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lunes, 23 de julio de 2012
Check Out Puerto Rico's Go-To Lager
Check Out Puerto Rico's Go-To Lager: Long heralded as Puerto Rico's go-to lager, Medalla Light is now available here in Central Florida. The beer, brewed by Cervecera de Puerto Rico, is a welcome newcomer for those who prefer their lagers crisp and mild. Medalla Light has none of the ...
Puzzling Prisoners Presented to Promote North America's Only Museum of Math
Puzzling Prisoners Presented to Promote North America's Only Museum of Math:
| Last Wednesday night I attended a “Math Encounters” program co-sponsored by the soon-to-open Museum of Math in New York City. In 2008, Glen Whitney, a mathematician and former hedge fund manager, was dismayed to learn that a small museum dedicated to math in Long Island was closing. |  Scientific American (blog) |
Native Americans work to revitalize California's indigenous languages
Native Americans work to revitalize California's indigenous languages
California was once home to over 300 Native American
dialects and as many as 90 languages, making it the most linguistically
diverse state in the US. Today, only about half of those languages are
still with us, according to the Advocates for Indigenous ...
Climate Change Affecting Native Communities
Climate Change Affecting Native Communities:
| Environmental changes in the tribal communities of Native Americans are a serious and growing issue, experts say, as villages are literally being wiped out by coastal erosion. Congress is being asked to come up with a strategic plan to address the ... |  Sci-Tech Today |
'The New Normal,' Gay Adoption Show, 'Damaging Our Culture,' Says One ...
'The New Normal,' Gay Adoption Show, 'Damaging Our Culture,' Says One ...
"From hit shows like 'Glee' to 'Modern Family,' it's clear that Americans today don't care whether their favorite TV characters are straight or gay," Herndon Graddick, president of gay advocacy group GLAAD, said in a statement. "We now live in a ...
United States: Unexpected Parallels - Commonalities Between Native
United States: Unexpected Parallels - Commonalities Between Native
Article discussing the parallels between Native American art and Outsider art. ... Home · North America United States: Unexpected Parallels - Commonalities Between Native American And Outsider Arts. First Peoples Books. Learn more about ...
Long road to recovery for Wisconsin native - San Francisco Gate by ...
Long road to recovery for Wisconsin native - San Francisco Gate by ...: Native American exhibit explores use of treaties – Post-Bulletin An official opening ceremony will be held Tuesday for Why Treaties Matter, an exhibit at Mayo Clinic about the impact of Dakota and Ojibwe treaties on the development of ...
Infrastructure Investments and the Latino Jobs Recovery
Infrastructure Investments and the Latino Jobs Recovery
While infrastructure is important to all Americans, it is a bit more important to unemployed Latinos today. Latino workers are over-represented in the construction industry. While Latinos make up 15 percent of the labor force, they make up 22 percent ...
Elder abuse a serious concern among Hispanics, says study
Elder abuse a serious concern among Hispanics, says study:
| Forty percent of elderly, low-income Hispanics claimed issues of neglect or abuse during 2011, says a study from the University of Southern California (USC) Davis School of Gerontology. Of that 40 percent, only 1.5 percent reported the abuse incidents ... |  VOXXI (blog) |
Eva Peron: Argentina's Joan of Arc Or Marie Antoinette?
Eva Peron: Argentina's Joan of Arc Or Marie Antoinette?:
| Born into poverty in rural Argentina, the beautiful Eva went to Buenos Aires at the age of 15 to pursue an acting career. Instead, she met the dashing Colonel Juan Peron, married him and eventually became the first lady of Argentina. Through her ... |  International Business Times |
Haiti - Politic : Important regional meeting around food sovereignty
Haiti - Politic : Important regional meeting around food sovereignty:
| A delegation of the Parliamentary Front of Latin America and the Caribbean against hunger, led by her President, the Dominican deputy, Gaudalupe Valdez, was received Friday in Haiti, by of senators and deputies. At this meeting also took part, Rose ... |  Haitilibre.com |
Haiti Has Become A Role Model For The Region In Disaster Preparedness
Haiti Has Become A Role Model For The Region In Disaster Preparedness: Not all stories associated with natural disasters in Haiti are filled with tales of gloom and doom. Barely two years following the catastrophic earthquake that leveled portions of Port-au-Prince, the Civil Protection Agency (DPC) in charge of preparing ...
