Clinton ended a five-day tour of Latin America with a lightning trip to Guatemala, where she promised Central American presidents more help to fight drug trafficking and repeated her call for countries to recognize the new government of Honduras.
As Chile worked to restore utilities to areas ravaged by last Saturday’s earthquake, two strong offshore tremors jolted the country’s southern coastline morning striking close to the epicenter of the first devastating quake.
Mine deaths and injuries over the past decades now total in the hundreds of thousands.Every year, landmines kill 15,000 to 20,000 people and severely maim countless more. Scattered in some 78 countries, they are an ongoing reminder of conflicts which have been over for years or even decades. Yet despite this random carnage, they continue to used as weapons of war. Landmines result in significant musculoskeletal injuries throughout the world. In every conflict since 1938 antipersonnel mines have been used extensively, often resulting in death or injury to non-combatants...
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That´s his. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Teresiña Lopes Vieira da Silva peddles spices and peppers from a street stall, but hers is no fly-by-night business. She sells to restaurants in Rio's swankiest districts and sees her success reflected in the two houses she has bought.
Argentina will take its dispute over plans by British oil companies to explore for oil off the coast of the Malvinas to the United Nations next week, where Argentina will assert its longstanding claim to sovereignty over the islands, the country’s government press agency, Telam, reported Wednesday.
Ecuador's inclusion on an international list of nations accused of lagging in the fight against money laundering is a hypocritical punishment for its relations with Iran, Ecuador's president said.
Until the 1970s the problem of poverty in Latin America was already obvious, but before that period nobody really focused on it. First extensive studies released by the CEPAL ended up with this behaviour and emphasised the issue of poverty.
Takeovers in Latin America are off to the best start in at least a decade, bucking a global slump, as economic recoveries in Brazil and Mexico spur consolidation in the telecommunications, food and commodities industries.
Missiles allegedly purchased by Colombian FARC guerrillas could pose a threat to U.S.-supplied helicopters used in the war against the rebels, experts said.
Red Cross clinics in some parts of Mexico are refusing to treat people wounded by gunshots after finding themselves caught in the drug war, with cartel hit men intercepting ambulances to seize patients and even killing a Red Cross worker.
To summarize it, he writes:
- If only it were true, it would be a great relief;
- The errors in the reports and the emails are embarrassing, but do not change the overall picture.
If President Barack Obama's foreign aid budget request for 2011 is a reflection of his priorities in world affairs, it looks like the president is saying "adios" to Latin America.
