Elijah Segovia, regional president, said the money will be used to encourage the development of the region and improve the living standards of its population. The Government decided to increase by over 100 percent the budget for the Apurimac region, in order to promote their development and improve living standards of its population, according to […]
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A total of 59 violent deaths were raised in the capital this weekend, according to unofficial information of forensic science. The figure is divided between homicides, traffic accidents and cases to be determined. So far in December and have been admitted more than 300 bodies at the morgue in Caracas.Read Article
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For the first time in history, the government of Colombia made a contribution of USD 500 000 through the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The disbursement will be implemented next year and will be for social inclusion projects for Colombian refugees in Ecuador. According to statistics from the Ministry of Refugee Affairs, the percentage of […]
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According to research by sociologist Sergio Reuben average of marriages end in divorce have a duration of 13 years and 5 months. For the analysis of the research were considered divorce in 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005. As for the age of spouses at the time of divorce is 30 to 34, with […]
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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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The Argentines do not like to move: six in ten people do not perform any physical activity. He says a report by consultancy TNS Argentina and coincides with the numbers, at the beginning of the year, had spread from the Ministry of Health. According to the National Survey of Risk Factors for 54.9 percent of […]
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic .- Hundreds of people of Haitian descent living in the country and ensure born in the country reported today that the Dominican authorities denied citizenship to apply retroactively, an immigration measure against him. In a massive concentration in the vicinity of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) in the Dominican capital, […]
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Armed groups have been created by exparamilitares expanded to much of the country and constitute the greatest threat to the State, as alerted the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “The groups that emerged after the demobilization of paramilitary organizations pose the greatest threat to the rule of law and protection […]
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The Security Minister, Nilda Garre, instructed, through a resolution, the police and security forces to respect federal gender identity adopted by transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people.Since the resolution 1.181/11, people “trans” should be recognized by the appropriate gender identity to their perception, both in the personal as any type of transaction, communication or publication within […]
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Said he never received a request for correction in his column. Luis Torres Montero considered ‘too totally “the sentence against him for writing a column against the former Minister of Defense, Rafael Rey. Journalist Luis Torres Montero said he would appeal the ruling of the 26th Criminal Court that sentenced him to two years in […]
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Since confronting Italian company Parmalat over its hoarding of milk last week, and fining Swiss transnational Nestle for the same, the Venezuelan institution Indepabis has announced that it is going on the offensive to get hoarded milk to the people. Read Article
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Twelve years after the discovery of the first narcofosa at Rancho La Campana of the border, their discovery is still an icon because it was the first time that federal authorities in Mexico and the United States to act together but the results today as yesterday research are still very poor. More than a decade, […]
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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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Peru’s government has reopened an investigation into a controversial birth control programme of sterilisation. The announcement has brought fresh hope to the many women and men who feel their rights were violated. Read Article
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Globalpost.com report – Ecuador and Honduras are the only Latin American countries that have officially outlawed the practice, winning them plaudits for their efforts to protect endangered sharks. But Ecuador also allows fishermen who accidentally catch sharks in their nets to sell them, without any methods to determine whether the sharks were netted on purpose.The […]
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According to the National Survey of Addictions (ENA) 2008, in Jalisco lowered the prevalence of snuff from 27.5% to 21%, still below the national average, which is 23%, the Director of Epidemiological Surveillance System of the State Board of Control of Addictions in Jalisco (CECAJ), Luis Robles Javier Arellano. He indicated that passive smoking issue […]
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Unlike the glamorous girlfriends of drug dealers or criminals heads of cells seen in the television series, real-life women, mostly poor and uneducated, are serving sentences of 10 years in prison for carrying even small quantities of drugs. “These organized crime gangs recruit women precisely because they are subject vulnerable, less able to defend themselves,” […]
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I’m back in El Salvador for the first time in thirty years, and I don’t recognize a thing. There are smooth highways from the airport up to San Salvador, the capital, and even at this late hour, along the stretch of dunes dividing the road from the Pacific Ocean, there are cheerful stands at which […]
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A 140 000 686 Costa Rican youth aged 12 to 24 years, representing 12.3 percent of the total population this age, neither work nor study revealed the seventeenth State of the Nation. The study, released Sunday in the local press, warns that these young people “are doubly excluded, because they lack access to knowledge and […]
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Hunger is widespread in indigenous communities that make up the municipality of Guachochi. Indians suffer severe malnutrition every week two children have to be referred to a hospital with serious health problems and several complications, while in remote communities do not get the support and people are desperate. Read Article ————————————————– DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HAVE […]
