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Bolivia Social Movements Take to Streets Rejecting Union Strike
La Paz, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Unions and social organizations took the streets today to reject the strike that has kept the country on standby for 15 days. Workers, mainly peasants, women and Aymara alternative groups responded to a call by President Evo Morales last week, when he called for "defending democracy and the change process" as a response to what he considered an attempted ...
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More than 100 Journalists Attacked in Colombia in 2012
Bogota, May 20 (PL) Attacks on journalists in Colombia reached a total of 158 in 2012, the highest figure in the last four years, according to data released by the Foundation for Press Freedom. So far this year, eight reporters have been threatened in the northern department of Valledupar. In addition, the journalist for Week magazine, Ricardo Alarcon, who is investigating the irregularities in ...
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Mexican stocks sink 2 pct trading at 6-month low
MEXICO CITY | Mon May 20, 2013 1:54pm EDT MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped on Monday to a six month low, hit by concerns that local stocks were too expensive after weaker than expected growth data on Friday dampened the economic outlook for 2013. The IPC stock index sank more than 2 percent to 40,934 points, a low not seen since November ...
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UPDATE 1-REUTERS SUMMIT-Banco de Chile sees slower loan demand
Mon May 20, 2013 1:49pm EDT * Massive Chile mining, energy projects have faced setbacks * Availability of consumer loans more restrictive * Total banking system loans to grow 9-10 pct this year (Adds comments on focus in Chile) By Anthony Esposito and Felipe Iturrieta SANTIAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - Banco de Chile, the country's leading lender, is tempering its enthusiasm for the small, ...
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Iran Ratifies Memorandum of Understanding with Argentina
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Argentina. The MoU, a bilateral agreement, was created between the two countries in January this year and represents a commitment on the part of both nations to investigate the circumstances surrounding the AMIA attack of 1994. The attack, which left 85 people dead, has yet to see the perpetrators identified or brought to justice. The Iranian president, ...
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Panama Wind Energy Project Underway
Share/Bookmark Spanish companyUnin Elica Panamea (UEP)announced yesterday that it has begun the final chapter of its project constructing several wind parks in Panama, which ...
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Russia Delivers First Lada Cars to Venezuela
MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has delivered a first batch of 450 Lada cars to Venezuela, said Sergei Goreslavsky, head of Russian Technologies (Rostec) high-tech state corporation's international economic cooperation department. Russia's biggest automaker AvtoVAZ, which is part of Rostec, agreed a deal with Venezuela in April 2010 for construction of a Lada assembly plant ...
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John McAfee accuses Belize Government after house burns down
The chances were always slim that antivirus founder John McAfee would return to his former mansion in Belize and now he can’t. Last Thursday it burned down, more evidence according to McAfee, that he’s no longer welcome in the country. In a ...
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Mexican opposition dispute goes public threatening reforms
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Divisions within Mexico's main conservative opposition party have erupted into a bitter public dispute that threatens to undermine the reform agenda of President Enrique Pena ...
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Joint Vatican City State and Argentina Stamps Presented to Pontiff
Stamps Dedicated to Beginning of Pope Francis PontificateBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, April 30, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis was presented with the stamps issued jointly between the Vatican City State and Argentina, which are dedicated to the beginning of his pontificate. The presentation was made this morning in the Library of the Vatican Apostolic Palace.The four stamps in the set, ...
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Burmese Presidents White House Visit a Reward for Reforms
President Barack Obama's invitation to his Burmese counterpart to meet at the White House marks a rapid diplomatic boost for Thein Sein, whom the United States removed from a blacklist of foreign officials denied entry to the country only last year. Mr. Obama also rewarded Burma's reform efforts by making the first visit to that nation by a sitting U.S. president last ...
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More Regional Troops Going to Central African Republic
An armored vehicle of of the Congolese army, part of the Central African Multinational Force is parked in front of a bank in central Bangui on April 3, ...
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Global Water is Under Threat
Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun whereby humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glaciers more than 11-thousand years ago. Scientists are meeting in Bonn, Germany this week (5/21-24) to discuss what can be done about it. to De Capua report on Anthropocene epoch While some still ...
