Zenit.org ).- The Pontifical Academy for Life president is lamenting the recently aborted Brazilian twins of a nine-year-old girl, and is calling the consequent excommunication of those who cooperated…

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A union representing 4,270 workers laid off by Brazil's aircraft manufacturer Embraer said Wednesday a labor tribunal rejected its demand that they be reinstated. But it added, in a statement, that th…

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Latin American equity markets finished in the win column Wednesday, moving higher after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it will boost money supply in a bid to help the struggling U.S. economy.

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Geoffrey Hamilton-Jones exudes a boyish enthusiasm that goes with his looks. “We haven’t even bought our computers yet,” he says. “We’re all working on our own laptops in a temporary office….

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) – Costa Rica said Wednesday it will re-establish diplomatic ties with communist Cuba, and El Salvador's new president-elect promised to do the same after he takes office. The…

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SANTIAGO, March 18 (Xinhua) — The European Union (EU), in collaboration with international organizations, launched three projects to boost information and communication technologies (ICT) in Latin Am…

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Nearly 10,000 new jobs were created in Brazil in February, the first time hirings surpassed dismissals in the country in four months, the Labor Ministry said Wednesday. The Brazilian economy registere…

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Geoffrey Hamilton-Jones exudes a boyish enthusiasm that goes with his looks. “We haven’t even bought our computers yet,” he says. “We’re all working on our own laptops…

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Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla speaks at a press conference in Havana Wednesday. European Union Commissioner Louis Michel, who is in Cuba on a two-day official visit, also attended t…

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On March 15, citizens of El Salvador elected–for the first time in the nation's history–a president hailing from the political left. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) candidate, t…

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama telephoned the next president of El Salvador on Wednesday to congratulate him on his election. The White House said Obama discussed his de…

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Mauricio Funes, December 2007 (Alex Wong, Getty Images) SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) – Costa Rica said Wednesday it will re-establish diplomatic ties with communist Cuba, and El Salvador's new presiden…

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purchase to add a combat capability to its air force, which currently has a mostly propellor aircraft fleet focused on transport. The Czech planes – subsonic L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft tha…

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) – Costa Rica said Wednesday it will re-establish diplomatic ties with communist Cuba, and El Salvador's new president-elect promised to do the same after he takes office. The…

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M&C Saatchi opts for “brutal simplicity” with the launch of its Brazilian operation

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Barack Obama , as it happens, has never visited Latin America. On the stump and otherwise he has paid little attention to it. So perhaps it's not surprising that in the last few days he has shown disr…

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she trapped it . And you thought your job was dangerous? (I can see it now: Grocery stores–the new setting for Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch.") Check out this National Geographic s…

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BUENOS AIRES, Mar 18 (IPS) – The global financial crisis could present an opportunity to move towards the creation of a universal basic income for all citizens, say advocates of the system in Latin Am…

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(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders condemns an attack on photographer Fabiano Rocha of the Rio de Janeiro daily "Extra" on 11 March 2009, while he was preparing a report on the poor state of the r…

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch)– Brazilian and Mexican equities turned higher Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve surprised financial markets and committed to purchase 0 billion in longer-term Trea…

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Latin America and Globalization, Reconsidered LATIN AMERICA AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM by William I. Robinson. 2008, Johns Hopkins University Press, 412 pp., , HardcoverWILLIAM I. ROBINSON'S LATEST BOOK…

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Sao Paulo -In the midst of the crisis, Arab and South American countries are going to defend the construction of a new international financial architecture during the second summit for heads of state …

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car sales are on the upswing again in March, rising 8.33% in the first two weeks of the month over the same period in February, dealership association Fenabrave said Wednesday.

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SANCKAJAWIRA, Bolivia (AP) – Evo Morales' opponents have figured out one thing as they look ahead to presidential elections this year: To beat Bolivia's first Indian leader, you need to run an Indian….

