Our new Latin American column The Economist (blog) In February we will start a new weekly column in The Economist about Latin America. We are searching for a title for the column, along the lines of Bagehot, Charlemagne or Lexington. Preferably, it has to be a title that has some resonance throughout ... |
NorthJersey.com | Cuba's American hostage Mansfield News Journal Alan Gross began his fifth year as a prisoner of Cuba's unjust “justice” system last week, a symbol of the continuing estrangement between that island nation and the U.S., and, more important, the fundamentally unchanged nature of the governing regime. Opinion: Time to shake hands with all of Cuba |
The Nation | Chile: A new model for Latin America? Washington Post IN RECENT years Latin American governments have tended to gravitate toward two poles: leftist, populist and authoritarian, in the style of former Venezuelan caudillo Hugo Chávez; and modernizing, free market and democratic, as in Mexico and Colombia. Bachelet wins Chile presidential run-off Chile's Bachelet returns to power with landslide election victory Meet Michelle Bachelet, Chile's Once and Future President |
Latin American Herald Tribune | UPDATE 1-Venezuela revamping currency controls to stop capital flight Reuters Currency exchange linked to tourism, oil investments, and the central bank's gold purchases will be carried out via the auction system known as Sicad, said Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez, giving those sectors a rate more favorable than the official one ... UPDATE 2-Venezuela revamps currency controls to combat black market Measures to be Applied on Currencies Entering Venezuela Sicad to become a permanent mechanism for US dollar sales |
Cruise ship leaves Havana for sail around Cuba MiamiHerald.com Several previous attempts to establish Cuba as a regular cruise destination have failed, in large part because of economic sanctions by the United States, which forbids U.S. tourism in Cuba and bars any ship that docks at Cuban ports from entering the ... Canadian Cruise Ship Begins Travel Around Cuba |
Cruise ship leaves Havana for sail around Cuba MiamiHerald.com The cruise ship LV Louis Cristal set sail from Havana on Monday on the first of its round-the-island trips, marking yet another effort to establish Cuba as an attractive and profitable cruise industry destination. Cuba Cruise, based in Calgary, Canada ... Canadian Cruise Ship Begins Travel Around Cuba |
Netflix Nabs 'Breaking Bad' Spinoff for Europe, Latin America PC Magazine Netflix today revealed that the complete first season of Saul will air exclusively on Netflix in Europe and Latin America days after its U.S. finale. Starring comedian Bob Odenkirk (below) in his breakout dramatic role as an ethically challenged ... |
Huffington Post | The Week In Images In Latin America (PHOTOS) Huffington Post Uruguay's Senate last week approved the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana as President Jose Mujica aims to drive drug traffickers out of the dope business and reduce consumption by creating a safe, legal and transparent environment. |
El Universal | Measures to be Applied on Currencies Entering Venezuela Prensa Latina 16 de diciembre de 2013, 15:17Caracas, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan financial strategy includes the introduction of referential exchange rates for hard currency entering the country by tourism, oil development and gold acquisition, official ... Sicad to become a permanent mechanism for US dollar sales |
Medical Tourism Booming In Baja California KPBS Medical tourism to Baja California has risen nearly 18 percent since 2010, Mexico's Frontera newspaper reports. The head of Baja California's medical tourism cluster, Karim Chalita Rodríguez, told Frontera that more than 500,000 visitors have sought ... |
Canadian Cruise Ship Begins Travel Around Cuba Prensa Latina Imagen activa 16 de diciembre de 2013, 11:19By Roberto F. Campos Havana, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) After setting sail from Havana harbor early today, Canadian cruise ship "Louis Cristal" begins the Cuba Cruise program, as part of plans to increase trips ... |
This Week In Latin America Fox News Latino Best Pix Of Latin America. Here are the best pictures taken in Latin America, from the last seven days. Uruguay's senate last week approved the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana, as President Jose Mujica aims to drive drug ... AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America |
Peru's budget surplus is unique among Latin American nations Peru this Week According to El Comercio, international credit rating company Fitch Ratings has determined that Peru is the only investment-grade nation in Latin America that will post a budget surplus for the 2013 fiscal year. The surplus is expected to represent ... |