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The femicides increased dramatically in the Dominican Republic so far this year, and registered outweigh the intimate deaths in 2010 and unfortunately violent follow the pattern 2011 is expected to reach a figure record. According to statistics from the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) in just eight months about 157 women were victims of […]
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When only one month remaining to the end of this year, El Salvador has been the scene of 4.005 murders in different parts of the country. The figure reinforces violent deaths until 30 November, and also shows that victims will be more murders this year, which occurred in 2010 (4.004 in 12 months) Victims of […]
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Again, Paraguay has the sad privilege of being the runner-up corruption in Latin America during the year that is ending. This was revealed by Transparency International (TI) in the latest edition of the Index of Corruption Perception (CPI). It is not the first time that our country holds this degrading position. Already in times of […]
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On the seventh day of protests against the Conga project in Cajamarca , several tourists, students and people with medical emergency flight civic use military aircraft to leave the city while on the road, food is rotting in trucks stranded. Read Article – Video
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Chile presents a disturbing rate of obesity and propensity to traffic fatalities of the population, the study “Overview of Health 2011”, in which our country is compared with the 34 OECD member nations, organization which brings together the most advanced and developed state of the planet. While the increase in obesity affects all countries in […]
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The “health Panorama 2011” in which our country is compared with the 34 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) noted that Chile has the second greatest increase in mortality rate suicide , increasing 54.9% from 1995 to 2009, leaving only after Korea. This means that for every 100 thousand inhabitants, […]
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The Bolivian government announced that discounted profits for phone companies to fund a plan that service access in poor and remote areas of the country, but some operators challenged the decision, reports said Wednesday. The government will deduct 2% of the profits of the telephone in 2012 to fund the National Social Inclusion Telecommunications under […]
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Liz Azañero Karina, 27, burned his son’s face with a hot spoon as punishment for taking a piece of the sun in its portfolio, without permission, and is now inubicable. The child of 9 years, which has second degree burns, is the son of the first commitment was Azañero, which his whereabouts are unknown. The […]
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Mercer Report: Mr Parakatil said: “The disparity in living standards between North and South America is still considerable. Though a number of South and Central American countries have experienced positive change, political and safety issues predominate in the region. In particular, drug trafficking, drugs cartels and high levels of street crime, combined with natural disasters, […]
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Northwestern Argentina has the highest indicators of risky alcohol consumption, is the region of the country where more beer is drunk during the weekend and where the drinkers most often take five or more glasses on one occasion. This view was reflected in a study of the Secretariat for Prevention of Drug Addiction and the […]
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he Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) said Tuesday that the region there are 177 million poor people, of whom 70 million live without adequate shelter and own income. The ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Barcena, presented today at the continental body’s report on the Social Panorama 2011, which indicates that poverty in the region is […]
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“In these two years were reported more cases than all the rest of the decade,” says the document, which adds that this disease remains concentrated mainly in men who have sex with men (MSM). Although there has been an increase in heterosexual cases, the Chief Epidemiologist of the Provincial Health Directorate, Luis Alberto Mena explains […]
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It used to be said that if the American economy sneezed, Latin America and the Caribbean would catch a cold. Not so anymore. Despite the great recession of 2008, the region has kept growing and avoided, largely unscathed, the troubles that still ail the United States. Read Article
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More than 40 000 people on four simultaneous stages gave life to the Open Mind Fest Gay Parade on Paseo Bulnes, organized for the sixth consecutive year by the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (MOVILH).Image The event runs until 22:30 hours on Saturday, where besides the main event was announced the name of Miss […]
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After the return of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS), international areas and is no longer spoken in that country, under the assumption that it would be an ongoing standardization process, when in reality the situation of rape human rights is even worse than under the coup. However, no mechanism has been set-up. […]
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The protests of students and teachers held on Thursday in the city of Valparaiso (central Chile) led to the arrest of nine people – two of them minors – while a policeman was injured as a result of the riots that occurred in some areas. Despite these incidents, the governor of Valparaiso, Arturo Longton, called […]
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A total of 2962 children, who were part of illegal armed groups in Colombia, were demobilized in the last nine years, revealed today the Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón. According to figures from the Program of Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilized (PADH) of the Government, in these 9 years, a total of 24,303 demobilized […]
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The heavy rains this year have left Central America for a loss $ 172 million and more than 1.6 million people affected, putting in “grave risk” food security, said today the humanitarian organization Oxfam. The international NGO said in a statement that Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Honduras are the countries most affected. The […]
