overnor Ochoa Javier Duarte pleaded with leaders of organizations of taxi drivers in the municipalities of Veracruz and Boca del Rio to avoid contamination by organized crime gangs operating in the suburbs. When meeting with Labour members of Congress in this city, the president of Veracruz said he was struck by the participation of workers […]
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Some readers or viewers may consider domestic violence against women away to their reality because it occurs mainly in poor socio-economic classes, right? Definitely not unique to low socioeconomic levels. There are many professional women of high economic situation that cross but might be a bit more elusive to accept it. In these cases the […]
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Uruguay Bolivia supported with respect to an amendment to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which criminalize the chewing of coca leaf. In its participation in the 54 th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, United Nations, Uruguay, Bolivia supported the intention to amend the article of the Convention which states that coca chewing […]
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A recent study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revealed that Chile is the OECD country where families have to pay the highest percentage of the total cost of a degree. Between 2005 and 2010 students at Chile’s universities were forced to pay rising tuition fees. Families in Chile have to pay […]
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Uruguayan Committee for the Eradication of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents has received 10 complaints this year about child prostitution, said Tuesday Luis putchar, president of the institution. Read Article
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Two bands composed of teenagers were caught by officials Polisotillo in March Hablar sobre la adolescencia es algo que los expertos en el tema dilucidan como actualidad, debido al gran número de jóvenes que hoy se suman a cometer actos hamponiles por diferentes eventos acontecidos en sus cortas vidas. Talking about adolescence is something that […]
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The influence of economic power in the justice system is a deep and ongoing problem in Bolivia, Denis Racicot, a representative of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights to Bolivia, said yesterday. “One of the current problems that comes into play for an ordinary citizen regarding access to justice, and the ability to […]
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Costa Ricans owe some ¢585 billion colones on their credit cards according to a study by the Ministerio de Economía last October. The average debt per person debt of credit cards is ¢418.000 or double that of the minimum salary in Costa Rica. Read Article
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The Encuesta Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva (National Survey of Sexual and Reproductive Health) presented on Thursday reveals that 22% of men and 11.2% of women, aged between 15 and 44, in Costa Rica say to have had their first sexual experience before their 15th birthday, while 67.9% of men and 51.4% of women […]
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A team of doctors and students surveyed a group of nearly 300 people, men and women, in an exploratory way to measure the prevalence of depressive symptoms. Applied a questionnaire based on a series of clinical criteria internationally accepted. The results of this study were similar to those reached similar studies conducted in other countries. […]
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Some residents of Heredia are alarmed at the number of transvestites operating their services in public in Barrio Fatima, Heredia. They are conducting surveillance of the area and publishing license plate numbers and the names of the registered owner of the vehicle in which someone contacted a transvestite. Website – clientesdetravestis.com Clientes de Travestis en […]
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the Andes which is increasingly providing the garnish on fashionable Western dinner plates. But while demand for quinoa has given a lifeline to Bolivia’s farmers, the native population, no longer able to afford a staple of the national diet, is now facing the threat of malnutrition. Read Article
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The angry protesters organized two peaceful rallies on Sunday, complaining that the nuclear agreement was signed despite major nuclear crisis that developed in Japan following the huge earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on March 11, AFP reported Monday. Chilean opposition lawmakers and environmentalists argue that the Friday agreement is too risky for their […]
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Two men battle to save gays and lesbians in Ecuador. One man uses his Bible and the belief that sexuality can be corrected. The other fights by using Ecuadorian law and a belief in respect for individual differences.
