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Rio de Janeiro's mayor dreams of making his city South America's ...  - Rio de Janeiro's mayor dreams of making his city South America's answer to ... The country is on track to make 100 feature films this year, up from 30 in 2003,  ...

South America's Right-Wing Bulldozer Hits Lenin Roadblock in Ecuador - In Brazil, the biggest country and economy in South America , the government of Michel Temer, who came to power after what most people see as a ...

South America's leaders rally around Venezuela's Maduro : Presidents and ministers from the Union of South American Nations were due to meet in Lima yesterday to discuss the crisis. Led by Argentina and Brazil, most member states have already recognised Mr Maduro's victory and the bloc was expected to endorse ... Irish Times

Loving the tapir: pioneering conservation for South America's biggest animal : Tapir is a popular game animal for indigenous tribes, but is also increasingly sold in rising commercial wildlife-meat markets and restaurants in South America . "Another serious threat to this species is road-kill. Morro do Diabo State Park in São ... Mongabay.com

Mexico has the drive to overtake Brazil as South America's top car manufacturer  - It said the two countries had followed markedly different policies in developing their ... “Brazil has lost South American markets to China and Mexico.

Gauging South America's biggest economies : Venezuela and Argentina are two South American countries that exemplify the continent's shift away from US influence. But in the last week, actions by both governments have been pounced on by critics as signs of weakness in their economies.

Argentina's economic performance 'below' South America's average : " Foreign exchange reserves jumped 398%, below the average for South America, 437%, and unemployment, 7.8%, is just above the average for the region, 7.4% and so is poverty 23.6% against 21.8%. This good economic performance can be explained because ... MercoPress "

Trickle-down economics in one of South America's poorest countries ...  - The Economist has dedicated an article to the recently inaugurated Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes, and his attempts to improve the living  ...

Paraguay: Home Of South America's Abundant Renewable Energy : On March 15, at a major event of the Paraguayan Chamber of Advertisers, the President of Paraguay, Dr. Federico Franco Gomez stated that “Chaco Paraguay today has more than 210,000 sq. km, with only 2% of the nation's population, it must become a ...

Pope Francis to Visit South America's Poorest Counties During Tour, Meet Indigenous People  - While making his first visit as Pontiff to Latin America, Pope Francis will stop in the small, poverty stricken countries of Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.

South America's "Safe Haven"  - In addition, Chile remains one of the few countries in Latin America that does not use its armed forces for internal security, a stance that Santiago would  ...

Regal Trio's Historic Link to Escaped Slaves and South America's ...  -  Soon after the conquista, this vast, primeval wilderness was dominated by a vibrant new society formed by the amalgamation of escaped black slaves  ...

Ecuador's Silicon Valley? Quito Bets Big To Be South America's Next High-Tech Powerhouse  - a veteran professor of organic chemistry with a passion for developing science and higher education centers across Latin America , packed up his ...

Argentina overtakes Venezuela as South America's biggest default risk Bloomberg News Camila Russo BUENOS AIRES — Argentina's risk of default is the highest versus Venezuela in three years as the nationalization of the country's biggest oil company heightens capital flight and drives the peso to a record low in the ...

The president of Brazil declared war on Carnaval, after South America's biggest street party made ... -  People started referring to the video as a "golden shower," to which ... his offensive comments about women, black people , and the LGBT community.

LATin : South America's Open Education Publishing Project ...  -  Can open source textbooks help students to forgo photocopies in favor of required texts in Latin America? The bold open source LATin project aims to  ...

South America's rising star: President Rafael Correa of Ecuador : "For Correa or Chavez or Eva Morales in Latin America , dealing with China is acceptable because you're doing business with another country," political scientist Patricio Navia told MSN News. "It's not foreign capital and world capitalism. "The way you ... Español | Las Américas | Português | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

"Peruvians, I Will Cut Their Throats" And More From South America's War Of ... VIÑA DEL MAR – The Chilean government has called an investigation to identify and sanction marines caught on tape chanting “Argentines I will kill, Bolivians I will shoot, Peruvians I will cut their throats.” About 30 marine cadets from the Naval ...

South America's rising star: President Rafael Correa of Ecuador : In the wake of Hugo Chavez's death, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has emerged as a leader of the Latin American left and an advocate of social reform.

Latin America's water crisis is not about millennials' avocado habit, but the human and ... -  Latin America's water crisis is not about millennials' avocado habit, but the human ... millennials over their diets won't solve South America's water issues. ... in its native Andean region, raising concerns about whether poor Peruvians ...