CAYAMBE. Cheese has been since ancient times one of the foods present in the tables. Cayambe has a long tradition in developing this product, as set forth in the Third National Cheese Fair On-Site Technical Institute Nelson Torres.
EXHIBITORS. Among the speakers are small and medium producers of dairy products, as Edwin Monteros, who with his brothers made fresh cheese, mozzarella, ripe pategrass, leaf and oregano. They also produce yogurt in several presentations, food of milk and soft drinks. This year after receiving a technical course with Swiss, has ventured into the manufacture of cheese with fruit.
“We process 120,000 liters of milk a day we give small and medium cheeses and derivatives productores.Los” Monteros products “are sold in several stores in the country one of these is Panificadora Ambato in the city of Quito. On Monday from early morning hours expended on the Obelisk in the city of Ibarra. Read Article
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For most of its modern history, Brazil has been a nation of the starkest economic divides: Super rich, super poor. Businesses that sold anything but the most basic items trained their sights on the upper strata. Now, Brazil is a major player in a global economic shift that is seeing formerly “developing” nations morph into […]
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Covered by the new winds blowing in Uruguay following the Government’s plan to legalize marijuana, some producers and consumers of this drug have created a contest to see who grows the best cannabis in the country through a unique tasting surrounded by secrecy. Laura White, organizer of the Cannabis Cup call, which also has an […]
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President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, today enacted a law that anticipates the payment of a “Golden Anniversary Bonus” to couples celebrating 50 years of marriage and widows or widowers, and before it receive up to 2013 and 2014. This cash was introduced in 2011 as a tribute to those who meet five decades of marriage. […]
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Chavela Vargas, a preeminent interpreter of the music of loss and longing known as ranchera, who defiantly shattered gender stereotypes and blazed a legendary path through 20th-century Mexican popular culture, died Aug. 5 at a hospital in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She was 93. Read Article
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Two Argentine men yesterday as a child enrolled in the Civil Registry of the capital to three weeks a baby born to a surrogate mother in India, the first child registered as a child of two men without the need for adoption in the world. Tobias was gestated in the womb of an Indian which […]
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According to experts the economic crisis, the unemployment and violence have increased the stress in families causing violence for children at their homes. Many children have been exposed to violence because of the violence and even death of their caregivers. In Mexico there are more than 40 thousand orphan mistreated children due to violence in […]
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With a delay of a half, finally the National Bureau of Statistics and Information (Onei), through its Center for Population Studies and Development (CEPD) presented a paper Title Studies and Cuban Population Data. Cuba and its Territories 2011. In this study the official projection is provided on the number of Cubans at the end of […]
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Relatives of the deceased, just wanted to fulfill his last wish. A religious ceremony was unique in Huachaq district in the province of Chupaca in Huancayo (Junin). A woman married the father of her four children, Inga Waldo Navarro (52), who was killed in a traffic accident on Wednesday July 4. Relatives of the deceased […]
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Jaime García Márquez, a civil engineer, told a group of students at a lecture in the Colombian city of Cartagena that his elder brother often telephones him to ask basic questions. “He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I’m losing him,” he said. The author, who has lived in […]
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With so many people moving or considering a move to Ecuador, it is highly recommended to read as much as possible about the country. Having lived in Ecuador previously and traveled there for over thirty years I have accumulated near 350 books about the country and culture. I have spent a great deal of time […]
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A Spanish and Colombian star in Buenos Aires on Monday in celebration of the first marriage between same sex are not permanent residents in the city. The wedding, to be held in a registry office in the center of the capital of Argentina, Jose Manuel legally join Gutierrez Ruiz, Spanish, and Oswaldo Antonio Marin Ruiz, […]
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Contrary to the official versions in the sense that the situation of addiction in the city is improving, social groups involved in work connected with this problem note that drug use continues to increase, diversify and involving age ranges increasingly reduced. Read Article
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On 11th May, police shut down and inspected a school following a bomb threat. As a school with connections to the first division football club Independiente, it was widely suspected that football hooligans were behind the threat. Just over one week later, another group of hooligans (barras bravas in Latin America) waited for Giovanni Moreno, […]