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The lack of reporting of bullying creates an atmosphere of impunity that encourages discrimination and other violations of human rights inside and outside schools, concluded the State Commission for Human Rights (ECHR) in the assessment of bullying in Queretaro. Read Article
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Under the motto “just want to be free ‘, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, presented the new campaign to prevent recruitment of children and adolescents by illegal armed groups. A study by the Program of Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized with support from the International Organization for Migration, the 24,303 members of illegal armed groups demobilized […]
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ARGENTINA, 28% of Argentine companies have started using social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to interact with diverse audiences, according to the results of the 2011 International Business Report from Grant Thornton. Read Article
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In the last week, the population of the city of Rio de Janeiro has experienced a high expectation of victory in the fight against drug trafficking from the arrest of Antonio Bonfim Lopes, alias “Nem”, the leader in selling drugs in the Rocinha favela – the largest in Brazil and one of the largest in […]
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Education Minister, Felipe Bulnes, and opposition members of parliament met Wednesday to try to reach an agreement to resolve student conflict, but only after the talks have agreed to continue dialogue on the budget for education. Read Article
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A report from the center of security and democracy of the Sergio Arboleda University, reveals that the abduction recorded an increase of 10% compared to 2010, from 209 cases to 229 in 2011. Read Article
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In Colombia, more than 6 percent of the population suffers from or is at risk of suffering, which means that 1 million 200 thousand and 1 million 500 thousand people are affected. Yadira Villalba, an endocrinologist and president of the Colombian Association of Endocrinology, indicated that an early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of type 2 […]
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Security and Democracy Centre also ensures that military forces reduce their operations. “The floor of ‘Alfonso Cano’ should not obscure the complex and paradoxical situation of security in Colombia , however, that continues to fall slowly murder, guerrilla actions increase, the operations of the armed forces and most reduced urban safety indicators are deteriorating. ” […]
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Two workers of the Mexican newspaper El Financiero are missing in the state of Zacatecas, central Mexico, in a case that state authorities are investigating, said the newspaper’s deputy director general, Rogelio Cardenas. Read Article
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Crammed. The 140 immigrants traveled in crowded box trailer. A group of soldiers on Sunday found 140 Central American immigrants hidden in a truck traveling in the town of Tonala, Chiapas, southern Mexico, the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA). The military stopped the truck at a checkpoint for a review and, when inspecting the vehicle, they […]
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The president of Peru, Ollanta Humala, acknowledged that the main social problem facing the country is inequality rather than poverty, which in his opinion, is replicated in different countries of the region. “There are regions in the world’s poor (Latin America), but we took first place in inequality,” said the President during the regional launch […]
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Cornejo, state leader of the National Peasant Confederation (CNC), said that in several communities in Zacatecas and there are families who suffer from hunger, so called State Cabinet officials to make “its own model” to seek financial resources to the Federation. Elaborated on the governor Miguel Alonso Reyes made frequent visits to the Chamber of […]
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In just two hours without firing a shot, the Brazilian authorities today regained control of the Rocinha favela flagship of Rio de Janeiro, and two other neighborhoods in which for decades the power was exercised by drug trafficking. With a lightning operation that did not find the least armed resistance, more than 1,500 members 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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70% of medicines sold in unauthorized warehouses would be false. Stores do not have formal providers such as pharmacies and opting to source from markets that sell adulterated or expired drugs.The head of the Executive Control of Medicines, Supplies and Drugs (DIREM) Manzanedo Gianina Cabal, reported that at least 70% of tablets that are sold […]
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The Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Evelyn Matthei, reported this morning that since the entry into force of the new law postnatal on 17 October, 15 421 permits have been granted six months postnatal. He further reported that in 25 cases, the mother gave him the benefit of his father, as the case of […]
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Oil Injustice – Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador – Recorded interview with author Dr. Patricia Widener (Recording Time- 01:44:05) Recorded November 08, 2011. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. PURCHASE BOOK: Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador ——————————————————————————————– Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil […]
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More than a thousand children under 18 have died in the fight against organized crime, denounced the executive director of the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico (Redim), Juan Martín Pérez García, who stressed that the figures have increased, for while in 2007 there were 5.3 homicides of children per 100 000 inhabitants […]
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Mexican Obesity, an alarming problem In Tamaulipas, since January is conducted a program called “Fitness for a better Reynosa”, this program is headed by the Municipal Secretary of Social Development known as SEDESOL. As we all know, Mexico is the most obese country in the world, and Tamaulipas are worried about this, so far the […]
