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GDP growth in Chile came out at 4.1 for 1Q13
GDP growth in Chile came out at 4.1% for 1Q13, below expectations, but domestic demand is still growing very strongly. Meanwhile, the trade balance in Colombia for 1Q13 deteriorated sharply YoY, to a great extent due to the temporary negative supply shock in the mining sector. Today will be a quiet day in Latam, with no major indicators expected to be ...
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Seven Muslims Charged for Killing Buddhist Monk in Burma
A court in Burma has convicted seven Muslims for the killing of a Buddhist monk during deadly sectarian riots in a central town earlier this ...
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Wave of Violence Continues in Iraq
New attacks in three Iraqi cities have killed at least seven people and wounded more than 60 others. Officials say a suicide bombing followed by clashes between militants and Iraqi troops left three soldiers dead Tuesday in Tarmiyah, north of the capital, Baghdad. Farther north, two car bombs exploded in Tuz Khormato, killing three people, while car bombs in Kirkuk killed at least one ...
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Chile worlds third largest mining investment destination report
Chile is the world's third largest mining investment destination, said a report.Chile trails only Canada and Australia in attracting mining investment, according to a report release by the state-owned Chilean Copper Commission on Monday.Mining Minister Hernan de Solminihac said he was aware of the challenges from developed mining countries in areas of skilled laborers and business ...
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PMs South America trip turns focus from turmoil to trade
Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Peru and then to Colombia for trade talks this week - after he speaks to his caucus about a growing Senate expense scandal that claimed his chief of staff over the weekend. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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Guatemalan court overturns Montts genocide conviction
A genocide conviction against former Guatemalan military leader Efrain Rios Montt has been overturned by the country’s highest court. The 86-year-old was found guilty earlier this month of overseeing the killings of at least 1,771 members of the Ixil Maya ethnic group during his rule in the early 1980s. He was given an 80 year jail sentence. Now the Constitutional Court has ordered that ...
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Attacks Kill 7 in Iraq
Officials say a suicide bombing followed by clashes between militants and Iraqi troops left three soldiers dead Tuesday in Tarmiyah, north of the capital, Baghdad. Farther north, two car bombs exploded in Tuz Khormato, killing three people, while car bombs in Kirkuk killed at least one person. Both cities are in an area that Iraq's Kurds want to incorporate into their autonomous ...
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Guatemala ex-ruler conviction overturned
The genocide conviction against former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt has been overturned by Guatemala's Constitutional Court, which ordered the case to be retried.The high court said the trial should be rewound to where it stood on April 19, when the case was temporarily suspended by a dispute in the judicial branch over which judges had jurisdiction.Rios Montt was convicted on May 10 of ...
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Chinese Premier Seeks Stronger Economic Ties with India
In a speech to business leaders on a visit to New Delhi Tuesday, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that strengthening economic cooperation will lead to growth in both countries. On Monday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mr. Li agreed to resolve a border dispute and other tensions. Mr. Singh said both sides must work to strengthen trust and confidence to create better cooperation. ...
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Guatemala court strikes down ex-dictators genocide conviction
Martn Guzmn, secretary general of Guatemala's Constitutional Court, announces the annulment of a genocide conviction against former dictator Efran Ros Montt during a press conference in Guatemala City on Monday. Johan ...
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Chile GDP grows less as mining investments slows
The country's' economy grew less than analysts expected in Q1 as an investment boom in the world's largest copper producer began to ...
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Fla. Gov. visit to Chile marks 8th overseas trip
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott is leaving the country for his eighth overseas trade-related trip in the last two-and-half years.The governor left late Monday for a trip to Chile in South America. He has previously visited far-flung places such as Brazil, Spain, Israel, and England. He heads to Paris next month.Scott has already taken more trips than former Gov. Charlie Crist. ...
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Small and Large Steps towards Equality for Gays in Cuba
CIEGO DE VILA, Cuba , May 20 2013 (IPS) - The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Cuba has won advances on issues like the change of name of pre-operative transgender persons, while they continue to fight for the right to same-sex civil ...
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Brazil Lagging in Fight against Human Trafficking
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 20 2013 (IPS) - In contravention of international law, in Brazil trafficking in human beings remains invisible and unpunished, which encourages the practice of trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labour, illegal adoption and the trade in human organs, according to ...
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Give Colombias Long-Overdue Peace a Chance
Continued dissatisfaction with the Colombian peace process may impact the final outcome of next year's presidential elections. The stumbling talks may also come to represent yet another missed opportunity to end decades of conflict between the state and FARC rebels, or so warns Robert Valencia. By Robert Valencia for World Policy ...
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Mexican Economy Continued To Weaken In Q1 2013
The weakness we began to see at the end of 2012 carried over into 2013, and deepened, with domestic demand joining the weakness in global economic growth. The economy posted a growth rate of only 0.8 percent in ...
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Besides being beautiful Costa Ricas beaches are the nesting sites of four endangered sea turtle species which return yearly to lay their eggs. But there is trouble for these reptiles — egg thieves.
Besides being beautiful, Costa Rica's beaches are the nesting sites of four endangered sea turtle species, which return each year to lay their eggs. But there is trouble in paradise for these reptiles, namely, from egg thieves.Since 1996, it's been illegal to remove turtle eggs from beaches in Costa Rica, said Beth Adubato, a New York Institute of Technology criminologist interested in ...
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Massive Tornado Hits Oklahoma Again
A huge tornado with 320 kilometers-per-hour winds has torn through the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying homes for the second day in a row ...
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Kerry Visits Oman Seeking Syria Peace Conference
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Tuesday with the sultan of Oman, on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange a Syrian peace ...
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Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America
Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...
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Moodys warns of debt default relapse for Jamaica Belize
Ratings agency Moody's Investor Service said Monday that there is a high probability that Jamaica and Belize will relapse into default."At the moment, we see a high probability that Belize and Jamaica will relapse into default," Moody's said in a statement as it singled out Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname as two of the few Caribbean countries that had stable ...
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Guatemalan ex-dictators genocide conviction overturned
FILE - In this Friday, May 10, 2013 file photo, Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt wears headphones as he listens to the verdict in his genocide trial in Guatemala City. Guatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's and ordered his trial to resume. Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman says the trial ...
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Biofuels a boon for Brazils rural poor but obstacles remain elsewhere | Paige McClanahan
Brazil , a country that is home to both a sizeable biofuels industry and about 4.1m small-scale family farms. But while some of the country's biofuels policies have fallen short, others have proved a boon to the rural poor. Smallholder farmers have seen their incomes rise thanks to the introduction of more progressive standards and new rules on contract negotiations."The numbers show ...
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OAS General Assembly will hold major debate on the drug problem in the Americas
Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza presented on Monday the Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas to the members of the OAS Permanent Council, in a special meeting of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) in which he expressed his hope that the document is understood “not as a conclusion, but only as the beginning of a long awaited ...
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Massive money easing in rich countries making Latam currencies too strong
“I think the factor that most worries Latin America is the strength of its currencies,” said Alicia Barcena, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) executive secretary, said. “This monetary easing...conspires against the dynamism of our export sector,” she said in an interview in Santiago. Latin America, a top producer of oil, soy, copper, iron and other ...
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Car manufacturing looking up for Buenos Aires
The financial crisis has been hard on Buenos Aires, but recent announcements by Ford and VW seem to herald a change in the city’s fortunes.
The financial crisis has hit cities and countries hard around the world, Buenos Aires and Argentina included. Unemployment is up by record amounts, the government, like governments across the globe, is struggling to contain a budget deficit, and international trade, on which the country so heavily relies, is down by double-digit amounts. Read more
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