Air Force instructor gets 20 years in prison
Air Force instructor gets 20 years in prison
News of the shocking Batman movie shooting in Aurora, Colo., has energized opponents of firearms in America once again, just as other isolated… ... He could have faced life in prison. Prosecutors say he used his position as a military trainer at ...
Cuba dissidents mourn activist killed in car crash
Cuba dissidents mourn activist killed in car crash: HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban dissidents are vowing to keep up their activism following the death of prominent government opponent Oswaldo Paya in a Sunday car crash. Family, fellow dissidents and Catholic officials are at Paya's home in Havana awaiting the ...
Cuban lawmakers meet to consider Castro's reforms, including travel restrictions
Cuban lawmakers meet to consider Castro's reforms, including travel restrictions
HAVANA, Cuba – Cuba's National Assembly gathered Monday
for one of its twice-a-year legislative sessions, with the country's
economic reform plans, a new tax system and budgetary issues front and
center on the agenda. Islanders and Cuba-watchers will ...
Cuban lawmakers meet to consider Castro's reforms
Cuban lawmakers meet to consider Castro's reforms: Cuban lawmakers meet to consider Castro's reforms. Cuba's National Assembly gathered Monday for one of its twice-a-year legislative sessions, with the country's economic reform plans, a new tax system and budgetary issues front and center on the agenda ...
Fox Laments Poverty Rise, But Attacks Anti-Poverty Policies
Fox Laments Poverty Rise, But Attacks Anti-Poverty Policies: Reduced the depth of child poverty by 20.9 percent and the severity of child poverty by 27.5 percent. Ensured that the depth and severity of poverty in the overall population increased only slightly from their 2008 levels despite worsening economic ...
Video: Hunger hitting low-income Latinos in California the hardest
Video: Hunger hitting low-income Latinos in California the hardest: LatinaLista — California may be known as the state where make-believe can turn into big bucks but there's nothing make believe about California having one of the highest number of people who are going hungry. The University of California at Los ...
Georgia to execute man for beating death of sleeping inmate
Georgia to execute man for beating death of sleeping inmate: Arizona, Idaho, Ohio and Washington also have used a one-drug protocol in executions, and Missouri and South Dakota have announced plans to do so, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Richard Dieter, the center's executive ...
British scientist in Argentine prison on drugs charges blames honey trap
British scientist in Argentine prison on drugs charges blames honey trap
Oxford University graduate Paul Frampton has been held in prison since January after being stopped at an airport in Buenos Aires as he tried to board a plane to Peru with two kilograms of cocaine in his suitcase. He claimed afterwards he was the victim ...
'Get The Gringo' Director Adrian Grunberg on Mexican Prison & Working With ...
'Get The Gringo' Director Adrian Grunberg on Mexican Prison & Working With ...:
| He came to me and said 'I have this idea for a movie about a gringo in a Mexican prison and I think you should direct it,' and I said 'Awesome.' A couple of months later, we started getting together on a monthly basis to throw ideas around and write ... |  Screen Rant |
Poverty Falling in Chile
Poverty Falling in Chile: SANTIAGO — The Chilean government has announced that poverty levels across the country have dropped from 15.1 to 14.4 percent, according to the National Socioeconomic poll (CASEN). The poll measures poverty at a national level. In practical terms ...
How poverty affects mothers' anxiety
How poverty affects mothers' anxiety: The researchers said they also attempted to assess whether a mother's poverty and anxiety affected her child's likelihood of developing anxiety. They found that the women's anxiety did not affect their parenting abilities. The study was published July ...
For Elderly, Poor Sleep Linked With Placement In Nursing Home
For Elderly, Poor Sleep Linked With Placement In Nursing Home: In a new Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study, elderly women who experienced the most fragmented sleep had a three-fold risk of being placed in a nursing home five years later. ... "Despite the growing literature on sleep disturbance and ...
