Significantly cheaper medical costs means many Americans to seek services in Mexico - 5 views
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...
March 26: The Brazilian national currency, the Real, rose 0.5 percent against the US Dollar, to a ratio of 1.81:1. Source: Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=aeH5MAHldbMg&pid=206...
Legalize it - problem solved.
A zinc/lead mine that was first excavated 1956 is slowly devouring the historic town of Cerro de Pasco in the Peruvian Andes. In the meantime, the area's 70,000 or so residents are suffering in lar...
The International Monetary Fund has projected that Peru's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow more than twelve percent over the next two years - more than any other country in Latin America or t...
Eight people were killed yesterday afternoon and ten injured when the truck they were riding in went off the road at high speed. The truck landed upside-down in the Cochoc River between Calca and S...
this seems like a good idea but only 30min? is that enough time to get to your destination?
You can assume that not all Fortuño's constituents will be happy with everything that he has done. However, he has been accused of lying to the public about what he has done for the environment. In...
Or so says the voices of those who actually use the service. Though this 'article' was not written by a reporter but by one of the many voices in Puerto Rico, one should not dismiss it as inaccurat...
A young girl raped by her step-dad in the Yucatan peninsula is only a month too late for the 90-day cut off after which abortion becomes illegal in cases of rape. Her step-dad now in jail, the girl...
April 22: Four Brazilian tourists that had been detained by protesters in southern Bolivia on April 20th were released and have since fled to Chile before their projected return to Brazil. The tou...
April 21: A poll conducted between April 13-18 issued its results of national pre-electoral presidential candidate approval ratings. José Serra, the opposition leader and former governor of Brasil...
UPDATE: Further reading at http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/trex-leech-enormous-teeth/