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The film of the Ecuadorian Tania Hermida cienasta “In the name of the daughter” was recognized in 22 Latin American Film Festival Ceará, held in Fortaleza, Brazil. Juan Carlos Azevedo received the award for best art direction by the belt of Ecuador. This film has received several awards abroad, as reported by The Daily Telegraph. […]
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Guanajuato, Gto. – The Comptroller Municipal liability found against three public officials of the Directorate of Enforcement, among them is the owner Gennaro Barba Uribe authorized to be organized cockfighting underground. After the Mayor Edgar Castro Cerrillo asked the Municipal Comptroller to investigate the Directorate of Enforcement, it was determined that there is accountability between […]
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Major consumers of Tobacco in Mexico are Low-income households The heart related diseases, caused by smoking, peaked in mortality levels in Mexico in 2010. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) during the year 2010 lowermost income households spent the greatest amount of money in Tabaco. 20 out of 100 people, who […]
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Minors who are abused increased from 40 to 42% in the last 21 years and there is almost double of teenage mothers 15 years ago. Meanwhile, mortality rates, child labor and improved access to education for this sector of the population, the report “State of the rights of children and adolescents in Ecuador 1990-2011”. According […]
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Dozens of people in the community of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) from Ecuador with kisses today celebrated World Day Against Homophobia in a central square in Quito. Soria Ephraim, Foundation and Gender Equity, one of the organizers of this event, told Efe that the kiss bet because it is “a symbol of affection […]
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On Monday afternoon, a local guide de Irala, Bragado party, alerted police after seeing something strange in a country road linking the town and Chacabuco, reported the online news Bragado Informa. The police officers were mobilized to the scene and managed to find four skulls and other bones that have been used for a practice […]
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The high incidence of teenage pregnancies in Latin America, second only to Africa, not only persists but is increasing, which is an obstacle to development in the region. Between 25 and 108 of every 1,000 girls 15 to 19 are mothers in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Economic Commission […]
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An opposition MP had to resign his aspiration to chair the Congress of Costa Rica because of his passion for cockfighting that, after being revealed by the press, earned strong reviews and the withdrawal of support from several colleagues. Danilo Cubero, candidate to lead the Legislature by an alliance of opposition parties, announced he would […]
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A newborn died after (removal) of the clitoris in an Indian reservation of western Colombia, said Tuesday local authorities, who were surprised by this case. “On Thursday I reported the death of a 15 days. Evaluated at the hospital that was the result of bleeding that occurred ablation. And the Legal Medicine Institute confirmed later,” […]
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The gay community crowned her Miss Nicaragua Gay, Queen of transvestites, with an exotic spectacle of dances and parades in swimsuits and fantasy in the Ruben Dario National Theater, which first opened its doors to the culture of sexual diversity. “The National Theatre is open to sexual diversity that has conquered new spaces,” said the […]
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Honduras Central American country is the largest contributor in the world for the enrichment of the vocabulary for the Royal Spanish Language Academy, said Monday the ambassador of Spain, Luis de los Rios Belzuz. Capital’s schoolchildren read the book “Don Quixote” in Language Day. “Honduras is the largest contributor to the lexicon, the vocabulary of […]
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PISCO, the national spirit of Peru, is a trickster: it appears so clear and pure — yet before long, you are under the table. Peruvians like to say that good pisco will never give you a hangover, although after a recent night in Lima, I beg to differ. Pisco is made from a single distillation […]
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Peru is one of the least happy of the South American region, according to the first World Happiness Report, prepared by the United Nations Conference on happiness. The Peru was thus located in the post 77 and is below countries such as Bolivia, Mexico and Brazil. Read Article Spanish. Read Article
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Peruvians consume lots of beer a year, the study Proleche Fund. Per capita consumption of beer in Peru reaches 42 liters per year, while in Bolivia consumed 40 liters of beer a year. However, these figures are lower when compared with the U.S. where consumption reaches 100 liters per year, with 80 Venezuela, Mexico and […]