eTurboNews | Top names sign up for WTM Latin America 2014 eTurboNews Review website TripAdvisor and the Trump Hotel Collection are among the global brands taking part in WTM Latin America 2014. With more than 125 million reviews and operating in 34 countries, TripAdvisor claims to be the world's largest travel site. As ... |
Consortium News | Latin America Finds Its Footing Consortium News Exclusive: While the U.S. and Spain have wallowed in the Great Recession swamp, Latin America has begun breaking free of the old order that bogged down progress. Now, the region is restructuring relations with its old international masters, as Andrés ... Optimal fiscal terms, new technologies & skilled workforce emerge as critical ... |
Fox News Latino | Dakar Rally Returns To South America With Route Through Bolivia's Salt Flats Fox News Latino From the birthplace of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Rosario, Argentina to the famed cerros of Valparaíso, Chile, the rally is bookended by port cities but racers will spend very little time as they traverse the interior of South America's Southern Cone ... |
Cuba for Leading Caribbean Tourism by 2030 Cuba Headlines Bisbe said at least 20 percent of the peak winter season has been accomplished successfully, with a six-percent increase in the number of visitors, air flights from Italy, Venezuela and a boost in cruise ship travel to Cuba. Canada, the main sender of ... |
Charisma News | Despite Oppressive Regime, Cuba Church-Planting Movement Remains Strong Charisma News The recent storm took everyone by surprise. It turned streets in Havana, Cuba, into rivers, lifting manhole covers on water bubbling from drainage pipes unable to contain the surge racing to the sea. In Vueltas, 180 miles to the east, rural roads ... |
American travel agents to promote Oman in US Oman Daily Observer Ya'llaTours specialises in exclusive trips to the Mediterranean and Cuba. Ronen Paldi, the president of Ya'lla, said Oman has great tourism potential as an unexplored destination for the great majority of US travellers. “Awareness about Oman's tourist ... |
New iGR Study Forecasts the Number of VoLTE Subscribers in Latin America Marketwired (press release) AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwired - Dec 16, 2013) - With over half a billion mobile subscribers, the Latin American region presents a great opportunity for the mobile telecom sector. The smartphone penetration is still well below that of the U.S., and LTE ... |
Tico Times | US mulls wider trade pact with Latin America Tico Times WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States is exploring the idea of setting up a wider regional trade pact with Latin America, Secretary of State John Kerry revealed on Sunday. "I believe we could look to a stronger set of initiatives between Canada, the ... US Asst Secretary of State Jacobson: Our Shared Challenges in the Americas |
Look east to the future Or south Travel Weekly To this, I would add that Mexico's tourist board, charged with combining Hoover's twin passions for travel and business, is among the most proactive and entrepreneurial I've encountered. The "Mexico: Live It to Believe It" campaign has been (literally ... |
CWT Solutions Group expands in Latin America Travel Daily News International MINNEAPOLIS - CWT Solutions Group, the global consulting arm of Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), continues to expand its global footprint, establishing a presence in Latin America to support clients with evolving travel management needs in the region. |
Naharnet | Interpol Seeks Help to Find 15 Fugitives in Latin America Naharnet Interpol first launched "Operation Infra-Americas" in November involving 46 countries and territories in Central and South America, the Carribean as well as the United States and several European countries. On Monday it said: "The public is hereby ... |
AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America U-T San Diego In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 photo, people attend a demonstration in support of the legalization of marijuana outside the Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay. Uruguay has become the first country to create a national marketplace for legal marijuana, with ... |
Deseret News | On Second Thought Deseret News Too bad Jantjie couldn't have interpreted Raoul Castro as saying Cuba would soon hold free and open elections. At least that ... At least inversions don't keep tourism officials from truthfully advertising that Utah's outdoors will take your breath ... |
Cuba's American hostage The Newark Advocate Alan Gross began his fifth year as a prisoner of Cuba's unjust “justice” system last week, a symbol of the continuing estrangement between that island nation and the U.S., and, more important, the fundamentally unchanged nature of the governing regime. Tampa man lived history between US, Cuba Is The Cuban Embargo Eternal? – OpEd |
