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LATIN AMERICA News, Feb 05, 2012


Standing Up for the Poor in Latin America
Fox News
Getty Images Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Stories Chile: Civil Rights and Domestic Workers The mistreatment of domestic workers in Latin America is nothing new, but recent cases have been generating more attention and widespread ...
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Fox News
America Movil Selects Alcatel-Lucent as a Provider of LTE Infrastructure for ...
PR Newswire (press release)
2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- America Movil, the leading wireless services provider in Latin America, has selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) to provide infrastructure for its LTE/4G network rollout in Latin America.
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Video of Selena Gomez's Chile Meet & Greet
BSCkids
Selena Gomez is wrapping her tour and was recent caught signing autographs for her fans in Chile. She is currently on her Latin Americanleg of the tour and has having a ball doing it. She even went gold in Mexico, which is a big deal for her ahead of ...
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Iran wooing Latino viewers with new TV station, HispanTV
The Seattle Times
Featuring an eclectic mix of movies, news and cultural programs, the new station would help end the West's "hegemony" of the airwaves in Latin America, said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. No comments have been posted to this article.
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Street Fighters: Latin American Currencies (video)
Bloomberg
Play Video Bloomberg's Lisa Murphy, Adam Johnson and Trish Regan report on companies battling to "beat the tape." (Source: Bloomberg) Running Time: 01:12 Tweet More Business Exchange Buzz up! Digg Print Email Please enable JavaScript to view the ...
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Bloomberg
Forget the Light. Shoot the Shadows.
New York Times (blog)
By LARRY ROHTER Before he became one of Latin America's most prolific filmmakers — with more than 80 movies credited to his production company — Luiz Carlos Barreto was a photographer. For 15 years beginning in the late 1940s, he worked for O ...
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New York Times (blog)
New Tech Partner Promises To Cut Netflix Streaming Bandwidth In Half
paidContent.org
Other, more expensive plans allow up to 150 gigabytes a month, which is enough to watch about 10 movies in HD. In cases where subscribers can't satisfy the usage caps, they either face extra fees or can even be kicked off the service. In Latin America ...
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Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony Back Together on Camera for ¡Q'Viva! : Video ...
International Business Times
The Chosen", where they travelled across Latin America together in search of dancers, singers, musicians and street performers. The show that aired on Univision Sunday, aims to bring Latin America's best performers to Los Angeles, where they will ...
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International Business Times
Iran's HispanTV aims to woo Latino viewers
MiamiHerald.com
By JIM WYSS BOGOTA -- Iran's charm offensive in Latin America now has its own channel. On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially launched HispanTV, a Spanish-language satellite TV network that is available throughout the region.
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Cuban Officials Shown Video Warning on Corruption
ABC News
Canadian, French, Czech, Chilean and English citizens have all been jailed or sentenced, and a number of South American and European companies booted from the island. Speaking this weekend at a Communist Party conference, Castro said information on the ...
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Irish American NYPD cop shooter laughed and smiled on way to court – VIDEO
Irish Central
Luis “Baby” Ortiz, a member of the Latin Kings gang, showed no remorse as he was led into court to face the charge of the attempted murder of Irish American NYPD plainclothes officer Kevin Brennan. Ortiz is accused of shooting Brennan at point blank...
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Sin Cara: American Horror Stories
Wrestling 101
Rumours of backstage unpopularity. All is not well for Sin Cara, by far the WWE's biggest ever signing from south of the border. Many fans of NorthAmerican wrestling saw the hype, “MISTICO'S COMING!”, they saw the debut, “SIN CARA'S HERE!
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Wrestling 101
Arsenal beats Blackurn 7-1; England wins in Six Nations; Aussies 1-1 in Fed Cup
Herald Sun
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EyeIO: Netflix's secret weapon against bandwidth caps?
GigaOm
The company also started an aggressive international expansion last year, rolling out its service throughout Latin America, where average network speeds are often lower than in the US. And finally, Netflix has also seen significant traction on mobile ...
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GigaOm
Fact-checking wrong stuff people are saying at the Nevada Caucuses (VIDEO)
SFGate.com (blog)
Las Vegas – We learned yet another painful truth at one of America'scaucuses — which we believe is a Latin word for “ridiculous way to elect a President.” Friends, at a caucus, there are no fact-checkers, just “fact” staters.
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SFGate.com (blog)
Netflix less about flicks, more about TV
Los Angeles Times
But now it's learning what many in Tinseltown have known for decades: Movies are sexy, but the real money is in television. Launched in 1997 with a goal of eliminating the drive to the video store, Netflix Inc. became a hit with consumers and helped ...
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Mormon Numbers Not Adding Up
Religion Dispatches
That's the narrative drumbeat to which tens of thousands of young LDS men and women marched off to proselyting missions in Latin America and Asia during the 1980s and 1990s, as LDS Church membership shot up from 4.4 million to 11 million members.
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Kim Kardashian's Still Sexy Hot... in South America (12 photos!)
TheImproper.com
By TheImproper, February 2nd, 2012 Kim Kardashian is struggling with her image at home, but she's still commands an audience in South America. She recently posed for Esquire's Latin American edition. Say what you will about her greed, she's still one ...
