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Where Law Enforcement Goes Bad
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 2013 (IPS) - There is a "deficit of justice" in Brazil, where the police themselves sometimes join the ranks of organised crime, in the form of militias, according to Amnesty ...
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Pacific Alliance agrees to eliminate tariffs for 90 of goods beginning July
The Alliance of the Pacific bloc that includes Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Chile on Thursday agreed to eliminate tariffs on most goods to promote free trade between the countries and increase exports to ...
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Latin America start of three new editions of the FIFACIES Programme
CIES has recently had the pleasure to participate in the selection of candidates and to inaugurate three new editions of its Programme in Sport Management ...
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South America re-election rash Ecuador’s Correa takes office for the third consecutive time
Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa will be inaugurated on Friday for his third consecutive mandate, something which Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez just managed before his death, and something which Bolivia’s Evo Morales ...
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Costa Rica OKs geneticallymodified corn
Costa Rica’s National Biosecurity Technical Commission granted a local subsidiary of multinational biotechnology company Monsanto permission to grow genetically modified (GM) corn in the ...
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5 officers killed in helicopter accident in Venezuela
Five officers from Venezuela's Bolivarian National Police (PNB), members of the crew of a police helicopter, were killed Thursday when their aircraft crashed in western Caracas during an operation to rescue two kidnapped engineers, official sources said. PNB Director Luis Karabin said that the accident occurred Thursday morning at 7:30 local time (1200 GMT) in the highway Mamera-El ...
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Zeta leader admits killing ICE agent in Mexican ambush
A commander in the Mexican drug gang Los Zetas Thursday admitted he led an ambush that killed one U.S. agent and left another seriously injured. Julian Zapata Espinoza, also known as "Piolin," 32, pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE Special Agent Victor Avila ...
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Paraguay seizes 25.6 tons of marijuana
Paraguay's anti-drug police on Thursday said they have seized and burned 25.6 tons of marijuana in the eastern department of Alto Parana, local media reported. The police said 20 tons of marijuana were found chopped while 5.6 tons were pressed, according to reports from Asuncion, capital of Paraguay. They also found 12 drug pressers. The operation was held in Itakyry district, 435 km east ...
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Mexico wants to attract US retirees
Mexican legislators, seeking to make their country more attractive to US retirees, may soon lift a major impediment for foreigners who want to own a piece of Mexico's Pacific or Caribbean coasts. For the first time in nearly a century, lawmakers are moving to allow non-Mexicans to buy coastal real estate and hold the deeds to it, without having to set up bank trusts or find silent Mexican ...
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Venezuela prosecutor to open probe over leaked recording
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's prosecutor's office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new ...
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SXM first Caribbean airport to receive International Transport Award
Simpson Bay, St. Maarten - Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) became the first Caribbean airport to receive the International Transport Award given by the Global Trade Leaders' Club (GTLC) since the award was established 15 years ago. It was also the only airport to receive the award this year out of a total of 15 awardees. Receiving the award on Monday, May 20, 2013 in Madrid, ...
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Cuba goes for its new president
The National Assembly of Cuba re-elected Raul Castro as president (head of the State Council and the government). Miguel Diaz-Canel was elected first vice-president of the State Council, which means that in five years he could be Raul's successor. The President promised Cubans revenue growth, but warned that the new society would no longer be the society "of ...
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Injured Messi included in Argentina WC squad
Argentina manager Alejandro Sabella has called up Lionel Messi for the nation's June World Cup qualifiers despite the Barcelona star being sidelined with a hamstring ...
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Argentina lawsuit imperils sovereign debt restructuring
(51 mins ago) The New York legal case over Argentina's debt poses a deep challenge to all future sovereign debt restructurings, the International Monetary Fund said. A US judge's decision ordering Argentina to completely repay bondholders who refused to take part in a restructuring of its debt could have ';pervasive implications'' in other such cases, giving holdout ...
