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martes, 31 de julio de 2012
Catholic Church Continues Anti-Gay Inquisition In San Francisco
Catholic Church Continues Anti-Gay Inquisition In San Francisco: Benedict has been pursuing a personal Inquisition against LGBT Americans for some time now, and that includes elevating virulent anti-LGBT clergy to high offices and attacking the religion's religious orders. The Rainbow Sash Movement notes that “In ...
Boy Scouts' gay ban seems outdated
Boy Scouts' gay ban seems outdated: If the U.S. military, the Girl Scouts and the Boys' and Girls' Clubs don't have a problem with gays in their ranks, why does the Boy Scouts of America still insist on banning "open and avowed homosexuals"? Earlier this month, the Boy Scouts upheld its ...
Recycler operates within prison
Recycler operates within prison: ... A chance meeting five years ago between grinding entrepreneur Octavio Victal Jr and a senior prison social rehabilitation official has blossomed into an annual $1 million-plus plastic bottle recycling business that appears to be unique in Latin ...
US keeps Cuba on its terror black list
US keeps Cuba on its terror black list
WASHINGTON — The United States kept Cuba on a
black list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism for the 30th year
running, the State Department said Tuesday in an annual report. The
Americas' only one-party communist regime is one of four countries ...
Former political prisoner detained in Cuba
Former political prisoner detained in Cuba: The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation on Tuesday denounced another "arbitrary arrest" of dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, a former political prisoner. A communique from the commission's spokesman, Elizardo Sanchez, said that ...
Masked artist protests violence in Honduras
Masked artist protests violence in Honduras: His canvas is the streets of the Central American city of 1.2 million, which he describes as "captive, fearful and closed by a mixture of violence, poverty and an absence of public services." About 1149 people were murdered in the Honduran capital last ...
Highers brothers to remain in jail until hearing
Highers brothers to remain in jail until hearing: With poll: Lake Charlevoix 'America's best lake' runner-up. In a recent USA ... They waited nearly 25 years to get a hearing, then almost five months for a judge to throw out the murder convictions that earned them life sentences in prison. On Monday ...
Helping Haiti's Youth, Through Football
Helping Haiti's Youth, Through Football: GOALS focuses on helping youth in Haiti's Leogane organize to clean up trash and litter in public areas, plant trees and recycle old materials, along with encouraging gardening and providing a daily meal and drinking water for Haitian families, all ...
Heinrich Homeownership Bill Becomes Law
Heinrich Homeownership Bill Becomes Law: (Source: U.S. Representative Martin Heinrich) — Legislation sponsored by U.S. Representative Martin Heinrich (NM-1) to remove barriers between Native American families and homeownership was signed into law today by President Obama during an Oval ...
Child poverty a reminder of tough times
Child poverty a reminder of tough times
In Indiana during 2010, the most recent period reported, 22 percent of children younger than 18 live in poverty. The state ranked 31st in overall child well-being. That's bad. It gets worse for the five-county East Central Indiana region: One in four ...
Cuba Gooding Jr. Arrest Warrant: Actor Wanted For Misdemeanor ...
Cuba Gooding Jr. Arrest Warrant: Actor Wanted For Misdemeanor ...: Cuba Gooding Jr. may be known for playing roles in family-friendly pop soda like "Snow Dogs" and "Jerry Maguire," but he apparently doesn't like to be reminded of it. TMZ reports that New Orleans police officers have issued an arrest warrant ...
Jennifer Garner: 'Kids are hungry to learn'
Jennifer Garner: 'Kids are hungry to learn': The successful actress, producer and Charleston native gave insight into her personal experiences with childhood poverty and what she thinks can be done to help. In the background is Mark Kennedy Shriver who leads Save the Children's programs.
Rebuilding Venezuelan Democracy
Rebuilding Venezuelan Democracy: SANTIAGO – Excitement, anxious young faces, the sense of a nation's best and brightest coming together for a noble cause: the scene was an office building in Caracas, Venezuela, in July 2012. But, to a Chilean like me, it could have been Santiago in ...
Venezuela Officially Joins Mercosur Trade...