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TheImproper.com
Guess who I saw on my holiday? Tourist captures incredible images of ...
Daily Mail
Taken in Manú National Park, south-eastern Peru, the images give a fascinating insight into the daily life of a family from the Mashco-Piro tribe. The tribe are known to inhabit the park but until recently were seldom seen. However sightings of them ...
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Daily Mail
StyleHaul Site Gets Funding
Women's Wear Daily
By Rachel Brown LOS ANGELES — StyleHaul, an online video community dedicated to fashion and beauty, has raised $4.4 million in a round of Series A funding led by investment firm RezVen Partners. Launched last February, Los Angeles-based StyleHaul has ...
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Cubs unveil plans for new Dominican academy
MLB.com
By Jesse Sanchez / MLB.com | 02/02/12 3:25 PM EST SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The Cubs are starting fresh in Latin America and making a big splash in the Dominican Republic. At a news conference Thursday at El Embajador Hotel in the country's ...
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MLB.com
Netflix urges Senate to let users share viewing data on Facebook
The Verge
... allowing Canadian and Latin American users to share what they were watching with friends. US users, however, didn't get the update. That's because of the Video Privacy Protection Act, a law that prevents video rental services from disclosing user ...
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IU Latin American Music Center announces results of second recording competition
Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's Latin American Music Center (LAMC) announces that pianist Daniel Inamorato has won the second Latin American Music Recording Competition, held Jan. 29, with the final round in Auer ...
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Thought Leaders in the Multicultural Space to Gather in March for Research-and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NBC Universal, Telemundo, mun2, Comcast, ESPN, Imagina US, History en Espanol, MGM Networks Latin America, and French broadcaster TV5MONDE are among the media companies that will be represented at the 12th Annual ...
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Business Development Team Reaching More Companies; Latin American Cargo ...
PR Web (press release)
Shipping company Latin American Cargo goes above and beyond to make sure clients have a successful business. Through expertise in their field, Latin American Cargo's Business Development team has expanded their presence in Peru, helping their clients...
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Viral violence: Video has teens concerned about their safety at school, in ...
Kansas City Star
A video of a 17-year-old Curie Metro High School senior that showed him being kicked and punched repeatedly in an alley on Chicago's South Side on Jan. 15 went viral and, within days of the assault, led to the arrest of seven Chicago-area teenagers, ...
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Newt Gingrich Florida Concession Speech 2012 [FULL TEXT & VIDEO]
International Business Times
Positioning himself as the underdog challenging the wealthy, "Massachusetts moderate," Gingrich reminded voters of his South Carolina victory and compared himself to American legends and former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln.
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International Business Times
Video: Rudy Fernandez flops like Vlade Divac and Manu Ginobili
Hoopsvibe.com
by HoopsVibe News HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Right or wrong, fair or not, NBA players from Europe and South America have a reputation for flopping. It started with Vlade Divac, the OG of the flop. And it continues with San Antonio Spurs star Manu ...
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Huge pythons annihilating Everglades wildlife, report scientists (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer / January 30, 2012 In this 2009 photo provided by the National Park Service, a Burmese python is wrapped around an American alligator in Everglades National Park, Fla. A report from the National Academy of ...
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Christian Science Monitor
News on the Ryder-Kane Segment, Waltman-Janetty Video, Big Show & More
TWNP-Wrestling News
Janetty appears in the recent video with Sean Waltman. The video contains some mature language: - Rock's new movie Journey 2 opens next weekend in North Americabut has already found much success internationally. The film has grossed $5.7 million in...
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The Rise of Internet Video and the Future of OTT Multiscreen Delivery
Developing Telecoms (press release)
Latin America is expected to have the second largest growth rate at 65 percent, followed by Central and Eastern Europe at 63 percent.[iv] These growth rates greatly outpace the global consumer average growth rate of 48 percent, meaning that these ...
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Stocks to Watch: Estee Lauder, Sony, Tyson Foods and More
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The movie studio's profit margin narrowed to less than 1% despite higher sales, partly because it opened more movies in the latest quarter. The company also introduced its newly appointed chief executive. Shares of the Tokyo-based electronics giant ...
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Nasa probe sends back video from 35 miles above the dark side of the moon
Daily Mail
By Rob Waugh Nasa's twin Grail probes arrived at the moon in early January - and one has just sent back its first video from the 'dark' side of the moon, the one we don't see from Earth. The video shows a flight from the north pole to the south pole of ...
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Sony Picks Game Chief as President
New York Times
TOKYO — Sony on Wednesday picked Kazuo Hirai, a video game executive who led a turnaround of its PlayStation business, as its next president and chief executive, in a bid to regain some of its magic. Mr. Hirai, 51, Sony's chief of consumer electronics ...
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New York Times
RAW VIDEO: Over 100 Hurt in Peru Quake | Video | wtsp.com
Think twice about what you throw out in the trash. The results of a recent study found that 76 percent of what's thrown . ... VIDEO: Over 100 Hurt in Peru Quake More than 100 people have been injured in a 6.3 magnitude quake which shook the coast of Peru.South American News The Americas Disaster earthquake international Internationalnews Earthquake Aftermath News americas raw video south america news peru earthquake south america quake World News Peru World 00:50 ...
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