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K-pop attracts devoted imitators in South America VITORIA, Brazil–Instead of doing the samba, eight young Brazilian women begin dancing in rhythm to a lively South Korean pop song in a room of a building here on a Sunday afternoon. All of the songs they swing their hips in unison to are those of the popular […]
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“Outside the evil spirits!” Was heard over and over again in front of Juan Domínguez Hospital of Soledad Romero, during the early hours of yesterday morning, a situation that called wide attention not only to users of the entity but to unsuspecting passersby. These cries that seemed part of an exorcism scene, was merely a […]
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The Argentines are the biggest book readers in Latin America , while Chile and Peru are the number one in reading magazines and newspapers, respectively, but in any event little read and more by necessity than by choice. The center recently presented a comparative study of reading behavior and reading habits, which includes Argentina, Brazil, […]
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Leon Trotsky arrived in Mexico in 1937. The Trotskyist movement in Latin America has been characterized by diversity and fragmentation. We propose a review of these revolutionary groups in different countries of Latin America. he portrait of Leon Trotsky is depicted on a mural at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. Its author […]
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The Basin Plan City University proposing the establishment of a Virtual Library for Basin allowing unrestricted access of all people the rich documentary heritage which has the city in its public and private libraries. Read Article
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Historical ties between two countries as far away as Russia and Colombia have been closer than they may seem at first glance. An example of this is the Bolshevik Revolution of Lebanon, a small town in the mountains of the Central Andes in the department of Tolima, Colombia. This town was one of the first […]
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They are known as Russians or “Volga Germans” and are scattered throughout numerous colonies in the interior of Argentina. Patagonia came to the protagonists of a little known episode because it is part of the history of the defeated. is part of the history of the defeated. Russian False Patagonia Driver’s license of Peter Brum […]
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Last year, attendance at theaters in the country hit a record 38 million tickets sold to see the 213 films being released in Colombia. The report that the Film Promotion Fund, Proimágenes Colombia, presented on Thursday night reported that the number of attendees, about 3 million viewers (7.9 percent) visited a Colombian movie, which almost […]
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At the headquarters of the Superintendent of the Federal District, which includes Brasilia and 29 satellite towns surrounding, the architect and superintendent [Administrator] Alfredo Gastal discussed with a group of people their illegal status, dating back more than 40 years ago when they occupied the land where they live. The land ownership, land speculation and […]
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Hundreds of farmers gathered in the streets in cities across the country on Monday and proceeded to chew coca in coincidence with the intervention of President Evo Morales early in Vienna before the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, United Nations. defended the traditional uses of this plant. Farmers camped in squares of La Paz, Cochabamba, Sucre […]
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Few women have heard the term “verbal harassment street”, but most know their meaning. Verbal street harassment is the bastard relative of the “compliment” unnatural and deviant, but borrows its legitimacy to settle in everyday social life. We talk about what is commonly known as “rude” spoken by strangers, usually women, but also transvestites and […]
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In the dark, lit only by torches, each shaman performed his clean, some amulets only accompanied by pre-Hispanic, and others with images of Santa Muerte, San Judas and Christ. Shamans, sorcerers, healers and spiritualists held at midnight the first Friday in March in Catemaco, when it charged for its clean energy, healing, voodoo, spells and […]
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In addition to the precarious living in the Oaxacan indigenous families, cultural issues that impact women suffer higher rates of malnutrition than men. According to the Ministry of Health of Oaxaca (SSO) for each malnourished child, two girls. Dr. Reynaldo Miguel Zavaleta, head of the Public Health Unit Health Services Oaxaca (SSO), explained that this […]
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INFLATABLE SWIMMING POOLS For merchants in the Bahia of Guayaquil, the Carnival holidays economically was not as good as last year. However, in the main stores selling pools increased significantly. Jumping right of Maryol Commercial, located in the bay, said that in 2011 expended 400 inflatable pools meet this year were only 70. Commercial workers […]
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The new law concerns 140,000 buildings in Buenos Aires accounting for 20% of the 200 million square metres of the city. Under the previous law, which expired on 31st January, the Consejo de Asunto Patrimonial judged if a building had patrimonial value, and if so, would rule that it could not be destroyed. Since 2007, […]