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Bundesbank Chief Says France Must Take Deficit Cuts Seriously
Germany's federal reserve Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann stands beside the door of a giant safe as he poses for a photograph at the money museum next to the Bundesbank headquarters, in Frankfurt, Germany, May 17, ...
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Search under way for missing Canadian man in Mexico report
Mexican media are reporting that a Canadian and an American have gone missing from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.The online newspaper Noticias PV says Diego Hernandez, a Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend Craig Silva vanished on May 8.The paper says Puerto Vallarta's director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn't learn of the men's disappearance until five ...
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Earthquake Shakes Eastern Caribbean Islands
Port of Spain, May 20 (Prensa Latina) An earthquake of 5.3 degrees on the Richter scale shook several Eastern Caribbean islands without causing damage or casualties, the Seismic Department of the University of the West Indies reported today. The institution stressed that the quake?s epicenter was located southwest of Barbuda, part of the Antigua and Barbuda federation. At the end of last month, ...
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Egyptian Political Leader Expresses Support for Bolivarian Venezuela
Cairo, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Popular Egyptian Current Party (Nasserist), Hamdeen Sabahi, expressed his support for the Bolivarian Government of President Nicolas Maduro, during an interview with the Venezuelan ambassador here, Juan Antonio Hernandez. Former presidential candidate Sabahi said he was satisfied with the meeting and expressed his solidarity with the Government and ...
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Canadian missing for nearly two weeks in Mexico
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico -- Mexican media are reporting that a Canadian and an American have gone missing from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta. The online newspaper Noticias PV says Diego Hernandez, a Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend Craig Silva vanished on May 8. The paper says Puerto Vallarta's director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn't learn of the ...
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China Still Hurting Caterpillar As Sales In Asia Fall Hard Latin America Thrives
Caterpillar sales came in weak over the past few months - Photo credit: Wikipedia Despite an improvement in the U.S., the global economy is still trying to get off the ground, ...
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Colombia pins energy hopes on shale oil discoveries
Mon May 20, 2013 12:26pm EDT * For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here * Oil reserves at 6.9 years, but increasing slightly * End of war with FARC would help oil industry * Foreign investment falling from record By Helen Murphy and Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, May 20 (Reuters) - With Colombia's oil reserves stretching to less than seven years, its biggest ...
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Panel Solicits Applicants For New Mexico Insurance Regulator
Former State Insurance Superintendent Chris Krahling has been named to a panel that will select New Mexico’s top insurance regulator. A nine-member committee will select the next superintendent of insurance, who starting in July will be in charge of an independent office regulating insurance rates and policies. The committee meets Tuesday in Albuquerque, and is accepting applications for ...
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Former Pakistani Ruler Musharraf Granted Bail
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March to contest a May 11 general election after nearly ...
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Chinese Incinerators Spark Public Protests
Protests against incinerators have taken place in China over the past few years. This 2009 protest was against a planned large garbage incinerator in Guangzhou, ...
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Chinese Premier in India Discusses Borders Trade
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart have agreed to resolve a border dispute and other tensions, as Premier Li Keqiang continues his first trip abroad since taking ...
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Shakespeares sonnets come to life in new app
By Natasha BakerTORONTO (Reuters) - A new app launched on Monday aims to bring William Shakespeare's sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks.The Sonnet Project is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that showcases the bard's poetry through films of up to two minutes and performances by Tony-Award winning ...
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Brazil fighting the good fight?
Brazil’s recent victory in a trade dispute with the US, which was resolved through the WTO is a victory, not just for the biggest economy in South America, but also for developing nations around the world, showing that the mechanisms of the WTO can be used to further their interests – although it will take years of fighting and unrelenting effort…
Brazil’s ongoing dispute with the United States over the subsidizing of cotton for producers in the US, looks like it may soon be resolved, as Brazil recently indicated it would hold off on slapping a range of 102 US goods with sanctions, if the US agreed to certain measures put forth by the South American country. Read more
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