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Settlers set fire to the gangsters who had stolen a collection of gold shop in the district of Ananea. Inhabitants of the village center in La Rinconada Ananea district in the province of San Antonio Puno Putina, burned alive three criminals who robbed a store last night buyers in gold. There were four thugs who, […]
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There are private security and continued presence of the police, but crime persists. The case of the Central University student Francys Aries Castro, 23, who last March 2 injured with a knife, after suffering a robbery after leaving school, is the most serious happened to a student at the center Bogota, in recent months. Read […]
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Smoking a cigarette at the Estadio Nacional or in a rock concert could soon be a thing of the past. The government plans to prohibit smoking in enclosed public areas, starting with sports stadiums and concerts, as part of its proposed reforms to the nation’s Tobacco Law. The new Undersecretary of Health, Jorge Diaz, announced […]
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The Sala Constitucional (Constitutiona Court) declared that alcoholics cannot be dismissed from their public sector jobs. The decision follows the appeal of two public sector employees who were fired for being drunk at work. Read Article
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Although it is little known and even less applied, the Ley de Tránsito (Traffic Act) allows for sanctions against pedestrians. And for those who do know of the law inclusion in the law, few know the details. Read Article
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The Guerrillas’ Youth Armies Claudia Sánchez-Bustamante/DIÁLOGO 16/03/2011 Abuses against Minors and Vulnerable Populations in the Hands of Terrorist Movements Seventeen thousand minors are part of the internal armed conflict in Colombia according to the Colombian non-governmental organization (NGO) “Our Children: Task without End” (“Nuestra Niñez Tarea Sin Fin”). The International Tribunal on Children Affected by […]
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A new trend among teenage girls has evolved in Ecuador. Called “Tampax on the Rocks”, young women are dousing tampons with liquor and then using them in their private areas to become intoxicated. Extra.ec recently reported this activity and that it is an apparent attempt to disguise using alcohol from their parents or authorities. The […]
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Hundreds of university students Tuesday marched through the main avenues of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, demanding a rise in government spending for the country’s universities.The students marched from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) to the National Assembly watched by the National Guard as well as officers from the Ombudsman’s office. Read Article
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Mexico put its school children on a diet at the beginning of the year. But as often happens with New Year’s resolutions, there are many ways to cheat. Here is some of what is allowed for sale in schools under new guidelines that are intended to combat childhood obesity: lollipops, potato and corn chips (in […]
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Chile is the 45th country to form a Facebook community page that connects mothers and babies who need human milk with mothers offering to donate. Read Article
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An acclaimed documentary that shines an unflattering light on Mexico’s secretive legal system was back in the country’s theaters Wednesday after an appeals court overturned a judge’s order blocking screenings. Read Article
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Six politicians once held hostage by Colombian rebels are seeking $20 million for financial and emotional losses from the government they blame for allowing them to be snatched, officials said Tuesday. Read Article
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Mexico: An Introduction to the Video Game Market in Mariachi Land Mexico is becoming a very large video game market. With 110 million people, a strong university system, a trillion dollar economy, free trade agreements with countries housing major video game companies, and roughly half of all people under the age of 25, we at […]
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As the world celebrates the advances of women over the last century, an additional 70 million Latin American women have a job today thanks to improvements in education, health and job opportunities in the last four decades, said World Bank experts. Read Article
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Ecatepec, Mexico – It’s been two years since Obdulia de Paz’s former boyfriend broke into her home and killed her mother and daughter with the help of his son, nephew, and a friend. “The police carried my daughter out wrapped in a blanket filled with blood,” Ms. de Paz says. “I wanted to see her […]
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Marisol Valles Garcia, the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, who took office when she was just 20 years old, is in the United States, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN Monday. Read Article
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Five underaged children were rescued while they were being transported to work in the gold mines of Madre de Dios. Police stopped the truck the children were riding in at Quispicanchi, Cuzco. During questioning the children revealed they were kidnapped by a female at the Plaza De Armas de Urcos(Cusco) who was transporting them to […]
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José Rodríguez, leader of the Carperos, said union members have already begun the invasion of the properties located in 10 departments. “It is early entry into the premises and are enabling a piece of land with the intention to plant something for a living,” he told the 780 AM. He said that the invasions were […]
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Mexico City .- Metro Authorities instructed the security personnel and surveillance to allow transgender persons to assume their identity of female, have access to cars intended for the exclusive use of women. Read Article
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The 75 percent of six thousand women who reported being assaulted by her partner now lives independently and away from his assailant, said Martí Batres Guadarrama, Secretary of Social Development, to deliver 150 new cards yesterday acceptance program against domestic violence. Read Article
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As the world marks the annual International Women’s Day on Tuesday, some women in Mexico consider discrimination against them remains a problem despite the attention on the issue over the years. “Mexican women now have more opportunities to be in public charges, to have similar salaries compared with men,” said college student Martha Perez, who […]
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According to the state’s literacy program director, there are 23,000 seniors participating in a reading and writing program. Read Article
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The peasant leader José Rodríguez, leader of the National League “camp assistants” and president of violent Partido Patria Libre, announced that from Monday, will start massive protests and invasions of stays in several departments. Read Article
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The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a non-governmental organization that has been working for over 30 years to locate the families of children kidnapped and “disappeared” during the military dictatorship in Argentina, is this year’s recipient of the United Nations cultural agency’s peace prize. The Jury of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, meeting in […]
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The “State of Children in Peru” is part of the effort to place on the public agenda prioritization of children and adolescents in public policy. Read Article
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The president of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Eduardo Sojo Garza Aldape, announced final data from the Census of Population and Housing 2010, which yielded 112 000 000 336 000 538 Mexicans. Based on the results it follows also given some variables being of the population, which has reduced extreme poverty in […]
