that ...
Brazilian Prisoners Can Now Bike Their Way to Freedom ...
Brazilian Prisoners Can Now Bike Their Way to Freedom ...: Apparently, prison can be pretty boring. That's on top of it being, well, prison. Plus you've got all that potential labor just sitting around doing nothing terribly productive. Why not utilize it? That's what Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison in Brazil is doing.
Heading to London by Way of Cuba and the Bronx
Heading to London by Way of Cuba and the Bronx
A 20-year-old native of Cuba and a 19-year-old
from the Bronx clinched two guaranteed spots on the United States
Olympic gymnastics team headed to the London Games.
Poverty drives them to go against the law
Poverty drives them to go against the law: Children early in their life are exposed to abuse, abject poverty, exploitation and discrimination,” Ranjana Kumari, Director of Centre for Social Research told Deccan Herald. “Over a period they become hardened and seeing the prosperous neighbourhood, ...
Gay pride festival celebrates gains made in past year
Gay pride festival celebrates gains made in past year
"God made gays, bi's, transgenders and lesbians. He made those
people." Altogether, St. Petersburg police estimate well over 50000 will
attend this weekend's event. Organizers say it is the largest in the
state of Florida and that makes it in the ...
Mexico faces test of its democracy amid drug war
Mexico faces test of its democracy amid drug war:
| MEXICO CITY - Sunday's presidential election represents a difficult test for Mexico's wobbly democracy: Can it hold a fraud-free national vote in the midst of a raging drug war? The country's top election official conceded that violence in parts of the ... |  Minneapolis Star Tribune |
Candidates promise to cut Mexican drug violence
Candidates promise to cut Mexican drug violence:
| reporter: the murders this week of three federal police officers allegedly shot by two fellow officers smuggling cocaine at the mexico city airport have brought the drug war to the forefront days before the mexican presidential election . president ... |  msnbc.com |
Chile: Student protests draws estimated 150000 in Santiago
Chile: Student protests draws estimated 150000 in Santiago: On Thursday the protesters marched past the presidential palace in the rain. The protests organized by the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech) were against increasing education costs and profiteering.
viernes, 29 de junio de 2012
Arizona court approves fifth execution this year
Arizona court approves fifth execution this year: The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the execution of a death-row inmate who was spared from the death penalty last year after winning a last-minute delay from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Abu Dhabi death sentence pair were 'big-time dealers'
Abu Dhabi death sentence pair were 'big-time dealers': Under law, any death sentence must be presented in four different courts and to 19 judges before it can be passed to the president or ruler of the emirate for approval. A legal source said that in the emirate of Abu Dhabi there were no previous ...
Venezuela to join in oil exploration off Cuba | WSLS 10
Venezuela to join in oil exploration off Cuba | WSLS 10: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Venezuela's oil minister says the country's national oil company plans to participate in exploratory drilling for crude off Cuba. Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez says state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA is next in line to ...
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Cuba, Venezuela, and Chavez get slapped at UN Human Rights ...
Cuba, Venezuela, and Chavez get slapped at UN Human Rights ...: There are few things totalitarian dictatorships hate more than being outed and slapped in their own forum. Via UN Watch: Banging on the table, Cuba,
Celebrating the Alternative Media Movement in Venezuela ...
Celebrating the Alternative Media Movement in Venezuela ...: Today we celebrate the national day of journalists in Venezuela. Because of this day, it's worth remembering a phrase that was written in the streets of Argentina during the December 2001 crisis: “They piss on us and the press says it's raining” ...
Blind children, sick spouse, and trap of poverty: A woman's tale
Blind children, sick spouse, and trap of poverty: A woman's tale
Four blind children. Four children who cannot fend for themselves and need supervision almost every other time.
