Top Stories + non-US news Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 13, 2009
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
November 12, 2009
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.
November 10, 2009
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
November 9, 2009
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.
November 7, 2009
Honduras leadership in limbo as accord dissolves
October 28, 2009
New Perils In Mexico For U.S.-Bound Migrants
October 14, 2009
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
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.
October 7, 2009
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.
September 29, 2009
Next year, Latin America will have to borrow $400 billion to compensate for the lack of national capital, a high-ranking World Bank official said.
September 24, 2009
They’re torturing me, Honduras’ Manuel Zelaya claims – Honduras’ fallen leader told The Miami Herald he is being subjected to mind-altering gas and radiation — and that `Israeli mercenaries’ are planning to assassinate him.
Most Mexicans See Better Life in U.S. – one in three would immigrate to the United States if they could – new Pew Research report
September 22, 2009
Mexico’s violent drug gangs are increasingly kidnapping illegal migrants for ransom and forcing them to carry narcotics into the United States as they muscle into the lucrative trade of smuggling people across the border.
Honduras: Zelaya’s Daring Return Reignites Crisis
Zelaya’s Return to Tegucigalpa Brings Coup Closer to its End
September 21, 2009
Juanes in Havana:`This is the power of music’ – Hundreds of thousands of revelers filled Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution on Sunday for Juanes’ historic mega-concert, while in Miami, exiles watched on TV with mixed emotions.
Ciudad Juarez has passed 1,700 murders this year, topping the number for last year with three months to go. Rather horrifically, of the 3,200 people killed in Juarez over the past two years, 500 of them have been drug addicts or those in addiction recovery programs.
September 17, 2009
Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 people, the 2nd such mass killing this month.
September 14, 2009
Washington has revoked the visas of Honduras’ interim president and 17 other top officials to pressure the Central American nation to reinstate ousted leader Manuel Zelaya
September 10, 2009
Voters could give Latin America, Caribbean a political makeover – A dozen presidential and parliamentary elections in the next 14 months could halt the swing to the left and boost moderates.
September 9, 2009
The 100 most powerful men and women in Latin American business.
Defying U.S., Honduras won’t let Manuel Zelaya return as president
September 6, 2009
Tens of thousands marched through Venezuela’s capital on Saturday to protest what they call growing authoritarianism by President Hugo Chavez.
September 4, 2009
The Obama administration has cut more $30 million in non-humanitarian aid to Honduras — calling it a signal that Washington is not happy with the status quo.
September 2, 2009
Mexico’s health care lures Americans – As the United States debates an overhaul of its health care system, thousands of American retirees in Mexico have quietly found a solution of their own, signing up for the health care plan run by the Mexican Social Security Institute.
Mexico and Argentina move towards decriminalising drugs – In a backlash against the US ‘war on drugs’, Latin America turns to a more liberal policy
August 27, 2009
After years of declines, poverty is now on the rise in Latin America thanks to the global economic crisis.
August 21, 2009
Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday – a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government’s grueling battle against drug traffickers.
August 16, 2009
Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to detect contraband, from guns and drugs to TVs and other big-ticket appliances smuggled to avoid import duties.
August 3, 2009
July was Juárez’s deadliest month with 248 homicides :: around 300 homicides in all of 2007
July 23, 2009
A last-minute push to resolve Honduras’ three-week-old political crisis once again appeared to fail Wednesday, as neither of the warring parties signed a compromise cobbled together by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.
July 20, 2009
What Next For Honduras After Failed Negotiations? GRITtv Interview With Laura Flanders, Roberto Lovato and Democracy Now’s Andres Thomas Conteris
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for embezzlement on Monday after he admitted illegally paying his spy chief $15 million in government funds.
Many Nicaragua revolutionaries feel betrayed by the revolution – Thirty years after the Sandinistas came to power, many are still loyal to the cause but feel disillusioned by the policies of President Daniel Ortega, the former guerrilla commander.
July 15, 2009
Talks on Honduran crisis to resume – Toppled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was urged to be patient as negotiators get ready to try again to resolve the nation’s leadership crisis.
July 14, 2009
More than 1,000 people have been killed in Cuidad Juárez since the beginning of 2009 due to drug violence, Chihuahua state police reported Saturday.
9 of the world’s 10 happiest nations are in Latin America
July 11, 2009
Delegates representing the ousted and interim governments of Honduras failed to forge an agreement during a second day of talks and no fixed date was set for future negotiations.
July 9, 2009
With USA in a recession, rural Mexico feels the pain
July 8, 2009
Both sides in Honduras’ leadership crisis on Tuesday signaled willingness to forge a diplomatic solution to the deadlock over the fate of President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted last month in a coup. Zelaya and interim Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti agreed to accept Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace laureate, as an international mediator.