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One killed in Brazil fuel depot blaze
(54 mins ago) One person was killed in a fire that broke out in a fuel depot on the northern edge of Rio de Janeiro on Brazil and spread to nearby homes, officials said. Six giant fuel containers at the storage site caught fire, sending flames up to 50 meters leaping into the air and columns of thick smoke far into the sky that could be seen miles away. The victim was a 43 year-old man who ...
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Venezuela Russia in joint oil venture
BARCELONA, Venezuela (AFP) - Venezuela and Russia formed a joint venture to produce 120,000 barrels of oil a day by 2016 in two fields in the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt.Russia will loan Venezuela $1.5 billion to finance the development of the fields under the terms of the agreement, and put up $1.1 billion for a 40 percent share in Petrovictoria.The agreement establishing Petrovictoria was signed by ...
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Latin Americas free trade bloc lifts tariffs eyes Asian markets
* Latin America seeks integration, yet divided in terms of trade * Pacific Alliance advocates free trade, foreign investment * Tariff elimination begins in July By Eduardo Garcia BOGOTA, May 23 (Reuters) - A Latin American bloc that ...
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Messi named in Argentina squad
Lionel Messi into his squad for the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil(TM) qualifiers despite the Barcelona forward's hamstring injury. Messi has not played since picking up the knock against Atletico Madrid earlier this month but has been named in a 23-man list by Sabella alongside fellow forwards Angel Di Maria, Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain. Roma and Anderlecht midfielders Erik ...
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Barcelona make final Neymar offer
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Barcelona has reportedly made a final offer of 23 million euros to sign Brazil international striker Neymar during the European summer transfer window. The Catalan club's football director Raul Sanllehi returned to Spain on Thursday after a week of negotiations ...
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UPDATE 2-Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuba for corruption
Thu May 23, 2013 9:29pm EDT * Importer faces up to 12 years in prison * Trials of more foreign businessmen expected * Corruption arrests unprecedented in Cuba (Updates with end of trial's first day) By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 23 (Reuters) - A Cuban court on Thursday wrapped up the first day of testimony in the graft trial of a Canadian businessman whose prosecution is part of a corruption ...
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UPDATE 4-Brazil to auction its biggest-ever oil find in October
Thu May 23, 2013 9:27pm EDT * Production-sharing auction to be 1st under 2010 law * Giant Libra area seen producing up to 12 bln barrels * Auction moved up 1 month to meet president's schedule By Jeb Blount RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil plans to sell the right to explore and develop its largest-ever oil discovery in October, auctioning an offshore petroleum prospect that is ...
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Letters The Genocide Trial of Guatemalas Former Dictator
To the Editor: Your May 23 editorial ...
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Ancient cave paintings found in northeastern Mexico
A detail from a copy of the more than 17,000 year old Swimming Stags Frieze from the famed cave paintings of Lascaux is seen during a media preview on March 19, 2013 in Chicago. (Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty ...
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Mexico drug war rebooted
It's the general's hour again in Mexico as the new president deploys troops in Michoacan, where gangsters are facing off against vigilante ...
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NOAA forecasts active or extremely active 2013 hurricane season
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued a forecast Thursday for an active or extremely active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, in its hurricane season outlook, forecast a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher) -- of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including ...
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Jamaica comes under foreign media's microscope
Jamaica is a country used to reductionism, the complex island nation has more often than not been reduced to a stereotype of marijuana-infused surfers that say “chill mun” and listen to reggae. Perhaps this is why the recent drug-related violence in the capital has shocked the western media so much, perhaps this is why it has been glorified and dramatized to the extent it has, or perhaps it’s a reflection of the same forces that shaped the beach-stoner stereotype in the first place.
There is more to Jamaica than beaches, Reggae and a ‘chilled’ island lifestyle. Jamaica is not a little island of just a few hundred people living in huts on a white, sandy beach. It’s an island nation of 2.8 million people and it has a history of brutal slavery and colonialism, the legacy of which is still being redressed, like any developing nation it has a number of social ills and many of the population work hard for little pay and live in less than desirable conditions. Read more
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