Poverty levels hitting drastic highs across country
Poverty levels hitting drastic highs across country: They survey indicates the poverty level has grown from 15.1 percent to 15.7 percent. And its spreading to record levels to many socioeconomic groups -- from unemployed workers to suburban families to the working poor. More discouraged workers are ...
domingo, 22 de julio de 2012
NY marks 1 year of gay marriage, impact unclear
NY marks 1 year of gay marriage, impact unclear: NEW YORK (AP) -- New York became the largest state to legalize gay marriage a year ago. Supporters hoped it would boost national momentum and pump money into the state with a flurry of weddings from Manhattan to Niagara Falls. As the anniversary ...
Haiti - Techology : Important visit for the Telecommunications Sector
Haiti - Techology : Important visit for the Telecommunications Sector:
| Following the Summit of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Panama, to which the President Michel Martelly attended around the theme "Connect Americas", Dr. Hamadoun Toure, ITU Secretary-General, is arrived Friday in Haiti for a visit of ... |  Haitilibre.com |
Richard Whitmire: Poverty not all to blame for poor academic showing
Richard Whitmire: Poverty not all to blame for poor academic showing
The class-action lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union
announced this month against Michigan and a tiny Detroit-area school
district for failing to educate children raises this question: Can schools ever compensate for the ills of poverty? In ...
Pastors for Peace delivers humanitarian aid to Cuba
Pastors for Peace delivers humanitarian aid to Cuba: Just as in previous years, the friendship caravan to Cuba mounted by the group, organized by the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, or IFCO, visited several Canadian provinces and dozens of U.S. cities to collect humanitarian aid of ...
Brazil's Northeast Emerging as Economic Powerhouse
Brazil's Northeast Emerging as Economic Powerhouse: "Brazil has become this global economic powerhouse and then we're talking about a region within Brazil that's growing even faster than the rest of the country," Usha Pitts, principal officer at the U.S. Consulate in Recife, said. Recife is a coastal ...
Poverty, Not Mental Illness, Is Source Of Many Poor Mothers' Anxiety: Study
Poverty, Not Mental Illness, Is Source Of Many Poor Mothers' Anxiety: Study:
| Poor mothers are often diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, but this anxiety is probably more related to living in poverty than actual mental illness, a group of researchers argues. A study led by Rutgers professor Judith C. Baer and published ... |  International Business Times |
Crime rates and welfare payments in Brazil: a rancorous debate ...
Crime rates and welfare payments in Brazil: a rancorous debate ...: Beware Brazil: here comes the FIDCÃO! ... but has climbed alarmingly in northeast Brazil, where poverty is more prevalent and Bolsa Família reaches a larger ...
Buenos Aires Fest Launches Toon Event | Animation Magazine
Buenos Aires Fest Launches Toon Event | Animation Magazine: The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film has announced a new spin-off event called Animated BAFICI – Winter Collection. The three day toon festival will kick off July 26, with the Argentine premiere of Seth MacFarlane's ...
Caminos y Sabores: A culinary experience in Buenos Aires
Caminos y Sabores: A culinary experience in Buenos Aires:
| Caminos y Sabores is an experience for the senses. That is what more than 100000 visitors felt when they attended the event at La Rural, Buenos Aires from July 6-9. There were exhibitors of food and crafts, cooking classes, food samples, musical shows ... |  VOXXI (blog) |
Funds to seize Argentine assets held in US
Funds to seize Argentine assets held in US: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Hedge funds that sued over Argentina's massive sovereign debt default in 2002 will get their hands on some compensation for what is believed to be the first time in 10 years, federal court documents in New York showed.
US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s
US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s: The Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks and academics, and found a broad consensus: The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent. Poverty is spreading at record levels ...
Poverty taking unfair toll on young
Poverty taking unfair toll on young: Many states, including California, have developed welfare to work (CalWORKS) programs with the goal of assisting those in poverty. CalWORKS' mission is to help the low-income become gainfully employed and enter the ranks of self-supporting, productive ...
