Resisting: Indigenous Colombians protested against the free-trade deal with the US in Calí, Colombia, last week.
Jaime Saldarriaga...
Postphorism
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
ON an island in the Napo River in Ecuador´s Amazonian rain forest, in a tin-roofed hut on stilts, live some of the world's most unusual chocolate entrepreneurs.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Luciano Alves planted beans, corn and grain on about 7,500 acres of his farm in southern Brazil last year. This year, he is planting 8,600 acres. And he credits Brazil's president, Lula da Silva, with the increase.
Deaths of youths show bloodshed hits the innocent as well as gangs
GUAMUCHIL, MEXICO — The narcotics trade has long been a winked-at way of life for many in this market town on the fertile coastal plains of northwestern Mexico.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- California pledged financial aid for efforts to curb logging in Indonesia and Brazil, aiming to slow deforestation that scientists say adds to global warming.
Haiti's hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples like beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
Scorned trash pickers are becoming a global environmental force as they help developing countries recycle large amounts of discarded material and reduce the development of methane.
Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco said today's decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut its benchmark interest rate is a ``good signal'' for markets.
Here are the three things that I found most interesting about Tuesday's New Hampshire primary in which Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton and Republican Sen. John McCain won upset victories that threw the 2008 presidential race into uncharted territory...
The rapid escalation of the U.S. anti-immigration hysteria -- fueled by ratings-hungry cable-television hotheads and leading Republican presidential hopefuls -- is a dangerous trend: It may lead to a Hispanic intifada that may rock this nation in the not-so-distant future.
The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants had capsized in the Pacific. The bodies have not been identified, and officials said the government was searching for more victims around the coastal town of San Francisco del Mar, 200 miles west of the border with Guatemala. If the victims are confirmed to be migrants, it could be evidence that smugglers are increasingly turning to boats to avoid highway checkpoints set up to deter the flow of Central Americans into southern Mexico.
American officials say the migration, which has grown into a multimillion-dollar-a-year smuggling enterprise, has risen sharply because many Cubans have lost hope that Raúl Castro, who took over as president from his brother Fidel in 2006, will make changes that will improve their lives. Cuban authorities contend that the migration is more economic than political and is fueled by Washington's policy of rewarding Cubans who enter the United States illegally.
Bipartisan Compromise Fails To Satisfy the Right or the Left
The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was crushed yesterday in the Senate, with the forces of the political right and left overwhelming a bipartisan compromise on one of the most difficult issues facing the country.
Senate Democratic and Republican leaders announced on Thursday that they had agreed on a way to revive a comprehensive immigration bill that was pulled off the Senate floor seven days ago.
COLORADO, Mexico — For 10 years, Eduardo Valenzuela has been crossing the border illegally near Yuma, Ariz., trekking over desert scrub and hopping a freight train to get back to his job with a construction company in Phoenix. The clandestine trip has become an annual ritual for him, as he goes home each winter to see his children.
What changes might an Obama administration make to US Cuba policy?
Obama represents a clear contrast with McCain who supports keeping the tight travel restrictions and limits on remittances that President Bush added to the US trade embargo with Cuba. More... Previous...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua---Nicaragua minority-elected president Daniel Ortega is siding with the faltering FARC guerrilla of Colombia and sparking another controversy and war of words in Latin America as well as tightening the screws on Nicaragua's opposition press.
Another step will be taken this Fall down the long road to a proposed, final trade agreement and increased cooperation between the European Union and Central America.
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