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November 20, 2009
Police in Peru say gang members killed people to drain their fat for cosmetics
Mexican authorities predict fewer Mexican immigrants will be back home for Christmas
Beyond the Votes in Bolivia: A Reflection on Evo Morales’ First Term
Guatemala: Beneath the Rock and the Storm – Photo Essay
The Argentine Senate approved a government bill to eliminate criminal penalties for libel and slander, as demanded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a ruling earlier this year.
The current global crisis will cause the number of poor people in Latin America to rise by 9 million to 189 million this year, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said in a report presented on Thursday.
Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez, said to be the oldest woman in the world, died in Mexico this week. She was 119.
Honduras’ de facto president Roberto Micheletti will give up his controversial post for seven days beginning on Tuesday so that Hondurans can “concentrate on elections and not on the political crisis,” he announced Thursday.
Biodiversity Report from Americas Program of CIP—November 2009
Guatemala: The Illustrations of Roberto Galvez
November 19, 2009
Welcome Ceremony for José Hernández Moreno, NASA Astronaut in México
Western Union Foundation Donates $10,000 to Help Victims of Hurricane Ida in El Salvador
Mexico’s Drug Violence Gives Rise To Vigilantism
Argentine Fans Cheer Change In Soccer TV Rights
Thousands of fans put Honduras’ political problems aside for one night to cheer on the nation’s soccer team as it prepares for World Cup competition.
70% of Cuba’s Farmland Threatened by Erosion
The University of Panama indefinitely suspended classes on Wednesday after confrontations between students and police during a protest against alleged U.S. involvement in plans to build new military installations.
Mexico anti-abortion fight moves to federal level
November 18, 2009
A New United Movement Stops Mexico for a Day
Report: Cuba’s human rights as abused under Raúl Castro as Fidel
Mexico’s Juarez on path to anarchy
Experts warned on Tuesday that the rise in health problems due to obesity among Mexican children, which is considered to be an epidemic, threatens “for the first time” to reduce life expectancy rates in the country.
The estimated damage caused by the Nov. 7-8 floods and mudslides to El Salvador’s infrastructure has climbed to $880 million, the country’s public works minister said Tuesday.
Honduran Lawmakers to Debate Zelaya Reinstatement After Election
Trend Toward Smaller Families in Latin America – The number of people per household in Latin America will fall by 18 percent by 2020, according to a study released in this capital Tuesday by consulting firm Euromonitor International.
Peru: Documentary about the “Diablada” dance will be done in Puno
After two days of deliberations, on Oct. 14 the Mexican Supreme Court made public its decision that Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (governor of the state of Oaxaca) is culpable for the human rights violations that occurred in Oaxaca as a result of teacher protests and political and social unrest in May 2006-January 2007 and July of 2008.
Organizations alarmed by the increased violence against women and others in Mexico are traveling by caravan to demand justice for the victims. – The national caravan, which began in Mexico City, is part of the international Mujeres de Negro (Women in Black) campaign to protest violence against women, children and other vulnerable groups.
AFL-CIO Letter to Clinton Opposing Honduran Elections
The Cuban ties that bind, 50 years on – Visiting her father’s homeland under newly relaxed travel restrictions is both invigorating and saddening.
40% of Guatemala’s Elderly Living in Poverty
Poll: Cubans ‘frustrated’ over life in Cuba – A poll conducted in Cuba shows residents unhappy with their government and pessimistic about the economy.
Northern Mexico’s Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York’s American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America’s last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.
Murder rates: Cuidad Juárez deadlier than Miami in ’80s
Buenos Aires Grants First Marriage License To Gays
November 16, 2009
Death toll in El Salvador storms rises to 192
A total of 2.92 million Mexicans were out of work in the third quarter of this year, a figure equal to 6.2% of the nation’s workforce
Peruvian archaeologists have reached the conclusion that the Incas decapitated their enemies to use their heads as offerings after finding three skulls in a ceremonial vessel in the southeastern city of Cuzco.
USA Role Under Spotlight in Venezuela Crisis with Colombia
Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day (this past Friday) in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Mexico angered by drug lord’s spot on Forbes list – El Chapo -(same thing happened last year)
Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
Foraging- Mercado de Dulces in Morelia, Mexico
Pablo Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles a tourist hit in Colombia
November 13, 2009
Fidel Castro’s long goodbye – The ailing former leader of Cuba remains true to his word: ‘I am a revolutionary, and revolutionaries do not retire.’
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya accused the U.S. government Thursday of weakening and changing course in the conflict over the June 28 coup that saw soldiers hustle him out of the country.
The official death toll from the floods caused by torrential rains last weekend stands at 157, with 14,166 people still in shelters – El Salvador
Mixed Signals on Honduras & Clinton’s position
Cuban blogger’s husband out to avenge her assault – Yoani Sanchez
The idea of the United Nations accepting a peacekeeping mission in Juárez may not be far-fetched, and the U.N.’s work in Haiti is an example.