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Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) candidate Mauricio Funes emerged as the narrow victor in El Salvador’s March 15 presidential election, with 51 percent of the vote. Funes …

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Panama City, March 17 (CNA) An agriculture center partly funded by Taiwan opened Monday in El Salvador's La Libertad Province, with the aim of helping the Salvadoran people increase their production o…

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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 18, 2009) – Innovium Media Properties Corp. ("Innovium")(TSX VENTURE:IN)(FRANKFURT:IH7) reports that Seed Media Group LLC's ScienceBlogs.com, the web's largest sc…

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SANCKAJAWIRA, Bolivia — Evo Morales' opponents have figured out one thing as they look ahead to presidential elections this year: To beat Bolivia's first Indian leader, you need to run an Indian.Mor…

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FRANKFURT — German truck maker MAN AG said Tuesday the company completed the 1.2 billion euro (.5 billion) purchase of Volkswagen AG's truck and bus operations in Brazil, announced in December.Mun…

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Central America correspondent, BBC News Historians attempting to write a definitive history of how the the Cold War ended need to leave plenty of space for some unexpected appendices. Take wh…

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Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) [texts]. Carranza had appealed the jury verdict, claiming that the district court abused its discretion by holding that extraordinary circumstances justified equi…

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WASHINGTON — The amount of money sent home by foreign workers — most in the United States — is expected to fall for Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole this year, causing hardship for mill…

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The government of Paraguay, which is a poor country, is fighting for a fair market price for its share of energy generated at Itaipu, South America's largest hydroelectric dam shared with Brazil. …

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Dengue, the mosquito transmitted disease, which has caused havoc in the heartland of South America and at least five countries, has now been reported in the northeast of Brazil where authorities confi…

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SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador's President-elect Mauricio Funes said he wants strong relations with Washington after his party of ex-Marxist guerrillas ousted their right-wing civil war foes in a tight e…

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US company American Airlines announced that it is offering a round-trip ticket to Brazil from any city in the United States to six cities in the Brazilian Southeast and Northeast for less than US$ 600…

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NEW YORK — Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday implored American businessmen to help convince the United States to lift the 53-cent-per-gallon import tariff it places on his countr…

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Brazilian stocks led Latin American equity advancers Tuesday, aided by gains in Perdigao SA after a broker hiked its rating on the meatpacker.

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WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) – Iran is increasing its activity in Latin America and the Caribbean, including actions aimed at supporting the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a top U.S. military co…

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google is promoting a top advertising executive in Europe to oversee the Internet search leader's sales in North America and South America. Dennis Woodside takes over from Tim…

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ADAM THOMSON in Mexico City A FORMER Marxist guerrilla army turned mainstream political party has swept to power in elections in El Salvador, completing central America’s leftward drift. The res…

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Latin America is in better conditions to face the international financial crisis, officials of central banks of the region said Tuesday. The conclusion was reached at a seminar titled "The global…

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A group of armed men attacked a hostel Monday by a well-known beach in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, taking some 30 Argentine tourists hostages for three hours, said police. The criminal band…

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For anyone who witnessed the horror show of El Salvador's 12-year civil war, the ballot-box victory of former leftist guerrillas there on Sunday was a stunning development. Though it took another 17 y…

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2009 presidential elections . Although El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal has not yet certified a winner, Funes shows an insurmountable lead in the results, besting

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 17 (IPS) – Rosemary Fracasso, a 37-year-old mother of two teenagers, was murdered by her ex husband with a machete. During the attack he cut off her fingers and arms and left her h…

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Converteam closed 2008 with more contract success for their C-Series of integrated ship control systems. Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) of South Korea awarded Converteam with furthe…

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GERMANTOWN, Md., March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, today announced that the U.S. subsidiary of Te…

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The commander of U.S. forces in Latin America says the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is involved in drug trafficking in Colombia. The admiral is worried about increased Iranian and …

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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 17, 2009 – Iran is increasing its presence in Latin America, and Hezbollah, a terrorist organization it sponsors, is making inroads i…

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