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LATIN AMERICA News, Aug 28, 2011


The week in Latin America: Unrest continues in Chile
Los Angeles Times (blog)
What started as a student movement for education reform has grown into calls for a reshaped constitution aimed at what demonstrators call an unequal distribution of wealth in Latin America'smost stable economy. Pinera on Friday invited the movement ...
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Argentine president brokers 25 percent minimum wage hike in talks between ...
Washington Post
The minimum wage in Argentina is already among the highest in Latin America. The latest increase raises it to $2300 pesos, or about $550 a month. Private analysts say that Argentina also has one of the highest inflation rates in Latin America, ...
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Police warn residents of latest lottery scam
Sierra Vista Herald
In two instances of this scam, the victims were asked to send money to either Mexico or South America for $600000 in supposed winnings. During the first incident, after the victim received a call from a person impersonating an officer using a fake name ...
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Latest seasons of 'NCIS' shows on DVD
Deseret News
Think of this as "Grey's Anatomy" in the jungles of South America, as several doctors running away from their problems gather at a small clinic to perform weekly medical miracles in a variety of dangerous conditions. "Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz" ...
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Deseret News
Latest chapter in wave of Nordic crime novels
Irish Independent
South America doesn't have crime novels; nobody writes them, nobody reads them. In Africa, they don't exist." The fact that it is mainly middle-class women that read crime is not lost on Liza. This is perhaps one of the reasons her books are selling so ...
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Obama influences Zuma in Zim mediation: Tsvangirai
Bulawayo24
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wrote a sensational letter to President Obama in December 2009. It is this document that reveals the American leader's "crucial dialogue" with the South African leader on his mediation efforts in Zimbabwe. ...
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Emerging markets rop up visitor numbers in B.C.
Vancouver Sun
And while visitors from the Middle Kingdom and other Asian or Latin American countries - especially Brazil and Mexico - won't offset the number of Americans scared off by Canada's high dollar, their numbers keep climbing this summer as incomes rise ...
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Pablo Milanes kicks off historic US tour
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Milanes gave it his all on the opening-night performance of his tour of American concert halls, but for his fans, most of them Latin American immigrants, the two-hour concert wasn't enough and they made the singer from Bayamo, Cuba, come back on stage ...
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Camels await riders at the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. (Lisa Krieger/Staff)
San Jose Mercury News
Plus, we already had under our belt other memorable adventures in edgy nations within Africa andLatin America. We steered clear of political gatherings in Cairo, particularly after the mosques emptied on Fridays. ...
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Mutual security
Manila Bulletin
Recent developments concerning the disputed islands of the South China Sea have stiffened the postures of ASEAN members, particularly the Philippines and Vietnam, against Beijing's “U-shaped” (or “Nine-dotted line) South China Sea claim. ...
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ETF Insider: Bernanke Speaks, Markets Yawn
ETF Database
Van Eck already offers multiple ETFs focusing on international debt markets, including BONO (Latin America) and EMLC (broad emerging markets). According to the SEC filing, this ETF would charge an expense ratio of 0.40%. ...
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'People's Poet' to make return appearance
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
HIGHLAND - Mexican singer and songwriter Joan Sebastian, known as "The People's Poet," has won multiple American and Latin Grammy awards in a career of more than three decades. On Thursday night Sebastian will make his fifth visit to San Manuel Indian ...
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Who knows what the young know?
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
These are students who learned to crawl on the information highway, for whom Amazon means the mega-shopping website before it means the river in South America, let alone a fabled tribe of very tall female warriors. "Members of this year's freshman ...
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Pop Forecast
Victoria Times Colonist
... and Red Hot Chili Peppers (I'm With You) Big picture: Already released digitally, Zach Condon and company's latest effort is finally in stores - and it does not disappoint, despite a poppier flair and less Balkan and South American influences. ...
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Fabio plays down rankings rise
Teamtalk.com
It leaves them ahead of Brazil and Argentina, as well as Uruguay, who last month added the CopaAmerica to their semi-final appearance in South Africa. The placing hardly lends any credence to the FIFA list, although given Holland are now ranked at the ...
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Cardenas breaks out of slump with two-win day
Daily Racing Form
Both Al Instante and Private Affair were ridden by another South American import, 24-year-old Chilean-born Hector Barrios. Barrios previously rode at Calder and arrived in Southern California in early August to ride at the insistence of Green Grass ...
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Indianapolis MotoGP Behind the Fence Friday
MotorcycleUSA.com
(Below) All the big brands offer displays allowing motorcyclists to check out all the latest and greatest motorcycles and atvs. Grand Prix road racing returned to the American midwest Friday and fans came out in full force to get a glimpse of what the ...
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Fashion entrepreneur Tony Drockton on Strip style and his hot Hammitt line
Las Vegas Weekly (blog)
“What you don't see is almost as important as what you see,” he says. “Great brands have that balance.” 1. The leather is sourced exclusively from Italy and South America. 4. The brand took off after a trunk show for Bloomingdales in 2009. 5. ...
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The woman with every lager-swilling bloke's dream job - flying round the world ...
Mirror.co.uk
Her search for exotic beers has taken her to South America, the US, Turkey, the Greek islands and the Caribbean. If she likes a foreign beer Tesco will roll it out in stores. One of her latest finds is Peruvian beer Cusquena, which is already becoming...
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Mirror.co.uk
Ricky Martin, Julieta Venegas, Los Van Van captivate Brazil
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Sao Paulo, Aug 27, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Ricky Martin, Julieta Venegas, Los Van Van and other Hispanic artists captivated their Brazilian audiences with a powerful, variegated dose of Latinmusic at a series of concerts in Sao Paulo. ...
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Bolt fastest in 100 heats at world championships
USA Today
Original post (8:58 am ET) -- Here's the latest from the evening (in Korea) session at the IAAF track and field world championships. In the women's 400 meters, AmericanAllyson Felix advanced out of the first heat with a time of 51.45 seconds. ...
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USA Today
Limos.com releases groundbreaking corporate travel tools
Breaking Travel News
Global service – Users have direct access to more than 27000 vehicles from professional and licensed car service operators across 15000 cities domestically and 17000 cities globally, including every major city in China, India, Africa and South America. ...
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Breaking Travel News
Area officials urge caution as Hurricane Irene nears
TMC Net
"We are preparing" with a number of steps, including identifying local shelters if needed, and stocking emergency trailers, said Teresa Caver, the American Red Cross interim executive director for southcentral New York region. ...
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Television movies for the week of Aug. 28
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
A 78-year-old balloon salesman ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies to South America, but discovers too late a young stowaway aboard. (PG) (1:40) ENC: Sun. 7 AM (CC) • Up the Down Staircase '67. Sandy Dennis. A novice teacher finds hostile ...
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Chef cooks up grits in Africa
Montgomery Advertiser
Chefs will also set up a temporary restaurant while in South Africa and cook American cuisine in Capetown and in Durban. Besides his grits dishes, Sherrod plans to cook dishes such as collard green casserole, smoked chicken shanks and bananas Foster. ...
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P G Wodehouse: filthy traitor or frightful ass?
Telegraph.co.uk
Perched on sand dunes south of Calais, it was the vanity creation of a group of wealthy, upper-class Anglos, who had given it a golf course, a Cotswolds-style country house hotel and rows of seafront villas that appeared to have been towed over from ...
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