Record-breaking tourism year in 2013 - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Record-breaking tourism year in 2013 Sarasota Herald-Tribune Instead of traveling to Mexico or South America, they're coming here." Most of Teitelbaum's business comes from repeat visitors or personal recommendations. "I don't see it slowing down. I see 2014 being stronger than ever," Teitelbaum said. While ...

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Falleció Monseñor Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (+ Video)

En la mañana de este viernes falleció en esta capital, Monseñor Carlos Manuel de Céspedes García-Menocal, vicario episcopal del Arzobispado de La Habana, quien dedicó su vida a la Iglesia Católica y a su país. Se desempeñó como rector del Seminario "San Carlos y San Ambrosio”, director del Secretariado General de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de Cuba, canciller del Arzobispado, miembro de varios departamentos del Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano y consultor del Pontificio Consejo para la Cultura de la Santa Sede.



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VIDEO: Cuba relaxes law on buying cars

Cubans are now able to buy modern cars freely for the first time since the revolution in 1959.



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Latin America, Africa, Middle East show IPTV potential; Carriers tune into ... - FierceTelecom

Latin America, Africa, Middle East show IPTV potential; Carriers tune into ... FierceTelecom Latin America, Africa, Mid-East show IPTV potential: If you want to know where there are new IPTV growth opportunities, look no further than Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. While these markets today are relatively small, a Pyramid Research ...

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Official: Baja road may reopen by summer - U-T San Diego

Official: Baja road may reopen by summer U-T San Diego By summer, Mexican officials hope to reopen a troubled but popular Baja California toll road that funnels tourists to the region's burgeoning Wine Country, an official with the state government said this week. A portion of the Tijuana-to-Ensenada ...

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The Two Latin Americas - Wall Street Journal

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The Two Latin Americas Wall Street Journal "That is not the Latin America that I see in the future. I see the future in countries like Chile—which has been a good example of how to do things for a while—Colombia, Peru and Mexico." In 2014, the Pacific Alliance trade bloc (consisting of Mexico ... Our economy would benefit from sending students to study abroad

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Women Take a Stand Against Monsanto Across Latin America - Reuters AlertNet

Women Take a Stand Against Monsanto Across Latin America Reuters AlertNet Argentina's remarkable economic recovery over the last ten years is largely because of the "soy boom", which has given Argentina the fastest growth rate in South America, but is also allegedly having devastating health consequences for the local ...

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Comenzó la venta liberada de autos en el país

Este viernes entró en vigor la ley que permite a los cubanos y residentes extranjeros en la isla la compra de autos nuevos y de uso. La medida aprobada por el Consejo de Ministros el pasado 19 de diciembre inyectó una dosis de curiosidad a los capitalinos que desde horas tempranas acudieron a las diversas comercializadoras estatales de autos.



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Otorgan Premio Nacional de Música a Pupy Pedroso y Adriano Rodríguez

Los músicos cubanos César "Puppy" Pedroso y Adriano Rodríguez merecieron el Premio Nacional de Música 2013, que se entrega en esta ocasión de manera excepcional a dos figuras de ese ámbito, se conoció hoy aquí. El presidente del jurado, Juan Formell, fundador de la orquesta los Van Van, destacó la trayectoria de ambos y de manera especial todos los años dedicados a la música por el nonagenario Rodríguez.



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CUBA LOOSENS CAR-BUYING RESTRICTIONS - Pistonheads.com

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CUBA LOOSENS CAR-BUYING RESTRICTIONS Pistonheads.com Think of Cuba and a few things spring immediately to mind; Castro, cigars and a feast of old American cars. But the latter could be about to change owing to a new piece of legislation. Since the island's Communist takeover in 1959 until 2011, residents ...

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Imported vehicles go on sale in Cuba ending decades-old ban - Deutsche Welle

Imported vehicles go on sale in Cuba ending decades-old ban Deutsche Welle Imported vehicles go on sale in Cuba ending decades-old ban. Cars imported from abroad have gone on sale in Cuba for the first time in 50 years. The decades-old ban was lifted last month as part of President Raul Castro's plans to liberalize the ...

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Nine people dead in a Mexican jail

The Mexican army takes control of a prison in the south-west after a gunfight between an armed gang and guards left nine people dead.



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Hoy, primera lluvia de estrellas del año

Este viernes 3 de enero llegan a su máxima intensidad las Cuadrántidas, la primera lluvia de estrellas del año, que se puede disfrutar incluso en directo gracias a la transmisión de la Nasa. Estos meteoros se originan a partir de un asteroide conocido como 2003 EH1. Normalmente las lluvias de estrellas tienen el nombre de la constelación desde la cual parecen salir los meteoros.



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Cuba: 55 años de Revolución, y va por muchos más

Cuba festejó este 1 de enero el 55 cumpleaños de su Revolución y se apresta confiada a continuar el proceso emancipador e independentista que con el liderazgo de Fidel Castro inicio en medio de la “Guerra Fría”, que y ha recorrido hasta hoy pese a la constante hostilidad de Estados Unidos y el cruel bloqueo que le impone Washington desde hace más de cinco décadas. El pueblo de la isla caribeña ...



