Assurant Expands in Latin America Zacks.com In order to consolidate its foothold in Latin America, Assurant Inc. (AIZ - Analyst Report) agreed to make $115 million worth of equity investment in Latin American services assistance provider Iké Asistencia (Iké). Iké has major operations in Mexico ... |
Student Graduation in Latin America: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Huffington Post It is likely not a surprise to most experts that education quality in rural Latin America lags far behind the region's urban areas. Even though robust growth over the past decade has been fundamentally based on the commodities sector -- oil, gas ... |
 Miami New Times (blog) | Vice Travels to Cuba to Explore Fidel Castro's Sex Life, Comes Up Flaccid Miami New Times (blog) If you're going to travel to a totalitarian country for a month to uncover the story of one of the most controversial living international leader's sex lives, you might want to bring along more than a detached hipster's sentiment about sex and politics ... Menorah's Cuba Mission Returns |
 eTurboNews | London, Paris and Toronto are Americans' favorite international destinations eTurboNews The Mexico Tourism Board has been diligently focused on increasing tourism with its 'Live it to Believe it' consumer marketing campaign and Mexico City is making efforts to appeal to more vacationers with its extensive culinary and cultural scene. |
Why Latin America Will Be A Tough Solar Market To 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 ... |
 Daily Mail | South America holidays: Uruguay is a splendid hidden gem Daily Mail The sole clue that I am in Montevideo is a faded poster on a nearby wall that shows the Uruguay football team lining up ahead of a game. Otherwise, this might be Buenos Aires, Rio, or another of the iconic cities of South America – busy, hungry, rather ... |
 San Francisco Chronicle | 'The Last Match' review: An unseen side of Cuba San Francisco Chronicle At least half of the appeal of "The Last Match" has less to do with the specifics of the story than it does with the insight it casually offers about life in Cuba. The tale of two young men who develop a physical attraction for each other, the movie is ... |
Central America upgrades cruise ship, airport facilities in race to attract ... Tico Times While Costa Rica remains Central America's top tourist destination, the region's six other countries are vying to lure tourists and increase revenues by aggressively investing in airports, cruise-ship facilities, hotels and other tourism infrastructure ... |
Husband, wife to ski for Dominica as nation's first winter Olympians CBS sports.com (blog) The two will represent the small, Caribbean Island of Dominica, which sits about halfway between Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Just how, then, did the couple wind ... It's untouched by tourism, relatively speaking.” Dominica, as a thank you for ... |
Latin America News Roundup: 23rd January 2014 The Argentina Independent The variable 'Sicad rate' of Bs. 11.30 will be sold to the tourism industry, for overseas and online purchases, and family remittances. Economy Minister Rodolfo Marco Torres said that “over 80% of the goods and services the country requires will ... |
Hacking For Cuba Forbes That's what it's like in Cuba and that's one of the reasons young tech experts, entrepreneurs and programmers will be coming together next week in Miami for a Hackathon for Cuba, organized by the non-profit youth empowerment organization, Roots of Hope. US Bloggers, Techies Target Woeful Cuban Digital Infrastructure In Upcoming ... Hackathon for Cuba kicks off in Miami Jan. 31 |
 Daily Mail | Judge: Man accused of kidnapping sons, sailing to Cuba is insane CNN (CNN) -- An American man accused of kidnapping his two young sons and sailing to Cuba was declared insane by a Florida judge. Josh Hakken is insane and will likely be sent to a hospital for treatment before he can stand trial for the alleged kidnapping ... Father 'who kidnapped sons and fled with them to Cuba on a sailboat' declared ... Dad who abducted kids, fled to Cuba found insane Judge: Florida engineer accused of kidnapping his children, sailing to Cuba is ... |
IT IS five o’clock in the morning, but shoppers in La Salada market in Buenos Aires are already going home. They drag rubbish sacks full of T-shirts, trainers and pirated DVDs across the car park to board waiting coaches. Some have come to stock their shops, others to fill their wardrobes. They started shopping when the market opened at 3am, and have travelled from as far as Neuquén, a Patagonian city 15 hours away.La Salada is thought to be South America’s largest informal market. Around 30,000 wire-mesh stalls spill out of three warehouses in an unsavoury neighbourhood on the outskirts of the capital. Its administrators reckon that on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, when the market is open, more than 250,000 shoppers browse its stalls. Tens of thousands of people help keep La Salada running—selling, protecting, cleaning and supplying the market. At the Punta Mogote warehouse, where most stalls are underground, so many people faint that an ambulance is kept on site.Hard numbers are impossible to come by but administrators estimate that vendors sell 150m-300m pesos ($22m-$44m) of goods every day La Salada is open. According to Jorge Castillo, who manages Punta Mogote, vendors pay up to $100,000 in cash for a stall measuring four square metres—more than they would for space in a former Hermès store on Avenida Alvear, the main shopping street in Buenos Aires.La Salada has...
NICOLÁS MADURO, a former bus driver and trade-union activist, is fond of styling himself “Venezuela’s first worker-president”. Like his mentor and predecessor, Hugo Chávez, Mr Maduro believes the primary role of the labour movement is to help the regime crush capitalism and install “21st-century socialism”.Employers predictably bemoan the rigidity of the labour market, saying that it cripples business and leaves Venezuela trailing in terms of productivity. But as the country prepares for a visit by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the bosses are not the only ones complaining. Many workers are not happy either.A plethora of ostensibly pro-worker decrees have been passed in recent years, culminating in a 2012 labour law known as the LOTTT. The law includes a virtual ban on dismissals, a shorter working week and improved holiday and maternity benefits. In December Mr Maduro renewed a decree, in force for the past decade, which makes it almost impossible for private firms to fire workers. Under the LOTTT, job security is virtually guaranteed after the first month. The result, employers say, has been absenteeism rates ranging from 15% to 40% of the workforce, depending on the industry and the time of year. Under these circumstances most firms are unsurprisingly reluctant to recruit.Luis Alfredo Araque, who chairs the labour commission of the main employers’...
