Venezuela and Argentina Strengthen Trade Ties - 1 views
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9F7I24O1.htm
Modern Latin American History course for New College of Florida. Our resource for current issues pertaining to Latin American culture, politics, society, education, government, etc...
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9F7I24O1.htm
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18675:prediction-chile-and-peru-will-lead-latin-american-growth&catid=48:other&Itemid=122 IMF and World Bank predict that u...
April 27: Brazilian economists believe it is crucial for the Central Bank to raise interest rates dramatically in 2010 due to unprecedented economic growth to maintain market equilibrium during an...
This Wednesday, President Alan Garcia of Peru accused Hugo Chavez of restricting imports from Peru and violating an international agreement. Venezuela was a member of the Andean Community (a trade ...
http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/04/24/fake-nurse-kills-patient-in-san-pedro-hospital/ This happened in Pedro de Sula, where there has been 3 murders of journalists in the past month. This article...
From the Tico Times, April 1st http://www.ticotimes.net/topstory.htm "Long Live Costa Rica" The National Statistics and Census Institute recently conducted a study of life expectancy around the ...
Casa de Xochiquetzal, House of Beautiful flowers, is home to about 45 retiree-aged sex workers, many of whom still get paid to have sex if they please. These women entered the business because they...
April 8: The Rio de Janeiro fire department is hindered in their efforts to rescue inhabitants (trapped in their homes due to flash floods) by the risk of landslides. Despite the decrease in volum...
http://current.com/news/91628495_honduras-election-fraud-coups-and-us-support.htm this video is from december of last year, but it does a good job of giving a clear, investigative report on the el...
The indigenous people living in the mountainous region just outside Cuernavaca City are literally having their water taken out from under them. Denied by the government the right to dig wells that ...
From the Tico Times, April 29th "Protests set for San Jose, San Ramon, La Garita, Liberia and Jaco" http://www.ticotimes.net/daily.htm#story1 Protests are scheduled in cities all over Costa Rica...
http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2010/04/28/2010-04-28_venezuelas_hugo_chavez_tweets_for_the_first_time_vows_to_beat_oppositions_twitte.html
The Fifteenth-Century Incan fortress at Machu Picchu is expected to open early this April after flash flooding and mudslides disabled the railroad in late January and cut off access to any tourists...
Feb. 7 A Brazilian landowner convicted of murdering nun and American national Dorothy Stang in 2007 was recently apprehended. Stang had lived in the Amazonas region of Brazil for thirty years cam...
February 20: The Brazilian Worker's Party, the party of incumbent president Lula da Silva, endorsed economist Dilma Rousseff as the party candidate for the imminent national elections this coming ...
http://www.elcaribe.com.do/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236491:rescatistas-sacan-autobus-que-se-precipito-al-mar&catid=104:nacionales&Itemid=115