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Empeora la salud del ex primer ministro israelí Sharon

El estado del exprimer ministro israelí Ariel Sharon, que lleva ocho años en coma, se está "deteriorando gradualmente", dijo este viernes el director del hospital donde está internado en Tel Aviv. "Los exámenes demuestran un deterioro lento y gradual del funcionamiento de sus órganos (...). Asistimos a una disfunción generalizada de los principales órganos", dijo zeev rotstein en una conferencia de prensa ante el hospital de tel hashomer.



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Propone BNC atractivas propuestas por inicio del año

Una exposición de carteles antológicos sobre Alicia Alonso en Giselle, se está presentando en la Galería “El reino de este mundo”, de la Biblioteca Nacional “José Martí”. La muestra, titulada “Giselle-Alonso. Memorias en el cartel”, procede de la Colección del Museo Nacional de la Danza, y está integrada por carteles realizados en diferentes países, que fueron utilizados con fines publicitarios, o como medio de expresión artística.



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Crece a niveles récords la deuda de los estudiantes graduados de bachillerato en Estados Unidos

The Institute for College Access & Success, una organización norteamericana independiente con sede en Oakland, California, acaba de publicar su reporte anual sobre la deuda promedio que tienen los estudiantes norteamericanos. El estudio recoge el average de lo adeudado por los estudiantes de Estados Unidos que culminaron sus estudios universitarios en el 2012. La cifra promedio asciende a 29 400 dólares, un récord histórico de deuda estudiantil en ese país.



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Inicia 2014 Leinier Domínguez sin cambios en el ranking

El Gran Maestro cubano Leinier Domínguez inauguró el 2014 como decimocuarto jugador del planeta, con 2 754 puntos Elo, según la lista de la FIDE que encabeza por amplio margen el campeón mundial, el genio noruego Magnus Carlsen, con 2 872. Domínguez no vio variar su coeficiente en el último mes y se mantuvo como mejor de Latinoamérica y segundo del continente.



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This Week in Energy: Venezuela Oil Production and Economic Turmoil - OilPrice.com

This Week in Energy: Venezuela Oil Production and Economic Turmoil OilPrice.com The government has already implemented an alternative exchange system to allow investment and tourism dollars to enter the country at an undisclosed rate lower than the official exchange rate. This measure, coupled with an official devaluation in the ...

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Why Hospitals Are Still Gouging the Uninsured

Two recent posts have discussed out of control prices for hospitals’ services, especially in ERs. The first argued that sky-high hospital prices are the result of government interference. The second cheered the fact that consumer-driven health plans are inducing hospitals (ever so gradually) to be more upfront with patients (at least, those coming in for […]



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Colorado Ski Resorts Aren't Sure How To Handle Influx Of Stoner Skiers - Huffington Post

Colorado Ski Resorts Aren't Sure How To Handle Influx Of Stoner Skiers Huffington Post DENVER, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Colorado ski resorts and the state Tourism Office have chosen not to embrace out-of-state visitors who have come to buy legalized cannabis, creating an opportunity for a handful of small firms that are catering to marijuana ...

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How Colleges Are Just Like Hospitals

A higher education riddle: When can a college slash tuition by almost half, without losing revenues? Answer: When nobody much pays full tuition anyway. When Converse College, a tiny women’s college here, announced that it was “resetting” next year’s tuition at $16,500, down 43 percent from the current year’s published price of $29,000, the talk […]



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More of Moore

ObamaCare is awful. That is the dirty little secret many liberals have avoided saying out loud for fear of aiding the president’s enemies, at a time when the ideal of universal health care needed all the support it could get…What we now call ObamaCare was conceived at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and […]



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Año nuevo y buenos propósitos

El cambio de año suele implicar, para muchos de nosotros, una época de buenos propósitos. Hacemos un balance del año que terminó y prometemos, ante el que se inicia, al menos no repetir los errores cometidos. Para otros evitar la obesidad y el peligro de la diabetes, hacer ejercicios físicos y reducir la comida que engorda. El hecho es que cada uno de nosotros sabe exactamente dónde le aprieta el zapato. Lo que queda luego es tener fuerza de voluntad para ir por la vida pisando más suavemente y asz evitar tropiezos.



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EEUU no colabora con la investigación, denuncia juez del caso Couso

El juez español Santiago Pedraz ha denunciado la falta de colaboración de las autoridades de EEUU en la investigación sobre responsabilidad de militares norteamericanos en el asesinato del cámara de televisión José Couso, que tuvo lugar en Bagdad el 8 de abril de 2003. Pedraz sostiene que los disparos contra el Hotel Palestina formaban parte de un “plan” diseñado para evitar que los medios pudieran la invasión de las tropas norteamericanas.