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Today it adds an economic racism, where race may be less important when discriminating as the socio-economic factor (income, habits, customs). In the Mexican case the kind of racism that most can identify discrimination are behaviors that correspond to giving inferior treatment to another person usually for social, ethnic, sexual (Torres S, Alcantara, H, and […]
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The end of the Maya long-count calendar does not predict a global catastrophe, let alone the end of the world, say native activists and elders who spoke to IPS in Guatemala. But what are coming to an end are the world’s natural resources, as a result of human activity, they warn. According to the Maya […]
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The National Human Rights Commission (CND) warned that more than 12 million indigenous people in our country are exposed to discrimination, abuse, maltreatment and abuse. Through the Program for Promotion of Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, the CNDH from January to June intensified their actions. Conducted 230 activities in the states of the Republic to […]
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The preliminary census figures throw that 3,216,257 people were surveyed so far in Uruguay, according to the report presented this Thursday Laura Nalbarte, technical director of the National Statistics Institute (INE) and Jose Maria Calvo, director of the Census 2011. The figures are as high as 22 December, when it began with the preliminary count, […]
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Men of ERPAC been delivered three tons of weapons and ammunition From Thursday, judicial authorities are in Villavicencio (Meta) members of this criminal gang who chose to willingly submit to justice, as announced in an interview with Semana head of this group, alias ‘Caracho’ last November. Caracho’, who inherited the leadership of the Anti-Revolutionary Army […]
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Bolivia and the United States decided to extend until December 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to protect the cultural heritage of the country. According to a press release from the Department of State United States, published on its website, the memorandum will enable to maintain the restrictions “on imports of archaeological material from pre-Columbian cultures […]
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The sound of the bell at the train station in Ibarra attract the gaze of hundreds of people who are gathering in the Obelisk. In this place at 16:00 today, will inaugurate the rehabilitation of the section Ibarra-Salinas with 30 kilometers, after two years of stagnation. History The train reached the station in Salinas in […]
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Different opinions on social networks generated a performance of a dancer who had performed live sex with a girl in the disco Uber, the southern sector of Antofagasta. According to postings on the Facebook Wall of disco, the trasandina Lorena Nieto, fulfilled what he had promised the night enclosure for several days and openly took […]
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Hola magazine from Spain, published a picture in which two black women go as part of the decoration of a mansion in Cali.In a mansion of “Beverly Hills” Cali, the most powerful women of Valle del Cauca appear in a photograph. A formidable landscape is seen in the background, while two black women in uniform […]
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The hairless pig, an organic spice that grows in the fields of Yucatan and feeds on herbs, is becoming an option in the gourmet food industry in this region, because the richness of the meat will enhance any dish. Wilmer Monforte d’Ivoire, hairless pig breeder in the town of Sucilá said to breed this species […]
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The Metropolitan Council decided to implement this measure as part of the prevention plan “Safe Time” before the high death rate in the capital because of excessive alcohol consumption, said Villarán.The ordinance requires that wineries, liquor stores and other establishments may only sell alcoholic beverages until midnight, while bars and enabled only may do so […]
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The poet, brother of the folklorist Violeta Parra, is the flagship of the “anti-poetry,” which involves the use of everyday language in the traditional poetry.The Chilean poet Nicanor Parra has now become the third Chilean to win the Cervantes Prize , after his compatriots Gonzalo Rojas Jorge Edwards and were awarded the top honor of […]
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The State Secretary of Education (SE), Ricardo Aguilar Gordillo said that Chiapas has ceased to be the “black rice illiteracy” at national level at the beginning of the current administration there were almost 570 000 of Chiapas who could not read and write, but in almost five years we have ceased to be the last. […]
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Manta hosted the fifth competition for the Gold Cup and the first National Congress of Coffee Growers of Ecuador. The best coffee tasters were foreigners all week evaluating samples from growers and yesterday afternoon the winners were announced. Fatigue was not an obstacle for those who traveled 16 hours from their coffee farms, with the goal of […]
