South America Can Now Crowdfund With Bitcoins TechCrunch While the rest of us are messing around with our Paypals and Amazon Payments, some folks in Argentina have created the first crowd funding platform in America to take bitcoin. The platform, called Idea.me focuses primarily on artistic, musical, and ... |
Gulf Times | Venezuela revamps currency controls Gulf Times Currency exchange from tourism in-flows, oil investments, and the central bank's gold purchases will be done via the Sicad auction system, said Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez, giving those sectors a rate more favourable than the official one. “We are ... Venezuela's stealth devaluation UPDATE 1-Venezuela revamping currency controls to stop capital flight Sicad to become a permanent mechanism for US dollar sales |
Cuba is Fast Becoming a More Accessible Destination for US Travelers Nearshore Americas This is gradually beginning to change, as more and more Americas are finding it is now possible to visit Cuba. Megastars Beyonce and Jay-Z became the most high-profile US visitors in years as they celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba in ... |
Daily Life In Cuba: A Look At America's Closest Rival (PHOTOS) Huffington Post Alexis Magdaleno cools off his horse after working on a highway near Trinidad in Sancti Spiritus province, Cuba, Saturday, Sept.23, 2006. (Javier Galeano/AP). daily life. A lightning illuminates the sky over the Malecon during a lightning storm in ... |
In Latin America, Chile is 'Making it Better' for LGBTQ Youth Huffington Post (blog) Within Latin America in particular, a recent study conducted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) found that as many as 68 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual students have been targets of homophobic bullying. |
Venezuela: A Lopsided Campaign Means Lopsided Results PanAm Post In the eastern-side, the regime lost in Maturín — the capital of Monagas and symbol of Chavismo — as well as Porlamar, the commercial capital of Nueva Esparta state and center for national and international tourism. Overall, the United Socialist ... |
Alan Gilbert to Lead New York Philharmonic ASIA / WINTER 2014 Tour, 2/6-19 Broadway World The New York Philharmonic has created the Very Young Composers of Kumdarak in collaboration with the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service (KACES), a government agency affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. The Very Young ... |
Cuba is Fast Becoming a More Accessible Destination for US Travelers Nearshore Americas This is gradually beginning to change, as more and more Americas are finding it is now possible to visit Cuba. Megastars Beyonce and Jay-Z became the most high-profile US visitors in years as they celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba in ... |
Reuters Blogs | Shaking Hands With Raul Castro atlantadailyworld I have had difficulty believing the uproar in right-wing circles over President Obama shaking hands with Cuba's President Raul Castro. For goodness sakes, it was at the memorial for Nelson Mandela! Should Obama have spat in the face of Castro? Behind the Obama-Raúl Castro handshake at Mandela memorial Embargo punishes Cubans, not Castro Raul Reyes: Too much made of Obama-Castro handshake |
Latin America In 2013: A Year In Review Huffington Post As we near the end of the year it is customary to assess the impact of events on the future of the Americas. Last month, in a policy speech delivered at the Organization of American States, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared that “The era of ... Latin America: Companies of the Year |
Latin America Satellite Today Advantech Wireless has successfully completed the deployment of a turnkey solution that includes its SapphireBluTM Series of UltraLinearTM GaN technology based solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) for a major military customer in Latin America. |
Mexico's Peso Retreats Before Federal Reserve Policy Decision Bloomberg The peso depreciated 0.4 percent to 12.9769 per U.S. dollar at 12:57 p.m. in Mexico City, the most among 16 major counterparts tracked by Bloomberg after the Australian currency and South Africa's rand. The peso extended its decline this year to 0.9 ... |
Self-Service Cafeterias in Venezuela - New Market Research Report ClickPress (press release) It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they eating habits, lifestyle changes, tourism spending or legislative issues. Forecasts to 2017 illustrate how the market ... |
The Guardian | South America needs co-ordinated response to combat scourge of cocaine The Guardian Fingers were pointed at Venezuela, but in fact the goods came from Colombia. "The narco-traffickers will stop at nothing," says Bogotá's police commissioner. "Organised crime, and its corrupting influence, is at work in every single country in Latin ... |
The Nation | US sends 2 Guantánamo prisoners home to Saudi Arabia MiamiHerald.com GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The United States sent two long-cleared Guantánamo detainees to Saudi Arabia over the weekend, the latest move in renewed efforts to empty the prison that President Barack Obama ordered closed in 2009. US sends 2 Saudis home from Guantanamo US Transfers Two Guantanamo Detainees To Saudi Arabia Congress poised to take small step toward Guantanamo closing |
The Independent | Homeland accused of damaging relations between 'hostile' US and depicted ... The Independent Lebanon's minister of tourism told the Associated Press that Homeland had misrepresented the city as a “hotbed of violence”. Meanwhile, Venezuela has complained about the portrayal of Caracas in a recent ... In a statement issued to Foreign Policy ... |
El Universal | Venezuela: a stealth devaluation in the making? Financial Times (registration) (blog) On Monday, Rafael Ramírez, Venezuela's oil minister and vice-president for the economy, said that currency exchanges related to tourism, oil investments and the central bank's gold purchases would take place at a rate weaker than the official fixed ... UPDATE 1-Venezuela revamping currency controls to stop capital flight Measures to be Applied on Currencies Entering Venezuela UPDATE 2-Venezuela revamps currency controls to combat black market |
Box: Sullivan 49, Cuba 35 STLtoday.com Cuba, 11, 9, 4, 11, 35. Sullivan, 13, 7, 12, 17, 49. Overall, League, Pts For/Avg, Pts Against/Avg. Cuba, 0-3, 0-0, 101/34, 161/54. Sullivan, 2-0, 0-0, 91/30, 56/19. Cuba, Pts, FG, 3FG, FT, FL. Hannah Mitchell (#24), 16, 7, 0, 2-6, 3. Shelby Whitaker ... |
