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November 7, 2009
A small Dominican Republic town plagued by birth defects wants to know if a U.S. power company is to blame.
In pictures: Yucatan wonders – (wow some amazing photos)
Honduras leadership in limbo as accord dissolves
Report on Women’s Human Rights Violations Shows Systematic Attack on Women Under Honduran Coup
November 6, 2009
TLN en Español, Canada’s first nationally available 24-hour all-Spanish channel, has launched on Shaw Digital TV, in the Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg markets.
A third woman has filed a paternity claim against Paraguay’s Roman Catholic bishop-turned- president, her lawyer confirmed Thursday – President Fernando Lugo
November 5, 2009
For the first time ever, Bolivians living abroad will be able to cast their ballots in the upcoming general election.
Hope and Disappointment in Uruguay’s Elections
In Mexico, fears of a ‘lost generation’ – Violence among young soars as drug cartels recruit more minors
Jamaican Official Lobbies for Spanish as Second Language
3 doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City
Deal to restore Manuel Zelaya in Honduras at risk – Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya say lawmakers are stalling efforts to bring him back to office before a Nov. 29 election.
November 4, 2009
Last Argentine dictator, ex-generals go on trial
El Salvador Named Top 10 Travel Destination for 2010 by Lonely Planet
El Salvador’s president says the country will award its highest honor to six Jesuit priests murdered by the army in 1989.
Pain Of Global Downturn Persists In Mexico
Flooding after days of heavy rain along Mexico’s Gulf Coast has forced more than 44,000 people from their homes
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos arrived in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday to join a commission set to verify compliance with the accord reached last week by deposed Honduran President Mel Zelaya and the de facto regime installed by the June 28 coup.
A news reporter who wrote about violent drug crimes has been strangled in the northern Mexican state of Durango – El Tiempo de Durango journalist Jose Bladimir Antuna
Close to 450,000 Chilean public employees went on a 48-hour strike demanding an across-the-board wage hike of 8%
November 2, 2009
Reeling Mexico hopes travel deals bring back the tourists
Grasshoppers? Eew! But chocolate? Yum! – The youngsters get a taste of multicultural Mexico in Oaxaca.
Peru: Nasca civilization succumbed to “El Niño” due to deforestation
The Real Winner in Honduras: The United States?
In Latin America, weapons buying spreads mistrust – Weapons purchases in Latin America are soaring as nations cast a wary eye on their neighbors.
A little more than 1 million people work in the illegal drug trade including “around 200,000” women, according to the COCyP association of peasant organizations, based on police estimates.
The leader of a Mexican farmworkers’ organization and 14 other people were killed in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora
Mexico’s death museum lives up to morbid name in Aguascalientes, Mexico
Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.
Peru expects to export US $750 million in asparagus annually
Bolivia’s Witch Markets Offer Llama Fetuses And More
Drought Affects 90% of Argentina
Zelaya, Micheletti Beginning to Disagree About Crisis-Ending Accord
Ten Thousand Dives Under the Sea – Spotlight on Scuba-Mex Dive Shop in Paamul, Q.R. Mexico
October 30, 2009
Mexican Political Prisoner Gloria Arenas Released
Cacao with the best aroma in the world grows in Peru
Deposed President Manuel Zelaya and his opponents have agreed to a U.S.-brokered deal that he believes will return him to power four months after a coup shook faith in Latin America’s young democracies.
October 29, 2009
As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.
The head of the World Health Organization says Fidel Castro looks stronger and wonderful for his 83 years.
October 28, 2009
The Continuity of Immunity for Tío Sam in Colombia
Congress Members Urge Obama to “Break the Silence” on Honduran Rights Violations
New Perils In Mexico For U.S.-Bound Migrants
Independent bloggers school opens in Cuba
Mexico’s pink taxis cater to fed-up females – In colonial city of Pueblo, these cabs don’t stop for men
Ecuador: The Battle for Natural Resources Deepens
October 27, 2009
Central America is most crime-ridden region in world, U.N. report finds
October 26, 2009
Guatemala suffered 2,953 murders during the first 9 months of this year, a prominent human rights organization said Friday.
Mexico’s Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA
October 17, 2009
Más mujeres en estructuras de poder de Cuba
Cuba allows U.S. access to jailed dual citizens – While Cuba recently gave a State Department official permission to visit jailed U.S.-Cuban citizens, travel restrictions remain in place.
Cuidad Juárez killings: Women victims are new aspect of ongoing violence across border
Tens of thousands of people have marched to protest Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s decision to disband a public electricity company.
Americas Program Report: A New Financial Architecture for Latin America, Part 2 – South American Trade and Currency Volatility
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya said negotiations over Honduras’ coup are in “suspense” after the rival factions rebuffed each other’s proposals and his foreign minister called the internationally brokered talks a failure.
Endangered Sea Turtles Return To Mexico’s Beaches
Golf In Cross Hairs Of Venezuela’s President
A steep drop in U.S. payments for telephone calls to Cuba may have been caused by Cuban Americans’ growing travel to the island, the U.S. economic crisis or increased Internet communications
Mexico City Puts Overweight Cops on a Diet
Chilean Thief Crushed to Death by ATM He Stole
October 15, 2009
Honduran Accords Hung Up on Zelaya’s Reinstatement
October 14, 2009
MEXICO: Rural Poverty Has a Woman’s Face
A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. – Yoani Sanchez
Thousands of Venezuelans congregated for candlelit rituals on a remote mountainside where adherents make an annual pilgrimage to pay homage to an indigenous goddess known as Maria Lionza.