Haiti - Reconstruction : Evaluation of 16 projects funded by the World Bank
Haiti - Reconstruction : Evaluation of 16 projects funded by the World Bank
The Government of Haiti, in collaboration with
the World Bank, has proceeded from 27 to 28 June 2012 to the Joint
Review of portfolios of 16 projects and programs financed by the World
Bank in Haiti...
Photo Friday: Transforming Rural Communities in Nicaragua ...
Photo Friday: Transforming Rural Communities in Nicaragua ...: Employees of the Tomatoya-Chagüite Grande cooperative wash produce before packaging and shipping it to buyers. Before the cooperative was established in 2001, many farmers in Tomatoya and Chagüite Grande, Nicaragua earned barely enough to support themselves and their families.
Vancouver event recognizes contributions of growing Latin American community
Vancouver event recognizes contributions of growing Latin American community
“Thanks to him now, everyone enjoys every year going to the theatre to see films from Latin America.” Craig said his organization works with Canadians to inform them of the law and their rights, and also focuses on human rights in Latin America ...
Taxes Are The New Death Panels: Exposing The Latest Lie About Obamacare
Taxes Are The New Death Panels: Exposing The Latest Lie About Obamacare
epublicans are responding to the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the individual mandate by constructing a new “death panels”-like lie. The law, they argue, imposes a burdensome tax on millions of middle class families who will have to pay a penalty ...
40 years after Furman, the U.S. Death Penalty Is In Disarray
40 years after Furman, the U.S. Death Penalty Is In Disarray: June 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia. In Furman, the high court abolished the death penalty on the grounds that it violated the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision also barred the use of capital punishment for rape convictions.
Brazil leads region in defense spending
Brazil leads region in defense spending
BUENOS AIRES, June 29 (UPI) -- Ongoing and upcoming Brazilian
defense programs translate into the highest defense expenditures in
Latin America over the next decade. Business analysis firm Frost and
Sullivan said it came to the conclusion after ...
This Week in Poverty: 89000 Children in Pennsylvania Lose Medicaid
This Week in Poverty: 89000 Children in Pennsylvania Lose Medicaid:
| In Pennsylvania, 89000 children have been dropped from Medicaid, including many with life-threatening illnesses who were mistakenly deemed ineligible. |  The Nation. (blog) |
Swimmer's challenge: Cross 103 miles of shark-infested water
Swimmer's challenge: Cross 103 miles of shark-infested water: Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Diving into the clear blue water off Havana Friday, Penny Palfrey began her quest to swim from Cuba to the United States.
State sued over 'stomach-churning' prison conditions
State sued over 'stomach-churning' prison conditions: Using how a nation treats its prisoners as its moral barometer, American morality has reached rock bottom, according to a nightmarish class-action lawsuit filed by Illinois' Vienna Correctional Center inmates earlier this month alleging human rights ...
Mexican drug cartels decapitate rivals in disturbing video
Mexican drug cartels decapitate rivals in disturbing video
He escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001 in a
laundry truck and has a $7 million bounty on his head. In January, Los
Zetas released a video showing the hanging of two members of the gulf
cartel and last month 49 decapitated bodies were dumped along a ...
Cuba's gay rights revolution
Cuba's gay rights revolution: HAVANA, Cuba — Niurka says she is "halfway out of the closet" as a lesbian in Cuban society. She doesn't talk about her sexuality in public, and she's thankful nobody asks at work. But with her curly cropped hair and more masculine dress — most ...
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Fernando Lugo's exit after Paraguay 'coup' a setback for development
Fernando Lugo's exit after Paraguay 'coup' a setback for development
Another year, another rightwing coup against a pro-poor government in Latin America, this time in Paraguay. The 2009 coup in Honduras
that removed President Manuel Zelaya from power may have set back
reforms in the country for a generation, and human rights abuses
continue to be widely reported.
Puerto Rico police must be reformed now
Puerto Rico police must be reformed now: Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union released a report called "Island of Impunity: Puerto Rico's Outlaw Police Force." In its 180 pages, the report details corruption, unjustified violence, discriminatory practices and a blatant failure of ...
