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LATIN AMERICA News, Aug 27, 2011


DHL launches Latin American security-monitoring centers
aircargoworld
To thwart tampering of shipments, DHL has launched seven security-monitoring centers in Latin America. Serving Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, the centers feature the latest in geolocalization technology to track ...
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Latin American demand gives product tankers hope
Tanker Operator
One sliver of light has been visible in the US Gulf, as robust product demand from Latin Americacombined with a slightly tighter availability of MRs supported rates. The US Gulf/transatlantic route is now on par with this year's high of WS 115 ...
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Tightly Packed Union City Welcomes More
Wall Street Journal
More recent Latin immigrants from Mexico and Ecuador have also begun to populate the area. Residents from other parts of New Jersey and Manhattanites have been moving into the city as well, brokers say. "We are getting a lot of people from New York who ...
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Wall Street Journal
Casino massacre: not a game changer for foreign companies in Mexico
Financial Times (blog)
At first glance, the attack, in which 52 people lost their lives, would seem to be thelatest chilling indication of how serious extortion in Latin America's second-largest economy has become. In the last few years, a growing number of businesses have ...
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Financial Times (blog)
San Jose Earthquakes on run of bad luck with new guys
San Jose Mercury News
General manager John Doyle had mined South America instead of Europe to find a player who could make a difference. With South American teams in season, Doyle figured he would have a better chance obtaining a player ready to go. ...
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Dubai Airport sees near-10% rise in passengers in July
ArabianBusiness.com
Year to date traffic reached 29291927, up nine percent compared to 26870440 in the corresponding period in 2010. The fastest growing regions were the GCC (up 34 percent), North America (up 28.3 percent), Eastern Europe (up 24.3 percent) andSouth ...
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ArabianBusiness.com
South Florida's condo market is recovering
Sun-Sentinel
Individual investors and bulk buyers in recent years have scooped up many of the units and are renting or reselling them now at drastically lower prices. Join our Real Estate message board, where you can talk about the latest real estate trends in ...
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Altair Engineering Announces HyperWorks 11.0 Workshop Series
Bradenton Herald
Privately held, with more than 1500 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 26-year track record for high-end software and consulting services for engineering, computing and enterprise ...
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Mourning doves bring excitement for hunting season
Emporia Gazette
Our enthusiasm also gets a credible boost of wildlife biology support from the decades of field studies, call counts, and nesting success surveys that show mourning doves are somewhat unique among all the birds of North, Central, and South America in ...
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Sharks sell remakes
Variety
By Charles Newbery FilmSharks Intl., a leading sales company in Latin America, has picked up worldwide rights to sell remake rights for four films, an expanding business as studios turn to tested products to cut costs and risk. ...
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Variety
The Week in Review
theTrumpet.com
As the power of the Vatican increases on the world scene, expect more nations in Africa and Latin America to increase their collaboration with Rome. Venezuela asks for its gold back: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced last week that he is ...
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Journalism's descent into the dark danger of the 'Casbah'
Hurriyet Daily News
We'll keep you abreast of happenings in Latin America with www.bananarepublics.net. Don't get me wrong, I'm the first to welcome the host of new websites examining the region in which we live. Globalpost is just one, founded by a team of veterans from ...
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Hurriyet Daily News
Naspers Limited Announces Results of Annual General Meeting
MarketWatch (press release)
Latin America is concentrating on deepening its services and broadening its revenue base. Rapid growth of the internet industry in China enabled Tencent, through its focus on user experience, to expand the usefulness of its core platforms. ...
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Chilean teenager shot dead during protests
The Guardian
While Latin America's model economy has grown 6.6% this year and is an investor magnet thanks to prudent fiscal and monetary policies, many ordinary Chileans feel they are not sharing in the economic miracle. Investors, long used to economic stability, ...
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The Guardian
Macomb dialysis facility wins excellence award
McDonough Voice
Through more than 2700 clinics in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Africa, we provide kidney dialysis treatments to approximately 215000 patients worldwide. We are also the world's leading maker of dialysis products such as ...
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Universal Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights to Feature La Llorna Maze
ShockTillYouDrop.com
La Llorona, the fearful story of melancholy and murder that has terrified Mexican and Latin American children for generations, will have an expanded presence at this year's “Halloween Horror Nights®” event as Universal Studios Hollywood recruits ...
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Guadalupe youth band to perform, visit schools
TribLocal
11 at 2:30 pm during the annual South of the Border Fiesta on the Square sponsored by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). “District 200 is extremely appreciative of the all the host families as well as our staff, the City and the ...
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Eileen Fisher opens first Canadian shop in Vancouver
Vancouver Sun
By Karen Gram, Vancouver Sun August 26, 2011 Eileen Fisher is the latest American retailer to join the retail wagon train north. The American women's wear line that specializes in high quality, simple and timeless clothing will open a shop on South ...
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TV's drill for 'new oil' tests social skills - pt.2
C21Media
Hastings has already pledged Facebook integration within Netflix for Canada and Latin America and is hastily trying to iron out legal issues preventing it from doing the same in the US. Assume the company succeeds and assume the integration ends up ...