Venezuela Officially Joins Mercosur Trade...:
| Venezuela was officially welcomed into the Mercosur trade bloc Tuesday, giving that nation's leader Hugo Chavez a long-awaited political prize and strengthening links among the region's agricultural and energy powerhouses. The inclusion of Venezuela ... |  ABC News |
Argentine war cemetery in Falklands vandalized
Argentine war cemetery in Falklands vandalized: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Someone has vandalized Argentina's war cemetery in the Falkland Islands, repeatedly smashing and shattering the glass that protects the country's sacred Virgin. Police are seeking suspects, and the islands' government ...
Gay marriage ban backers seek Supreme Court review
Gay marriage ban backers seek Supreme Court review: SAN FRANCISCO -- Backers of California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a federal appeals court that struck down the measure as unconstitutional. Lawyers for the coalition of religious ...
Promoting Tsimshian Culture with Adoption into a Clan
Promoting Tsimshian Culture with Adoption into a Clan:
| This month Metlakatla Alaska celebrates its 125th anniversary and emerging cultural traditions are on the rise in this Alaska Native community founded in 1887. The Tsimshians of ... Terrance H. Booth, Sr., Native American Culture Examiner. Metlakatla ... |  Examiner.com |
Protests follow zoo shooting of rare tiger
Protests follow zoo shooting of rare tiger: SANTIAGO, Chile, July 31 (UPI) -- Chilean activists protesting the shooting death of a rare male white tiger that attacked a zoo worker demanded the resignation of those responsible. Officials at the zoo in Santiago said Pampa was shot Sunday morning ...
Poverty and Politics
Poverty and Politics: As the election nears — it is now less than 100 days away — the issue of poverty in America will hopefully play a somewhat more central role. It's perfectly appropriate for candidates of both parties, and at all levels, to focus on the plight of the ...
Mexican economy grew 4 percent in 2Q
Mexican economy grew 4 percent in 2Q: MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Finance Department says the country's economy grew by 4 percent in the second quarter of the year as compared to the same period of 2011. It says growth "moderated slightly, but remained positive and high." The department ...
Puerto Rico Tries Tougher Sentences in Crime Fight
Puerto Rico Tries Tougher Sentences in Crime Fight: An updated penal code signed into law Monday by the Puerto Rican governor increases prison sentences for homicide, assault and other offenses as the U.S. island territory struggles to contain crime and the widespread perception that violence is out of ...
Can Technology Help Bolster Security in Mexico's Drug War?
Can Technology Help Bolster Security in Mexico's Drug War?
Being a subject matter expert on the drug war in Mexico --
and sometimes so focused on it that I forget about all the other
nefarious things going on elsewhere in the world -- it was an
eye-opening experience to learn about other illicit networks that ...
Youth programme fights extreme poverty in Guatemala
Youth programme fights extreme poverty in Guatemala
Guatemala has the highest rate of chronic childhood malnutrition in Latin America.
It affects one of every two children under the age of five in the
country, according to the UN Children's Fund Unicef. Young sentries
against malnutrition was created in ...
Comment: UK Black Pride – a moment of discovery
Comment: UK Black Pride – a moment of discovery:
| Saturday 18 August is a significant day for two reasons – not only is it my birthday, but far more importantly, it is UK Black Pride; a day to celebrate the African, Asian, Caribbean and Latin American strands of the LGBT community. This year's ... |  PinkNews.co.uk |
How Latin America is reinventing the war on drugs
How Latin America is reinventing the war on drugs: We lost the right to be people." Bolivia's more go-it-alone approach symbolizes a fundamental shift in the drug war in Latin America – one that is creating a tense new relationship between the US and its southern neighbors and could help determine how ...
lunes, 30 de julio de 2012
Delegates vote for medical marijuana
Delegates vote for medical marijuana: THE youth branch of the country's biggest political party is seeking the legalisation of marijuana for medical purposes. A motion on the issue was emphatically carried at the Garret FitzGerald Summer School, organised by Young Fine Gael, in Killarney ...
