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Current Events Analysis

Chile Readies Drill in Bid to Save Trapped Miners

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.

Rousseff widens lead over Serra

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.

Global Issues / Environment

China passes Japan as second-largest economy

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.

Fidel Castro addresses parliament on Iran

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.

Postphorism

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955)

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Vítima de sequestro foge do cativeiro nadando

Cinco pessoas foram presas em flagrante, neste sábado, acusadas de sequestro em Bertioga (litoral de SP). Um vigilante, de 28 anos, foi ma ntido em cativeiro por 15 horas, mas conseguiu fugir nadando pelo Rio Itapanhaú. De acordo com a polícia, a vítima, que pediu para não ter o nome divulgado, pode ter sido confundida com outra pessoa.

A vítima contou que foi rendida por três homens na noite de quinta-feira, no bairro Jardim Vicente de Carvalho (periferia de Bertioga), onde procurava informações sobre um amigo. Ele foi levado para uma casa no município do litoral paulista, onde ficou refém quase o dia todo.

A 100 metros do local, a polícia localizou o segundo cativeiro. Lá, os sequestradores usaram um barco para levar o vigilante para o outro lado do Rio Itapanhaú, onde foi amarrado a uma árvore. Ele conseguiu se soltar e nadou cerca de 500 metros para pedir ajuda.

Foram apreendidos com o bando os fios usados para amarrar a vítima, celulares, estilete e uma cápsula de fuzil AR-15. Segundo o delegado José Aparecido Cardia, os acusados responderão por cárcere privado, sequestro, roubo e porte ilegal de munição.

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Economics

Argentine growth feeds investor optimism

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.

Identity/Culture

Keeping an Incan mystery alive

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.

Soutbound Travel

House hunting in ... Colombia

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.

Migration Issues

Grief across Latam for migrant killings

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.

Living/People

Trapped Chilean miners forge refuge

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.

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Our Opinion

Legalize, regulate and tax drugs

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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