Crean memoria musical de artistas oaxaqueños – Con el título de ‘Armonía en el Zócalo’, esta noche se presentará el material discográfico que reúne a 22 talentos que dan cuenta de los nuevos actores de la música oaxaqueña
México: casi 500 muertes por AH1N1
Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Lake Titicaca, one of the world’s highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 — the biggest annual decline in two decades
November 12, 2009
Audi expects to see growth in Mexico, Brazil and other key markets this year despite the global crisis.
Monterrey (Mexico’s 3r-largest city) has fired almost a quarter of its traffic police for failing tests designed to detect corruption and ineptitude. And half of Monterrey’s traffic cops were ordered to undergo more training after performing poorly on the tests. Only a bit more than a quarter were found to be completely fit for the job.
The use of torture is generalized and systematic in Colombia, human rights activists from the Andean nation said here Wednesday.
Woman Bursts into Mexican Assembly to Press Lawmaker for Child Support
Protesting Electrical Workers Paralyze Mexican Capital
Donations from countries and organizations began to be distributed on Wednesday in El Salvador among those affected by last weekend’s flooding and mudslides that killed 157 people, resulted in 58 people missing and hundreds of damaged homes.
A severe storm has been blamed for widespread power cuts in Brazil which lasted more than five hours, the government said.
November 11, 2009
Upcoming Hispanic Canadian awards – held on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 at the St. Andrews Club in Toronto, Ontario
Voices of Honduran Resistance Call for Deepening of Democracy
Seven children and one adult were reported missing after a Baptist church in El Salvador collapsed amid heavy rains and flooding caused by Hurricane Ida Nov. 8.
Mexico and the Crisis of a Dependent Economy – The well-known 19th century Mexican saying—”poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States”—has become more poignant today than ever in the context of the global economic crisis.
Tourism sector in Peru is surviving the crisis “better than we had expected”
Internet users can now take a virtual pilgrimage on Spain’s Road to Santiago, or Way of St. James, thanks to Google’s Street View service.
Brazil emerged early Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged its major cities into darkness for hours – affecting millions of people
November 10, 2009
Women play a bigger role in Mexico’s drug war – Addiction, the economy and the lure of living well have sucked many into the narcotics underworld. The trend threatens the foundations of Mexican society.
An exchange program between the University of Guadalajara and the University of Alberta is at risk because Edmonton students are hesitant to study in Mexico given the ongoing drug wars in parts of the country, Mexican students say.
The pitcher who helped Cuba defeat the Baltimore Orioles in the United States a decade ago is in stable condition after his face was crushed with a blunt object while trying to stop a fight. -Norge Luis Vera
Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media
Cubans Warily Test Their New Freedom To Criticize
Chávez’s Next Target: El Salvador – Twenty-first century socialism may have stumbled in Honduras but it is being tried again in El Salvador.
UNICEF assisting victims of flooding in El Salvador
While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it’s just more of the same.
Venezuelan government controls over 700 media outlets
Fears of a New Cold War in Venezuela and Colombia
Tastes of Newly Fashionable Valparaíso, Chile
Argentine teens are now totally smitten with the “Twilight”
Argentine journalists, academics and ruling party lawmakers met Monday to challenge the conclusions of an international media group that Latin American leaders are exerting too much control over the press.
Ecuador Negotiates Emergency Electricity Imports With Peru
IMF Approves $1.7 Bln Loan To Dominican Republic
Mexico declares flood emergency in 2 south cities – A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico’s Gulf coast
At least 10,000 Salvadorans are in urgent need of food aid after devastating floods and mudslides that damaged crops, destroyed homes and killed 130 people, the U.N. World Food Program
Salvadoran community organizations in Los Angeles have mobilized to help their country after a tropical storm over the weekend left at least 130 people dead in the small Central American nation.
Electrical Workers of Mexico Take on Calderon Government
Cuba’s blogosphere has taken on a decidedly harsher face in recent months, an act of online defiance in the face of government retribution.
Mexican clergy seek global help as violence grows
Manuel Zelaya’s backers: Boycott Honduran election
Too Late to Salvage Hondura’s Elections, Zelaya Backers Say
US State Dept ‘deplores assault’ on Cuban bloggers
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya: Talks Are Off with Coup Government After Deal Collapses
Mexico City’s literary circle – The Centro Histórico area is the nation’s repository of rare and antique bookstores.
November 9, 2009
Bernardo Garza Sada, founder and former chairman of Mexico’s Grupo Alfa, died in Monterrey,
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march
Colombia said on Sunday it will appeal to the U.N. Security Council and the OAS after Hugo Chavez, the fiery leftist president of neighboring Venezuela, ordered his army to prepare for war in order to assure peace.
Ancient trees at risk in Peru – The huarango is a celebrated Peruvian tree that can live for over a thousand years.
Soldiers wary of often corrupt Mexican police
November 7, 2009
A small Dominican Republic town plagued by birth defects wants to know if a U.S. power company is to blame.
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