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Majority Of Costa Rica’s Prison Population Between 12 and 35 Years Of Age. The Ministro de Justicia (Justice Minister) Hernando París, revealed that 60% of Costa Rica’s prison population is between the ages of 12 and 35, meaning that a majority of economically active and young Costa Ricans fill the prisons. Read Article
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The Laura Chinchilla government’s possible answer to the growing security problem is, borrow more money. The government announced that it will be seeking a loan from the Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) to be used for citizen security and prevention. Read Article
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Plans for the construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric plant in the Amazon rainforest have been suspended by a Brazilian judge over environmental concerns. The proposal to build Belo Monte, which would be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam, has sparked protests in Brazil and abroad because of its impact on the environment and native […]
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An Argentine government proposal to crack down on clients benefiting from the trafficking of persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation has unleashed a heated debate between feminist organisations that support the idea and sex workers who are opposed to it. Read Article
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The office tower, one of Latin America’s tallest skyscrapers, was meant to be an emblem of Venezuela’s entrepreneurial mettle. But that era is gone. Now, with more than 2,500 squatters making it their home, the building symbolizes something else entirely in this city’s center. Read Article
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Convicted Mapuche leaders in southern Chile are victims of a Draconian anti-terrorism law and a rigged trial, their families have denounced in a statement released Monday in Santiago. The message says that the verdict of the court of Cañete, in the Chilean Bío Bío, is a political persecution aimed at favoring the usurpation of Mapuche […]
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Costa Rica declared violence against children a national epidemic because of the worrying increase in cases over the last decade. The Hospital Nacional de Niños (Children’s Hospital) said that in the last 10 years aggressions against minors increased six times. According to the medical director of the hospital, Roberto Hernandez, the medical centre cared for […]
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President Sebastian Pinera marked Sunday’s anniversary of one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history by praising his government’s progress on reconstruction and calling for national unity. Instead, his political opponents staged protests and questioned his numbers. Read Article
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In 2010 there were more attacks on members of the community than FARC and the ELN combined. At 90, Jose Viloria thought he was above all the violence that struck Cordoba and failed to remove it from the farm in a village of Montelibano. I did not expect the new criminal groups. On January 6, […]
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In a warehouse converted into a disaster shelter, hundreds of people are living out of backpacks and duffel bags while they wait for President Hugo Chavez to come through on his promises of new homes. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by the way some local courts permit the use of multiple lawsuits and other abusive judicial procedures to censor journalists. Carlos Santos, a freelance journalist and blogger based in Mossoró, a town in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, was ordered this month of February to pay 6,000 […]
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On Thursday, almost 3,000 protesters participated in a peaceful demonstration organized to bring the city mayor to the negotiating table. The police closely monitored the demonstration, but there were no clashes, a Press TV correspondent reported. An increase of 30 cents in bus fare — from $2.70 to $3.00 — was introduced in January by […]
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USHUAIA, ARGENTINA – Here at the end of the Earth, just 600 miles from Antarctica, tourists hike over glaciers and flock to rocky beaches to photograph penguins and 700-pound sea lions. Read Article
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First they killed activist Josefina Reyes. Then her brother. Then they burned her mother’s house. Two and a half weeks ago, gunmen dressed in black kidnapped Reyes’ sister, sister-in-law and another brother. Read Article
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Brazil, which will host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games trails only El Salvador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala and the Virgin Islands for the number of homicides proportional to its population, said the report carried out by the Sangari Institute. Read Article
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The Department of Education of the Federal District has entered into a partnership with IBM aimed at advancing education in the capital and offering Mexico City’s children a better future. IBM will donate its “Reading Companion” software program to improve the English-language programs offered at Mexico City’s high schools, as well as the company’s “Little […]
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The Salvadoran government plans to spend some 770.5 million USD to create 143,000 jobs this year. The details of the ambitious program were announced yesterday by several ministers and the technical secretary of the presidency, Alex Segovia. Of the 770.5 million USD, 566 millions will be allocated for infrastructure projects, in the hopes of creating […]
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The Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) – the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights – has extended the deadline for Costa Rica to approve the law allowing of in-vitro fertilization. The new deadline is May 31, confirmed Costa Rica’s vice-chancellor, Roberto Roverssi. Read Article
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Ines Elena Jimenez an epidemiologist reported to Caracol Radio that there has been an almost 35 percent increase in AIDS cases among housewives in the Department of Quindío. The blame is placed on husbands who continue to live promiscious lifestyles. Most of the women learn they are carrying the virus while they are pregnant. Health […]
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Right in the classroom and in the presence of all his classmates and teachers, two children met in a fight with knives and two were wounded. This case occurred, said Col. William Alberto Boyacá, commander in charge of the Metropolitan Police, school official Carreño Camacho located in the heart of Bucaramanga. Read Article
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Women are playing a leading role in a powerful social movement addressing natural resource protection, adaptation to climate change, and corporate accountability in this coastal village in El Salvador. Read Article
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She has no legal training, and doesn’t speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls home. Read Article
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The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) Irina Bokova will pay an official visit to the southern Cusco region and know the progress made on the protection and conservation of Machu Picchu, Regional Director of Culture Juan Julio Garcia said. Read Article
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Peru will reduce its poverty rate to 30 percent by the end of the current administration thanks to the execution of a proper macroeconomic policy, Minister of Economy and Finances Ismael Benavides said Monday. Read Article
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Mario Robles is a political cartoonist in Mexico’s Oaxaca province. He has been violently attacked several times for his critical cartoons.
