Greek Reporter | New sister city has ties to health, sports Colorado Springs Independent (blog) Based on the history and Olympic connections between Ancient Olympia and Colorado Springs, the main pillars of cooperation between the two cities will be 1) Academics, 2) Olympism and 3) Tourism. Academic – Potential activities include academic ... Colorado Springs should be a sister city of Ancient Olympia by Tuesday |
NEWS JUNKIE POST | Human Rights Organizations: Widespread Abuse and Police Brutality in Haiti's ... NEWS JUNKIE POST Supposedly leftist governments like those of Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay and Venezuela also eagerly support the regime under the pretext that they would not wish to abandon Haiti to the US. ... discussion, the most relevant decrees issued by Haiti's ... |
Business Recorder | Latin America stuck in slow gear: IMF Business Recorder Colombia and Peru are able to sustain a peppy rate of growth, but Argentina and Venezuela will slow markedly this year, the IMF said, and face highly uncertain conditions. In both, "persistently loose macroeconomic policies have generated high ... |
Maryland Man Imprisoned In Cuba Since 2009 Begins Hunger Strike CBS Local Once again, I am calling on President Obama to get personally involved in ending this standoff so that I can return home to my wife and daughters,” Gross' statement read. The Cuban government did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
BBC News | US contractor Alan Gross on hunger strike in Cuban jail BBC News Running this program is contrary to everything we have been told by high-level representatives of the Obama Administration about USAID's activities in Cuba," Mr Gilbert added. On the fourth anniversary of his arrest in December, Mr Gross wrote to ... |
Financial Post | Customer growth, Latin American expansion key priorities for Scotiabank: CEO Waterloo Record KELOWNA, B.C. — Scotiabank's key focus this year will be growing its customer base and increasing its presence in Latin America, the bank's chief executive said Tuesday. "To become better, we don't need to make radical changes. We've got the big ... Scotiabank focused on Latin America growth rather than Asia -CEO Scotiabank Growth Strategy to Focus on Canada, Latin America |
Castro farewell Nogales International Curt Prendergast | Posted: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 8:29 am. Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro bids a fond farewell to Nogales in a ceremony at Nogales City Hall on April 2. After 20 years as Nogales residents, Castro and his wife, Pat, are headed to San ... |
Former USAid worker Alan Gross goes on hunger strike in Cuban prison The Guardian Gross was arrested in Cuba in 2009 while working quietly in the Communist-run country to set up internet access for the island's small Jewish community. At the time, Gross was working as a subcontractor for the US government's US Agency for ... |
UPI.com | Four years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, wildlife still struggling UPI.com WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- Roughly four years after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, spilling 200 million gallons of oil -- the biggest oil spill in U.S. history -- wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico continue to struggle. According to a new ... |
The Oaks Course steeped in golf history Covington News They have a chance to see our history here and it's a great boom for tourism in the area.” Vaught said The Oaks Course offers players a friendly round of ... “England, Mexico – you name it, they come. Golf is a great business tool. A lot of deals get ... |
Chicago Brought Its Crime Stats Down the Old-Fashioned Way: Fraud PJ Media Here at PJ Media, we know a thing or two about faked crime statistics. Until we reported on the antics of the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department on the Texas-Mexico border, the local and state media — never mind federal investigators — wouldn't ... |
Indian tourists to US to cross 1 million next year Business Standard The number of Indian tourists visiting the US is likely to cross 1 million in 2015, and visitors from India would register the third fastest growth of 54 per cent after China and Columbia from 2013 to 2018, a US government report has said. From the 859 ... |
Havana Times | Cuba and the End of Things Havana Times As you can tell from the large numbers of foreign tourists in Cuba, and the availability of imported goods including products and food from the USA, there cannot exist anything reasonably called a “blockade” of Cuba. What exists is a partial embargo ... More U.S. travelers head to Cuba France Wants Constructive Relations with Cuba, says Foreign Ministry |
US Contractor Imprisoned in Cuba Goes on Hunger Strike NBCNews.com HAVANA — The U.S. contractor sentenced to a 15-year prison term in Cuba for attempting to establish an illegal Internet service has gone on a hunger strike to protest his treatment by the Cuban and U.S. governments, his lawyer said on Tuesday. The ... |
Drugs, Security, and Latin America: The New Normal? US Department of State (press release) I have spent virtually my entire professional career doing Latin America, so logically I might have at least some observations of value that are related to Latin America. Drugs are part of what I now deal with for a living. I am the Assistant Secretary ... |
Castro farewell 2 Nogales International Castro farewell 2. Posted: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 8:30 am. Vice Mayor Nubar Hanessian, left, and Nogales Mayor Arturo Garino, present a plaque to former Gov. Raul Castro during a farewell ceremony at Nogales City Hall on April 2. |
Raul Castro Meets with Top Russian Official Escambray President Raul Castro met with the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander I. Bastrykin, who is visiting the island. During the cordial meeting, both officials discussed various aspects of the traditional friendly ... |
Business Insider | More And More Americans Are Traveling To Cuba This Year Business Insider In 2009, Obama lifted a limit put in place by former President George W. Bush allowing Cuban-Americans to travel to island country no more than once every three years to visit relatives. And in 2011, he reinstated the so-called "people-to-people" trips ... Cuba rising rapidly as US travel destination |
Canada.com | Number of U.S. travellers to Cuba continues to rise, second only to Canada Canada.com In 2009, Obama lifted a limit put in place by former President George W. Bush allowing Cuban-Americans to travel to island country no more than once every three years to visit relatives. And in 2011, he reinstated the so-called “people-to-people” trips ... |
Business Insider | Study: Number of US travellers to Cuba continues to rise, second only to Canada Times Colonist The number of U.S. visitors to Cuba continues to rise, even as the more than five-decade long embargo remains firmly in place, according to study released Monday, April 7, 2014 by the U.S.-based Havana Consulting Group. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File). More And More Americans Are Traveling To Cuba This Year Number Of US Visitors To Cuba Continues Rise Study: US travelers to Cuba continues to rise |
Business Insider | More And More Americans Are Traveling To Cuba This Year Business Insider "The data confirms, although the Cuban government does not recognize it publicly, that the United States, even with the effect of the embargo, is the second greatest source of tourists to Cuba after Canada," Emilio Morales, the consulting group's ... Study: Number of US travellers to Cuba continues to rise, second only to Canada Number Of US Visitors To Cuba Continues Rise Number of U.S. travellers to Cuba continues to rise, second only to Canada |