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Comprehensive Association Agreement between Central America and the ...
Comprehensive Association Agreement between Central America and the ...
European Commission MEMO Brussels, 29 June 2012 Comprehensive Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union The signing of the Association Agreement between the EU and Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras ...
US governor Jerry Brown calls on politicians to lead over gay marriage
US governor Jerry Brown calls on politicians to lead over gay marriage:
| The governor of a US state embroiled in a legal row over gay marriage has urged Scotland's politicians to give a lead on equality legislation. The advice from California's Jerry Brown comes as the Scottish government prepares to release details of its ... |  BBC News |
Bronx Gay and Lesbian Center to Close After Leader Embezzlement
Bronx Gay and Lesbian Center to Close After Leader Embezzlement
Shut the lights off, the party's over. Just days after
the former head of the Bronx Pride Center swindled about $338, 000 that
she used on vacations and even dog walkers, the organization has announ.
South Florida jewelers cater to gay and lesbian couples
South Florida jewelers cater to gay and lesbian couples:
| Jewelers are starting to look to the gay and lesbian market — and the
political progress of same-sex marriage — to make their registers ring. They're adding lines of wedding bands and engagement rings designed specifically for gay and lesbian couples.. |  Sun-Sentinel |
Battleground South Florida: Gays feel new passion for politics ...
Battleground South Florida: Gays feel new passion for politics ...: South Florida's gay and lesbian voters are giving a new, more supportive look at President Barack Obama, which may affect other elections.
Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas ...
Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas ...: Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas teen ... in a shooting at a South Texas park that has caught the attention of gay rights ...
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jueves, 28 de junio de 2012
Should Chilean banks force 'no hijab' on Muslim women customers?
Should Chilean banks force 'no hijab' on Muslim women customers?:
| Santiago, CHILE: When 40-year-old Chilean citizen Ms. Fabiola Palominos Flores converted to Islam in 2007 she started wearing a hijab (headscarf) as part of her identity as a Muslim woman living in Chile. But at the time she didn't know she would ... |  WNN - Women News Network |
Chile: Thousands of students turn out for protest pressing for educational reforms
Chile: Thousands of students turn out for protest pressing for educational reforms
SANTIAGO, Chile — Tens of thousands of high school and
college students took to the streets of the Chilean capital Thursday to
call for the end of public financing of private universities and other
reforms to the country's troubled educational system.
HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels
HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels:
| As part of the country's "Reconstruction", The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund recently invested $2 million in the Royal Oasis Hotel, a Deluxe structure to be built in a poverty-stricken metropolitan area which is "filled with displaced-persons camps housing ... |  Center for Research on Globalization |
Venezuela tribe seeks return of sacred stone called 'Grandmother' from Germany
Venezuela tribe seeks return of sacred stone called 'Grandmother' from Germany
BERLIN -- Wolfgang von Schwarzenfeld's sculptures in a
Berlin park were meant to promote world peace, but the 79-year-old
German now finds himself at war with a Venezuelan tribe which accuses him of stealing a sacred pink stone known to them as ...
Will California once again lead the nation as Medicaid is expanded?
Will California once again lead the nation as Medicaid is expanded?:
| California Watch reported last year that to cover basic needs, a family of four in California needs and income of 63000 a year — "nearly triple the federal poverty level." So you can see why we would have embraced an expansion of Medi-Cal. The ... |  89.3 KPCC (blog) |
Escaped high-profile prisoner speaks out against Venezuela bid to join UN ...
Escaped high-profile prisoner speaks out against Venezuela bid to join UN ...