Haiti, Puerto Rico move on in CONCACAF U-20s
Haiti, Puerto Rico move on in CONCACAF U-20s:
| MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico - Haiti and Puerto Rico both advanced to the final round of Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship, settling for a 0-0 draw against each other Sunday in their first round Group 3 finale. Both teams finished ... |  Boxscore News |
Domestic demand fuels Chile's economic growth
Domestic demand fuels Chile's economic growth: SANTIAGO, Chile--Resilient domestic demand continues to fuel economic growth in Chile, according to data released Monday. June industrial production grew 2.9% year-on-year and copper production gained 5.6% while retail sales increased 8.9% and ...
Remembering a Cuban Dissident
Remembering a Cuban Dissident: As Cuba's leading political dissident, Oswaldo Payá knew what it meant to live dangerously. He had spent time in Castro's jails, where so many charged with “counterrevolutionary activities” had perished. Death threats were not unusual. There was the ...
Chick-fil-A Protesters Show Up at Palm Beach County Location
Chick-fil-A Protesters Show Up at Palm Beach County Location
Ever since Chick-fil-A company head Dan Cathy said he was “guilty as charged” for supporting anti-gay
groups the controversy has reached national levels, with Chick-fil-A
supporters defending the company, and the other side calling for
boycotts and ...
US border agents find rare artifacts
US border agents find rare artifacts:
| At a conservation center here, archaeologists are studying several ancient Native American pots discovered earlier this year deep in the remote desert mountains of southern Arizona. A man extracts artifacts found in mountainous alcoves of southern Arizona. |  USA TODAY |
Judge awards almost $3M for lawyer fees in New Mexico's court fight over ...
Judge awards almost $3M for lawyer fees in New Mexico's court fight over ...: SANTA FE, N.M. — Taxpayers must pick up the tab for nearly $3 million in fees for attorneys who represented Democratic, Republican, Native American and Hispanic voter interests in redistricting trials, a New Mexico judge decided Monday. District Judge ...
After Two Years in Power Brazil President Gets an A in Economy, Politics and ...
After Two Years in Power Brazil President Gets an A in Economy, Politics and ...
You will be deformed", the 22-year-old prisoner was told in January 1970 by a jailer - maybe "Dr. Medeiros", maybe "Joaquim" - working for Brazil's then military regime. The young woman's name was Dilma Rousseff. Thirty-one years later, in 2001, she ...
Analysis: Venezuela joins trade bloc big on politics, protectionism
Analysis: Venezuela joins trade bloc big on politics, protectionism: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The South American trade group Mercosur welcomes Venezuela as its newest member this week but growing protectionism in the bloc's leading economies and political posturing have reduced it to a shadow of its former self.
Latina Stanford Student Creates National Mentoring Program
Latina Stanford Student Creates National Mentoring Program: Four out of five low-income students fail to attain a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. As astounding and scary as the numbers are, they motivated one woman to take action. Stephanie Bravo, a Mexican American from San Jose,California, is the founder ...
French Academic Points Out Cuba's Commitment to Social Welfare
French Academic Points Out Cuba's Commitment to Social Welfare
The Cuban Revolution has made the development of medicine and social welfare into a national priority, said French journalist, writer and professor Salim ...
Chile Central Bank Only Considered Holding Steady In July -Minutes
Chile Central Bank Only Considered Holding Steady In July -Minutes: SANTIAGO, Chile--At its July 12 monthly monetary policy meeting, the only option the Central Bank of Chile considered was standing pat on the overnight lending rate at 5%, according to the minutes of that meeting released Monday. This is the same view ...
Prisoners Fear Being Released
Prisoners Fear Being Released: Prisoners preparing to rejoin the public after completing their custodial sentences at the Embu Prison are expressing fear over their lives. The prisoners said some of their prison mates who have been released in the past have been lynched by the ...
Latrines with Walls: Preventing Cholera in Haiti
Latrines with Walls: Preventing Cholera in Haiti: Every weekday morning, the staff at Hopital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) convenes in the hospital's bibliyotek to discuss deaths and complex cases from the prior day. On Oct. 18, 2010, a Monday, the doctors and nurses sat in the stuffy room under dim lights ...
Gay marriage ban supporter named SF archbishop
Gay marriage ban supporter named SF archbishop: Gay marriage ban supporter named SF archbishop. A vigorous supporter of California's same-sex marriage ban was named Friday as the next Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco. The Associated Press ...
