Miners in Chile smile and wave at a camera at 700 meters (2,300 feet) underground in a collapsed cooper mine where they have been trapped since Aug. 5.
Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff increased her lead over opposition candidate Jose Serra to 24 points, according to an Ibope poll published by TV Globo network and O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper.
After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States.
Former President Fidel Castro of Cuba addressed a session of Parliament for the first time in four years on Saturday, the latest of several recent public appearances after a long period of seclusion.
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America, far from being the future, was in thruth a remote past because it was primitivism. José Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955)
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Tomar las cosas demasiado en serio nunca trae buena cuenta. Camilo José
Feria de Guadalajara La Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, en México, la más prestigiosa del ámbito latinoamericano, ya se acerca con todos sus anuncios y programas.
Cardenal denuncia conspiración contra su candidatura a Nobel
El sacerdote y poeta nicaragüense Ernesto Cardenal denunció el miércoles que el presidente Daniel Ortega y su esposa Rosario Murillo "han decidido parar" una iniciativa de varias personalidades que lo han propuesto para el Premio Nobel de Literatura.
Desde finales de los años sesenta en Santiago de Cali, varios grupos de personas se vienen asentando sobre los diques de los ríos Cali y Cauca, áreas consideradas por las autoridades locales como espacios no aptos para procesos de urbanización.
Más de 800 profesionales de la industria turística se espera que concurran a la próxima conferencia de la Organización de Turismo del Caribe (CTO, en inglés), a celebrarse en Puerto Rico, se informó el lunes.
En los comienzos del siglo XIX, Punta del Este no era más que una vasta región prácticamente desierta apenas visitada por marinos y pescadores. Hoy en día esta cuidad costera, conocida como la St. Tropez de América del Sur, atrae cerca de 300,000 visitantes al año.
La Reserva Natural de Uso Múltiple se encuentra ubicada al sur oeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, frente a la ciudad de Bahía Blanca y a unos 650 km. de la Capital del País.
Argentina bond risk fell the most in Latin America over the past three months as quickening economic growth and a $12.9 billion debt restructuring boosted confidence in the country’s ability to pay its debt.
Rapaz’s isolation has allowed it to guard an enduring archaeological mystery: a collection of khipus, the cryptic woven knots that may explain how the Incas — in contrast to contemporaries in the Ottoman Empire and China’s Ming dynasty — ruled a vast, administratively complex empire without a written language.
The apartment is on the second story of a three-story, walk-up building, constructed of concrete about 40 years ago. The old city is Cartagena's tourist and cultural center; shopping, dining and public transportation are within walking distance.
He was warned the journey north would be hard, so Gilmar Morales beefed up on eggs and sausage, bought some ham sandwiches from the bodega across the street, told his mother he loved her and set off with two other relatives on a path well-traveled by young people here in one of Latin America’s poorest countries.
Mario Gómez is all too familiar with the hardships of prolonged confinement. While still in his 30s, his family said, he survived as a stowaway on a ship for 11 days, living below deck on little more than bits of chocolate and drops of water collected in a shoe — an ordeal so trying it brought him closer to God.
It’s great they got these drug lords, but they will be replaced quickly. Law enforcement is helpless in the fight against the cartels due to their economic ability to sustain their criminal activities.
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Opinion
Chávez pierde opinión
La popularidad del presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, cayó en dos años del 65 a un 38 por ciento actual, y continúa perdiendo puntos.
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Politización del medio ambiente.
El movimiento civil a favor del medio ambiente está cayendo en una trampa del quehacer político. Cada vez somos más los ciudadanos que nos preocupamos por la situación ambiental del planeta, y que los retos que enfrentamos en estos campos como el fenómeno del calentamiento global, la sexta gran extinción de las especies y las malas perspectivas sobre el agua, serán en corto tiempo los temas fundamentales de la humanidad.
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