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Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador RECORDED INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR: DR. MARC BECKER This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities […]
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A 2 000 500 totals the number of farmers have shifted from Ituango, Valdivia, and those sidewalks Puerto Antioquia, Cauca and the Guaimaro, towards the town of Taraza, Antioquia, rejecting the spraying of illicit crops. The authorities warn that the coming hours the displaced farmers would arrive and that the situation could get worse, because […]
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there are any men left who still believe that women are the weaker sex, it is long past time for them to think again. With respect to that most essential proof of robustness – the power to stay alive – women are tougher than men from birth through to extreme old age. In Costa Rica, […]
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It’s official. Honduras has joined the long list of countries in the world to ban smoking in enclosed spaces to avoid the loss of nonsmokers. The aim is to reduce the consumption of tobacco in which each year is spent lempiras 4,500 million (238 million dollars) throughout the state, which causes the increase of poverty […]
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Despite years of strong economic growth, record harvests and massive social assistance programmes, there are still places in Argentina untouched by the boom, where child malnutrition has even claimed lives. Hunger and malnutrition affect 53 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, including nearly nine million children under five, according to United Nations statistics. […]
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A 15-year-old died after he was hit by a bull during a holiday of corralejas the village of Las Piedras, in the jurisdiction of San Estanislao, Bolívar. Read Article
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Trujillo dangerous criminal gangs using minors as hitmen Most of them grew up in a criminal environment, their ages ranging between 13 and 16 years, and come from broken families. In the city of Trujillo the most dangerous gangs recruit children as thugs to commit crimes. The Panorama program recorded the chilling tales of three […]
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A total of 23,125 foreigners, mostly Peruvian and Bolivian citizens were arrested in the past three years on charges of committing various crimes, according to a police intelligence document. The crimes of greater social connotation police committed by foreign defendants are theft and drug trafficking. Read Article
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Mexico is a foreign country where there are more violent deaths of American civilians, said the State Department of that country are alert because the number is rising. Potosí. Jaime Zapata, agent of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE by its initials in English) and attached to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, died […]
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The maxim that every cloud has a silver lining was never truer than for Mexico’s Mastretta car company, which gained world attention after being ridiculed on a British television show. Read Article
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A shoot-em-up video game set in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence. Chihuahua state legislators said Sunday they have asked federal authorities to ban a the game, “Call of Juarez: The Cartel,” which is based on drug cartel shootouts in Ciudad Juarez. Read Article
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Mexico’s deadliest city lived up to its tragic reputation with at least 40 people murdered in drug-related violence in less than 72 hours, authorities said on Sunday. “These figures are quite high. It is one of the most violent weekends in Ciudad Juarez in years,” said a spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office. Read […]
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Guatemala has the highest rate of chronic malnutrition among children in Latin America, and the health consequences continue on through adulthood. Read Article
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Since 1993, hundreds of women have been murdered in the desert city of Ciudad Juárez. There is no clear motive for the killings and the Mexican police seem reluctant to investigate. What is going on? Read Article
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The overwhelming majority of U.S. media coverage of Mexico is on the brutal drug violence there. That violence is real. The struggle on both sides of the border over booty from the enormously lucrative drug industry has without a doubt resulted in horrific violence. More than 35,000 Mexicans have died in the last four years […]
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While they’ve made strides in arresting illegals and building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico line, the Border Patrol only has “operational control” of 44 percent of the southern border, and of that only 15 percent is air tight, according to new General Accountability Office report. Read Article
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What advocate of free markets hasn’t, at one time or another, fantasized about running away to a desert island to start a country where economic liberty would be the law of the land? If things go according to plan, more than one such “island” may soon pop up here. Honduras calls these visionary islands “model […]