July 7, 2009
The return of the PRI – More than 50% of Mexico’s voters stayed away from the polls on Sunday for the mid-term congressional election & around 6% nullified their votes in protest
July 6, 2009
Honduran Violence, U.S. Aid Test Obama’s Global Image
Picture of our Neda: boy killed by Honduran military with bullets and M-16’s paid for by the U.S. government & censored by U.S. Media
July 1, 2009
OAS: Honduras Must Restore President Manuel Zelaya In 3 Days Or Risk Suspension
June 30, 2009
Honduran Coup Turns Violent, Sanctions Imposed – Thousands of Hondurans are now in the streets to protest the coup d’etat in their country.
June 29, 2009
Honduras coup is a blow to democracy
June 23, 2009
Mexico moves quietly to decriminalize minor drug use – President Calderon is set to sign the law, but some fear that letting off users caught with limited amounts of drugs will increase drug use and encourage ‘drug tourists’ from the U.S.
June 16, 2009
Mexico report: 9,758 migrants mainly Central American were abducted in just 6 months
June 9, 2009
17,000+ kids left their homes by themselves in Mexico in 2009 to look for work in the US according to this article from El Universal and Mexico’s Foreign Ministry :: 17 mil niños migraron solos a EU en 2008 Miles de menores de edad arriesgan su vida al cruzar de manera ilegal a EU cada año, no por la necesidad de ir al reencuentro con sus padres, sino por trabajar, menciona un informe de Relaciones Exteriores
June 7, 2009
Grieving parents buried their children Sunday after a devastating daycare fire killed 38 infants and toddlers in a tragedy that stunned Mexico and prompted its president to promise a thorough investigation. – Hermosillo
June 5, 2009
Carlos Pascual nominated as U.S. ambassador to Mexico – The Cuban-born diplomat, an expert in ‘failed states,’ would take over one of the largest American embassies and confront a host of complex bilateral issues.
June 4, 2009
Cuba Readmitted To OAS “Without Conditions”
June 3, 2009
Mexican emigration drops 13 percent in 1st quarter
June 1, 2009
Mexico remittances plunge in worst fall on record – plunged in April by more than 18 percent compared to the same period last year
May 31, 2009
Hoping to remain productive, Mexico searches for solutions
May 18, 2009
The United States Abandons the “War on Drugs” Model at Home, Exports It to Mexico – US House and Senate Pass New Military Aid to Mexico
May 7, 2009
The number of Cuban Americans visiting Cuba is up 20 percent so far this year and will likely keep rising as Washington eases travel restrictions, the Cuban tour operator for U.S. traffic said on Wednesday.
April 30, 2009
Unless it is contained shortly, the Mexican swine flu outbreak that is sounding alarm bells across the world is likely to have long-term economic, law enforcement and political consequences on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.
April 27, 2009
President Rafael Correa Triumphs in Ecuador, and Thereby Becomes One of Latin America’s Most Successful Political Figures
SWINE FLU: Mexico Faces Criticism Over Response
Mexican Tourism, Already Hurt by Violence, Bears Blow of a Health Scare of Swine Flu
April 13, 2009
YouTube riddled with drug cartel videos, messages – The violence among Mexican drug cartels is not filling just the streets of Mexican border towns: It’s also spilling into gruesome online videos and chat rooms.
March 30, 2009
Mexico’s drug gangs drive film crew out of town – Escalating violence is forcing Hollywood and US tourists to stay away – roducers of a film about the murder of a cocaine smuggler, which would have starred Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett and Sir Ben Kingsley, have been forced to abandon filming on the Mexican coast after the movie-makers received death threats.
March 24, 2009
Finding the American Dream – In Mexico – For One Million Americans, Mexico is Home
March 19, 2009
The U.S. government knew that top Guatemalan officials it supported with arms and cash were behind the disappearance of thousands of people during a 36-year civil war, declassified documents obtained by a U.S. research institute show.
March 16, 2009
The Plot Against The Castros – Two of Cuba’s star politicians seem to have been a part of a conspiracy or a coup to overthrow Raúl Castro
“QUE VIVA EL FMLN!” El Salvador’s Left Wins Elections, Ends 150 Years of Military-Oligarch Rule
March 14, 2009
Mexico is decrying Forbes Magazine’s decision to include the reputed leader of one of the country’s most violent drug cartels on its list of billionaires.
March 12, 2009
Evo Morales isn’t afraid to practice what he preaches. The Bolivian president, an outspoken proponent of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, brought a baggie with him to a United Nations meeting in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday and chewed away in front of the assembled ministers.