Discrimination against poorest children needs to end
Discrimination against poorest children needs to end: Discrimination against poorest children needs to end. The Green Party has welcomed Child Poverty Action Group's decision to appeal discrimination against New Zealand's vulnerable children in the Court of Appeal. "Children need the essentials whether ...
In Wenatchee, exercises on living in poverty
In Wenatchee, exercises on living in poverty: The family of four got evicted from their home, the two children were taken by Child Protective Services, and the grandfather got shot while trying to cash a check at the bank. All this, and the poverty-level family still had to pay bills on a very ...
Discrimination against poorest children needs to end | Green Party ...
Discrimination against poorest children needs to end | Green Party ...: The Green Party has welcomed Child Poverty Action Group's decision to appeal discrimination against New Zealand's vulnerable children in the Court of Appeal. "Children need the essentials whether their parents are in paid work or not," ...
6 years for thief who fleeced elderly
6 years for thief who fleeced elderly: FRESNO, Calif.—A California woman has been sentenced to six years in jail for fleecing elderly people out of their life savings. Fresno investigators say 55-year-old Sharon Elaine Harrelson preyed on grieving, elderly people by convincing them to pay ...
California Nursing Homes Investigation Reveals “Shameful State of Affairs”
California Nursing Homes Investigation Reveals “Shameful State of Affairs”: ... nursing homes that are the subject of reports by California's Operation Guardians, a project of the state Department of Justice's Bureau of Medi-Cal fraud and Elder Abuse, says a review by the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR).
Understanding Elder Abuse in California
Understanding Elder Abuse in California: Elder abuse is real and happens more often than you think. However, if you know the warning signs and are diligent in your loved one's care, the risk for abuse ...
Medicaid expansion spurs debate in Florida
Medicaid expansion spurs debate in Florida: Today, only certain people qualify for the health insurance program for the very poor: the elderly, the disabled, pregnant women and children. Under its proposed expansion, any poor American could qualify -- a key part of health care reform. But thanks ...
Consider poverty and Walton shines in school rankings | walton ...
Consider poverty and Walton shines in school rankings | walton ...: The data indicate that if the State of Florida considered poverty when calculating adjusted points earned, they did not sufficiently co-vary out the effects of poverty ...
One Million Moms Goes After NBC Gay Comedy "The New Normal"
One Million Moms Goes After NBC Gay Comedy "The New Normal": It is no surprise that openly gay Ryan Murphy, is one of the executive producers and director, who also brought us “American Horror Story,” “GLEE,” and “Nip/Tuck.” NBC is using public airwaves to continue to subject families to the decay of morals and ...
Chile's Pinera signs hate crime law after gay youth death
Chile's Pinera signs hate crime law after gay youth death
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile on Thursday became one of the last Latin American nations to pass an anti-discrimination law, after a brutal beating that led to a young gay man's death put pressure on conservative president Sebastian Pinera's government to ...
Majority Of Americans Aren't Into Organized Religion
Majority Of Americans Aren't Into Organized Religion: They line up in many ways with the results of national surveys on social issues like gay marriage and abortion that have their roots in religious ideology. In other words, unless the surveys were done on a state-by-state basis, so that we could assess ...
Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Over 13 Years in Baja Prison
Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Over 13 Years in Baja Prison: A man who was caught transiting over 2 tons of marijuana in a tractor trailer was sentenced to 13 years and 9 months in prison on Thursday, June 19th. Roy Eduardo Cuevas Sánchez was caught in August of 2011 by Mexican Customs near the border ...
Apprenhensions Of Immigration Violations At Lowest Level In 40 Years As ...
Apprenhensions Of Immigration Violations At Lowest Level In 40 Years As ...: The number of Mexican citizens serving a federal prison term for an immigration offense increased from 2074 in 1994 to 17720 in 2010. Nine out of 10 immigration offenders in federal prison were convicted of illegal re-entry or illegal entry offenses.
viernes, 20 de julio de 2012
Latin American integration: 200 years of efforts
Latin American integration: 200 years of efforts:
| Latin American integration efforts have been a continuous fixture throughout much of the last century, but in recent years there has been a flurry of new initiatives, with leaders re-emphasizing regional ties. The increasing number of ... The ... |  VOXXI (blog) |
Latin American Unity Takes Center Stage as US Influence Declines
Latin American Unity Takes Center Stage as US Influence Declines: ... the United States voted with the rest of Latin America in favor of Cuba's readmission into the OAS. However, it did so only out of fear of being isolated on the Cuban issue, and only if Cuba promised to respect the human rights of its citizens—a ...