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Estudio revela zonas del cuerpo donde se reflejan las emociones

Un equipo de investigadores de la universidad finlandesa de Turku publicó los resultados del estudio donde muestran las emociones más representativas de la naturaleza humana a través de una cámara térmica, otorgando una perspectiva distinta. El amor se evidencia a través de una ola de calor en todo el cuerpo, al igual que la felicidad, mientras que la rabia y el miedo hacen que la energía corporal se concentre en las manos y el pecho, pues de manera inconsciente el hombre se prepara para pelear.



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El cumpleaños más difícil para Schumacher

Para Michael Schumacher era una tradición, desde hace muchos años, festejar la Navidad, el Año Nuevo y su cumpleaños en la nieve. En la víspera de su 45 aniversario, que se celebra este 3 de enero, el piloto más laureado de la historia de la Fórmula Uno centra la atención mediática por el gravísimo accidente de esquí ocurrido hace cinco días en los Alpes franceses. Este año, el heptacampeón no podrá celebrarlo como le gustaría, pero sin duda será un día muy especial para su familia, que no ha dejado de estar a su lado.



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El dólar podría ser destronado por la divisa de los BRICS (+ Video)

La posible creación de una moneda propia de los BRICS podría cambiar el orden financiero actual, según algunos analistas. Otros creen que al bloque aún le queda un largo camino por recorrer. Según los especialistas este grupo de países representan el 45% de la fuerza laboral del planeta. En sus manos está más de un quinto del producto interno bruto de todo el mundo.



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Cubans now allowed to buy new cars

Cuba lifts restrictions on people buying foreign-made new and used cars for the first time since the revolution in 1959.



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Mental-Health Boondoggle

The feds spend a stunning $125 billion a year on “mental health” via programs ranging from Medicaid to the Social Security Administration. Yet the Murphy committee discovered that most of this cash goes to vague and ineffective services rarely focused on treating the most serious illnesses — schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression. The Murphy […]



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Colorado Ski Resorts Aren't Sure How To Handle Influx Of Stoner Skiers - Huffington Post

Colorado Ski Resorts Aren't Sure How To Handle Influx Of Stoner Skiers Huffington Post DENVER, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Colorado ski resorts and the state Tourism Office have chosen not to embrace out-of-state visitors who have come to buy legalized cannabis, creating an opportunity for a handful of small firms that are catering to marijuana ...

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Medicaid Expansion Means More ER Visits

A number of years ago, Governor Romney told me that under Massachusetts health reform people would go to physicians’ offices for care instead of going to the emergency room. He wasn’t saying that Massachusetts would deliver more care. He was saying that the care would be more appropriate and less expensive. As it turns out […]



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Latin America's largest economy enters an unpredictable election year - The Economist

Latin America's largest economy enters an unpredictable election year The Economist “IT'S not about the 50 cents” reads a scrawl on a shop shutter on Avenida Faria Lima, one of São Paulo's main thoroughfares. Next door, the message is blunter: “Screw the police”. Six months after a small demonstration against a 50-cent rise in bus ...

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Spain steps into Panama Canal row

The Spanish government says it is in talks with Panama and Sacyr, the builder at the heart of a row over a contract to expand the global shipping hub.



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Alternative to ObamaCare

The ideal: Health insurance should be individual, portable across jobs, states and providers; lifelong and guaranteed-renewable, meaning you have the right to continue with no unexpected increase in premiums if you get sick. Insurance should protect wealth against large, unforeseen, necessary expenses, rather than be a wildly inefficient payment plan for routine expenses. Getting there: […]



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New ObamaCare Taxes

The new taxes on one customer’s bill added up to $23.14 a month, or $277.68 annually, according to Kaiser Health News. It boosted the monthly premium from $322.26 to $345.40 for that individual. The new taxes and fees include a 2 percent levy on every health plan, which is expected to net about $8 billion for […]



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CUBA: 55 years of communist terror, erased from history - RenewAmerica

CUBA: 55 years of communist terror, erased from history RenewAmerica January 1 is a very dark day for those of us who are living in exile, having left Cuba, the Communist island prison. It is also a dark day in modern history, as the international community continues to ignore 55 years of murder and oppression committed ...

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Top 10 events that shook Russian economy in 2013 - RT

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Top 10 events that shook Russian economy in 2013 RT Since the deal acquisition, the oil-magnate has been picking up many independent Russian producers as well as ramping up crude and LNG ventures in Vietnam, China, Venezuela. Russian oil output, the largest in the world, reached 10.61 barrels per day in ...

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Brazil's (non-working?) year ahead

Tongue-in-cheek 2014 calendar hits home



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The specter of Pancho Villa drove UTEP professor to investigate sex ... - Borderzine

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The specter of Pancho Villa drove UTEP professor to investigate sex ... Borderzine EL PASO — To most people Pancho Villa is a legendary character from Mexican history, but to Ruth McDonald, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, Villa is a real man who hurt her family when he kidnapped her great aunt in the early 1900s ...

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