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Ministry of Health of Bogotá assumes cost of this program, amounting to 3,500 million pesos. About 14,000 girls, from fifth grade, the public and private schools in the towns of Fontibon Engativá and San Cristobal that day will benefit from vaccination against this virus that causes cervical cancer. Each dose of this vaccine costs 150,000 […]
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Total support college students were calling for the withdrawal of the Congress of the law reform bill 30, 1992, at the hearing of political control that Senator Alexander López cited to know the reasons that the community has to reject the proposal that was filed by the Government. For more than two hours, the Education […]
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Lepaterique Honduran Francisco Morazan .- Deputies toured South America and the municipality of Lepaterique, Francisco Morazán, in order to know the pilot gardens promoted from the previous year, the liberal lawmaker, Yadira Bendaña. The deputies were able to see the production of kitchen gardens. The project is funded by the National Congress, with a total […]
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According to information from the Governor Cesar Duarte, Chihuahua 250 000 people are at risk of famine Mayor announced Hector Murguia. Drought considered as contributory factor. Read Article
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The government of the state and federal security agencies, continue with the relocation of traders work irregular kept sales of contraband into the country on rafts down the river Suchiate. In an operation took peaceful possession of federal lands bordering the river Suchiate, to prevent the transit of goods to evade taxes when entering and […]
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In the more than 26 million Mexicans facing food poverty, and economic assets, “are women and men living in rural areas and have no effective access to adequate food, health, education, social security, housing, no job, “as well, there is famine Durango, Zacatecas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Mexico State, Oaxaca and Guerrero, the poverty of the area, […]
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Due to the increasing incidence of bullying, known as bullying, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of the State in this city, drove the first two students from the basic level. The head of the agency, Jorge Mario Quintana Silveyra, reported that the state’s six primary school students expelled for that reason, two in […]
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HIV infection in adults over 45 years almost tripled in the last decade in Argentina, a trend driven by increased sexual activity thanks to Viagra and are not protected by condoms, according to health statistics released today. The infection rate increased from 7 to 20% of new infections, according to studies of the Argentine Ministry […]
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Near midnight on a Saturday a group of men in overalls entered a bank in the Brazilian equivalent of Wall Street, saluted the guard and said they were there to fix the alarm. More than 10 hours later they had perpetrated one of the largest bank robberies in Brazil, pouring more than 100 safety boxes […]
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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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Along with alcohol and ecstasy, Viagra has become a common component outputs and young adults. Today it is considered a “recreational pill”, linked to the demands of a high sexual performance and take “just in case” is becoming more present in the culture night. It is estimated that 60 percent take it without prescription. In […]
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President Rafael Correa announced the intention of his government to declare the country free from child malnutrition in the next four years. At least one of every five children under five is below the appropriate height for his/her age, or suffers chronic malnutrition in Ecuador, a country of young people, where 13 percent of the […]
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Bolivians living in Spain who want to return to Bolivia may benefit from a voluntary return program in exchange for receiving the total unemployment benefits that have accrued while working, according to the website of Spanish newspaper DNA. On Tuesday, Bolivia and Spain signed the agreement Ibero-American Multilateral Social Security program that guarantees to return. […]
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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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Just as our country entered the drug cartels, the Mafia also entered China. The police has not taken much. As entrepreneurs and business extortion, shot and killed citizens of that country or Taiwan. It seems that this is not enough reason to seriously address. What will happen when the Mafia, wild and violent, grow and […]
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A survey of 1 200 people showed that in the last 12 months, all met a victim of crime. Guayaquil has staged sit-ins against the insecurity and violence for more than four times. The last one took place last Friday at Centennial Park. However, the circle of people who have been victims of both phenomena […]
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President Juan Manuel Santos, sent his greetings of condolences to the families of soldiers killed and wounded and admitted that there were flaws in security protocols, both in attack in rural area of Tame, Arauca, and Tumaco, Nriño, the last Friday. “These facts, in Tumaco, on Friday and yesterday Arauca, which left 20 soldiers dead, […]
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Crocodile is the new drug for the poor, and those who do not have the resources to pay for heroin.This new drug that would replace the ‘Paco’ is composed of codeine, mixed with gasoline, thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorus, this mixture will affect consumers because they can die in a period of three […]
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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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Only 350 local governments, there are more than 1,800 across the country, have a Municipal Office of Attention to Persons with Disabilities (OMAP), today unveiled the Conadis. The president of the National Commission for Integration of Persons with Disabilities ( Conadis ), Wilfredo Guzman said that this situation the lack of interest that give local […]