With global instability, who wants to be a tourist?
With global instability, who wants to be a tourist?:
| 'Drug war violence in Mexico' affects only a tiny portion of the country. And for terrorist attacks, it's stone-cold to say it, but the safest time to go somewhere is after an attack, when the security is the most vigilant." The-CNN-Wire/Atlanta/+1-404 ... |  ABC2 News |
Water treatment system in Cuba worries authorities
Water treatment system in Cuba worries authorities: She also said that every year Cuba loses more than 1 billion cubic meters (35 billion cubic feet) of water through leaks in the aging mains and connections inside the home, and compared that volume with the capacity of Zaza Reservoir, the biggest on ...
Anti-Gay Activists Fail a Second Time to Overturn California's LGBT ...
Anti-Gay Activists Fail a Second Time to Overturn California's LGBT ...
The second attempt to overturn by ballot initiative the law that requires California schools to teach LGBT history and cover the contributions of LGBT people in ...
Argentina nabs half-ton of Africa-bound cocaine
Argentina nabs half-ton of Africa-bound cocaine:
| In this picture released by Argentina's Customs, customs officers count packages containing 536 kilograms (1181 pounds) of cocaine they found hidden inside a machine to be exported to Nigeria Friday, July 20, 2012, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina ... |  Macon Telegraph (blog) |
Argentines outraged over police interrogation
Argentines outraged over police interrogation: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentines are outraged over a police interrogation cellphone video circulating widely on the Internet. The clip shows officers abusing two half-naked suspects in provincial Salta. One man begs for mercy as an officer puts a ...
Man guilty in elderly man's fatal beating
Man guilty in elderly man's fatal beating: A central Florida man has been convicted in the fatal beating of an elderly man who authorities say was mistaken for a sex offender. An Orange County jury found 22-year-old Robert Pascale guilty Friday of first-degree murder. Authorities say Pascale ...
Two Foreign Nationals Plead Guilty to Trafficking the Identities of Puerto ...
Two Foreign Nationals Plead Guilty to Trafficking the Identities of Puerto ...
The guilty pleas were announced today by Assistant Attorney General
Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; U.S.
Attorney Rosa E. Rodríguez-Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico; Director John Morton of U.S. Immigration and ...
Chile Poverty falls in latest government survey | WSAV TV
Chile Poverty falls in latest government survey | WSAV TV: SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) A new government survey shows less Chileans are living below the poverty line, with 14.4 percent of the population under the measure in ...
Chilean Poverty Rate Resumes Downward Path as Economy Expands
Chilean Poverty Rate Resumes Downward Path as Economy Expands: President Sebastian Pinera is committed to eliminating extreme poverty by the time his four-year term ends in 2014. He also campaigned on the promise to help Chile eliminate poverty by the end of this decade through a faster pace of job creation and ...
Boy Scouts: We're keeping policy banning gays
Boy Scouts: We're keeping policy banning gays: ... long-standing policy on banning gays and lesbians. By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News. The Boy Scouts of America will keep their controversial policy banning gay scouts and leaders after a confidential two-year review, the organization said Tuesday.
Terrifying Study: In Some U.S. Cities, One in Two Black Gay Men Have HIV
Terrifying Study: In Some U.S. Cities, One in Two Black Gay Men Have HIV:
| Black, gay America (which is to say, America), we need to talk. Let's all pull up a chair and check our outside voices at the door. You know what, scratch that. We're a global village, all brothers and sisters. And I'm not tripping off some Gwyneth ... |  Unicorn Booty (blog) |
Chilean Construction Investment Firm to Raise $470M in IPO
Chilean Construction Investment Firm to Raise $470M in IPO: SANTIAGO--Chile's construction investment firm Inversiones La Construccion SA (ILC.SN) will debut on the Santiago Stock Exchange Friday by selling up to 32.2 million shares at 7061 Chilean pesos ($14.48) each, the company said in a regulatory filing.
