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Little done in Brazil to improve safety after fire
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2013 file photo, firefighters work to douse a fire at the Kiss Club in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Relatives of the victims of the nightclub fire that earlier this year killed 242 people in southern Brazil, said on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 that little has been done to improve the safety of public gathering places since the tragedy. (AP Photo/Agencia ...
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Puerto Rico legislator targets parents of dropouts
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; A legislator in Puerto Rico has submitted a bill that would increase fines and jail time for parents whose children skip classes or drop out of ...
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Argentine leader raises cash handouts 35 percent
Higher prices for its multiple sclerosis drug Rebif helped German pharmaceutical and high-tech materials company Merck KGaA post a 54 percent rise in first-quarter ...
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In bloc-happy Latin America the Pacific Alliance hopes to stand out
More information PACIFIC ALLIANCE Its members Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile: • Represent 36 percent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean • Represent 35 percent of the GDP of the region • Had average GDP growth of 5 percent in 2012 • Would be the world’s 8th largest economy • Represent 50 percent of all Latin American and Caribbean trade • ...
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Argentinas Qom Indians ask President Fernandez for help getting ancestral lands returned
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral land. Justices met with Qom leader Felix Diaz and other tribal members but the governor of Formosa province, Gildo Insfran, was a no-show at the conciliation hearing, sending lower-level functionaries instead. The Qom refuse to move from land around the ...
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Iraqi Police Gunmen Kill at Least 12 in Baghdad Brothel
Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, ...
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Opposition Groups Call for Swaziland Election Boycott
King of Swaziland Mswati III (Front) and one of his 13 wives disembark from a plane after arriving at Katunayake International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 13, 2012. ...
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Transitional Justice Elusive in Arab Spring Nations
Egyptian riot police take up positions outside the building where former president Hosni Mubarak is being tried in connection with the killing of Arab Spring ...
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Mexico drug cartel dominates torches western state
LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — The western Mexico state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror.The Knights Templar cartel is extorting protection from all sorts of businesses, prompting a backlash in the western agricultural state. Some communities ...
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Activity from Costa Rican volcano triggers evacuation
Park rangers activated a green alert, the lowest of three levels, after the 10,958-foot Turrialba volcano rumbled loudly and emitted thick clouds of ash on Wednesday.Government seismologist Gino Gonzalez said that the volcano appeared to be calming, but 20 people and their livestock had been moved from homes on the volcano's flanks.The volcano is 40 miles east of the capital, San Jose. It ...
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Argentine Indians ask president for their lands
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -; Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral ...
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New Paraguay leaders promise more free milk
ASUNCION, Paraguay -; Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack clean drinking ...
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Cuba for a Better Economic Efficiency
Havana, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is going forward in perfecting its own enterprise and productive efficiency as part of the actions to reach more economic effectiveness. So it was told by Ruben Toledo, a member of the commission for the implementation and development of the guidelines approved in the 6th Communist Party Congress. Toledo said that the new regulations approved by the Cuban ...
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Kobo Town A Haunted Jukebox Filled With Caribbean Sounds
, Kobo Town frontman Drew Gonsalves declares his love for the past even as his feet are firmly planted in the present. The music of the Toronto-based band can drift between classic Caribbean pop styles and even verge on hip-hop, but the singer's perspective remains sharply focused, wry and witty. The song "Postcard Poverty," for example, ribs tourists for whom tropical slums ...
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Coulter When did we vote to become Mexico
Pre-1965 immigrants were what made this country what it was for a reason: They were the pre-welfare state immigrants. From around 1630 to 1966, immigrants sank or swam. About a third of them couldn’t make it in America and went home — and those are the ones who weren’t rejected right off the boat for being sick, crippled or idiots. That’s why corny stories of ...
