Press digest Times of Malta El Universal quotes President Nicolas Maduro sayng he had evidence that the three took part in a power-grid sabotage last month and had bribed Venezuelan companies to cut down production. The United States and Venezuela have been without ambassadors in ... |
Cuba faces challenges in push to end dual currency Lake Wylie Pilot Cuba is the only country in the world that mints two national currencies, a bizarre system that even President Raul Castro acknowledges is hamstringing the island's socialist economy and must be scrapped. Exactly how to do that is the problem. Months ... |
Cuba Faces Challenges in Push to End Dual Currency ABC News Cuba is the only country in the world that mints two national currencies, a bizarre system that even President Raul Castro acknowledges is hamstringing the island's socialist economy and must be scrapped. Exactly how to do that is the problem. Months ... |
Cuba faces challenges in push to end dual currency York Daily Record In this Aug. 30, 2013 photo, a food vendor spreads out convertible pesos, known as CUCs, the two bills on the right, and regular Cuban pesos at her stand in a vegetable market in Havana, Cuba. Cuba is the only country in the world that mints two ... |
Vasser leaving Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority Press of Atlantic City A 1978 graduate of Atlantic City High School, Vasser has overseen approximately 60 employees and the daily operation of the authority's convention sales, marketing, media relations and tourism division. Gov. Chris Christie initially talked of ... |
Haiti introduces special police force for tourists Canada.com The two-year-old government of President Michel Martelly has sought to make tourism a priority. His government has doubled its tourism budget and is hoping that $27 million from Venezuela will help revive the once-thriving industry. © Copyright (c). |
Washington Post | Rio De Janeiro Aims To Become The Hollywood Of South America Huffington Post RIO DE JANEIRO -- For Mayor Eduardo Paes, it's not enough that Rio de Janeiro is both an Olympic and a World Cup host city. He's determined to turn Rio into a Woody Allen city, too, and has gone to extraordinary lengths to persuade the director to ... EQUINIX INC : Equinix Opens Second Rio de Janeiro Data Center |
How to invest in Latin America on the London markets MoneyWeek One of the most common things that readers say to me about Latin American shares is that they're too risky. Interesting story and all, they say, but there's no way that I'm sticking my money into a company that I've never even heard of. “Why don't you ... |
Jackson ends Cuba trip without Gross meeting WRAL.com Jesse Jackson is ending a four-day visit to Cuba without getting to visit a U.S. government development subcontractor imprisoned in the island nation. The civil rights activist said Monday he had requested access to Alan Gross, but was told there wasn ... |
Jackson Ends Cuba Trip Without Gross Meeting ABC News The Rev. Jesse Jackson ended a four-day visit to Cuba on Monday without getting to visit a U.S. government development subcontractor who is serving a 15-year sentence in the Caribbean nation. The civil rights activist said he had requested access to ... |
San Francisco may open Latin America office for business development San Francisco Business Times San Francisco hopes to replicate the success it has had with its ChinaSF office in other parts of the world. ChinaSF, begun in 2008, is designed to attract Chinese companies to set up shop in San Francisco. It is also meant to help San Francisco ... |
Cuba Gooding Jr.'s 'Life Of A King' Gets U.S. Distribution Variety Millennium Entertainment has acquired all U.S. rights to “Life of a King,” a drama that stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as a chess-playing ex-con,. Get Los Angeles Film Festival News and alerts free to your inbox. The film premiered in June at the Los Angeles ... |
RESEARCH AND MARKETS: Travel and Tourism in Mexico to 2017: In July ... 4-traders (press release) Despite a decline in 2009 due to the financial crisis, the Mexican travel and tourism sector performed well during the review period (2008-2012). Inbound trips to Mexico recovered to register a CAGR of 0.52%, and outbound tourist volumes posted a CAGR ... |
How can Congress prevent a shutdown? CNN (blog) Then large companies or banks, probably big oil companies like they did in Venezuela. Leftists know no bounds. .... Tell that to the business owners who rely on the tourism industry in and near the major national parks: i.e. Mt. Rushmore. Tell that to ... |
Vancouver Sun | Haiti introduces special police force for tourists Vancouver Sun The two-year-old government of President Michel Martelly has sought to make tourism a priority. His government has doubled its tourism budget and is hoping that $27 million from Venezuela will help revive the once-thriving industry. © Copyright (c). |
Raicel Iglesias detained in Cuba; Yankees will have to look elsewhere Pinstriped Bible It was believed that Raicel Iglesias had defected from Cuba in order to declare his free agency and sign with a major league team in the offseason; however, that seems to be untrue. He was detained by Cuban authorities before he was ever able to leave ... |
Spring in the Central Drakensberg News24 This relatively long hike encompasses the famous chain ladders and takes you to the source of Tugela Falls; the thin stream of water that falls into the valleys below is the second highest single fall in the world after Angel Falls in Venezuela. There ... |
OPINION: De Blasio, Cuba and the Sandinistas Brooklyn Daily Eagle Recently, a lot of to-do has been made about former Brooklyn councilman and current mayoral candidate and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's left-wing background. It turns out that when he was young, in the 1980s, he went to Nicaragua to volunteer with ... |
Torque News | Toyota says it will export US-built Corollas to Latin America Los Angeles Times The new Toyota Corolla has barely hit car dealers but Toyota is already saying it plans to export the U.S.-built version of the compact sedan to 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean starting next year. Toyota said about 7,500 of the cars ... US-built Corollas will soon be exported to Latin America, Caribbean Toyota to export Corollas to Latin America in 2014 2014 Toyota Corolla helps US workers with in-sourced jobs |