Leading Cuban journalist faces spy charge, reports say
Leading Cuban journalist faces spy charge, reports say: MIAMI — A top Cuban journalist faces a 15-year prison sentence for spying, just two years after Raul Castro issued an unusually public praise for his expose of a scandalously botched public works project, according to reports. Jose Antonio Torres was ...
Cuba decrees steep increase for import tax
Cuba decrees steep increase for import tax:
| Starting in September, Cubans who come in and out of the country more than once a year will have to pay the equivalent of $10 a kilogram ($4.50 a pound) or more for imports, a fortune in a country where salaries average the equivalent of about $20 a month. |  Boston.com |
Catholic school sued for sex abuse in Haiti
Catholic school sued for sex abuse in Haiti: CONNECTICUT, USA, Friday July 20, 2012 – A former pupil of a school for disadvantaged youth in Cap-Haitien, Haiti has joined 22 other former students in filing a lawsuit against a Jesuit priest now living in Massachusetts, and others, alleging the ...
4-year-old teaches the meaning of generosity and wisdom in Guatemala
4-year-old teaches the meaning of generosity and wisdom in Guatemala: Global Aid Network (GAiN) has been working with a partner in Guatemala, where being poor is a way of life. Among the 10 poorest countries in Latin America, nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line. Many people in this developing ...
Justice department is supporting inmates in ceremonial tobacco suit
Justice department is supporting inmates in ceremonial tobacco suit
The U.S. Department of Justice is supporting Native American inmates in their lawsuit challenging South Dakota's ban on tobacco in religious ceremonies. You might also ...
Ending child poverty: a child's right or a parent's responsibility ...
Ending child poverty: a child's right or a parent's responsibility ...
This year the European Union will publish its Recommendation on Child Poverty. This is expected to be based on three 'pillars' – access to adequate resources, ...
Obama woos elderly voters in Florida
Obama woos elderly voters in Florida
Obama woos elderly voters in Florida (AFP) / 20 July 2012. US President Barack Obama made a play for Florida's elderly voters Thursday, conscious that the state's multitude of retirees could hold the keys to the White House. Florida is the largest of ...
County has free health plan for poor
County has free health plan for poor: Rick Scott, a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act, swiftly announced that Florida will not participate. However, more than 10000 county residents living at or below the federal poverty line already participate in a 20-year-old free local health ...
6 years for thief who fleeced elderly - California State Wire ...
6 years for thief who fleeced elderly - California State Wire ...: A California woman has been sentenced to six years in jail for fleecing elderly people out of their life savings.
Diabetes among elderly is growing along with overall U.S. cases
Diabetes among elderly is growing along with overall U.S. cases: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Just as America's diabetes epidemic began almost two decades ago, Georgia Richardson was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, the potentially life-threatening illness that affects the body's ability to process blood sugar. "To be honest ...
Elder abuse affects Latinos disproportionately
Elder abuse affects Latinos disproportionately: A sobering new study by researchers from the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology finds that elder abuse in low-income Latino communities goes largely unreported. More than 40 percent of Latino elders told Spanish-speaking ...
jueves, 19 de julio de 2012
Buenos Aires struggles with its recycling system
Buenos Aires struggles with its recycling system:
| Every evening, residents of Buenos Aires leave their garbage out on the curbs, and the city's trucks make their nightly rounds to collect the bags. Home to three million people, the city of Buenos Aires generates 6000 tons of trash every single day. |  Deutsche Welle |
Disgraced Canadian commander in Haiti sues over false affair allegations
Disgraced Canadian commander in Haiti sues over false affair allegations
OTTAWA—A disgraced army officer is suing the Canadian Forces after he was stripped of his command in Haiti
for allegedly starting an inappropriate relationship with his civilian
secretary. Col. Bernard Ouellette, a once up-and-coming officer from ...