Cholera epidemic still raging in Cuba | Babalú Blog
Cholera epidemic still raging in Cuba | Babalú Blog: In spite of the propaganda statements by the Castro dictatorship that all is under control, the cholera epidemic that struck Cuba a few weeks ago continues to.
Brazilian couple wins world salsa championship in Puerto Rico
Brazilian couple wins world salsa championship in Puerto Rico
The Brazilian couple Carine Morais and Rafael Barros won the World Salsa Open 2012 this weekend during the Puerto Rico
Salsa Congress at a hotel in San Juan, organizers said. After winning
the contest, Barros proposed matrimony to his dance partner, ...
Monkeys treated for depression in Argentina
Monkeys treated for depression in Argentina: Two alpha females died 1 1/2 years ago from natural causes at the Rio Cuarto Urban Ecological Park some 650 kilometers (400 miles) west of Buenos Aires, and from that moment "their male companions began suffering depression and four let themselves ...
Argentina's Siderar Profit Falls 83% in Quarter as Costs Rise
Argentina's Siderar Profit Falls 83% in Quarter as Costs Rise: Sales slid 1.1 percent to 3 billion pesos, the company said in a filing with the Buenos Aires stock exchange. The cost of sales rose 10 percent to 2.4 billion pesos. The company said costs increased as a result of rising prices for raw materials, labor ...
Microfinance in Latin America – The myths and the reality
Microfinance in Latin America – The myths and the reality
Your daily news on Latin America. ... more informal microenterprises would actually be the key to reducing poverty and social exclusion in Latin America ...
Thai police get death penalty in drug war killing
Thai police get death penalty in drug war killing: A new Bible translation tackles the challenge of turning ancient Greek and Hebrew texts into modern American English and then adds a twist: It's written like a screenplay. A new Bible translation tackles the challenge of turning ancient Greek and ...
Formal Charges To Be Filed In Aurora Shootings
Formal Charges To Be Filed In Aurora Shootings: ... 24-year-old James Holmes, the lone suspect in the attack. Prosecutors may also seek the death penalty. ... Jul 30, 2012 — American Dana Vollmer blew away the field, winning gold and setting a record in the 100-meter butterfly. Her teammates in the ...
'I was bitten': Greek competitor alleges biting in judo loss to Cuban opponent
'I was bitten': Greek competitor alleges biting in judo loss to Cuban opponent
On Monday, Greece's Ioulietta Boukouvala lost her opening-round 57-kg match to Cuba's
Yurileidys Cobas, and Boukouvala charges that in the heat of battle,
Cobas bit her on the hand. Greek sports websites quoted Boukouvala, 28,
as saying that officials ...
Louisiana Moves Up in National Rankings for Overall Child Well-Being
Louisiana Moves Up in National Rankings for Overall Child Well-Being
Our ongoing collaboration with Louisiana's child-serving agencies and community partners is essential in order to maintain our improved education, health and child poverty outcomes and to keep them moving in the right direction.” In terms of economic ...
Report: Child poverty on rise in PR - Caribbean Business
Report: Child poverty on rise in PR - Caribbean Business: More than 80 per cent of children in Puerto Rico live in high-poverty areas, according to a study released Wednesday that also found the percentage of local ...
Prisoners "Boiling to Death" In Their Cells
Prisoners "Boiling to Death" In Their Cells
A New York Times article on the Texas prison system entitled, "In Texas, Arguing That Heat Can Be A Death Sentence for Prisoners," exposes a shameful problem that exists in jails and prisons throughout America--prisoners dying from hyperthermia or ...
domingo, 29 de julio de 2012
Andover family touched by Haitian orphanage trip
Andover family touched by Haitian orphanage trip: “They were going to Haiti this time. After a few conversations, we knew it was for us.” They were among 31 people on this particular mission, including 11 occupational therapists, two speech therapists, a teacher and a nurse. Dan is a computer software ...
Allentown's Puerto Rican Festival and parade draws thousands
Allentown's Puerto Rican Festival and parade draws thousands:
| Many attendees wore clothing bearing the Puerto Rican colors, and the country's banner flew outside some houses on nearby streets. A banner-raising ceremony at Allentown City Hall and parade along Fifth and Hamilton streets kicked off the day's ... |  The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com |
Colombia's middle class doubled over past decade: Study
Colombia's middle class doubled over past decade: Study: According to the study, Colombia is still significantly behind other developing Latin American economies like those of Chile and Mexico where the middle class consists of respectively 50% and 40% and poverty has dropped to respectively 7.1% and 17.4%, ...