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Univision.com reported that Playa Luna, who became famous some years ago in Chile because it is a meeting place nude, will open its 2011-2012 season, said the coordinator of the Naturist Association, Rene Rojas. The opening of the season in Playa Luna, distant about 90 minutes from the Chilean capital, there will be a guided […]
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More than 80 registered nurseries in the town of Atlixco, are ready to start selling poinsettias and near the holiday season, as reported by the head of economic development in that district, Miguel Amaro. He stressed that for this marketing season is estimated over 2 million plants are produced mainly through protected agriculture. From November […]
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The wave Kirchner has in Cordoba the first “small seeds” with less than a year. This is the drink to which their parents was named Cristina, because they are supporters of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.They call them the “new Evita XXI century”. Cristina and Nestor names are on the rise. In the municipal Civil […]
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Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900. THREE VOLUME SET [Hardcover] – Recorded interview with editor Dr. Joanne Pillsbury (Recording Time- 01:31:16 ) Recorded October 28, 2011. Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Press (2008) – Published in Collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. PURCHASE BOOK:Guide to […]
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Daniel Julio Chavez, Carlos Olivares Lopez and two other children were a kind of ritual at the cemetery. Without respect for the dead bodies of four youths were discovered while niches desecrated cemetery of Huaral. The detainees chose none other than the flag of the children to start a kind of ritual. Niches broke and […]
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A hot dog length of 273.5 meters, developed in the Colombian city of Barranquilla, became the bread and hot dog world’s longest. So far the world’s largest dog “recognized by Guinness World Records was prepared last year in Asuncion, Paraguay, with 230 meters long, “said the electronic edition of the newspaper El Heraldo of that […]
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In Fujian province, China practically only children and old people. The rest live abroad, and a good part of them, in Argentina. Far from the superpower whose development surprised the world and, according to economic experts, will be the owner of the century, Argentina who undertook the adventure more than 100,000 Chinese mainland, 80% originating […]
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Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean became the most popular non-European languages to study in Buenos Aires in the past five years. According to a study released today by the University Language Centre (CUI), these languages are growing rapidly in comparison with English, French, Portuguese and Italian, which in the past have been the more traditional […]
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An Ecuadorian delegation will travel this weekend to Washington next Tuesday to defend American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) regarding government policy to the press.The group, consisting of eight senior officials, is headed by the State Attorney General, Diego Garcia, and Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said today the National Communication Secretariat of the Presidency. The […]
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With the coming to power of Hugo Chavez in relations between Iran and Venezuela have grown beyond the historical oil interests. Since 2005, when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president, both countries stand together in defiance of Western conventions. Since Hugo Chavez took office began a steady rapprochement with Iran. From 1999 to 2007 were signed 86 […]
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The Argentines, among the most optimistic response to the crisis 10/21/11 00:00 50% of respondents positively assessed the current economic situation, but that percentage is reduced when one inquires about its soundness in the future, according to an Ipsos survey conducted in 24 countries around the globe. Brazilians also are The survey, which takes place […]
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There are over 80 border crossings used by traffickers. Until the end of August there were 650 drug raids. Seized 25 tons of cannabis and arrested 42 people. 90% of prison inmates Candelaria are “mules”. At that time the Paraná mirror reflects only shade, water boatmen earn sheer necessity. Rowing load hurry and fear, unable […]
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Love is stronger or age is unimportant, worth to bring this love story that Tuesday was one of the most intense episodes. She married a man 77 years with a 23 that was his pupil in the school of social psychology, which he heads. Moffatt is a psychologist Alfredo over 50 years of experience now […]
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Every Argentine currently consumes an average of about 53 kilos of beef a year, the lowest level on record in a country that has more head of cattle than people, according to official and private. In 2000, meat consumption per capita was 66 kilos and in 1958, the oldest official record of 98 kilos, according […]