Chefs form program to aid women, children in Haiti
Chefs form program to aid women, children in Haiti: But when the earthquake in Haiti happened in 2010, Taylor, now a chef at Panera Bread and living in Boulder, Colo., had the same feeling. This time, he didn't let it go. "I really can't describe it other than a tap on the shoulder. It was just a ...
Chilean hate-crime legislation signed into law
Chilean hate-crime legislation signed into law:
| Zamudio, a gay man, was found beaten and mutilated in a city park, with swastikas carved into his body. Photo: Natacha Pisarenko / AP. FILE - In ... Chile remains among the most socially conservative countries in Latin America. It legalized divorce in ... |  San Francisco Chronicle |
Brazilian 'Red Command Gang Boss' Murdered in Paraguay
Brazilian 'Red Command Gang Boss' Murdered in Paraguay: Chavez, an alleged commander of the notorious Brazilian prison gang the Red Command (Comando Vermelho) who lived a few blocks away from the bar where he was killed, apparently paid large sums to local authorities to avoid being "bothered," ABC ...
Steep hike in customs fees leaves many Cubans fuming
Steep hike in customs fees leaves many Cubans fuming: Maria, who uses her Spanish passport to travel to the United States several times a year to buy goods for resale at her home in Santiago de Cuba, said the measure would make her family's life much more difficult. “"This always happens. Every time there ...
Strategist is central figure against gay marriage
Strategist is central figure against gay marriage: Campaigning in coveted Florida, President Barack Obama warned Thursday that Republican challenger Mitt Romney would be "squeezing more money out of seniors" by turning Medicare into a voucher program. Romney, firing away...More >> ...
With global instability, who wants to be a tourist?
With global instability, who wants to be a tourist?: Deadly drug wars in Mexico. Olympic security failures in England. Who wants to be a tourist these days? The deadly bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists Wednesday in Bulgaria is the latest bit of bad news in a summer plagued by global instability.
Cuba: Allowing the Spirit to speak
Cuba: Allowing the Spirit to speak: It was one of my favorite experiences in Cuba, because I know the Lord is pursuing her heart, her family and she got to hear the good news and is reading her Bible. I know the Enemy doesn't want to let go of her, but God has already won. After we left ...
Puerto Rico: Strong Support for Land and Agriculture
Puerto Rico: Strong Support for Land and Agriculture: Dozens of people gathered in front of La Fortaleza [the governor's mansion] in San Juan on July 11 to demonstrate in support of the lands of the Agricultural Research Station, which belongs to the College of Agricultural Science of the University of ...
Twenty Individuals Charged in Puerto Rico with Making False Statements in ...
Twenty Individuals Charged in Puerto Rico with Making False Statements in ...
... jury returned a 45-count indictment charging 20 individuals
with making false statements in loan applications, aggravated identity
theft, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney for the
District of Puerto Rico Rosa Emilia Rodríguez ...
Cuba Expects Better Performance at London Olympics
Cuba Expects Better Performance at London Olympics: Cuba is sending a delegation of 110 athletes, including 45 women, to compete in 14 of the 26 disciplines featured at the summer sporting event, including track and field, boxing, diving, wrestling, weightlifting, swimming, shooting and table tennis ...
After surviving Haiti's quake, Labissiere out to make most of his second chance
After surviving Haiti's quake, Labissiere out to make most of his second chance
It's been more than 31 months since a 7.0 earthquake devastated the Republic of Haiti
and killed an estimated 300000 people while affecting more than three
million, but Skal Labissiere can still remember everything about that
day as if it happened ...
Haiti - Reconstruction : 3 days with the IDB to accelerate projects
Haiti - Reconstruction : 3 days with the IDB to accelerate projects:
| From July 18 to 20 at the Hotel Montana, the Haitian Government and the InterAmerican Development Bank IDB meet to reflect on public policy, review the portfolio of projects financed by the IDB and discuss difficulties in order to speed up the ... |  Haitilibre.com |
Gay, bisexual black men at high risk for HIV
Gay, bisexual black men at high risk for HIV: According to the report, "Back of the Line: The State of AIDS Among Gay Black Men in America 2012" a black gay man has a one in eight chance of becoming infected by the time he's 20 years old. By the age of 40, the likelihood is 60%. It also says black ...