Teen strikes, kills elderly woman at Laundromat
Teen strikes, kills elderly woman at Laundromat: (AP) -- Volusia County authorities say a 17-year-old boy accidentally struck and killed an elderly woman outside a Laundromat. The crash is still under investigation, but deputies say criminal charges are not likely for the unidentified teen. The ...
Arrests in Kenya over Venezuelan diplomat's murder
Arrests in Kenya over Venezuelan diplomat's murder:
| Six people have been arrested in Kenya in connection with the murder of Venezuela's acting ambassador. The diplomat, Olga Fonseca, was found strangled to death at her official residence in Nairobi on Friday. Kenyan officials said some staff at the ... |  BBC News |
Endesa chief says Enersis capital boost a tough sell -report
Endesa chief says Enersis capital boost a tough sell -report: SANTIAGO, July 29 (Reuters) - A plan for an $8 billion capital increase at giant Spanish energy company Endesa's main South American unit may run into trouble, but should eventually win support to proceed, Endesa's chief said on Sunday. Endesa's ...
Transgender candidate makes history in Florida | Gay Star News
Transgender candidate makes history in Florida | Gay Star News:
 | Gina Duncan is making history for being a popular transgender candidate for the Orange County ... |
Poor kids stuck in poverty trap
Poor kids stuck in poverty trap: South Africa is often compared to Brazil, which also has a huge income gap, but while the Latin American country has narrowed the divide over the last decade, here the chasm is as deep as ever, the World Bank said. The richest 10% of South Africans ...
Child Care Funding In New York On The Decline For Working Families: Report
Child Care Funding In New York On The Decline For Working Families: Report: The report, which was released by the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, shows that the city has shifted child care funding away from working families and toward families receiving public assistance. Why the shift? According to Ralph da ...
Peru's Humala renews poverty vow after year in office
Peru's Humala renews poverty vow after year in office
In the annual presidential speech to Congress, Mr Humala said he aimed to cut Peru's poverty
to 15% by the end of his term in 2016. He said his government had not
yet achieved all it set out to do. The address comes days after Mr
Humala reshuffled his ...
Russia seeks bases in Cuba
Russia seeks bases in Cuba: “We are working on establishing navy bases outside Russia,” Vice-Admiral Viktor Chirkov, the navy's commander-in- chief since May, said in an interview with the state-run RIA Novosti news service. “We aim to set up resupply bases in Cuba, the ...
Franklin Twp. church sends specialists to speed up Haitian care
Franklin Twp. church sends specialists to speed up Haitian care:
| nj-haiti.JPG View full sizeAliya Browne, a member of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Franklin Township, center, sits in the clinic where she treated more than 200 residents of Carries, Haiti. Surrounding her are, from left to right, nurse ... |  The Star-Ledger - NJ.com |
Mexican prison's security chief gunned down
Mexican prison's security chief gunned down: The security chief of the prison in Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, was gunned down, police said. Alejandro Osuna Rios was murdered on Friday in front of his house, police said. The 36-year-old Osuna Rios had been in ...
DuPage fair to help Haitian families with goats
DuPage fair to help Haitian families with goats: For every $150 collected, the Haitian Health Foundation will purchase a pregnant goat for a family in Jeremie. The families are chosen by local committees on the basis of economic status, participation in health education and their commitment to the ...
US citizen could face death penalty in Sudan
US citizen could face death penalty in Sudan:
| CAIRO: An American citizen and aid worker in Sudan could face the death penalty if convicted of terrorism and espionage charges. Rudwan Daoud, who had worked with the late NBA legend Manute Bol on humanitarian and democracy efforts in Africa, ... |  Bikya Masr |
Indiana kids lose ground to poverty
Indiana kids lose ground to poverty: Among the tens of thousands of statistics in a newly released report on child welfare, the most frightening is this: Twenty-two percent of Indiana children live in poverty, and the percentage has increased every year since 2007. While the figure now ...