Escaped former Venezuela prisoner Eligio Cedeño addressed the United Nations Thursday to oppose Hugo Chávez's bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Argentina keeps 2012 growth forecast at 5.1 pct
Argentina keeps 2012 growth forecast at 5.1 pct: BUENOS AIRES, June 28 (Reuters) - Argentina's government is sticking to its 5.1 percent growth forecast for 2012 enshrined in the budget, Economy Minister Hernan Lorenzino said on Thursday, despite recent data that shows a sharp deceleration.
A book written in disappearing ink [video]
A book written in disappearing ink [video]: In Buenos Aires, small bookshop and publisher Eterna Cadencia has been wrestling with the question of the role of books in a digital age. These days, e-books seem more important, more interesting, than their print counterparts. How can print books take ...
17 Individuals Arrested for Carjacking in Puerto Rico
17 Individuals Arrested for Carjacking in Puerto Rico: 17 Individuals Arrested for Carjacking in Puerto Rico - up-to-the-minute news and headlines. 7thSpace is a online portal covering topics such as Family, Business, Entertainment, Headlines, Recipes and more. A place for the whole family featuring many ...
Western donors could learn from Brazil's new brand of development aid
Western donors could learn from Brazil's new brand of development aid:
| Jonathan Glennie: Rather than advising governments on what should work, as the west does, Brazil exports success – its south-south co-operation is based directly on what has already worked. |  The Guardian |
Weekly Unemployment – Latino Perspective
Weekly Unemployment – Latino Perspective:
| In the week ending June 23, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 386000, a decrease of 6000 from the previous week\\\'s. |  Hispanically Speaking News |
Cancun first on the LGBT traveler radar
Cancun first on the LGBT traveler radar: In addition to topping the list of desired Mexican locales, the resort town placed well internationally, ranking behind only Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and São Paulo as the most appealing Latin American LGBT destination. By contrast, Puerto Vallarta ...
How the Growth Machine Ate Florida
How the Growth Machine Ate Florida: DEEP POVERTY IN AMERICA TODAY — 20 million with incomes below half the poverty line; Six million living only on food stamps; 46 Million Sunk in Total Desperation; Can Anything Be Done in Today's Brutal Environment? Laura Flanders talks to Peter ...
International Relief Organization Seeks Donations to Continue Work Rebuilding ...
International Relief Organization Seeks Donations to Continue Work Rebuilding ...: The Alliance for Children Foundation's efforts to help orphans in Haiti were highlighted in a front-page cover story in the Boston Globe - "Newton woman brings hope to orphans in Haiti." Filis Casey, founder of the Foundation, traveled to Haiti to ...
Driving America's Energy Policy Through Greater Latino Education ...
Driving America's Energy Policy Through Greater Latino Education ...: At a time when Latino unemployment (10.4 percent) remains above the national average (8.2 percent), nuclear energy is a fast-growing sector that offers accessible long-term, high-paying careers in communities across the United States.
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Gay groups weigh in on court's healthcare ruling
Gay groups weigh in on court's healthcare ruling:
| Openly gay Gaston County Democratic Party Chair Robert Kellogg praised today's court decision. “This is a victory for America,” Kellogg said in a written release. “Those who are not a part of Mitt Romney's 1 percent now have basic healthcare rights to ... |  QNotes |
Chuck Norris Supports Boy Scouts of America Anti-Gay Policy
Chuck Norris Supports Boy Scouts of America Anti-Gay Policy: Chuck Norris has voiced his support for the anti-gay policies operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Norris, 72, wrote an Op-Ed piece for the.
Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas teen ...
Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas teen ...: McALLEN, Texas — Investigators on Wednesday were still trying to determine a motive for the killing of a teenage woman and the wounding of her girlfriend in a shooting at a South Texas park that has caught the attention of gay rights groups. The ...
Escaped high-profile prisoner speaks out against Venezuela bid to join UN ...
Escaped high-profile prisoner speaks out against Venezuela bid to join UN ...
Escaped former Venezuela prisoner Eligio Cedeño addressed the
United Nations Thursday to oppose Hugo Chávez's bid for a seat on the
U.N. Human Rights Council.