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C21Media
New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Promote Genetically Engineered Crops ...
truthout
Several cables describe "biotechnology outreach programs" in countries across the globe, including African, Asian and South American countries where Western biotech agriculture had yet to gain a foothold. In some cables (such as this 2010 cable from ...
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Pretty Vacant
The Portland Mercury
At age nine, a Colombian drug lord kills Cataleya's parents, and she escapes her own death by running through South American slums like a kiddie-sized Jason Bourne. The girl then heads to Chicago, hooking up with la familia and vowing to grow up to be...
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The Portland Mercury
Study: Fewer Doctors Willing to Do Abortions
The New American
According to the Los Angeles Times, in 2010 the ethics committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued an opinion arguing that “ob-gyns are obligated to refer their patients to abortion providers if they do not offer the ...
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As Dow dips, hotel bookings stay on pace
Hotel News Now
Results at the regional level for South America or Africa/Asia/Oceania did not reflect significant changes that could be directly attributable to the financial market news during that time period, Pegasus found. In the US at least, financial volatility ...
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Hurricane forecasting one of the many things GOP doesn't want to spend money on
Salon
Latest figures show coastal North Carolina's fields earned nearly $6.3 billion in farm income in 2009 alone from its tobacco, corn and other crops. Risks are many from Irene's wrath: surging seas, drenching rains, flash floods and high winds are all ...
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Salon
Gregory Rumpel and Jeffrey Davis promoted to MD of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
Breaking Travel News
Gregory currently leads the Miami office where he focuses on hospitality investment sales throughout Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America. He has completed several high-profile transactions including the Viceroy and Continental South Beach. ...
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Small talk: Javier Cercas
Financial Times
Or, in Hopscotch, the “Latin American Ulysses”, I am Horacio Oliveira. I'm not a Spanish writer, I'ma writer who writes in Spanish. Kafka influenced me a lot, and Conrad, and some postmodern writers like Donald Barthelme. Who would you like to be stuck ...
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Irish sprinter Jason Smyth has no finish line for his dreams
Universal Sports (blog)
"My preparations have gone well in South Korea. I have just finished my last session and I am ready for the biggest race of my life." Smyth was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease when he was eight, almost exactly the same age when Runyan was told she ...
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McKibben's army
Salon
Against this policy backdrop, the ritual of middle-class martrydom on Pennsylvania Avenue reminded me of the arrests at the South African Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue in the spring of 1984. At the time geniuses like Washington Post columnist Richard ...
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Salon
Rich tapestry
The Australian
She returned to the US to study comparative literature, mostly European and Latin American, at Harvard. She was gobsmacked by Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar, who didn't have the reach into the English-speaking world they have now. ...
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Santorum Takes the Offensive in Upstate Visit
Patch.com
Rick Santorum took his campaign back to Spartanburg on Friday, taking questions from the public at the Beacon Drive-In. Santorum, who garnered only 2 percent of the vote in the latest Magellan Strategies poll of more than 600 likely South Carolina ...
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Members of the New York Jets and New York Giants Join With Football Fans in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. For more information, visit www.metlife.com . This press release may contain or ...
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Perry's Week in Review
Texas Observer
THE TOP MARGINAL TAX RATE: In South Carolina, Perry connected the civil rights movement to the Republican fight for lower corporate taxes. Yes, Republicans have certainly been unjustly discriminated against in their long march toward freeing America ...
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Barclays: Crude oil markets eye Libya, Bernanke speech
Commodity Online
The return of strength in these non-OECD heavyweights comes at a time when very strong readings of demand were seen in Russia and Saudi Arabia along with the ever resilient demand from Latin America. Over the coming weeks, as geopolitical and ...
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UFC (Rio) 134 Preview, Predictions
Sporting Opinions
It's surprising that it has taken so long for the Ultimate Fighting Championship to head back to South America, but now that the date has been booked (August 27) and the venue (HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro), Dana White, the Fertitta brothers and UFC ...
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Sporting Opinions
Venezuelan economy grew 2.5 per cent in Q2
CTV.ca
The South American country's economy expanded 4.8 per cent in the first quarter. Growth in the second quarter was driven in part by a 3.7-per-cent expansion of the public sector, the Central Bank said in its quarterly figures. ...
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What's Next For Apple
Seeking Alpha
China and Latin America have not yet been properly served. This is WHY I think AAPL's earnings momentum will continue. Why was it announced today? Certainly, there can be different assumptions. I happen to think that he isn't doing very well health ...
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Bachmann's warning to South Carolina voters
CNN (blog)
I do not believe that the American taxpayer should be paying benefits to people who are in the United States illegally." Bachmann wrapped up questions from the 90-minute town hall, hosted bySouth Carolina GOP freshman Rep. Tim Scott, with a heartfelt ...
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BASF To Invest Big In Brazil | Latest News | Chemical & Engineering ...
BASF To Invest Big In Brazil. Petrochemicals: Planned facility includes South America's first acrylic acid, superabsorbent polymers plants. ... Latest News · Home » Latest News » BASF To Invest Big In Brazil ...
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