As poverty rises, so do challenges in education
As poverty rises, so do challenges in education
That's because the newly released Kids Count survey, complied by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, reported that Indiana's child poverty rate rose to 20 percent in 2010. Think about that: One in five children in our state is living in poverty. The numbers ...
Mexican prison's security chief gunned down
Mexican prison's security chief gunned down: About 50000 people have died in Mexico's drug war since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country's powerful cartels, sending soldiers into the streets to fight criminals.
Poor S.African kids unlikely to escape poverty: World Bank
Poor S.African kids unlikely to escape poverty: World Bank:
| South Africa is often compared to Brazil, which also has a huge income gap, but while the Latin American country has narrowed the divide over the last decade, here the chasm is as deep as ever, the World Bank said. The richest 10 percent of South ... |  FRANCE 24 |
Weapons seized at Southern Illinois prison
Weapons seized at Southern Illinois prison
The Southern Illinoisan reported that the prison was under full lockdown Friday afternoon. Union representative Ty Petersen, of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council, says the incident points to one of the impacts of Gov.
US pledge to help rebuild Haiti better and with transparency faltering
US pledge to help rebuild Haiti better and with transparency faltering
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The deadly earthquake that levelled Haiti's
capital more than two years ago brought a thread of hope: a promise of
renewal. With the United States taking the lead, international donors
pledged billions of dollars to help the ...
Democratic senators, Indian tribes battle over payday lender crackdown bill
Democratic senators, Indian tribes battle over payday lender crackdown bill
But his effort could be complicated by a group of Native American
lenders who are crying foul over the measure and say it intrudes on
tribal sovereignty. Earlier this week, Merkley (D-Ore.) along with Sens.
Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Democratic Whip Dick ...
Researcher brings hope to disabled living in poverty
Researcher brings hope to disabled living in poverty
“I was young, wanted to help, but quickly found out how little I knew
and how much I still had to learn,” he said. Determined to make a
difference, he has been studying ethnographic research on disability and
extreme poverty in Guatemala for almost a ...
Hugo Chavez steps up campaign after cancer fight
Hugo Chavez steps up campaign after cancer fight: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez reaches out to shakes hand with supporters as he arrives for a campaign rally in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, July 28, 2012. Chavez celebrated his 58th birthday at the rally Saturday where ...
Peru's Humala says to boost social spending to avert conflicts
Peru's Humala says to boost social spending to avert conflicts
Humala, in an annual address to Congress just days
after anti-mining protests prompted him to shuffle his cabinet for the
second time in his year-old government, said he would extend the rollout
of social programs in a bid to cut the nation's poverty ...
viernes, 27 de julio de 2012
Cuba: Driver error to blame for dissident's death
Cuba: Driver error to blame for dissident's death: HAVANA (AP) - Cuban authorities say driver error is to blame for a car crash last weekend that killed prominent dissident Oswaldo Paya. An official notice read on the afternoon newscast and simultaneously sent by email to foreign journalists says ...
Brazil » The Politics of Poverty
Brazil » The Politics of Poverty: In Congress, a game of bluff and bluster is playing out around the Farm Bill. The issue is whether the leaders of the House Agriculture Committee can cajole or ...
Peru president's tough first year
Peru president's tough first year
Peru's poverty rate has dropped 22 percentage
points in the past two decades. But 28 percent of Peruvians still live
in poverty, according to government figures. Humala defends Conga for
the billions of dollars he says it will fund programs for Peru's ...
Argentina may force grains futures prices into pesos
Argentina may force grains futures prices into pesos: BUENOS AIRES, July 27 (Reuters) - Argentina could require that grains futures be listed in the local peso currency, the head of the central bank said on Friday, a move that traders said would paralyze markets in the leading global food supplier ...
Branstad seeks more trade partnerships in Brazil, Chile
Branstad seeks more trade partnerships in Brazil, Chile
... and Chile are interested in expanding trade relationships
with Iowa, Gov. Terry Branstad said Friday. Officials are visiting the
countries this week. “In terms of South America, I think these countries
are our best prospects,” Branstad said from ...
The growing threat from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
The growing threat from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez: The Obama administration's continued indifference to the actions of the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is dangerous on several fronts ("Hugo Chavez compares his rival to Mitt Romney," July 23). President Barack Obama recently made the startling ...