Latin America most vulnerable to higher US rates-IMF Reuters WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Latin America is likely to suffer most if U.S. interest rates rise more quickly than economic conditions merit, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday. But higher rates could also hit output in Europe and Asia ... |
Washington Post | Rio de Janeiro's mayor dreams of making his city South America's answer to ... Washington Post RIO DE JANEIRO — For Mayor Eduardo Paes, it's not enough that Rio de Janeiro is both an Olympic and a World Cup host city. He's determined to turn Rio into a Woody Allen city, too, and has gone to extraordinary lengths to persuade the director to ... |
Search local inventory, coupons and more The Herald | HeraldOnline.com Despite a decline in 2009 due to the financial crisis, the Mexican travel and tourism sector performed well during the review period (2008-2012). Inbound trips to Mexico recovered to register a CAGR of 0.52%, and outbound tourist volumes posted a CAGR ... |
Ottawa Citizen | Haiti introduces special police force for tourists Ottawa Citizen The two-year-old government of President Michel Martelly has sought to make tourism a priority. His government has doubled its tourism budget and is hoping that $27 million from Venezuela will help revive the once-thriving industry. © Copyright (c). |
Latin America Mining Market Outlook to 2017 - New Mining Projects to Foster ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com The report titled 'Latin America Mining Market Outlook to 2017- New Mining Projects to Foster the Future Growth' provides a comprehensive analysis of the various aspects such as market size, segmentation, trends and developments and future projections ... |
Rio de Janeiro dreams of (being) Hollywood Boston.com Argentina's director Juan Jose Campanella talks during an interview at the Rio Film Festival in Rio The Associated Press Argentina's director Juan Jose Campanella talks during an interview at the Rio Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. |
Haiti launches special police unit for tourists News24 The two-year-old government of President Michel Martelly has sought to make tourism a priority. His government has doubled its tourism budget and is hoping that $27m (R273m at R10.11/dollar) from Venezuela will help revive the once-thriving industry. - AP. |
International Business Times AU | Mutya Johanna Datul Miss Supranational 2013 And Megan Young Miss World ... International Business Times AU Now that the Philippines has joined the ranks of Brazil and Venezuela in winning the "Big Four" international beauty pageants, the stake is getting higher after the Philippines won two straight victories in the recent Miss World 2013 and Miss ... |
Cuba's Antunez: Our peaceful steps for freedom MiamiHerald.com It is for me a great honor to be able to express these words in this worldwide famous University of Georgetown. I know that illustrious Cubans have been professors or students here. Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, a great Cuban, murdered by the Castro ... |
Cuba: readers' tips, recommendations and travel advice Telegraph.co.uk Before visiting, read Elmore Leonard's historical novel Cuba Libre. Set just after the sinking of the battleship USS Maine in Havana Harbor on February 15 1898, this bloodthirsty story brings the locations, landmarks and history alive. At El Patio in ... |
Embassy of Cuba in New Zealand Newsletter 29 September 2013 Scoop.co.nz (press release) The project has prioritized sectors for investment such as biotechnology and renewable energy, while other areas to be developed include food, tourism, telecommunications, real estate, agriculture and industry in general. Malmierca said that Chinese ... |
Get the energy up and great things happen New Zealand Herald A friend in Venezuela, Alberto, has used rugby to bring gangs from the slums together. He convinced the gang leaders to join the programme by going into the heart of the slums and taking them through a ... Its beauty drives our tourism industry, it is ... |
Vancouver Sun (blog) | Lessons from South America (and not just Pope Francis) Vancouver Sun (blog) I will have the chance to explore the vigorous new winds coming out of South America in mid-October when I travel to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to take part in a conference of the International Association of Religion Journalists, of which I'm a director. |
Get the energy up and great things happen New Zealand Herald A friend in Venezuela, Alberto, has used rugby to bring gangs from the slums together. He convinced the gang leaders to join the programme by going into the heart of the slums and taking them through a ... Its beauty drives our tourism industry, it is ... |
A New Gay Paradise - Venezuela's Margarita Island Gayapolis Porlamar is largest city on the island, and tourism is the main industry on Margarita, with a dry and mild year-round climate, and many enchanting beaches, some perfect for wind surfing and kite surfing. Discover Margarita Island Margarita is about 48 ... |
The Silicon Valleys of Latin America: A tale of 3 nations VentureBeat Conrad Egusa is the co-founder of Espacio, the co-owner of Colombia Reports, and is currently a mentor at The Founder Institute. In 2012, the Wall Street Journal and Citi announced their finalists for the most innovative “City of the Year” contest: New ... |
9NEWS.com | Guillermo Vicente Vidal: From Castro's Cuba to Denver mayor 9NEWS.com DENVER - Guillermo Vicente Vidal, or Bill, was the youngest of three brothers born in the city of Camaguey in Cuba. His father was a pharmacist and his mother was a stay at home mom. They lived a comfortable lifestyle as a middle class family with ... |
Renting Rooms: One Option for Cubans Havana Times Over time, I've polished my working style and I've developed a method that I call “Personalized Interactive Tourism”. I speak to the tourists about Cuba, taking their own questions as a starting point. Then we do tours of the city; I take them to ... |
Chileans richest and most indebted in Latin America Santiago Times With Latin America's highest ratio of per capita net financial assets — the wealth possessed by a country minus its debt — Chile and Mexico are the only countries in the region to have attained the status of Middle Wealth Country (MWC), defined as ... |