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Don’t send Haitians to Dominican territory official warns Brazil
Santo Domingo.- Immigration Agency director on Wednesday said the country isn't obliged to receive Haitian nationals repatriated from Brazil or other nations, if they didn't depart from the country. Jose Ricardo Taveras noted that in recent months Brazil has deported more than 300 Haitians who allegedly departed from Dominican Republic. He said the country, which signed off on the ...
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EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico stocks sink to 8-month low on Fed fears
By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY, May 22 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks plunged to their lowest level in more than eight months on Wednesday, after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed could scale back the pace of bond purchases at one of its "next few meetings." Early in the session, the release of minutes from the last Federal Reserve policy meeting seemed to suggest ...
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Nine killed by rebels in Colombia
/enpproperty--> BOGOTA - At least nine soldiers were killed in an attack by the National Liberation Army (ELN), the second largest guerrilla group in Colombia, the country's military said Wednesday. The attack on soldiers with home-made explosives took place late Tuesday in northeastern Colombia near the border with Venezuela, the regional army command said in an online statement. ...
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Latin America Haiti Guatemala Paraguay With Highest Malnutrition
UN’s World Food Programme Paraguay, Guatemala, and Haiti are the countries with the biggest problem of food deprivation and malnutrition in Latin America, according to a report by UN. In the study by the World Food Programme, 25.5% of the Paraguayan population is undernourished, while the figure rises to 30.4% in Guatemala and 44.5% in Haiti. Nearly two million people worldwide are ...
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Uninsured Texans Seek Health Care In Mexico As Their Governor Resists Medicaid Expansion
article from Tuesday shines a light on what, exactly, most Republican governors’ refusal to expand Medicaid will mean for real Americans by examining poor communities in a state headed by one of Obamacare’s most ardent critics: Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX). The piece centers on particularly destitute populations in southern Texas, where some uninsured residents are so poor, sick, and ...
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UPDATE 2-Strike stalls scores of grains ships in Argentina
Wed May 22, 2013 5:23pm EDT * U.S. grain stocks low this year after drought * World turns toward South America for soy, corn * High Argentine inflation fuels tough wage demands (Recasts with updated figures, new sourcing, adds context) By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES, May 22 (Reuters) - Scores of grains ships were delayed in and around Argentina on Wednesday due to a three-day-old strike by ...
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Fitch ratifica la calificacion de Atizapan de Zaragoza Estado de Mexico en BBB-
Fitch: Recession Concern Dampens European Investor Sentiment An increasing number of investors expect fundamental credit conditions will deteriorate across sectors, according to a Fitch Ratings investor survey. The more circumspect sentiment was most notable for the sovereign segment, where the proportion of survey respondents anticipating worsening conditions more than doubled to 55%, from 24% ...
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Entrenched Mexico drug mafia vigilantes battle for control of agricultural Michoacan state
In this May 20, 2013 photo, a man on a motorcycle drives past the burnt-out hulks of two trucks and a passenger bus, allegedly torched by the Knights Templar drug cartel as a warning to anyone who tries to bring reinforcements, near the town of Buenavista, Mexico. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in ...
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No more drug war in Latin America Report explores new ways to fight drugs
A new OAS report looks at alternatives to prohibiting the drug trade, including legal market regulation, reform of the UN drug convention, and smarter ...
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Venezuelas Maduro still waiting on Washingtons recognition
More than a month since Maduro was elected Venezuelan president by less than 2 percent of the vote, the US has not recognized his victory. A partial recount of the ballot is currently ...
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Latin American unity plagued by tensions
Division and suspicion seem the order of the day in Latin America at present, negating any optimism that the countries of the region may one day move toward a regional integration model based on that of the EU.
Latin America has seen itself become heavily divided over the issue of whether to readmit Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS) after the 2009 coup, with all the Central American states accepting the new government while big regional players like Brazil and Mexico insist that more must be done before they’ll recognize it. Meanwhile, President Alan Garcia of Peru has told Latin America news providers that there is a quiet arms race occurring in the region. In all, it seems that regional integration along the same lines as the EU remains a long way off at present. Read more
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