Latin America Still an Unfair World for Women
Latin America Still an Unfair World for Women: ... in Latin America, though women and girls have achieved gender parity in access to education and health care, they have not yet achieved political and economic parity. Segal emphasizes economic empowerment in particular as a key to poverty ...
Poverty rising at alarming rate
Poverty rising at alarming rate: When the 2011 Census numbers are released in the fall, they are expected to show poverty rates at 15.7 percent nationwide. In the state of Louisiana, the current rates reach around 18 percent. In the Capital City, numbers jump to more than 25 percent.
Louisiana improves in annual kids survey, but economic issues still a hurdle ...
Louisiana improves in annual kids survey, but economic issues still a hurdle ...
"Even though we still have a lot of issues related to poverty and a significant adult uninsured population." Another state initiative officials hope will positively impact Louisiana children is the coordinated system of care for Louisiana's greatest at ...
Native Americans Hurt Most by Climate Change
Native Americans Hurt Most by Climate Change: Native American tribes comprise a small percentage of the American population, but their lands can be found across the country in very different areas. Because of this spread, and native people's dependence on the land, they are getting hit by every ...
Diabetes News: Native Americans Ate 16 Times More Fiber than People Today
Diabetes News: Native Americans Ate 16 Times More Fiber than People Today
An analysis of fossilized Native American feces
shows that our ancestors ate up to sixteen times the fiber that we do
today, but our stomachs didn't evolve to fit our changing diets. The
findings come from analysis of fossilized feces dating from A.D ...
Native American law takes toddler from adoptive parents
Native American law takes toddler from adoptive parents
The law was originally intended to preserve Native American culture by keeping children with native families as opposed to non-Native American families. After learning about the Capobianco's case, the author of the law, former U.S. Sen. Jim Aborzek of ...
Scholarship program announced for children of prisoners
Scholarship program announced for children of prisoners:
| Pitzer, a former prison warden, cited an American Correctional Association report that up to 50 percent of incarcerated juveniles have a parent who is or was in jail. The Foundation will provide scholarships for college and vocational training to ... |  Examiner.com |
James Holmes Continues Streak of Odd Behavior
James Holmes Continues Streak of Odd Behavior:
| And now, Arapahoe County Jail officers told ABC News that Holmes spits at them so much that they have to use a spit guard on Holmes while moving him. These antics are just the latest in findings that contradict the initial profile of him as an ... |  TIME |
Overcrowding, budget cuts strain Illinois prisons
Overcrowding, budget cuts strain Illinois prisons: Gregg Johnson, a prison supply supervisor and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 46, which represents local prison employees, told the Moline Dispatch that the drawn-out heat wave and ...
Seniors Take Pedestrian Safety Into Their Own Hands
Seniors Take Pedestrian Safety Into Their Own Hands: Senior citizens are doing their part to keep the streets safe in New York City. In Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, more than 50 seniors have joined forces to identify safety issues in the neighborhood. “Light is turning red quickly and the cars are not always ...
Poverty looms over election campaign
Poverty looms over election campaign: Mexico Unmasked · China Rises · Inside South America · Planet Washington · Suits & Sentences · Special Reports · Mexico's Future ... Lots of things are still very wrong with the U.S. economy, but this is one that should be getting more attention ...
Poverty Risk Nearly Doubles for Older Americans Lacking Pensions, New Study ...
Poverty Risk Nearly Doubles for Older Americans Lacking Pensions, New Study ...: There is a steep price to pay when older Americans can no longer be self-sufficient in retirement – either as increased public assistance costs to taxpayers or backsliding to a time with elder Americans living in poverty.” ... from pensions may be ...
Venezuela's prisons see security breakdown
Venezuela's prisons see security breakdown:
| Venezuela's prisons are a hotbed of corruption and overcrowding - and a thorn in the side of President Hugo Chavez. Just before dawn on 12 July, Frank Reinaldo Contreras, Joan Manuel Perez, Guillermo Calderon and Jhonatan Rivera took advantage of ... |  BBC News |
Infrastructure investments and the Latino jobs recovery | Economic ...
