By Admin Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The lessons that could help keep 33 trapped Chilean miners safe and sane during their months underground were learned at desperate times in isolated places: ice-bound sailing ships, prisoner-of-war camps, malfunctioning capsules whizzing through space.
They include: Don’t over-promise. Keep track of night and day - even if you can’t see daylight. Encourage friendships - but watch out for cliques. Let everybody have privacy - but don’t let anybody become a loner.
Hurricane Earl threatens US Coast after hitting CaribbeanBy Admin Tuesday, August 31, 2010
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines.
Earl is forecast to potentially brush the U.S. East Coast late Thursday, before curving back out to sea, potentially swiping New England or far-eastern Canada. The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned coastal residents from North Carolina to Maine to watch the storm closely.
Haiti’s Plas Timoun offers play therapy to young quake victimsBy Admin Thursday, August 26, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - When counselors asked the children at the Plas Timoun psychological therapy center to draw, what came out on the paper were images of crumbled houses, severed limbs and blood spurting from people trapped under the ruins.
But Jasmine Etelus, 8, was drawing another kind of house the other day. It was a two-story, pink-painted structure in the gingerbread tradition of Port-au-Prince, with a blazing sun on the mountain-lined horizon behind it.
Drug cartel suspected in massacre of 72 migrantsBy Admin Thursday, August 26, 2010
MEXICO CITY—Mexican security forces were bringing refrigeration equipment for the bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants massacred by drug cartel gunmen at a remote ranch in northern Mexico, while investigators tried Thursday to determine their identities and why they were gunned down 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the U.S. border.
Dominican agents bust drug ring linked to real estate investmentsBy Admin Monday, August 23, 2010
Santo Domingo.– The Antinarcotics Agency (DNCD) today announced it dismantled a ring of drug dealers who invested more than US$50 million in real aimed at money laundering.
By Admin Thursday, August 12, 2010
CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO—At night in this border city, radio newscasts give a rundown of the day’s homicides—15 one day, 12 the next—a segment as regular as weather or sports. At least 291 people were killed last month, and more than 1,786 so far this year.
The runaway drug violence has brought 10,000 soldiers and federal police officers to Juarez, but the influx has not resulted in security or a decline in the death toll. That has forced Mexican leaders and their U.S. advisers to try a new strategy to stop the killing in a city that once seemed like a model for U.S.-Mexico economic integration.
Fidel Castro Rules Out Potential Colombian Attack on VenezuelaBy Admin Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Fidel Castro was interviewed last August 8 by four Venezuelan journalists. The Cuban Revolution leader referred to different international issues like the war threat against Iran, the Colombia-Venezuela conflict and the Cuban Five case, among other subjects. The interview was broadcasted by Cuban radio and television in the Round Table program.
By Admin Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Is Latin America moving to the right? Several recent elections seem to point in that direction.
Chile, in January, inaugurated a right-of-center businessman, Sebastian Pinera, as president. Costa Rica recently elected its first woman president, Laura Chinchilla, who, like her predecessor Oscar Arias, is a moderate conservative. And on June 20, Colombia overwhelming elected Juan Manuel Santos, a close ally of conservative president Alvaro Uribe, to the presidency by a margin of more than 40 percent. These three join several other right-of-center presidents, including Ricardo Martinelli of Panama, Alan García of Peru, Francisco Calderón of Mexico and Porfirio Lobo of Honduras.
Misión Internacional en Argentina y UruguayBy Editor Monday, August 2, 2010
Santa Cruz - Bolivia, Agosto de 2010
Estimadas Autoridades Locales, Gestores Públicos, Representantes del Tercer Sector, Especialistas en Proyectos de Desarrollo Local Sostenible y Administración Pública, Legisladores involucrados en políticas de desarrollo municipal, Miembros de la Red ONWARD/IIDEL y Empresarios de América Latina y el Caribe:
By Admin Monday, August 2, 2010
NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO—Two weeks ago, Mexican soldiers clashed here with drug cartel gangsters in running gun battles that lasted five hours. The outlaws hijacked vehicles, including a bus, for use as barricades and battering rams. Terrified residents scrambled for safety. At least a dozen people were killed, including bystanders. Children were wounded in the crossfire.