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Commenting on the announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos to build a 7-star “environmentally friendly” hotel in Tayrona National Park, RCN Radio was able to establish that there are no studies for this project and that the project will have an impact on the environment. The studies to obtain the licenses to build the project […]
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A report by Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer Carl Meacham on the growing adoption of new technologies and social media in Latin America and what it could mean for U.S. foreign policy. Read Report
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The numbers are not surprising but nonetheless impact: the largest illegal trade fair in the country and Latin America, which employs 7 000 people and has nearly 39 thousand jobs and bill “between 150 and 200 million pesos.” Currently, the Salada houses about 30 000 jobs about 3 or 4 m2, and each tenant must […]
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Brazil’s National Advertising Council denied a request Thursday to ban a television ad featuring lingerie-clad supermodel Gisele Bundchen after a government agency called it sexist. “The stereotypes in this ad campaign are common in society, easily identifiable and do not denigrate women,” the council’s members said. Read Article
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In Venezuela, nothing and no one seems to escape inflation. This time, baseball is the one that presents a significant rise in the price of match tickets, which go up in different percentages depending on the equipment. In Venezuela, nothing and no one seems to escape inflation. This time, baseball is the one that presents […]
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The National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela (INE) today posted 14 million 256 thousand 389 people registered at the Fourteenth Census of Population and Housing, which represents 48 percent of the population. That entity reported on its website that this figure corresponds to three million 484 thousand 715 houses visited in the whole country since […]
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According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), women over 45 years married to men younger than they have risen by 23% in 10 years. And although the figure is still marginal -478 cases in 1998 against 622 in 2008 – increasing aware of a phenomenon that is also replicated between cohabiting and revealing, according to […]
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The House of Representatives rejected on Monday October 3, 2011 a bill to reform post-secondary education in Colombia, El Tiempo reports. Colombia’s education Minister, Maria Fernanda Campo, said that the government seeks to improve the quality of higher education and to make it more accessible, especially for poor young people. She also said that the […]
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8 out of 10 women have been victims of violence at some time in Ecuador 21% of children and adolescents in Ecuador have been sexually abused ECUADOR | They call themselves ‘neomasculinos’ Youths fight sexism in Ecuador with pink helmets. Under the symbol of a Helmet Rosa, a group of j oung who call themselves […]
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The famous “Panama” hat, straw, white, and black bands that have spread throughout the Caribbean, originated thousands of miles away in Cuenca, a city of Ecuador in the Andes and embedded 2,500 meters above sea level. Read Article
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In Argentina, on 30 August this year, the National Film and Visual Arts (INCAA) Official Gazette published a new regime of “screen quota” greatly deepen the concocted in 1973 in full assault on freedom individual. Se trata -nada más y nada menos- de limitar por la fuerza del aparato estatal las exhibiciones de producciones cinematográficas […]
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After Moctezuma – Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524-1730 – Recorded interview with author Dr. William F. Connell (Recording Time- 01:22:45) Recorded September 16, 2011. University of Oklahoma Press PURCHASE BOOK:After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-government in Mexico City, 1524-1730 The first study of indigenous political dynamics in Tenochtitlan after the Spanish […]
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The alarm and sad news: in Ecuador two languages may be lost (Ando and Zápara), but in the world, 6,000 census, is 2,500 which would disappear in the coming years, according to the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). It is a warning to the entire world to recognize that […]
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Consecutive releases, news stories and cool young directors the landscape of cinema. Since 2007, the CNC record 43 film projects Ecuador: 21 premieres, 15 in post-production and seven in the process of filming. Critics, filmmakers and actors evaluate what has been achieved and what remains to be achieved. Read Article
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Saban Brands’ Power Rangers Samurai series is the focus of new terrestrial television licensing agreements with broadcasters throughout Latin America. Via series distributor MarVista Entertainment’s alliance with Snap TV of Argentina, the deals have been forged with Peru’s America TV, Ecuador’s TCTV…. Read Article