Infrastructure investments and the Latino jobs recovery | Economic ...: There are more than a million people unemployed from the construction industry – many of them Latino – who are looking for work. We have tremendous ...
Study Finds Elder Abuse Common Among Low-Income Latinos
Study Finds Elder Abuse Common Among Low-Income Latinos:
| Based on interviews conducted in Spanish in low-income Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles, the researchers found that 10.7 percent of elderly Latinos had been physically abused and 9 percent of elderly Latinos said they had been sexually abused in the ... |  PsychCentral.com |
Study Investigates Elder Abuse Among Low-Income Latino Elderly
Study Investigates Elder Abuse Among Low-Income Latino Elderly
According to a new study out of the USC Davis School of Gerontology, elder abuse among low-income Latino communities goes largely unreported. “Our study has revealed a much higher rate of elder abuse among the Latino community than had been ...
Human Rights violations overshadowed by improving HIV response
Human Rights violations overshadowed by improving HIV response:
| He went on to highlight countries such as Uganda, who are on the verge of banning 'gay rights' agencies, and the Latin American community, whose persecution of the transgender population is affecting the uptake of counselling and HIV treatment. Aids ... |  So So Gay |
Indigenous rights in South America (1)
Indigenous rights in South America (1): On July 25th the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador's government had ignored the rights of Sarayaku's residents when granting permission for an energy project—putting governments in the Americas on notice that big physical ...
Violence shakes Anaheim -- and its image
Violence shakes Anaheim -- and its image:
| Protesters clash with police during a demonstration to show outrage for the shooting death of Manuel Angel Diaz, 25, at Anaheim City Hall on July 24, 2012 in Anaheim, Calif. Diaz was ... Nearly 16 percent of Anaheim residents live below the poverty line. |  Marketplace.org |
jueves, 26 de julio de 2012
Poverty looms over election campaign
Poverty looms over election campaign: Lots of things are still very wrong with the U.S. economy, but this is one that should be getting more attention: Census figures for 2011 are expected to show the poverty rate jumping to its highest level since the 1960s.
Statistics can't hide poor performance
Statistics can't hide poor performance:
| Secondly, overall poverty in Chile has come down significantly over the last two decades or so, as it has in most of Latin America. The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates the overall figure has come down from 48% of ... |  Business News Americas |
Elder abuse disproportionately affects LA's low-income Latinos
Elder abuse disproportionately affects LA's low-income Latinos:
| Based on Spanish-language interviews by promotores — or health workers in low-income Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles — the researchers found that the longer elderly Latinos had been in the United States, the more likely they were to face abuse or ... |  89.3 KPCC |
Poll: Americans Sick of Political Campaigns Focused on Attacks Rather Than ...
Poll: Americans Sick of Political Campaigns Focused on Attacks Rather Than ...
A new poll shows that Americans are growing
increasingly frustrated with the way political leaders are campaigning
against each other, seeing it as doing more harm than good in the
political sphere. ... Methodists in Northeast Approve Pro-Gay ...
Despite protests, Boy Scouts reaffirm ban on gays
Despite protests, Boy Scouts reaffirm ban on gays: After a confidential two-year review, the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 emphatically reaffirmed its policy of excluding gays, ruling out any changes despite relentless protest campaigns by some critics. On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, ...
The Limited Integration of Latin American Governance
The Limited Integration of Latin American Governance:
| The aspiration to integrate governance between Latin America's twenty nations to address issues ranging from human rights to economic development to security concerns are long-held, but have led to mostly ephemeral results. The response for frustrated ... |  Council on Foreign Relations (blog) |
Chávez a threat to the hemisphere
Chávez a threat to the hemisphere: Perhaps, he considered Chávez's rhetoric simply as “business as usual” in Latin American politics: blaming U.S. foreign policy as the source of all regional evils. In that context, Chávez's “anti-Imperialist” speech might, at a stretch, ... The scope ...
Case of Human Rights confront authorities of Peru
Case of Human Rights confront authorities of Peru:
| ... they were executed under the supposition were terrorists. In September 2005 the Inter- American Court of Human Rights pronounced against the State of Peru for the execution of the victims of the university “La Cantuta” y the case “Barrios Altos ... |  Examiner.com |
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