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Bolivia will tap central-bank reserves to boost agricultural production and stockpile food, joining countries from Africa to Asia in a bid to avoid a looming global “crisis,” Finance Minister Luis Arce said. Rising food prices pushed tens of millions of people into extreme poverty last year and are reaching “dangerous levels” in some countries, World […]
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A recent study by the Ministerio de Salud (Health ministry) reveals that Costa Ricans have not stopped having sex, but what they have forgotten is to use a condom to protect against sexually transmitted diseases. According to the Encuesta Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva (survey) by ministerio de Salud, up to 70% of Costa […]
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The homosexual movement of Lima (MHOL) brought charges against the Peruvian national police force (PNP) this morning over unwarranted police aggression during the group’s “Kisses Against Homophobia” demonstration, held this past Saturday in Lima’s Plaza de Armas. Read Article
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COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA — Dotted along every major thoroughfare, vendors set up tarps to sell their wares. When I drove by a long line of people, shopping bags in hand, I was curious what wonderful product was being offered. As I peered under the covered bed of the old truck, one man was tossed a white […]
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A wave of violent protests is shaking Bolivia. Bolivian President Evo Morales had to abandon a public event celebrating Bolivia’s 230th anniversary of Independence after being confronted by protestors angry over food shortages and price rises. Scheduled to talk in the mining city of Oruro, he and his team had to leave the city quickly […]
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The Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) is a specific anarchist organization in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded on August 30, 2003, the FARJ identifies its origins in the work of militants as Ideal Peres (1925-1995), his father Juan Perez Bouzas (or João Peres) (1899-1958), José Oiticica (1882-1957) among others. It […]
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This is grim news: food prices are reaching record levels worldwide. The thousands of farmers who have killed themselves over the past decade seem to have no precedent. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation’s director, the goal to reduce the number of hungry people by half will only be achieved in 2050. Read […]
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The tiny village of Las Marias lies on the banks of the Rio Platano, deep in the heart of Mosquitia, Honduras – the so-called “Little Amazon” of Central America, the largest area of tropical rainforest north of the Amazon Basin. In recent years, however, Mosquitia’s magnificent isolation has been shattered by intruders: drug smugglers and […]
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Mexican researchers are predicting the violence-plagued border city of Juarez will be home to an estimated 8,500 orphans by the end of the year. Read Article
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Tougher entrance exams for higher education, to be applied in the next academic year in Cuba, are worrying families who see getting into university as a major achievement for their children. “These young people have been raised with the idea that it is important to go to university,” Sandra Álvarez, the mother of 18-year-old Lisandra […]
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“In my family, they always saw me as a girl, but at school they called me by my boy’s name, which is why I dropped out,” Paula Sosa, a transvestite who recently managed to change her name on her identity document, told IPS. Sosa’s case appears in a campaign launched in 2010 by the Association […]
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Six women and a man were shot dead in a bar in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez late Thursday after gunmen stormed the building, police said. The evening murders came after a bloody day that also saw eight suspected drug cartel members and one soldier killed in a shootout in the north-central Mexican […]
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About 200 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are created every week in Peru, especially in the trade sector, reported the Ministry of Production. Read Article
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Just after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Lincoln authorized plans to pursue a freedmen’s settlement in present-day Belize and another in Guyana, both colonial possessions of Great Britain at the time, said Phillip W. Magness, one of the researchers who uncovered the new documents. Read Article
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The nearly 200 theatres in the Argentine capital have been staging an increasing number of plays exploring gender identity or specifically gay issues in recent years, in mainstream, fringe and state-run productions. Read Article
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A Chilean judge suspended criminal trespassing charges against a family of Easter Islanders on Tuesday despite their six-month takeover of a $50 million hotel development on their ancestral land. Judge Nora Bahamondes ruled the courts must first determine who rightfully owns the land before deciding whether anybody was trespassing….. Read Article
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Argentine officials admitted deaths due to malnutrition among the country’s poor of indigenous Latin American people and promised government action to minimize the problem. Read Article
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