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Slow search of N. Korean mystery ship
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Six Colombians indicted in U.S. agent's murder
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Ex-CIA chief wanted by Italy arrested in Panama
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TNW Latin America Startup Awards: In search of LATAM's hottest startups - The Next Web
TNW Latin America Startup Awards: In search of LATAM's hottest startups The Next Web Last year we organized our very first TNW conference outside of Europe and chose the continent of Latin America as the place to make it happen. To celebrate this flourishing tech scene, it's entrepreneurs and startups we decided to organize the TNW ... |
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Snowden Aftermath: Why Is Obama Fixated on the "Switzerland of Latin America"? - Huffington Post
CBC.ca | Snowden Aftermath: Why Is Obama Fixated on the "Switzerland of Latin America"? Huffington Post For many in the United States, Costa Rica is a land of exotic beauty and natural rainforests. The small Central American nation has long promoted its eco-tourism industry and foreigners flock here in search of native wildlife such as sloths and jaguar. Informal gold miners a "serious threat" to Costa Rica national park - press |
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And eventually, perhaps, in one currency, as the tempo of reform accelerates - The Economist
And eventually, perhaps, in one currency, as the tempo of reform accelerates The Economist Income inequality is rising sharply as more Cubans obtain CUCs, either as remittances from relatives abroad or because they work in tourism or the growing private sector. And since scarce foreign ... Pavel Vidal, a former official at Cuba's Central ... |
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Snowden Aftermath: Why Is Obama Fixated on the "Switzerland of Latin America"? - Huffington Post
Snowden Aftermath: Why Is Obama Fixated on the "Switzerland of Latin America"? Huffington Post The small Central American nation has long promoted its eco-tourism industry and foreigners flock here in search of native wildlife such as sloths and jaguar. Unlike other countries in the region, Costa Rica has seen little civil strife over the years ... |
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The Jay Z and Beyonce Bill Restricts Travel to Cuba - The Source
The Jay Z and Beyonce Bill Restricts Travel to Cuba The Source Jose Serrano, a member of the House Appropriations Committee who is in opposition. Serrano, a Democrat from New York wants to see an increase of Americana tourism in Cuba, without a doubt believes it is a “response to the trip by Beyonce and Jay Z.”. |
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Mask ban at Pope Francis's Rio Mass
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Religion in Brazil: Earthly concerns
ABOUT 40% of the world’s Roman Catholics live in Latin America and 123m of them in Brazil, more than in any other country. So it is doubly fitting that Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, should make his debut as a foreign traveller by spending a week in Brazil from July 22nd. The trip, to mark the church’s World Youth Day, was scheduled before the elevation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, to the papacy. But it is likely to set the tone of his tenure in the Vatican.Unlike Pope Benedict, who spent most of his last visit to Brazil with bishops, Francis is due to meet young people, visit a hospital, attend two events on Copacabana beach and visit a favela in Rio de Janeiro that was until recently controlled by a drug gang. The new pope’s identification with ordinary people and shunning of Vatican luxury is likely to go down well in Brazil, which has recently seen big marches against political corruption and for better public services.
But in Brazil, as elsewhere, the church is in trouble. It is losing the faithful at an accelerating rate to myriad evangelical Protestant churches and to atheism (see chart). Its image has been...
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North Korean Ship Puts US-Cuban Relations On Ice, Experts Say - Fox News Latino
North Korean Ship Puts US-Cuban Relations On Ice, Experts Say Fox News Latino North Korea and Cuba have had steady diplomatic ties for decades, but these relations picked up steam in 2001 when a Cuban delegation visited the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Cuba is also one of the few countries globally to maintain close ties to ... |
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Ex-CIA fugitive detained in Panama
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Two Fascists Cuba-Haters Are Having a Nervous Breakdown in the U.S. Senate
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Crime in Mexico: Zeta zeroed
FOR a government that has promised to reduce violent crime, there can have been little better news than the arrest of Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales on July 15th. The head of the Zetas, a drug, kidnapping and extortion gang so notorious many Mexicans only whisper its name in public, Mr Treviño is allegedly responsible for orchestrating some of the country’s most sickening acts of violence in recent years. They include many beheadings, and the massacre of 265 migrants in 2010-11.Yet the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico’s president since last December, is keen to play down drug-related violence. It reacted to its first toppling of a suspected kingpin in a markedly different way from its predecessor. Mr Treviño was not paraded in front of the press. There was little drama: he was detained with two alleged accomplices by a navy helicopter at 3.45am just south of the United States border and not a shot was fired.The juiciest detail was that he had $2m in cash on him—enough, possibly, to counter the $2m bounty on his head in Mexico. (In the United States, it is $5m). Curiously, a video showed him...
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Cuba’s economy: Money starts to talk
AT 9.01am one morning earlier this month, Marino Murillo, a member of Cuba’s ruling Politburo, strode on to the stage at the International Press Centre in Havana, gave a concise account of the government’s economic plans, and took questions for 45 minutes. What would have been routine elsewhere was remarkable in communist Cuba, for three reasons. Gone is the interminable waiting around for the late-night rants of Fidel Castro: punctuality is one of the hallmarks of the government led since 2006 by his younger brother, Raúl. And after internecine political battles over liberalising economic reforms, the government is confident enough of its message to have invited a small group of foreign journalists to hear it—the first such initiative in many years.Third was the message itself. Mr Murillo, a burly former army colonel who is in charge of implementing economic reforms (officially dubbed “updating”), stressed that the core of the system remained “social property”. But he also talked of “wealth creation” and the need for “price signals” and “market factors”. “Life has shown that the state can’t do everything,” he said. “Success will lie in how to maintain macro...
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81 kidnapped migrants rescued in Mexico
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Senators call on Obama to act over Cuban arms shipment to North Korea - NBCNews.com (blog)
U.S. hosts Cuba migration talks
U.S. hosts Cuba migration talks
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US hosts Cuba migration talks - CNN International
Another ship from N. Korea made trip to Cuba last year - Boston Globe
Report: Cuban national pitcher defects in Iowa - USA TODAY
Cuba admits 'obsolete' weapons were on board North Korean ship seized in ... - The Independent
Send Yoenis Cespedes Back to Cuba - Businessweek
Send Yoenis Cespedes Back to Cuba Businessweek In a report Thursday on NPR about how Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) father shaped his vision on immigration, his father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, an immigrant from Cuba, said that while he “came to this country legally,” he basically bribed an official to get ... |
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Cuba admits 'obsolete' weapons were on board North Korean ship seized in ... - The Independent
Cuba admits 'obsolete' weapons were on board North Korean ship seized in ... The Independent Cuba said the weapons were being sent back to North Korea for repair and included two anti-aircraft missile batteries, nine disassembled rockets, two MiG-21 fighter jets, and 15 MiG-21 engines, all Soviet-era military weaponry built in the middle of ... |
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Panama charges North Korea ship crew
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