Venezuela drug seizure much smaller than initially reported
Venezuela drug seizure much smaller than initially reported: The amount of cocaine seized earlier this week aboard a ship in the northwestern Venezuelan state of Zulia was actually 4.8 tons, not the 20 tons initially reported, Interior Minister Tareck el Aissami said.
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Violence tops debate ahead of Venezuela vote
Violence tops debate ahead of Venezuela vote: CARACAS, Venezuela—Natalia Guzman stepped hesitantly into the morgue looking for her only son. She was led to rows of refrigeration units, where after peering at more than a dozen corpses she finally found 17-year-old Jaime.
Under-fire UN meet to issue environment, poverty plan
Under-fire UN meet to issue environment, poverty plan: RIO DE JANEIRO: A global summit to root out poverty and fix Earth's worsening environment was set to wrap up here Friday, issuing a roster of promises that many critics have already branded as p ...
Ecuador quits former School of the Americas
Ecuador quits former School of the Americas: ... for training at the U.S. Defense Department-run school formerly known as School of the Americas. Opponents of the school, currently located at Fort Benning, Georgia, blame it for human rights abuses in Latin America by foreign military officers ...
Human rights activists speak to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security ...
Human rights activists speak to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security ...: While operating as the School of the Americas, some graduates were accused of being involved in atrocities throughout Latin America. Under a new curriculum, the school offers courses that emphasize respect for human rights, rule of law, due process, ...
Guatemala sends dozens of drug traffickers to prison
Guatemala sends dozens of drug traffickers to prison: Guatemala has been struggling to contain drug cartels that have spread their operations into Central America to smuggle South American cocaine to the United States. The government has declared two 'states of siege' in Coban and Peten since 2010, giving ...
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Graduation Project Forum in Cartagena Will Create Extreme Poverty ...
Graduation Project Forum in Cartagena Will Create Extreme Poverty ...: DANE, Colombia's statistics administrator, announced in May that the country's poverty rate had dropped by 3% in 2011, extreme poverty by 1.7%, and that its ...
ACLU files lawsuit against Puerto Rico police, alleging abuses
ACLU files lawsuit against Puerto Rico police, alleging abuses
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's police department was hit with a federal lawsuit on Wednesday as the American Civil Liberties Union accused officers ...
Gay Pride: The world through rainbow-colored glasses
Gay Pride: The world through rainbow-colored glasses:
| Florida Keys: Revelers carry a 100-foot-long rainbow flag, a symbol of gay pride, down Duval Street in Key West, Florida on June 10, 2012, as a facet of a ... |  Baltimore Sun |
UN Report on Haiti Rape Shows Few Prosecutions
UN Report on Haiti Rape Shows Few Prosecutions: The prosecution of rape cases in Haiti remains bogged down, and justice is rarely served, the United Nations mission in the impoverished country said in a ...
Governments can help companies work with nature
Governments can help companies work with nature:
| A Brazilian military policeman stands guard next to Brazilian natives, upon their ... sustainable development can lift people out of poverty and preserve nature. |  San Francisco Chronicle |
Women strive to build a place in Brazil's construction industry
Women strive to build a place in Brazil's construction industry: p><p> Both could have done what many poor women in Brazil do and take up .... A single mother of two from Nova Iguacu, a poverty stricken city just outside Rio ...
80000 March for LGBT Equality in Santiago, Chile « Americas South ...
80000 March for LGBT Equality in Santiago, Chile « Americas South ...: Over 80000 people took to the streets in Chile's Marcha por la Igualdad y los Derechos Humanos de la Diversidad Sexual (March for Equality and Human Rights ...
Cuba struggles for food self-sufficiency
Cuba struggles for food self-sufficiency: The action came in response to the annual cost of food imports rising to above $1.5 billion and to the reality that half of Cuba's arable land, 8.5 million acres, was ...
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