Report of rare protest in eastern Cuba USA TODAY HAVANA (AP) — Independent vendors in eastern Cuba staged a highly unusual protest after state inspectors seized allegedly unauthorized goods from their stalls, prompting local authorities to promise to seek a solution to their grievances, witnesses ... |
Washington Post | Venezuela unveils measures to tighten currency controls Shanghai Daily (subscription) The new regulations imposed limits on the amount of U.S. dollars that Venezuelans can spend in foreign countries in order to deal with the phenomenon of so-called "currency tourism." In the South American country, there are strict limits on the ... Airlines keep cutting off Venezuelans from tickets |
Air Canada suspends ticket sales in Venezuela GlobalPost But on Wednesday the government announced it would bump it to 11.30 bolivars per dollar, which effectively devaluated the bolivar but only in the tourism sector. The airlines say this has cut their local revenues in half and claim Caracas now owes them ... |
Currency Massacre In Emerging Markets [Global X Funds, Global X Funds ... Seeking Alpha This includes making use of every loophole that presents itself, so that e.g. in Venezuela, so-called "dollar tourism" has developed, whereby citizens travel abroad for the express purpose of using their credit cards to withdraw the allowed limit in ... |
Report of rare protest in eastern Cuba Washington Post HAVANA — Independent vendors in eastern Cuba staged a highly unusual protest after state inspectors seized allegedly unauthorized goods from their stalls, prompting local authorities to promise to seek a solution to their grievances, witnesses and ... |
Minnesota, Mexico can enhance productive ties Minneapolis Star Tribune It was created with two distinct missions: to provide consular services to the Mexican population living in Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and North and South Dakota, and to promote and strengthen collaboration on trade, education, culture, tourism and ... |
Yahoo News | Air Canada suspends ticket sales in Venezuela Yahoo News But on Wednesday the government announced it would bump it to 11.30 bolivars per dollar, which effectively devaluated the bolivar but only in the tourism sector. The airlines say this has cut their local revenues in half and claim Caracas now owes them ... |
Report of Rare Protest in Eastern Cuba ABC News Witnesses say independent vendors in eastern Cuba staged a highly unusual protest after state inspectors allegedly seized unauthorized goods from their stalls, prompting the state-backed labor union to promise to seek a solution to their grievances. |
Political tolerance wanes in parts of Latin America Futurity: Research News Support for political tolerance—a key indicator of a vibrant democratic political culture—remains strong in many Latin American and Caribbean nations, but in others a move in the opposite direction “represents alarming news,” according to a new report. |
Cuba Officially Invited to Spanish Fair of Xantar Radio Cadena Agramonet Cuba was officially declared on Thursday as a Guest Country of the 15th International Gastronomy and Tourism Fair, Xantar 2014, to be held on February 5-9 in the Spanish city of Orense, Galicia. The Prensa Latina news agency informed from Madrid that ... |
The Guardian | John Prescott leaves the 21st century behind in Cuba The Guardian For the next few years, I travelled the world, but there was one place I'd always longed to visit: Cuba, the "pleasure island", so called because of the huge numbers of American tourists who took their holidays there. On 8 January 1959 – the day my ... Menorah's Cuba Mission Returns |
The Guardian | John Prescott leaves the 21st century behind in Cuba The Guardian For the next few years, I travelled the world, but there was one place I'd always longed to visit: Cuba, the "pleasure island", so called because of the huge numbers of American tourists who took their holidays there. On 8 January 1959 – the day my ... Menorah's Cuba Mission Returns Japanese Minister Describes as Successful Recent Visit to Cuba |
Lynching crime suspects is still common in Latin America GlobalPost One country that does have hard data on the practice is Guatemala — possibly because it's thought to be the only nation in Latin America that tops Bolivia's grim lynching numbers. According to the Central American country's human rights prosecutor's ... |
Why Latin America Will Be A Tougher Solar Market Crack Forbes That's because Latin America doesn't have the same levels of generous government incentives that subsidize project costs or guarantee high prices for solar electricity in countries such as Germany, United States, Japan and China, said Adam James, a ... |
