BRAZILIAN INFLATION YAY! - 0 views
March 31: The Consumer Price Index used to track the monetary policies of the Brazilian Central Bank indicates inflationary interest rates in the final quarter of the 2010 fiscal year. The estim...
"Long Live Costa Rica" - 1 views
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 ...
"Arias outplaced by Honduran President Porfirio 'Pepe' Lobo in approval rating" - 0 views
From the Tico Times, March 30th http://www.ticotimes.net/daily.htm#story3 "Arias outplaced by Honduran President Porfirio 'Pepe' Lobo in approval rating" Recently current Costa Rican president Os...
"Five Costa Rican beaches lose blue flags" - 0 views
From the Tico Times, March 30th http://www.ticotimes.net/daily.htm#story4 "Five Costa Rican beaches lose blue flags" Costa Rica gives out 'blue flags' to various areas in the country that make s...
Commander of the FARC's Front 50 shot - 0 views
Venezuela to buy GE power plants for $600M - 0 views
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EPV7080.htm
Venezuela, Russia to team up on heavy oil project - 0 views
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EPUVV80.htm
Critics Come out Against TV Station Owner's Arrest on Principle - 0 views
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1976582,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
Venezuela is Trading Oil for Arms with Belarus - 0 views
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/03/31/chavez-military-lukashenko-president/
Russia's Putin is coming to Caracas to meet with Chavez and Morales - 0 views
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62U3CX20100331?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Ricky Martin Is Livin' La Vida Open, Says He's Gay - 2 views
woooohooo! i was definatly thinking about this just yesterday.....confirmed! sucks he had to live like that for so long...he was my first love! (besides Freddy Prince Jr.)
A Holy Week Counterattack By Marco Cáceres - 0 views
http://hondurasweekly.com/editorial/2477-a-holy-week-counterattack "Honduras' Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga has chosen to remain silent on the crisis that is edging ever closer to implicating ...
Anti-Chavez TV Station Owner Arrested - 0 views
Twitter Used as Form of Protest - 0 views
Mexico arrests "King of Heroin" aka Don Pepe - 1 views
the rise of Don Pepe Jr!
Safety and Sanctuary: Pentecostalism and Youth Gang Violence in Honduras - 0 views
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This article from the Latin American Perspectives journal talks about the disenfranchised youth in Honduras, who are typically young males. Due to Neoliberal policies in the Americas since the 1980s, there has been an increase in the number of violent deaths of young men in many countries, especially Honduras, where gang violence has increased with depleted social spending. "When combined, the paltry amount budgeted for education and health care spending and a faltering GDP create an environment of economic uncertainty for the working poor in Honduras, who constitute three-quarters of the nation's households (78)." . . . "Evangelical faiths in Latin America offer youth a form of public life that contends with other forms of public affiliation. In Honduras, youth participating in "privatized" forms of religious practice such as evangelical Protestantism do so in response to the "private" cliques of youth gangs. In the face of the social suffering caused by neoliberal economies, evangelical Christian faiths have offered disenfranchised youth in Honduras a spiritual response to individual pain while gangs have offered self-empowerment predicated on interpersonal violence." Max Weber says that 'Salvific religions' offer a chance for a better future, salvation from the evil that exists in the world (suffering, social exploitation), so the 'nonpriveledged class' is attracted to this sentiment, especiallly in the social devistation of neoliberalism. As the article states, "In the neoliberal era in Latin America, a time when hunger, disease, and violence are causing acute bodily suffering, salvific religions have gained many new followers by promising an end to suffering." Also, an alternative to the social order is offered by the ethnic and social equality "in the eyes of God."
Poll Published on Public Opinion of Brazilian President...Brazil Feeling the Love - 1 views
March 28: The Datafolha Polling Index has reported that public opinion of Brazilian president Lula da Silva has reached an unprecedented approval rating of 76%. The Datafolha institute further sta...
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