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During this weekend at least 32 bodies entered the morgue de Bello Monte, according to unofficial data. Among them is the body of Richard Manuel Suarez Ospino 33, who served as a corporal II in the Metropolitan Police. He was on Sunday at his residence in Sector El Campito Petare, when a subject known as […]
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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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Human trafficking, also known as trafficking and exploitation of human beings, was hardly considered a crime when he entered the penal code in 2007.In July came into effect a new law that makes the research, who are responsible for the victim and the creation of special units, among other legal elements.Last spring, the City of […]
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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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Dozens of students and other protesters in Chile occupied the Congress building in Santiago during a Senate committee debate on next year’s education budget. Police sealed off the entrance to prevent more protesters entering. Read Article
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Since the 1980s, suicide has become the third leading cause of death among youth aged 15 to 24 years . Exceeded only by accidents, assaults, in the case of men-and tumor diseases -in the case of women. Since this type of death is a taboo in our culture, the official information we have about it […]
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The Ministry of Public Health, through an interdisciplinary team on Wednesday issued Goya, a training workshop based on the Program regulations for Provincial shortly Chagas control and monitoring of the parasitic disease . They plan to begin work on three major areas of the Department where teams will fall the province and then monitoring will […]
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An NGO in Rosario made a statistic based on femicides in the newspapers. There were 23 murders of women every month. In the province of Buenos Aires there were 65 events in Santa Fe, 21. Were between 14 and 44. The Institute for Legal and Social Studies of Women (undesirable-Woman), Rosario, recorded so far this […]
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The economic sectors with the highest incomes were the corporate address 584 000 643 pesos, followed by financial services and insurance 519 000 697 weights and mass media with 349 000 422 pesos. This, according to figures from National Accounts System of Mexico 2006-2010. As expected, low-paying sectors were agriculture, livestock and forest harvesting, fishing […]
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In early 1960, a group of U.S. planners arrived in southeastern Venezuela to design an industrial city imagining it as the “Pittsburgh of the tropics”, at the confluence of two rivers and vast resources minerals. But 50 years later, Ciudad Guayana, the only planned city in the country, nestled between the Orinoco and Caroni, with […]
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On the second day of unemployment, some 60 000 people marched through the capital and other cities. There were clashes with police when the movement came to an end.”They share our demands, the government must assume that only has 22 percent support,” said Francisco Figueroa university leader from Santiago, where there were two simultaneous marches […]
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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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The president of the Date, Camila Vallejo, became a participant in the march organized by students and developed a speech at the main stage located in Beauchef with Blanco in the center of Santiago where he insisted that the students’ demands are not “utopian”. “In Europe we have realized that what we are asking is […]
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Heavy rains have destroyed homes leaving families without shelter as well as destroyed roads, El Espectador reports. Given the seriousness of the situation, the mayor, Judith Pinedo Florez flew on a helicopter to have a complete picture of the critical areas affected by the severe rains. Read Article
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According to the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development the company interested in building the luxury hotel is interested in investing in ecotourism in the Tayrona National Parl, El Espectador reports. According to their declarations, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development values and respects the ancestors and the culture of our indigenous peoples […]
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The general attorney’s diagnosis shows a waste of human capital, El Tiempo reports. Six of every ten Colombians who are employed do not have a decent job. They work on their own and most are in the informal sector, they work without a formal contract, earn less than the minimum wage and are outside the […]
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The first of the two-day strike that began in Buenos Aires teachers rejection of the appointment system reform, securitization and promotions in the sector proposed by the Executive of the city began in a “strong” and a 98 percent compliance , according to unions. The mayor Mauricio Macri called the strike “absurd” and “incomprehensible” and […]
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Cali and Bogota top the list of cities with more crime partner, according to a report by the Institute of Legal Medicine. So far this year there have been seven cases each of these cities. Trends continue, the figure could be lower than last year. In 2010, the report of the National Reference Center on […]
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The perpetrator of a rape is a person known to the victim in 61% of cases, according to the Metropolitan Public Safety Observatory (CSOM). Of that percentage, 21% corresponds to an acquaintance, 9% to a relative, 7% for the stepparent, 5% of the bridegroom, 3% to the parent, and so on., As the 15 th […]
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Augusto Perez, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Director of the Corporation New Directions, said in a study done in 2006 by the United Nations and the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD ), “Colombia ranked first in benzodiazepine use among adolescents aged 12 to 17 years.” A product of […]
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Six of every ten Colombians who have jobs do not have a decent job. They work on their own and most are informal, have been engaged without a formal contract, earn less than the minimum and are outside the social security systems. Read Article
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