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The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative – Recorded interview with author Dr. Rolena Adorno (Recording Time – 02:02:17) Recorded August 26, 2011. PURCHASE BOOK:The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative Winner of the 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, given by the Modern Language Association. In this book on early Latin American narrative, […]
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His book “Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America” is, in his description, “a history of political ideas in Latin America during the late 19th and 20th centuries.” Emerson said “all history is biography,” and Krauze, in an Emersonian mode, has compiled his history by writing biographical portraits of representative people, beginning with José Martí, […]
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Unemployment in the OECD countries averaged 18.9 percent last year, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 10, and youth are three times more likely to be unemployed than older workers in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the International Labor Association. Meanwhile, protests calling for education reform in Chile have erupted in violence and […]
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The rapid growth of urban population – described as one of the world’s major demographic trends – has triggered an explosion of “mega cities” in Asia, Latin America and Africa, causing a breakdown in basic services, including water supplies and sanitation facilities. And by 2050, about 70 percent of the world’s population will live in […]
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Peru is going slow on uprooting coca plantations as part of a revived government plan to restore the thumb-shaped green leaf its historical role in Inca times, even if that opens the country to risks of uncontrolled cocaine production. Read Article
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Osvaldo Pugliese, one of Argentina’s most famous composers, used to say that tango doesn’t start to make sense until you are in your 30s. But a young generation of musicians, lyricists and composers are proving him wrong. Moving away both from purist rhythms and the electronic fusions of the late 1990s, the new generation fills […]
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It is Sam, the legendary pianist black film Casablanca. But when Hernan Lavandero (73) As time goes bye plays in Don Rodrigo Bar, located on Victoria Street Subercaseaux, all the guests are connected with the sad nostalgia evoked Bogart. This bowling set up in 1988 by the author of the journal Barrabases, Guido Vallejos, the […]
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The Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES), through the Institute for Children and Families (INFA), held yesterday in Guayaquil campaign “Put your name to Ecuador.” Inhabitants of slum areas as Mount Sinai, New Prosperina, El Fortin, Flor de Bastion, Balerio Estacio, Sergio Toral, City of God, Christ’s Home, City and Ciudad Victoria Olmedo can […]
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No longer found in stores, but still live in our memory and our palate. When we were kids, what we were not able to do for our candy favorite? They were the perfect reward, the higher income earned and cents better spent. Let’s start with the chocolates , which never cease to be a temptation. […]
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The Tagaeri and Taromenane two uncontacted indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, whose mysterious existence, isolated from the world, feed stories, fables and stories from the depths of the jungle. An unknown number of people that form each of these groups and, in fact, some researchers believe that the Tagaeri disappeared, while other groups are […]
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News of the suspension in eradication work surprised the United States, which has tried for years to limit coca production in Peru as part of a broader war on drugs. The United Nations says Peru is now the world’s leading coca grower and could surpass Colombia as the top cocaine producer.Read Article
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The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) is making the most of Google’s informational tools in order to share Mexico’s cultural heritage with the world. According to Noticieros Televisa, the INAH is pairing with Google to add 33 of Mexico’s historic monuments to Google’s Street View, a tool which allows users to take virtual […]
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According to Peru21.pe the Lamas police announced that a French tourist, Celine Rene Margarite Briset, 43, died after consuming the hallucinogenic herb, ayahuasca, during a shamanism session at a tourist resort in San Martin in the province of Lamas. Authorities say Briset died due to excessive consumption of the herb, suffering a cardiac arrest, dying […]
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The University of Guadalajara’s WiMax project promises to bring the Internet to the entire state of Jalisco and has been expanded upon by the state government’s eJalisco program, which will be a public broadband network, CUCEI reports. The eJalisco program contains three phases: Connect over 8,000 centers in 80,000 square kilometers to the Internet; provide […]
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