March 10, 2009
The rich flee Mexico drug violence – Fearing for their lives, affluent seek asylum in Houston, other Texas cities
Cuba’s new foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez is a polished career diplomat, and experts wonder if that will mean a different attitude toward Washington.
February 23, 2009
The latest travel advisory for Mexico from the U.S. State Department will certainly not please the tourist board. Rather than a glossy brochure advertising the country’s many delights, the travel alert issued Friday reads like the plot of a crime thriller.
February 16, 2009
As drug violence spirals out of control in Mexico, a commission led by three former Latin American heads of state blasted the U.S.-led drug war as a failure that is pushing Latin American societies to the breaking point.
February 1, 2009
Juárez violence: U.S. assistance is considered, warring cartels may try for truce – The deadly street shootings, decapitations and other killings in Juárez are taking place at a higher pace than at the same time last year
After decade in power, Chávez aims to keep it – Monday is the 10th anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s rise to power, and Venezuelan voters will soon decide whether he can keep on running.
January 28, 2009
Yearly Mexican Remittances Drop Significantly
December 28, 2008
En México, el robo de energía asciende a 18 mil millones de pesos anuales, de lo cuales el 50% se pierde en el Distrito Federal y área metropolitana
December 23, 2008
A Diaper Change You Can Believe In – Why, exactly, are thousands of God-loving Spaniards paying almost twenty bucks for Barack Obama to relieve himself in their nativity scenes? Somewhere between tradition and transition lies perhaps the funniest Christmas story you’ll learn this season.
December 22, 2008
Drug war, killings spread fear in Mexico
December 19, 2008
Mexico’s Drug Wars Have Killed 7,000 In 2 Years
December 15, 2008
Threatened by the collapse of U.S. financial markets, the countries of Central America are reinventing globalism as a necessary survival tactic for the economic hard times to come.
December 6, 2008
Journalists become targets in Mexico’s drug war
December 3, 2008
La violencia en el país supera las 5 mil muertes – More than 5 thousand dead so far this year in Mexico due to violence
November 25, 2008
Chavez foes claim symbolic victories in Venezuela – Despite losing most of the mayoral elections, opponents say winning Caracas City Hall and governorships of the three most populous states will lessen the president’s chances of abolishing term limits.
Violence Against Journalists Grows in Mexico’s Drug War – Latest Victim Gunned Down in Front of Home
November 21, 2008
Venezuela prepares for elections
November 18, 2008
Mexican schoolteachers victims of extortion racket – Gangs threatening teachers to hand over Christmas bonuses or see harm done to their families or students
September 30, 2008
Remittances, exports — Latin America has reasons to worry over U.S. financial crisis
September 16, 2008
Cuba rejects U.S. supplies, asks for suspension of trade embargo
August 19, 2008
Must watch: PBS’ P.O.V film “The Judge and the General” – About Chiles & Pinochet
August 18, 2008
Dominican Republic president sworn in for 3rd term – Leonel Fernandez
August 6, 2008
More than 25 people were slain in the first few days of August in Juárez bringing the total to more than 700 this year — surpassing the total number of homicides in Mexico City and that of most major United States cities last year.
August 5, 2008
Bird dung means business on Peru island – It’s a dirty job, but people love to do it. Workers toiling 24 days a month loosen, scrape, sift, filter and bag bird dung to make some of the world’s finest organic fertilizer – known as guano.
July 27, 2008
The U.S. presidential race is sparking lots of interest in Latin America and the Caribbean. Many residents say they like the youth and promise of change of Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee. But many others say they like Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, for his stance in favor of free trade.
July 22, 2008
Mexico will no longer jail illegal immigrants detained within its borders.
July 16, 2008
Drug war mayhem instills a new fear – Drug-related killings have taken thousands of lives, but now those uninvolved in the cartel battles are falling victim, even children.
June 19, 2008
Mexico reforms its justice system – Legislation allows U.S.-style public trials. Change will take time.
June 18, 2008
Ex-rivals’ merge to ‘megacartel’ intensifies brutality in Mexico
June 10, 2008
Border Crossings – Spain, Like U.S., Grapples With Immigration
June 3, 2008
Machu Picchu ‘ransacked 40 years before its discovery’ – new research claims
Mexico army marches into drug war — again – Troops have been deployed to a greater extent than ever to fight narcotics traffickers. But critics fear the corruption that afflicts the police will envelop the military.
Cuba’s Raul Castro completes 100 days in power
May 29, 2008
End of Cuba’s ‘tourist apartheid’ leaves vast racial divide – Cuba has lifted the ban that kept locals from tourist hotels, but a trip to Varadero showed the only Cubans at the resorts were outside, begging for handouts.