Can Obama sell health law to Florida seniors?
Can Obama sell health law to Florida seniors?:
| (USA TODAY) -- Ahead of his trip to Florida today, President Obama's team is portraying their boss as a champion of the state's 3.4 million elderly voters, while casting Mitt Romney as a politician hostile to Medicare and other programs important to ... |  WTSP 10 News |
USC Study Examines Abuse of Low-Income Latino Elders
USC Study Examines Abuse of Low-Income Latino Elders: A sobering new study by researchers from the USC Davis School of Gerontology finds that elder abuse in low-income Latino communities goes largely unreported. More than 40 percent of Latino elders told Spanish-speaking interviewers that they had been ...
RBC Spirit of Giving day helps fight child poverty
RBC Spirit of Giving day helps fight child poverty: EMC lifestyle - In their annual Spirit of Giving day, RBC employees from Renfrew County, including Arnprior, organized and participated in fundraising events to show support of local non-profit organizations such as the Renfrew County Child Poverty ...
Life expectancy by tube station: new interactive map shows inequality in the ...
Life expectancy by tube station: new interactive map shows inequality in the ...
Life expectancy by tube station: new interactive map shows inequality in
the capital. A new interactive map plots life expectancy and child poverty by different London Underground stations, highlighting the wild differences in outlook between children ...
Chile Peso Reaches Two-Month High on Copper, Carry-Trade Demand
Chile Peso Reaches Two-Month High on Copper, Carry-Trade Demand: “The market is focused on fundamentals,” said Alejandro Araya, a trader at Banco Santander Chile in Santiago. “Chile offers an attractive yield compared with rates worldwide. With copper now rebounding, this could go to 480 per dollar.” The peso has ...
Argentina sees grains windfall from US drought
Argentina sees grains windfall from US drought: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Record soy prices due to the punishing drought in America's heartland has been a boon for Argentina, where the government expects to collect billions in new revenues. Corn and wheat prices also are soaring, with world ...
Cholera case against UN stalls in Haiti
Cholera case against UN stalls in Haiti: Cholera case against UN stalls in Haiti. Over 15000 Haitians have banded together in a legal case against the United Nations, alleging that troops brought the deadly disease to Haiti during a post-earthquake relief effort. Jason HayesJuly 19, 2012 06 ...
Buenos Aires City enters fifth day of waste collection crisis
Buenos Aires City enters fifth day of waste collection crisis: As Buenos Aires City enters the fifth day of a waste collection strike, over 10 thousand tons of waste started being lifted from the capital's streets in an effort that should last until Saturday, when the service is expected to normalize, the ...
Cuban rock: protest with limits
Cuban rock: protest with limits:
| Rock music has always been a vehicle to expressing social and political rebellion, and that's also true in Cuba. Cuban rockers do have to tailor their rebellion to stay inside the limits of what the authorities will accept, but those limits are ... |  Radio Netherlands |
Targets reached in Haiti's pilot cholera vaccination program, NPR reports
Targets reached in Haiti's pilot cholera vaccination program, NPR reports
... the oral vaccine," adding, "The sponsors of the project --
the nonprofit medical groups GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince and Partners in
Health in rural Haiti -- presented the results on Monday at a session with the country's health minister, Dr. Florence ...
miércoles, 18 de julio de 2012
Google takes aim at Mexico's drug cartels
Google takes aim at Mexico's drug cartels:
| Google wants to take on Mexico's powerful drug cartels, offering technological solutions to a grinding drug war that has horrified the country for the past six years. Photo: Grant Hindsley / AP. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks Tuesday ... |  San Francisco Chronicle |
Mexico Drug War: Enrique Pena Nieto Could Target Small Gangs
Mexico Drug War: Enrique Pena Nieto Could Target Small Gangs: Pena Nieto's record as governor of the State of Mexico, which adjoins Mexico City, also points to the likelihood of continuity in the national drug war. His term saw aggressive policing against organized crime, but unremarkable results in the numbers ...
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