Decapitated body among 100 girls, women killed in Cuidad Juárez in ‘09 – “first time a woman has been decapitated and her body displayed in this manner” – (NOT GOOD but nothing seems to change) + The death toll in Juárez has surpassed the 1,900 mark for the year over the weekend, according to a tally kept by the El Paso Times.
Faced with a deep recession, Cuba tries socialism lite – scaling back socialism in an attempt to save it
Mexico’s automotive industry saw production plummet 37.7% during the first nine months of this year, while exports plunged 35.5% and domestic sales dropped 30.6%
October 13, 2009
The slumping global economy is having a stimulus effect on Costa Rica’s famous sex-tourism industry, as a growing number of unemployed women — from Colombia to the Dominican Republic — flock to San José to seek a living in the world’s oldest profession.
Calderon Government Sends in Police to Take Over Electrical Company and Bust Union
October 12, 2009
Cuban public health authorities reported the first three deaths from the AH1N1 flu virus on the island and said that to date 621 cases of the disease have been confirmed.
Yoani Sánchez: ‘‘Mi vida está en otra Cuba, no en otra parte”
Argentina’s Senate overwhelmingly approved a law that will transform the nation’s media landscape on Saturday, and President Cristina Fernandez quickly signed it into law.
Between now and the end of her term next March, President Michelle Bachelet will distribute 33,000 hectares (81,500 acres) of land among Mapuche Indian communities in Chile’s conflictive southern region of Araucania
Just over 50% of Brazilians age 25 and older did not complete the eight years of basic education
Remittances to Honduras Fall Nearly 11 Percent in ‘09
Reflections on a Decade of Civic Revolutions in Latin America
Honduras De Facto Regime Opens Fire in Poor Neighborhoods: Youth and union members targeted by coup violence
October 9, 2009
Drug Use Among Argentine Teenagers Up 62%
Cuba loses $149 million annually in agricultural exports due to the 47-year-old U.S. economic embargo against the communist-ruled island, officials said.
Several acclaimed Argentine writers presented a new work that uses the Bible as its starting point but takes creative liberties with some of the most widely read passages of that holy text.
Mexico aims to make Baja safer for U.S. tourists – Task force will be made up of bilingual officers; primarily will serve Americans – Initial plan is to create a force that patrols a 50-mile tourist corridor of Baja
More talks in Honduran crisis, but no deal sighted
Peru to register highest growth in South America in 2010-2014
October 7, 2009
Peru will have Latin America’s lowest inflation rate this year, while Venezuela will have the highest, the IMF forecasts.
Mexico will outperform Brazil the next five years, while Panama will lead Latin America in GDP growth, the IMF forecasts.
Critics Say Chavez Targeting Opponents For Arrest
Love child turned critic, a daughter of Fidel Castro told a Widener University audience Monday that lifting 50-year embargoes imposed by the United States would do little to help suffering people in Cuba. – Alina Fernandez
Honduras revokes emergency decree during visit by Ros-Lehtinen, Diaz-Balarts – Honduras’ government canceled an order that outlawed large protests and limited other liberties.
A former Costa Rican president was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Monday for embezzling funds from a Finnish loan intended for medical equipment for public hospitals. – Rafael Calderon president from 1990-1994
Rich Vs. Poor At Root Of Honduran Political Crisis
Killings in Cuidad Juárez: Girl, 9, among 35 homicides in first 4 days of October
Assailants armed with assault rifles burst into a hospital in the northern Mexican state of Durango and killed three men being treated for gunshot wounds
Eight Out of Every 10 Dominicans Use a Cell Phone
A trio of South Florida Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that the remedy to the post-coup woes in Honduras lies in U.S. support of next month’s scheduled elections. – U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart
According to Carmelo Mesa, a Cuban economist who’s a visiting professor at Tulane University in the United States, Venezuela bankrolled Cuba to the tune of $9.4 billion last year. This includes $2 billion to take account of the cost of subsidizing Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba. Venezuela sends oil to Cuba at a “preferential” price of just $27 a barrel.
The Provincial Municipality of Trujillo has started a new touristic program, that aims to guide, free of charge, domestic and foreign tourists as well who wish to know the historical center of the city, which is the capital city of La Libertad region. – Peru
October 6, 2009
Mexico’s Real War: It’s Not Drugs – The article explains the struggle of Mexico’s middle- and lower-classes to retain jobs and opportunities for upward mobility. Kotkin also considers what this long-term problem could mean for the US if it remains unaddressed.
October 5, 2009
The lakes and volcanoes of El Salvador – offers its few visitors a big welcome – plus volcano walks, surfing and seafood
The political crisis in Honduras is having a crippling effect on trade in Central America, with Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica losing millions of dollars of trade every day.
Surfers Are Here! El Salvador Sheds Its Image
Mexico Tourism: Strong Decline – International tourism receipts in Mexico will decline by 16% in dollar terms in 2009.
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