May 27, 2008
In Colorado River Delta, waters — and prospects — are drying up – The increasingly meager flow into northern Mexico imperils the Cucapa Indians and the millions of others who depend on it.
May 20, 2008
Latin stars sing for poor children at concerts – ALAS
April 22, 2008
Mexican Journalists Still Under Siege in 2008
March 28, 2008
Seeking peace among las tribus – In Mexico, violence against a youth subculture known as the emos spurs a campaign of conciliation.
February 19, 2008
Fidel Castro resigns as Cuban president after nearly half-century in power
February 18, 2008
In Mexico, old U.S. cars find new homes
January 31, 2008
A ’sanctuary’ for immigrants in Mexico – The mayor of Ecatepec, a Mexico City suburb has declared the city to be migrant friendly and has ordered police and city officials not to cooperate with Mexican immigration authorities.
January 16, 2008
Mexican Sprinter Ana Guevara Retires from Track
January 10, 2008
Murder of ex-manager shakes embattled Mexican music community – Roberto del Fierro Lugo, former marketing manager of Mexican musician Jesus “El Flaco” Elizalde
December 28, 2007
The Savage Silencing of Mexico’s Musicians
December 12, 2007
Mexican company launches beer in honor of unofficial drug saint – Jesus Malverde
December 5, 2007
Few leads in killings of Mexican singers
December 4, 2007
2 Popular Mexican Singers Killed – Sergio Gomez from K-Paz de la Sierra and Zayda Peña
December 3, 2007
The burrito king of Argentina – A kid from Calabasas makes it big in Buenos Aires as a baron of the California staple.
November 30, 2007
RIGHTS-MEXICO: Supreme Court Lets Governor Off the Hook – (the Lydia Cacho story)
November 27, 2007
A Mexican Supreme Court judge concludes public officials violated journalist’s human rights – (the Lydia Cacho story)
November 26, 2007
In Mexico 80 per cent of murdered women killed by family members
November 25, 2007
Proportion of Mexican women with AIDS doubles from 5 years ago
November 15, 2007
Driver’s licenses for migrants? Not in Mexico
November 14, 2007
Troubling sign in Baja – Surfers warn of armed robberies while camping on Mexican coast
November 6, 2007
Mexican floods recede, but death toll and criticism mount
November 5, 2007
One Million People Displaced by Mexico Flooding
Center-left wins presidential elections in Guatemala – Alvaro Colom
November 4, 2007
Food, Water Running Low on Mexican Coast
October 31, 2007
More than 300,000 affected by flooding in Mexican Gulf coast state of Tabasco
October 29, 2007
Dozen dead as tropical storm drenches Hispaniola
Mexico Police: 100 Percent Of Drug Killings Committed With Smuggled US Guns
September 15, 2007
Guatemala Adoption Boom Creates Controversy
July 17, 2007
Mexican Migrants Carry H.I.V. Home
July 11, 2007
American Weapons Flood Mexico, Fueling Violence
May 29, 2007
Housing Slump, Crackdown Cut Flows, Hurt Mexican Peso
May 23, 2007
Domestic violence stalks Mexican women – Domestic violence is not a phenomenon exclusive to Mexico. But the figures you are about to read are chilling. – from the BBC
Debate Raging, Mexico Adds to Consulates in U.S.
April 29, 2007
Mexico City stages mass quinceanera party
April 18, 2007
Dress with ’20s Mexican uprising draws outrage – Miss Mexico’s pageant gown depicts hangings
April 13, 2007
Thousands of Mexicans wait patiently for U.S. visa
April 2, 2007
Gringolandia – The U.S. Migrant Boom Hits Mexico
January 16, 2007
Castro in serious condition – Spanish newspaper
January 4, 2007
Violent Latino gangs are spreading across Canada; one man’s dangerous mission to save their souls
December 19, 2006
Mexican sewage divers submerge in murky world – (you gotta read this one)
December 18, 2006
Latin America finds the green in organic – Latin American farmers can thank health-conscious U.S. consumers for a booming export business.
December 15, 2006
Castro near death
December 11, 2006
Ecological tampering pits a cactus-hungry moth against a Mexican symbol
December 8, 2006
How U.S. Aid to El Salvador Could Miss Out – Immigrants Who Send Bulk of Support Want a Say in New Grant Program
November 30, 2006
The Immigration Answer? It’s in Mexico’s Classrooms
November 20, 2006
Mexican leftist Lopez Obrador to be sworn in as head of parallel government
October 27, 2006
Teachers in Mexican State End Strike – Oaxaca, Mexico
August 30, 2006
López Obrador vows to form parallel Mexican government
August 1, 2006
Ailing Castro cedes duties in Cuba
